Patent ID: 7900770

Claim:
A cigarette box for containing an inner pack, the inner pack including a bundle of cigarettes and a wrapper wrapping the bundle, comprising: an inner case enclosing the inner pack and being partly open at a top thereof to provide an access opening at the top, and an outer case enclosing said inner case in the manner allowing said inner case to upwardly stick out, said outer case having a push window at a bottom thereof for exposing a bottom face of said inner case, and a hinged cap for opening and closing the access opening of said inner case, wherein when said inner case is pushed upward through the push window to stick out of said outer case, the hinged cap turns around a self hinge in the manner associated with the sticking-out of said inner case, thereby opening the access opening, wherein the access opening and the push window are arranged to be remote from each other in a width direction of said outer case so that the access opening and the push window are adjacent to a different one of opposing side walls of the outer case, and said hinge connects said hinged cap with side wall of the outer case wherein the access opening is disposed adjacent to one side face of said inner case, and the hinged cap includes a rear wall joined to one side wall of said outer case located on the same side as said one side face of said inner case, by means of the hinge, and when the hinged cap is in a closed position, forming an extension of said one side wall of said outer case, and a lid wall extending from a top edge of the rear wall, and when the hinged cap is in the closed position, covering the access opening of said inner case, wherein when said inner case is caused to stick out of said outer case, said inner case pushes the lid wall upward so that the hinged cap turns around the hinge, sideways of said outer case, up to an open position, thereby opening the access opening, and wherein the hinged cap further includes guide walls in a pair connecting opposite side edges of the lid wall with the corresponding side edges of the rear wall, wherein when the hinged cap is in the closed position, one of the guide walls is held between said inner case and a front wall of said outer case and the other guide wall is held between said inner case and a rear wall of said outer case.