EP0835827A2 - Parallellepipediccigarette package and its blank - Google Patents

Abstract

The packet is of foldable stiff material such as thin cardboard, having a hinging lid (18) at the top with front, rear, side and end walls (12-14,17). A hinge line (31) is formed at the end wall and an inserted locking lug (36) is formed on the lid at the sidewall. At its sidewall (21), the lid comprises two layers, as does the packet sidewall (14). The inner and outer layers are of different dimensions so as to form the inserted locking lug, this typically consisting of a larger and longer outer lug. At the front and rear walls of the lid its butt-joint edges can extend at different angles from the end of the hinge line. The locking lug can consist of a rounded tongue, while the inner side lugs can be of a different shape to this, particularly with a transverse straight sealing edge (38).

Description

The invention relates to a cuboid packaging made of foldable, rigid packaging material, such as (thin) cardboard, preferably for cigarettes as package content, with a hinged lid, which is located in an upper, lateral corner area of Front wall and rear wall, an upright side wall and one End wall extends, with a hinge of the hinged cover in Area of the front wall and a plug lock with a plug tab are formed on the hinged cover in the area of the side wall. The invention further relates to blanks for production of the aforementioned packaging.

Folding boxes - so-called hinge-lid packs - are one widely used type of pack for cigarettes. With a folding box (made of thin cardboard) is a lid over a line hinge in the area of a lid rear wall with a rear wall Box part connected. With this type of pack lies in the open Position of the entire upper area of the package contents free.

The invention has for its object a cuboid Propose packaging made of (thin) cardboard for cigarettes, in which a hinged lid formed in the area of an upper corner is arranged, which is nevertheless designed and simple is easy to handle.

The packaging according to the invention is used to achieve this object characterized in that the hinged lid in the area of a Lid side wall according to the packaging side wall, double-layered is with an inner side tab and an outer side tab and that the tab has different dimensions and / or geometric design of the side tabs formed is, especially by a larger or longer outer Side lobes.

In the packaging according to the invention, one is used for the closed position of the hinged lid required plug without additional Folding measures formed, namely only by height staggered dividing lines between the hinged lid and the rest Part of the packaging in the area of the double-layer side wall. This offset creates the single-layer tab in the area the lid side wall as the protrusion of the concerned (outer) side lobe opposite the other, (inner) side lobe.

This offset is preferably caused by different Closing edges of the hinged lid in the area of the front wall and rear wall formed, in particular by closing edges with different Angles of inclination.

The packaging designed in this way with a hinged lid in the upper corner area can also be rounded upright according to the invention Pack edges have - so-called round edge pack - with Continuation of the rounded edges in the area of the hinged lid. In an analogous manner, the packaging can also be polygonal or bevelled packaging edges - so-called Octagon pack.

The invention further relates to blanks for packaging of the type described, the thin cardboard existing blanks are elongated with in Follow adjoining front wall, bottom wall, rear wall and end wall. Lateral, opposite end areas of the cut with perforations or punching lines Define areas for the hinged lid. Furthermore is a blank for an inner covering by perforations designed so that when you first open the packaging an inner cap of the inner covering over the hinged lid is separable in the area of the hinged cover.

Fig. 1

eine Zigaretten-Verpackung mit geschlossenem Klappdeckel in perspektivischer Darstellung,

Fig. 2

eine andere Ausführungsform der Verpackung, ebenfalls in Schließstellung,

Fig. 3

die Verpackung gemäß Fig. 1 in geöffneter Stellung, ebenfalls in perspektivischer Darstellung,

Fig. 4

eine Darstellung analog zu Fig. 3 für die Ausführungsform gemäß Fig. 2,

Fig. 5

eine Rundkanten-Verpackung mit Klappdeckel,

Fig. 6

eine Achteck-Verpackung mit Klappdeckel,

Fig. 7

eine Verpackung mit Klappdeckel in der Ausführung von Fig. 1 bis Fig. 4 im Vertikalschnitt vor dem erstmaligen Öffnen,

Fig. 8

eine Darstellung entsprechend Fig. 7 mit dem Klappdeckel in Schließstellung nach dem erstmaligen Öffnen,

Fig. 9

einen ausgebreiteten Zuschnitt für eine Verpackung gemäß Fig. 1 und Fig. 3,

Fig. 10

einen ausgebreiteten Zuschnitt einer Verpackung gemäß Fig. 2 und Fig. 4,

Fig. 11

einen ausgebreiteten Zuschnitt für eine Rundkanten-Verpackung gemäß Fig. 5,

Fig. 12

einen ausgebreiteten Zuschnitt für eine Rundkanten-Verpackung gemäß Fig. 6,

Fig. 13

einen ausgebreiteten Zuschnitt für eine Innenumhüllung einer Zigaretten-Gruppe.

