EP0675056B1 - Boîte à couvercle rabattant pour des cigarettes ou similaire - Google Patents

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EP0675056B1
EP0675056B1 EP95103034A EP95103034A EP0675056B1 EP 0675056 B1 EP0675056 B1 EP 0675056B1 EP 95103034 A EP95103034 A EP 95103034A EP 95103034 A EP95103034 A EP 95103034A EP 0675056 B1 EP0675056 B1 EP 0675056B1
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Heinz Focke
Hans-Jürgen Bretthauer
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Focke and Co GmbH and Co KG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B65D85/1036—Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank
    • B65D85/1045—Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank having a cap-like lid hinged to an edge
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2301/00—Details of blanks
    • B65D2301/10—Blanks mutually positioned to minimise waste material upon cutting out the individual blank from a continuous or large sheet
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S229/00—Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes
    • Y10S229/93—Fold detail

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  • the invention relates to a hinged box for cigarettes or the like, consisting of a box part and a lid pivotally connected to it, and a collar which is anchored in the box part and protrudes with a partial area therefrom, the collar in the area of a lid Front wall adjoining inner lid flap, which is attached to the lid front wall and fastened to the inside thereof, is connected to a collar front wall of the lid by thin material webs which can be severed when the lid is opened for the first time.
  • the invention further relates to a blank for producing hinged boxes.
  • Hinged boxes are a common type of pack for cigarettes.
  • the standard structure of a hinged box comprises a box part and a lid. This is pivotally connected to a box rear wall in the area of a lid rear wall.
  • a collar is positioned in the box part, which consists of the collar front wall and collar side tabs. The collar anchored in the box part protrudes from the box part a portion out, which is covered by this in the closed position of the lid.
  • Such folding boxes usually consist of a one-piece blank made of thin cardboard.
  • the collar is usually a separate cut, also made of thin cardboard.
  • FR-A-2 677 960 shows a hinged box, the inner lid of which is connected to the collar by material webs.
  • the material webs of the hinged box shown there are, however, arranged in the region of upright edges of the collar which laterally delimit the depression. For reasons of strength, this is disadvantageous, since the material webs arranged in this way can be inadvertently severed when the hinged boxes are folded.
  • a folding box is known from EP-A-0 530 651, the inner lid of which is also connected to the collar front wall of the collar via material webs.
  • the hinged box shown there has an additional folding flap. This makes it necessary to arrange the material webs in the area of the lateral webs of the collar front wall. This creates waste pieces when the blanks are produced.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of proposing a hinged box which can be produced economically and in a material-saving manner and, moreover, is securely protected against unwanted opening before use.
  • the hinged box according to the invention is characterized in that the material webs exclusively in the area of a recess in the collar front wall, namely on a transverse collar edge in a central one Area of the collar front wall on the one hand and on a transverse edge of the lid inner tab on the other hand, are arranged.
  • the material webs preferably consist of a packaging material of the blank, that is to say of thin cardboard, and establish a connection between the blank for the hinged box and the collar, so that a blank that is in one piece is present.
  • the collar is connected to the blank of the hinged box in the region of a lid inner tab fastened to the inside of a lid front wall via material webs.
  • the lid inner flap which is customary in hinged boxes is shaped such that, in the unfolded, flat cut, a depression or recess formed in the region of the front wall of the collar is filled in a form-fitting manner by the appropriately designed inner lid flap.
  • Several, in particular three material webs connect the collar in the region of the front wall of the collar to the inner tab of the cover.
  • a cigarette group 11 is encased in an inner blank made of paper or tin foil and thus forms the contents of the packaging as a cigarette block.
  • the folding box shown consists - like conventional packaging of this type - of a box part 12 and a lid 13.
  • the box part 12 forms a box front wall 14, a box rear wall 15, narrow box side walls 16 and a bottom wall 17.
  • the box side walls 16 are formed from box side flaps 18 and 19 which overlap and are connected to one another by adhesive bonding.
  • the lid 13 consists of a lid front wall 20, a lid rear wall 21, lid side walls 22 and an upper end wall 23.
  • the lid side walls 22 consist of lid side tabs 24 and 25 which overlap and are bonded to one another.
  • Box part 12 and lid 13 are pivotally connected to one another in the region of box rear wall 15 and lid rear wall 21 along a hinge line 26.
  • the box part 12 and the lid 13 lie against one another in the region of the front walls along a transversely directed abutting edge 27 and in the region of the side walls along an obliquely upwardly directed abutting edge 28.
  • the latter is created by inclined edges 29 and 30 of the box side tabs 18, 19 on the one hand and corresponding inclined edges 31, 32 of the lid side tabs 24, 25 on the other hand.
  • a main blank 33 for the hinged box The parts described above form a main blank 33 for the hinged box. These include bottom corner flaps 34 and lid corner flaps 35. Furthermore, an inner lid flap 36 usually belongs to such a main blank 33. This connects to the free side or to a free closing edge 37 of the lid front wall 20. In the finished hinged box, the inner lid flap 36 is folded over against the inside of the front lid wall 20 and connected to it, in particular by gluing.
  • a collar 38 is also part of a hinged box. This consists of a collar front wall 39 and collar side flaps 40 and 41. In the finished hinged box, the collar 38 sits with a lower region in the box part 12 and is here on the inside of the box front wall 14 and / or fixed to the box side walls 16 by gluing. The area of the collar 38 protruding from the box part 12 is covered by the cover 13 in the closed position. Collar front wall 39 on the one hand and collar side tabs 40, 41 on the other hand are delimited from one another by fold edges or fold lines 42.
  • the collar 38 forms an integral unit with the main blank of the hinged box.
  • the collar 39 is connected to the main blank 33 by material webs 43, 44, 45.
  • the material bars 43..45 are thin residual connections of the packaging material with a width of approximately 1 mm.
  • the material webs 43..45 are created by a corresponding punching in the area between the main blank 33 and the collar 38, namely by partial punching between the material webs 43..45.
  • the material webs 43.45 are formed in the region of the collar front wall 39 on the one hand and the inner lid flap 36 on the other hand. A connection is thus established between an upper, transversely directed collar edge 46 of the collar front wall 39 and a free, transversely directed edge 47 of the lid inner tab 36, which runs parallel to the collar edge 46.
  • the main blank 33 adjoins the collar 38 in a material-saving and form-fitting manner.
  • the collar front wall 39 is provided with a depression 48 which is customary in hinged boxes.
  • the correspondingly designed inner lid flap 36 fits into this. Accordingly, this has a somewhat smaller width than the front cover wall 20.
  • the edge 47 is curved on the sides.
  • the size and shape of the inner lid flap 36 corresponds to the depression 48.
  • the collar side tabs 40, 41 are provided in a partial area with a bevel edge 49 which adapts to the bevel edge 31 of the cover side tabs. This is followed by a transverse edge 50, which is produced by punching out a triangular gusset 51 from the overall blank.
  • a side edge 52 which is directed obliquely and runs parallel to the oblique edges 49.
  • This configuration of the collar 38 on the one hand enables material-saving positioning of the blanks within a material web or a material sheet.
  • the oblique edges 29 of the box side tabs 19 of a blank match the side edges 52 of the collar 38 of an adjacent blank. Accordingly, only a very small amount of material falls through the gusset 51.
  • the design of the cut for the finished hinged box is also important.
  • the upper edge of the collar side tabs 40, 41 is angled. This ensures easy opening and closing of the cover 13.
  • the horizontal transverse edge 50 determines the upper, permissible limitation of the collar 38 with an abutment on the front wall 23 or the inwardly folded corner flaps 35.
  • the hinge-lid pack reliably held in the closed position by the material webs 43, 44, 45 can be easily opened when it is opened for the first time by pivoting back the cover 13 and thereby severing the material webs 43, 44, 45.

