EP0853590A1 - Carton for smoking articles with extinguishing means and method of charging it - Google Patents
Carton for smoking articles with extinguishing means and method of charging itInfo
- Publication number
- EP0853590A1 EP0853590A1 EP96928582A EP96928582A EP0853590A1 EP 0853590 A1 EP0853590 A1 EP 0853590A1 EP 96928582 A EP96928582 A EP 96928582A EP 96928582 A EP96928582 A EP 96928582A EP 0853590 A1 EP0853590 A1 EP 0853590A1
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- carton
- tube
- charge
- cigarette
- smoking articles
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Ceased
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Classifications
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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
- B65D85/1081—Inserts or accessories added or joined to the container, e.g. coins, pens, cards, spacers
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
- A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
- A24F15/00—Receptacles or boxes specially adapted for cigars, cigarettes, simulated smoking devices or cigarettes therefor
- A24F15/12—Receptacles or boxes specially adapted for cigars, cigarettes, simulated smoking devices or cigarettes therefor for pocket use
- A24F15/18—Receptacles or boxes specially adapted for cigars, cigarettes, simulated smoking devices or cigarettes therefor for pocket use combined with other objects
Definitions
- This invention relates to cartons for smoking articles and in particular but not exclusively for cigarettes.
- the present invention is concerned with providing a carton which allows for the extinguishing and retention of a used or part-used smoking article.
- the smoking article will be referred to as a cigarette hereafter and will be exemplified for cigarettes. It is concerned also with methods of charging such cartons.
- the purpose of the present invention is however primarily to provide means by which a used cigarette is safely extinguished. In some embodiments it will be firmly retained in the carton while in others it may be removed by the user and discarded. Retention is preferred because of the environmental advantages of not having to dispose of discarded cigarette butts.
- a block is mounted inside a cigarette carton. The block has a slanted upper face and a plurality of parallel tubes formed in it which are to receive respectively a cigarette, with the end of the cigarette accessible above the sloping face. It is clear that a tube which has been vacated by a cigarette could be used thereafter for extinguishing and receiving that cigarette again, though this use is not disclosed.
- a grid for the reception of cigarettes in a carton is formed by a plurality of tubes secured together.
- the tubes have steps or shoulders in them so that accessible ends of the cigarettes are presented in a sloping array.
- a grid is formed with detent means interacting with a sliding lid of a carton to allow progressive presentation of cigarettes stored in the grid.
- JP-A-6-46822 and 6-70740 are disclosures of cartons with two portions, one with a grid for receiving cigarettes and the other having one or more tapered extinguishing tubes into which used cigarettes are put. It is also disclosed that butts may be stored in the cells of the grid.
- the present invention provides cartons which have extinguishing means and in some cases retention and storage means for used cigarettes but which at the same time allow for the extremely high manufacturing speeds which are required in economic terms for objects of this nature. Furthermore, they are for the most part adaptable either to insertion of the charge into a preformed carton or, as is more common in this art, the formation of a carton around a preassembled charge.
- a carton of cigarettes has, surrounding part of the length of each cigarette, a tube which is a sufficiently close fit for the cigarette to extinguish a lighted such cigarette when placed in it, each tube being discrete and separate from each other tube.
- a charged carton is assembled first by fitting individually a tube onto a cigarette so as to leave one end of the cigarette free and preferably with the other end of the cigarette flush with one . end of the tube, assembling a collocation of such tubed cigarettes and inserting that collocation into an erected carton or erecting a carton from a blank around that collocation so that the free ends of the cigarettes are exposed at an opening end of the carton. All of these operations can be done on standard machines, the insertion of the cigarette into the tube being done on a filter-tip assembler machine; and the dimensions of the carton so obtained can be extremely similar to, if not identical to, those of a standard carton;
- the tubes involved are preferably tubes of substantially rigid card assembled by spiral winding in known manner and may have two or more layers.
- An innermost layer of the tube may be a heat dispersion or insulation layer such as for example a carbon- containing layer and such a layer especially if it is carbon may also have a deodorant activity.
- a charged carton contains in one portion a standard collocation of cigarettes.
- a standard collocation we mean a shaped bundle of for example 15 or 20 or 25 cigarettes assembled in standard machinery and enwrapped in a conventional foil-backed paper wrapping.
- This part of the carton may be defined by a conventional carton inner frame.
- one or more extinguishing tubes In the other portion of the carton there is provided one or more extinguishing tubes.
- a plurality of tubes is tight packed into that portion of the carton, preferably having shaped upper ends so as to guide a downwardly directed burning end of a cigarette into a central one of the tubes.
- the second portion of the carton is occupied by a closed container into which the one or more extinguishing tubes debouches.
- the length of the extinguishing tube should be sufficient to ensure extinction of a cigarette placed in it but may be short enough that there is room below it within the container for a cigarette end which is pushed through the tube to be able to get clear of the tube.
- the tubes may be of card or like material as mentioned above or may be moulded or extruded plastics material tubes, and the container may be of plastics material.
