Patent ID: 7431153

Claim:
A package of tobacco items comprising: a parallelepiped-shaped packet ( 2 ) of tobacco items, which opens at a top and houses a group ( 3 ) of tobacco items, and a hollow parallelepiped-shaped protective member ( 4 ) which is able to house a portion of the packet ( 2 ) of tobacco items with substantially no clearance, is foldable, can assume indifferently a closed configuration, in which it is tubular and flat, and an open configuration, in which it has a hollow parallelepiped tubular shape to house a portion of the packet ( 2 ) of tobacco items with substantially no clearance; wherein the protective member ( 4 ) comprises four flat panels ( 20 ′, 21 ′, 22 ′) bounded by folding lines ( 23 ′), which define edges ( 23 ) of the hollow protective member ( 4 ) in the open configuration; for changing from the open configuration to the closed configuration and vice versa, the flat panels being rotated one with respect to the other about the folding lines ( 23 ′); protective member ( 4 ) being folded into the closed configuration and attached removably to the packet ( 2 ) of tobacco items, wherein the protective member ( 4 ) in the closed configuration is inserted inside the packet ( 2 ) of tobacco items.