Further details and features of the invention emerge from the patent drawings. It shows:

Fig. 1

a cigarette packaging with closed hinged lid in a perspective view,

Fig. 2

another embodiment of the packaging, also in the closed position,

Fig. 3

1 in the open position, also in a perspective view,

Fig. 4

3 for the embodiment according to FIG. 2,

Fig. 5

a round edge packaging with a hinged lid,

Fig. 6

an octagon packaging with a hinged lid,

Fig. 7

a packaging with a hinged lid in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 4 in vertical section before opening for the first time,

Fig. 8

7 with the hinged lid in the closed position after the first opening,

Fig. 9

1 shows a spread blank for a packaging according to FIGS. 1 and 3,

Fig. 10

2 shows a spread blank of a packaging according to FIGS. 2 and 4,

Fig. 11

a spread blank for a round edge packaging according to FIG. 5,

Fig. 12

6 a spread blank for a round edge packaging according to FIG. 6,

Fig. 13

a spread blank for an inner wrapper of a cigarette group.

The embodiments shown in the drawings are Packaging for cigarettes. A cigarette group is there surrounded by an inner covering 10. This creates a cigarette block 11, the interior of the package as the package contents fills out.

The packaging itself consists of (thin) cardboard or the like foldable material. A preferably one-piece blank is folded so that opposite one another Large-area walls arise, namely front wall 12 and Rear wall 13. These are through two upright, narrow side walls 14 and 15 connected together. A bottom wall 16 and an end wall 17 complete the packaging.

A hinged lid is used to open and close the packaging 18. This is in the area of an upper, side corner of the Packaging is formed and extends "over a corner". The hinged lid 18 is a portion of the package and has one Lid front wall 19 and lid rear wall 20 as part of the front wall 12 and rear wall 13. An upper area of a side wall 14 forms a cover side wall 21. A partial area the end wall 17 is a cover end wall 22.

The hinged lid 18 or one that can be closed by it The "opening" extending over the corner is in the area of the front wall 12 and rear wall 13 delimited by abutting edges 23, 24, those of the upper, the end wall 17 associated with the packaging Transverse edges 25, 26 inclined up to (upright) Extend longitudinal edges 27, 28. The latter form upright, lateral boundaries of the side wall 14. The abutting edges 23, 24 with corresponding lid abutting edges 29, 30 in the range of Front wall 12 and rear wall 13 run in the present Embodiments straight, but can also be arched or be designed in another way. By the present Shape of the abutting edges 23, 24 on the one hand and cover abutting edges 29, 30 on the other hand are the lid front wall 19 and the lid rear wall 20 triangular.

The hinged lid 18 is in the end wall 17 with the remaining part of the packaging connected. Between end wall 17 and cover end wall 22 extends a transverse line hinge 31

The packaging is designed so that the side wall 14 and the Lid side wall 21 are formed of two layers, that is two walls at least predominantly overlapping one another or folding flaps. These are side lobes 32, 33 or lid side tabs 34, 35. An outer side tab 32 is with the front wall 12 and an inner side tab 33 connected to the rear wall 13. The side tabs 32, 33 and correspondingly, the lid side tabs 34, 35 are by gluing connected together to the side wall 14 or the lid side wall 21 to form.

The side tabs 32, 33 and lid side tabs 34, 35 form mutually corresponding, transverse (locking) Edges that are visible before the first use of the packaging (Fig. 1, Fig. 2) fit together. To after opening for the first time the packaging has a stable closed position of the hinged lid To ensure 18 is in the examples shown a plug connection is provided for this. On the hinged lid 18, namely, on its lid side wall 21 is a locking tab or plug-in tab 36 formed in the closed position of the packaging (Fig. 8) is brought into a plug position. In which aforementioned embodiment extends the tab 36 on the inside of the side wall 14 or on the inside of the inner side tab 33 between this and the Contents of the pack, in particular the cigarette block 11.

The plug tab 36 is created without adding anything Material solely through the design of parts of packing walls. As shown, closing edges 37, 38 are in the region of the Lid side wall 21 arranged offset from one another. Corresponding for this purpose are counter edges 39, 40 of the side wall 14 and the Side tabs 32, 33 also offset in height from one another. The outer cover side tab 34 has thereby in the vertical direction a larger dimension than the inner lid side tab 35. In the closed position, the cover side tab 34 forming the closing or insertion tab 36 downwards the upper region of the inner side tab 33, that is over the Opposite edge 40, away. This allows the lower area of the Lid side tab 34 as a tab 36 between the inner Side tabs 33 and package contents, namely cigarette block 11, are introduced (Fig. 8). This is the closed position due to the clamping force exerted on the plug-in tab 36 fixed.

