Patent ID: 7100764

Claim:
A multipack for a group of cigarette packs, said cigarette packs being arranged in a group having at least two rows of the cigarette packs, namely a top row and a lower row, and enclosed by a multipack blank made of thin cardboard, wherein: a) the multipack blank consists essentially of a base wall, two narrow elongate side walls, and two end walls made from folding tabs of the multipack blank that are connected to one another by adhesive bonding; b) when the multipack blank is formed into the multipack, the multipack is open on a top side and the end walls completely cover corresponding sides of the cigarette packs; c) the cigarette packs are arranged within the multipack such that (i) the front sides of the cigarette packs in the top row are positioned in the region of the open top side of the multipack and are not covered by the multipack blank; (ii) the cigarette packs that are adjacent to each other in each row have narrow sides butting against one another and the cigarette packs that are in the top row have back sides butting against front sides of the respective cigarette packs in the lower row; and (iii) only the front sides of the cigarette packs of the top row are visible through the open top side of the multipack blank; and d) the cigarette packs and the multipack blank are fully enclosed by an outer wrapper made of a transparent material selected from the group consisting of plastic and cellophane.