Patent ID: 8418846

Claim:
A package of rod-shaped smoking articles, comprising: a box including an open end and containing an inner pack of rod-shaped smoking articles, said box further including a longitudinal edge, which extends in a longitudinal direction of said box to have an arc-like shape in cross section of said box, to be located in at least one corner edge, the arc-like shape of the longitudinal edge being realized by a plurality of longitudinal grooves which are formed only in an inner surface of the longitudinal edge and extend in the longitudinal direction of said box; a lid connected to said box through a hinge, for opening/closing the open end of said box; and reinforcing patches placed in the inner surface of the longitudinal edge and located only near the top and the bottom of the longitudinal edge for maintaining the arc-like shape of the longitudinal edge, wherein said reinforcing patches are arranged across the longitudinal grooves, and are positioned as spot areas near the open end of said box and near the bottom of said box, said reinforcing patches being formed by hardened glue made of fluid glue applied onto the inner surface of the longitudinal edge and locally filling the longitudinal grooves so that said reinforcing patches occupy said spot areas within the whole length of the longitudinal edge.