Patent ID: 7467711

Claim:
A hard pack for rod-shaped smoking articles, comprising: a hard box part of a parallelepiped shape, having an open end and a bottom wall, a lid joined to the open end of said box part to open and close the open end, and an inner package contained in said box part, said inner package including the rod-shaped smoking articles and an inner wrapper wrapped around the rod-shaped smoking articles, wherein said box part includes a front wall, a rear wall, two side walls, and first chamfered edges formed on lateral edges where the front wall and the rear wall meet the side walls, and the first chamfered edges extend from the bottom wall over a specified length and have a width ranging between 0.8 mm and 2 mm, each of the side walls is formed by superimposing an interior portion and an exterior portion, the interior portion and the exterior portion each include one lateral edge having a chamfer and the other lateral edge, and wherein the other lateral edge included in each one of the interior portion and the exterior portion has an indentation for avoiding interference with the chamfer included in the other of the interior portion and the exterior portion.