Patent ID: 7500558

Claim:
A soft package of rod-shaped smoking articles, comprising: an inner pack of an almost rectangular parallelepiped, the inner pack including a bundle of rod-shaped smoking articles and an inner wrapper covering the bundle, and an envelope of an almost rectangular parallelepiped, the envelope covering said inner pack except for a top face of said inner pack and including four corner edges extending along a longitudinal direction of said inner pack, wherein said envelope further includes slant edges formed at the corner edges, respectively, said slant edges imparting an octagonal transverse cross section to said envelope, wherein said envelope is formed by folding an outer wrapper around said inner pack and includes an outer bottom face of a rectangular shape covering a bottom face of said inner pack, and said outer bottom face includes a pair of end flaps located at opposite ends of said outer bottom face, a pair of trapezoidal side flaps extending along each side edge of said outer bottom face and laid one on the other on the end flaps, and tucks extending from the slant edges, respectively, and each lying between one of the end flaps and one of the side flaps, partly covered by the relevant side flap and partly exposed.