The closing or insertion tab 36 can be designed differently be, by appropriate training of each other corresponding edges 37..40. With an advantageous The embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 3 is the plug-in tab 36 tongue-shaped, namely with an arcuate designed limit of the plug tab 36 (closing edge 37). This shape results from a corresponding separating cut in the area of the outer side tab 32 or the lid side tab 34 forming the corresponding edges, namely closing edge 37 and counter edge 40. The tongue-shaped Insert tab 36 can in this embodiment be limited in a circular arc.

2 and 4 are the Closing edge 37 and the opposite edge 39 formed in a straight line, namely, as cross cuts to the longitudinal edges 27, 28 separating cuts.

The insertion of the tongue 36 in the closed position (Fig. 8) is due to the given design of the packaging facilitated or enables that the tab 36 as Part of the outer lid side tab 34 on one side free and only on the other side with the lid front wall is directly connected. But on this page is the inner side tab 33 free, namely not with an adjacent one Wall (front wall 12) directly connected.

The clip 36 is created by different design the lid front wall 19 and lid rear wall 20, namely by different size of the same. This design in turn arises from a different inclination (angle) of the abutting edges 23, 24 or cover abutting edges 29, 30. These go out from the ends of the line hinge 31 and end offset in height on the longitudinal edges 27, 28. The tab 36 is formed through this offset.

Another specialty results from FIGS. 5 and 6. Shown is the application of the construction principle described one Hinged lid 18 on a round edge pack (Fig. 5) and one Octagon pack (Fig. 6). With the first-mentioned pack type are the upright longitudinal edges 27 and 28 and opposite Longitudinal edges 41, 42 are rounded, namely cross-section approximately quarter-circular, corresponding to Dimensions of the cigarettes. Separating or punching cuts are like this placed that the tab 36 to the area of the rounded Longitudinal edges 27, 28 is guided, namely approximately in the middle the same ends. This is where the sloping butt edges close 23, 24 or cover abutting edges 29, 30.

The octagon pack according to FIG. 6 is designed analogously to this. The longitudinal edges 27, 28 and 41, 42 are in this example beveled. This results in two individual edges 43, 44 each longitudinal edge 27, 28; 41, 42. The here also extends Push tab 36 each in the area of a strip of material between individual edges 43, 44 of the longitudinal edges 27, 28. It connects to the abutting edge 23, 24 with the lid abutting edge 29, 30th

The packaging is in the present embodiments made from a one-piece blank (Fig. 9 to Fig. 12). The cut can be designed differently, for example also on the principle of "cross winding". It is but required that the side wall in the area of the hinged cover 14 and correspondingly the lid side wall 21 at least is formed in two layers.

The cut is designed so that die cuts to form the Hinged lid 18 already attached during the manufacture of the blank will. As can be seen from Fig. 9, are at each other opposite end areas of the elongated blank linear punchings 45, 46 attached. These are around die cuts made by severable residual connections 47 are interrupted. The die cuts 45, 46 define the at first opening of the packaging resulting edges 23, 24; 29, 30; 37, 38; 39, 40. The peculiarity is that the Die cuts 45, 46 with a straight leg 56, 57 in the area the front wall 12 and rear wall 13 under different Angles run. An angle 52 for the leg 56 in the area the front wall 12 is larger than an angle 53 for the leg 57 in the area of the rear wall 13. This creates the described Offset in the area of the (double-layered) side wall 14 or lid side wall 21. On the sloping legs 56, 57 of the punchings 45, 46 close in the region of the side tabs 32, 33 differently designed legs 58 and 59 of the Die cuts 45, 46. The leg 58 is arcuate in FIG. 9 designed to limit a corresponding closing or Insert tab 36 of the embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 3. The leg 59 is rectilinear, transverse.

The cut is already in the area with embossments 48, 49 provided by end flaps 50, 51 to form the line joint 31. In the exemplary embodiments shown is the end wall 17 double-layered, namely consisting of each other overlapping and interconnected end wall tabs 50, 51. Both have embossing lines 48, 49, which in the finished Packaging is in the same place (Fig. 8) and so together form the line joint 31.

