Patent ID: 7484619

Claim:
A cigarette packet with a hinged lid for tobacco products, substantially parallelepiped in shape and referable to a predominating longitudinal axis, with a front face, a rear face, two lateral faces, a top end face and a bottom end face, comprising a container and a lid hinged together along a hinge line, also a reinforcing frame, and fashioned from a flat diecut blank, wherein the blank comprises a central panel, two lateral panels joined to the central panel and an end panel connected to the central panel by way of one of the lateral panels, all of which are aligned along a first axis, also an appendage aligned with the central panel along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, connected to the central panel to form the lid, and in that the reinforcing frame is defined by predetermined portions of the end panel and each of the lateral panels, the end panel forming at least a portion of the front face; the packet also comprising a plurality of cigarettes therein.