Patent ID: 7506755

Claim:
A hinged carton for cigarettes, having a carton part ( 10 ), a lid ( 11 ) articulately attached to a carton rear wall ( 14 ), and a collar ( 12 ) which is disposed in the carton part ( 10 ) and has a collar front wall ( 28 ) and collar side walls ( 29 ) and whose region projecting from the carton part ( 10 ), in the closing position, is embraced by the lid ( 11 ) and whose collar front wall ( 28 ) has webs ( 31 ) for the delimitation of an indentation ( 30 ), there being attached to the inner side of a lid front wall ( 19 ) a lid inner tab ( 25 ), which on at least one side margin ( 36 ) has a recess ( 37 ) into which a web ( 31 ) of the collar front wall ( 28 ) can be inserted in such a way that a part-area of the web ( 31 ) is in a region between the lid inner tab ( 25 ) and the lid front wall ( 19 ), characterized by the following features: a) the recess ( 37 ) has a relative position such that threading of the web ( 31 ) into an interlocking position between the lid inner tab ( 25 ) and the lid front wall ( 19 ) is initiated once a maximum edge pressure against the collar ( 12 ) is achieved, b) the maximum edge pressure is determined by bearing contact of the lid front wall ( 19 ) or of the lid inner tab ( 25 ) against an upper transverse edge ( 35 ) of the collar front wall ( 28 ) during the closing motion of the lid ( 11 ), and c) the maximum edge pressure is achieved when an imaginary transverse line or transverse plane, namely a reference plane ( 40 ), which extends between the transverse edge ( 35 ) of the collar front wall ( 28 ) and a lid joint or linear joint ( 41 ) between the lid ( 11 ) and the carton part ( 10 ), runs temporarily parallel to an end wall ( 21 ) of the lid ( 11 ).