Another peculiarity is that when cutting 50 lateral lateral lobes in the area Cutouts 54 are formed by omitting corner flaps 55, which are present in the area of the inner front flap 51. This Corner flaps 55 are with the side flaps 33 or lid side flaps 35 connected.

11 and 12 show blanks for round edge packs (Fig. 5) or octagon packs (Fig. 6), each with die cuts 45, 46 for the hinged lid 18 described The corner flaps are missing in the area of the outer frontal lobe 50.

13 shows another special feature. It's about the design a blank for the inner wrapping 10 made of paper, Tinfoil or other suitable material. The inner wrapping 10 is constructed such that a front surface 60, connect a bottom surface 61 and a back surface 62 in succession, so that the inner casing 10 has an elongated, forms a rectangular blank. Folds are in the Area of the end wall 17 and the side walls 14 and 15 of the Packaging due to the corresponding folding flap of the inner wrapping 10th

In the area of the hinged cover 18, the inner casing 10 is also included a cap that can be removed when the packaging is opened for the first time Mistake. The size of this corresponds approximately to the size of the Hinged lid 18. This means that the contents of the package are removed this cap of the inner casing 10 in the area of the hinged cover 18 free.

The cap of the inner wrapper 10 is opposed to each other Corner areas of the inner casing 10 are formed. Are here intersection lines 63, 64. These extend "over Eck "starting from an end flap 65 or 66, which runs obliquely in the area of the front surface 60 or rear surface 62 and subsequently in the area of lateral folding tabs 67, 68 of the inner covering. The intersection lines 63, 64 are through residual connections 69 interrupted. When opening the packaging or upon acceptance of the cap, these residual connections 69 are severed. The remaining connections 69 are positioned so that each such a residual connection at the ends of the cutting lines 63, 64 69 located.

Another peculiarity is that the cutting lines 63, 64 in the area of the front lobes 65, 66 a straight line, form transverse leg 70. The relative position of the Section lines 63, 64 and the inclination of the oblique Sections of the same are chosen so that they roughly follow the course the punchings 45, 46 correspond.

The illustrated and described embodiments of a (Hard) pack with corner cover 18 can experienced various modifications. So can the described and the illustrated tab 36 alternatively as a contact tab used in the closed position of the packaging abuts an inner wall, namely on the inner side tab 33 or on one formed by the offset punch cuts Protrusion 71 (Fig. 3). A can be in the area of this projection 71 permanent adhesive may be appropriate, for example a glue point 72 from a (known) permanently effective adhesive. The glue point 72 acts as a closing tab Insert tab 36 held in the closed position.

It is also possible to include the blanks for packaging to design all embodiments so that the bottom wall 16 acts as an end wall, that is, the end flaps 50, 51 lie one above the other form a bottom wall. In this alternative are the punchings 45, 46 in the central region of the elongated Blanks arranged such that two of the (middle) End wall (corresponding to bottom wall 16) outgoing, diverging Die cuts 45, 46 arise. In this case, the front wall one layer of the packaging.

Reference list :

10th

Inner wrapping

11

Cigarette block

12th

Front wall

13

Back wall

14

Side wall

15

Side wall

16

Bottom wall

17th

Front wall

18th

Hinged lid

19th

Lid front wall

20th

Lid back wall

21

Lid side wall

22

Lid end wall

23

Butt edge

24th

Butt edge

25th

Transverse edge

26

Transverse edge

27

Long edge

28

Long edge

29

Lid joint edge

30th

Lid joint edge

31

Line joint

32

Side lobes

33

Side lobes

34

Lid side tabs (outside)

35

Lid side tabs (inside)

36

Tab

37

Closing edge

38

Closing edge

39

Opposite edge

40

Opposite edge

41

Long edge

42

Long edge

43

Single edge

44

Single edge

45

Die cut

46

Die cut

47

Residual connection

48

Minting line

49

Minting line

50

Forehead lobe

51

Forehead lobe

52

angle

53

angle

54

Neckline

55

Corner rag

56

leg

57

leg

58

leg

59

leg

60

Front surface

61

Floor area

62

Back surface

63

Cutting line

64

Cutting line

65

Forehead lobe

66

Forehead lobe

67

Folding rag

68

Folding rag

69

Residual connection

70

leg

71

Got over

72

Glue point

Claims (10)

