Patent ID: 7395924

Claim:
A hinge-lid type package without a film wrapper for rod-like smoking articles, comprising: an inner pack having an inner wrapper in which a bundle of the rod-like smoking articles is wrapped; and a rectangular parallelepiped casing for accommodating said inner pack, wherein said casing includes: a front wall, a rear wall, two side walls, a bottom wall, a top wall, a hinge formed in an upper portion of said rear wall, extending across said rear wall and having both ends, a first separating line extending across said front wall and said both side walls and connecting said both ends of said hinge, said first separating line which allows said casing to be divided into an outer body and a lid that is rotatable around said hinge, and an inner frame disposed in the inside of said outer body and guides opening and closing of said lid, the inner frame having a top panel connected to the upper portion of the rear wall, wherein said both side walls each have an inner side wall layer and an outer side wall layer; said first separating line includes a front portion formed in said front wall and a side portion formed in each of said side walls; and said side portion includes a slot that is formed in said inner side wall layer and divides said inner side wall and a row of perforations formed in said outer side wall layer and overlapping with said slot, wherein the front portion of said first separating line formed as a row of perforations, and wherein the inner frame is formed with a cut-off section demarcated by a second separating line, and when the lid is opened for a first time, the cut-off section is separated along the second separating line, thus forming an access opening in a shape of a U-shaped notch in the inner frame, and separated cut-off section is held on an inner surface of the lid.