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Claims (5)

  1. Boîte à rabat pour cigarettes (10) ou analogues, constituée d'une partie boîte (12) et d'un couvercle (13), relié à celle-ci de façon pivotante ainsi que d'une collerette (38) ancrée dans la partie boîte (12) et sortant de celle-ci par une zone partielle, le couvercle (13) étant, dans la zone d'une languette intérieure de couvercle (36) qui est montée sur la paroi avant de couvercle (20) et fixée sur la face intérieur de celle-ci, relié par de minces nervures de matériau (43, 44, 45) à une paroi avant de la collerette (38), les minces nervures de matériau étant susceptibles d'être découpées lors de la première ouverture du couvercle (13), caractérisée par le fait que les nervures de matériau (43, 44, 45) sont disposées exclusivement dans la zone d'une échancrure (48) ménagée dans la paroi avant de collerette (39), précisément sur une arête de collerette (46) orientée transversalement, dans une zone médiane de la paroi avant de collerette (39), d'une part, et sur une bordure (47) orientée transversalement de la languette intérieure de couvercle (46), d'autre part.
  2. Boîte à rabat selon la revendication 1, caractérisée par le fait que la forme et la taille de la languette intérieure de couvercle (36) correspondent exactement à celles de l'échancrure (48) ménagée dans la paroi avant de collerette (39).
  3. Flan pour la fabrication de boîtes à rabat pour cigarettes (10) ou analogues constitué d'un flan principal (33) destiné à former une partie boîte (12) et un couvercle (13), ainsi qu'une collerette (38) reliée au flan principal (33) exclusivement par des nervures de matériau (43, 44, 45), avec une paroi avant de collerette (39) et des languettes latérales de collerette (40, 41), les nervures de matériau (43, 44, 45) étant disposées dans la zone d'une languette intérieure de couvercle (37) du flan principal (33), d'une part, et d'une paroi avant de collerette (39), d'autre part, caractérisé par le fait que les nervures de matériau (43, 44, 45) sont disposées exclusivement dans la zone d'une échancrure (48) ménagée dans la paroi avant de collerette (39), précisément sur une arête de collerette (46) orientée transversalement, dans une zone médiane de la paroi avant de collerette (39), d'une part, et sur une bordure (47) orientée transversalement de la languette intérieure de couvercle (46), d'autre part.
  4. Flan selon la revendication 3, caractérisée par le fait que des languettes latérales de couvercle (24, 25), montées sur la paroi avant de couvercle (20), sont réalisées pour constituer des parois latérales de couvercle (22) avec des arêtes obliques (31) libres, et que des languettes latérales de collerette (40, 41) appuient, par une zone partielle, précisément par les arêtes obliques (49) réalisées de manière correspondante, sur les arêtes obliques (31) des languettes latérales de couvercle (24), une arête transversale (50) se raccordant aux arêtes obliques (49) des languettes latérales de collerette (40,41) à titre de délimitation supérieure des languettes latérales de collerette (40, 41) lorsque la boîte à rabat est terminée.
  5. Flan selon la revendication 3 ou 4, caractérisé par le fait que l'espacement (distance 53) entre une arête de pliage (54), constituée de par la paroi avant de couvercle (20) et la paroi frontale (23), d'une part, et l'arête transversale (50) des languettes latérales de collerette (40, 41), d'autre part, est au moins du double de la largeur (55) de la languette intérieure de couvercle (36).
EP95103034A 1994-03-30 1995-03-03 Boîte à couvercle rabattant pour des cigarettes ou similaire Expired - Lifetime EP0675056B1 (fr)

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EP0675056A1 (fr) 1995-10-04
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