Patent ID: 6523682
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
A cigarette pack having an elongated blank (10), which is made of thin packaging material of paper or tin foil, forming an inner liner for direct wrapping of a cigarette group (23), characterized in that:a) the blank (10) forms a continuous, single-layer base wall (11) which is adjoined by a front wall (12) and by a rear wall (13), with the cigarette group (23) abutting the base wall (11) with end surfaces of cigarettes in the cigarette group, b) laterally adjoined to, and on opposite sides of, the base wall (11), the front wall (12) and the rear wall (13) are respective continuous blank strips comprising side folding tabs (16, 17), in a region of the front wall (12) and the rear wall (13), and base folding tabs (42, 43) in a region of the base wall (11), c) the blank (10) has two continuous longitudinal impressed lines (21, 22), running in the longitudinal direction of the elongated blank, which delimit a middle region of the blank from the continuous blank strips which are formed on said opposite sides and which contain the side folding tabs (16, 17) and the base folding tabs (42, 43), said middle region comprising the base wall (11), the front wall (12), the rear wall (13) and end folding tabs (14, 15), d) two transverse impressed lines (19, 20), which delimit the base wall (11) from the front wall (12) and from the rear wall (13), respectively, extend only between the longitudinal impressed lines (21, 22), and e) the respective continuous blank strips, formed from the side folding tabs (16, 17) and the base folding tabs (42, 43), are free of impressed lines.