Patent ID: 7014039

Claim:
A combination package for packaging articles such as cigarettes, the package comprising: an inner metal package portion including a body having a convexly curving back and four side walls approximately perpendicularly upstanding from the back, an open front, a closed bottom and an upper edge of each of the four side walls being rolled over to form a smooth rolled lip around the periphery of the open front of the body; a lid having a front surface and a back surface, a concavely curving front and three side walls, the side walls extending approximately perpendicularly downwardly from three edges of the lid, the side walls of the lid having a rolled lip that extends inward of, and engages, the rolled lip of the body side walls when the lid is in the closed position mounted on the body, such that a rolled portion of the front surface of the lid comprises a region of contact with a portion of the smooth rolled lip around the periphery of the open front of the body; the lid including an abutment protruding downwardly from the back surface of the lid to a depth such that when the lid slides to an open position, the abutment hits a wall of the body to restrain further movement of the lid; and an outer paperboard package portion disposed about the inner metal package portion, and including a rectangular parallelepiped box; a polymeric overwrap film overwrapping the box; five sides of the box forming substantial complete rectangular faces and a sixth side of the box including a hingedly connected panel, the panel being attached along a fold line and covering only a portion of either the front lid surface of the metal package portion or the closed bottom of the metal package portion.