Cuboid-shaped packaging made of foldable, rigid packaging material, such as (thin) cardboard, preferably for cigarettes as package contents, with a hinged lid (18) which is located in an upper, lateral corner area of the front wall (12), rear wall (13), an upright side wall ( 14) and an end wall (17), a line hinge (31) of the hinged cover (18) in the region of the end wall (17) and a plug closure with a plug tab (36) on the hinged cover (18) in the region of the side wall (14) are characterized in that the hinged lid (18) in the area of a lid side wall (21) corresponding to the associated side wall (14) is formed in two layers with an outer lid side tab (34) and an inner lid side tab (35) and that the plug-in tab (36) is formed by different dimensions and / or geometrical design of the cover side tabs (34, 35), in particular by a relatively larger or longer outer cover sides rag (34). Packaging according to claim 1, characterized in that boundaries of the hinged lid (18) in the region of the front wall (12) and rear wall (13), in particular lid abutting edges (29, 30) of the lid front wall (19) and lid rear wall (20 ), run in different (transverse) planes, in particular with different angles (52, 53), each starting from the ends of the linear joint (31). Packaging according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the plug-in tab (36) of the hinged lid (18) is designed as a rounded tongue with a preferably circular closing edge (37) and in that the inner lid side tab (35) has a different shape, in particular with a transverse, rectilinear closing edge (38). Packaging according to claim 1 or one of the further claims, characterized in that the side wall (14) forms upper, height-offset, transversely directed counter edges (39, 40) for the closing edges (37, 38) of the lid side wall (21), in particular in such a way that a counter edge (39) of the outer side flap (32) is offset downward from the counter edge (40) of the inner side flap (33), the inner side flap (33) having a projection (71) for engaging the plug-in flap (36 ) forms. Packaging according to claim 1 or one of the further claims, characterized by upright longitudinal edges (41, 42) with a round, in particular quarter-circular cross-section (round edges), the plug-in tab (36) extending into the region of the round longitudinal edges (41, 42), especially up to the middle of the same. Packaging according to claim 1 or a further claim, characterized in that upright longitudinal edges (41, 42) are bevelled, preferably with two parallel individual edges (43, 44) (octagon shape) arranged at a distance from one another, the plug-in tab (36) extends into the region of the bevelled longitudinal edges (41, 42), preferably up to the middle between the individual edges (43, 44). Packaging according to claim 1 or one of the further claims, characterized in that the end wall (17) is double-layered, namely consists of two end flaps (50, 51) covering one another over the entire surface, and in that the cover end wall (22) is formed accordingly in two layers and the line joint (31) formed by embossed lines extends over both front lobes (50, 51). Blank made of foldable packaging material, in particular (thin) cardboard, for the production of packaging according to one or more of claims 1 to 7, characterized by the following features: a) front wall (12), bottom wall (16) and rear wall (13) are arranged in succession in the longitudinal direction of the blank and connected to one another, b) in the region of the front wall (12) and rear wall (13), side tabs (32, 33) are arranged to form side walls (14, 15), c) end flaps (50, 51) adjoin the free edges of the front wall (12) and rear wall (13), the shape and dimensions of which correspond to those of the front wall (17), d) line-shaped punchings (45 and 46) are provided on opposite, lateral corner regions, namely punch cuts with interruption by residual connections (47), e) the punchings (45, 46) consist of an inclined leg (56, 57) in the region of the front wall (12) or rear wall (13) and of a transverse or rounded leg (58, 59) in the region of a side tab (32, 33), f) the legs (56, 57) in the region of the front wall (12) and rear wall (13) run at different angles (52, 53). Blank according to Claim 8, characterized in that corner flaps (55) are arranged only in the region of an inner end flap (51), namely are connected to adjacent side flaps (33), while lateral cutouts (54) are formed in the region of the outer end flap (50) . Blank for an inner wrapping (10), in particular in connection with a packaging according to one or more of claims 1 to 7, characterized by the following features: a) areas for a front surface (60), bottom surface (61) and rear surface (62) are formed in succession in the region of the elongated, rectangular blank, b) in the area of the front surface (60) and rear surface (62), lateral folding flaps (67, 68) are formed for the lateral wrapping of the cigarette group, c) end flaps (65, 66) adjoin narrow ends of the front surface (60) and rear surface (62) to cover the cigarettes at the upper end ends, d) cut lines (63, 64) with residual connections (69) are formed at opposite corner regions of the blank, e) the cutting lines (63, 64) extend from the free edge of the front flaps (65, 66) to the free edge of the folding flaps (67, 68), f) in the area of the front surface (60) and rear surface (62) and the adjacent folding tabs (67, 68), the cutting lines (63, 64) run continuously in a straight line, g) a transverse, angled leg (70) is formed in the region of the frontal lobes (65, 66).

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