Patent ID: 8016105

Claim:
A package for rod-shaped smoking articles, comprising: a box including a front wall, an opening end, and either an access opening formed in the front wall to extend from a front edge of the opening end or a cutting line for forming the access opening, the cutting line demarcating an intended area to be opened in the front wall; contents contained in said box, said contents including a bundle of the rod-shaped smoking articles; a wrapper for wrapping the bundle therein and forming a closed face of said contents on the opening end, the closed face comprising: a pair of end flaps and inner and outer side flaps sequentially superposed on and above the end flaps, and a separable area demarcated in the wrapper by a separating line, the separable area consisting essentially of the outer side flap and a front portion corresponding to the access opening or the intended area to be opened, the outer side flap having a rear side end facing a rear wall of the box; a lid jointed to a rear edge of the opening end of said box through a living hinge, for opening and closing the opening end by rotating around the living hinge, said lid including an inner face for covering the access opening or the intended area to be opened and the opening end; and a connecting area for connecting the inner face of said lid and the separable area to each other through the access opening or the intended area to be opened, said connecting area including first bonding areas for bonding the outer side flap to the inner face of said lid, the first bonding areas bonding two lateral side ends of the outer side flap to a ceiling face of said lid, respectively, said connecting area further including a second bonding area for bonding an inner face of a front wall of said lid to the front portion of the separable area through said access opening, or bonding said intended area to be opened on the inner face of the front wall of said lid and the front portion of the separable area, respectively, wherein the separating line consists essentially of a row of perforations for demarcating the front portion of the wrapper and two slits extending from ends of the row of the perforations to the rear side end of the outer side flap to separate the outer side flap from the end flaps, the separable area being separated from the wrapper along the row of perforations when the lid is first opened, and wherein the two slits entirely separate the two lateral side ends of the outer side flap from the respective end flaps, and cooperate with the first bonding areas to cause the outer side flap to be united with the ceiling face of the lid to facilitate the separation of the separable area.