Patent ID: 8157087

Claim:
A package of rod-shaped smoking articles, comprising: a box body with an open end, said box body including round edges forming four longitudinal edges of said box body, said round edges extending along a longitudinal direction of said box body and having an arc-like shape as seen in cross-section of said box body, each of said round edges having only in an inner surface of said round edge notch rows for providing the arc-like shape of said round edges, said notch rows being formed of a plurality of notches, respectively, inclined only in the same direction in relation to the longitudinal direction of said box body and arranged at intervals in a width direction of said round edge; and a box-shaped lid connected to the open end of said box body through a hinge, for opening/closing the open end, wherein said notch rows of two round edges defining the width of said box body are inclined in opposite directions relative to each other and the notch rows of two round edges defining the thickness of said box body are inclined in opposite directions relative to each other.