Patent ID: 6168014
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A cigarette packet having a longitudinal axis, comprising: four side faces disposed in mutually opposed pairs parallel to the longitudinal axis of the packet, each side face having two lateral edges, each side face joined to another side face along each lateral edge; a lid having a hinged connection to at least one of the side faces along a crease, the lid being hingedly movable between an open and closed configuration, the crease extending transverse to the longitudinal axis along one of the side faces, at least one of the side faces having a profile convex in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and substantially straight in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis, wherein each angle, formed by a pair of lines which lie in a plane which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and which lines are tangential to the cigarette packet at each lateral edge of each convex profiled side face, is an obtuse angle, wherein one pair of opposed side faces has a profile convex in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and substantially straight in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis, wherein at least one of the two convexly profiled side faces includes a flat central portion and two convexly profiled lateral portions on either side of the central portion.