- the invention also provides for assuring oxygen exhaustion within an extinguishing tube while permitting the ready withdrawal of an unused cigarette from a tube.
- Ready withdrawal implies a clearance between the inner wall of the tube and the cigarette and that clearance obviously offers a path for oxygen from the ambient air.
- the invention proposes that the diametrical dimension of a portion of the cigarette should be an interference fit with a tube which receives that cigarette; however, in the condition in which the unused cigarette is presented in a carton the interference fit portion of the cigarette is free of the tube.
- the interference fit portion may be assured for example by a thick overwrap on a filter or by a specifically-provided seal ring projection either on a filter assembly or near the mouth end of an unfiltered cigarette.
- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a first carton charged with cigarettes
- Figure 2 is a partial section on the line II- II;
- Figure 3 is a perspective view of a second carton embodying the invention
- Figure 4 is a section on the line IV-IV;
- Figure 5 is a top view of the second embodiment
- Figure 6 is a perspective view of the third embodiment;
- Figure 7 is a section on the line VII-VII of
- Figure 6 and Figure 8 is shown in modification; and Figure 9 is an enlarged view of a cigarette having an interference fit portion.
- FIG. 1 there is shown what is in principle a standard "flip-top" carton with a body 1 to which is hinged a lid 2 openable to expose the mouthpiece or filter ends 3 of a charge of (usually twenty) cigarettes 4, and retained in its closed position against accidental opening by inner frame 7.
- a substantial portion e.g. about two- thirds of its length, each cigarette is surrounded by a tube 5.
- the tube 5 may be (as described below) a- hollow spiral wound tube of two or more layers of card or may be a plastics material extrudate, for example.
- the fit between the cigarette and the tube should be just enough to resist accidental displacement of one in relation to the other and to allow handling of the two together.
- Each cigarette 4 with its respective tube 5 is preassembled together on a filter tip assembler such as a Hauni MAX 5 or MAX 80 machine and the assembly thus made is treated as if it were a cigarette, being passed to a packing and assembling machine which in the conventional way prepares a charge of cigarettes, e.g. twenty in number, in the desired dimensions.
- This assembled charge is then either inserted into a preassembled carton 1 or as is more usual has a carton 1 assembled around it, both of these being operations which are per se standard.
- the charge may have a wrapping around such as the conventional aluminium foil/paper wrap.
- the smoker having opened the carton can select any of the ends 3 presented to him, smoke that cigarette and then reinsert its remains into the tube 5 thereby extinguishing the butt end and at the same time storing it in the carton and avoiding distasteful littering of the environment.
- the tube will engage the used cigarette more firmly than it engaged the unused one.
- Figures 3 , 4 and 5 show a second embodiment where in a carton 1' with a lid 2 a conventional charge 6 of cigarettes is held, preferably with the provision of the conventional inner frame 7.
- the charge 6 may be wrapped in for example conventional foil-backed paper.
- Upper ends 10 of the tubes are preferably shaped so as to define a concavity which will tend to guide a smoker inserting a part-used cigarette to the central one of the tubes 9. Reception of the cigarette in any of these tubes will result in its extinction especially if there is the interference fit feature which will be described in more detail below.
- the upper ends 10 may be covered by a hinged cover flap 8 of the second inner frame 7' .
- This embodiment can be assembled on standard machinery treating the charge 6 on the one hand and the bundle of tubes 9 on the other as sub-assemblies to be held together while being inserted into a pre-erected carton or while having a carton erected around them.
- the tubes 9 may be adhered together to assist in this handling stage.
- a carton 1' with lid 2 again has two portions, one of which is occupied by a conventional wrapped charge 6 of cigarettes.
- an extinguishing tube 12 which debouches into a closed container 13.
- the length of the tube 12 should be such as to assure as far as possible extinction of the coal of a cigarette placed in it but nevertheless its lower end should be sufficiently clear of the floor of the container 13 that a cigarette end pushed through it will be able to get clear axially of the tube so as not to impede a next cigarette.
- FIG. 8 shows how a container 13' may be the full height of the carton, with tube 12' being inset into a depending tube or funnel 14 in the top wall of the container.
- Figure 9 shows in more detail a preferred form of cigarette and tube combination.
- a tube here given the reference 15 but which may be a tube 5, 9, 12 or 12' of the embodiments described, has on its inner face a layer 16 of heat-insulant or heat-conductor which in particular may be a layer of carbon-loaded paper.
- the mouth end 3 of the cigarette is however either wholly or partially of a diameter which is a tight interference fit with the layer 16.
- the difference between diameters of the mouth end and tobacco rod has also been exaggerated in Figure 9.
- This interference fit may for example be achieved by the use of an overwrap material 19 to unite a filter assembly to the tobacco rod or by the specific provision of a projecting ring 20 by wrapping a strip around the cigarette, either in addition to or alternatively to an overwrap 19, the ridge 20 then providing the tight interference fit with the inside of the tube.
- the position of the portion of the cigarette which forms the tight interference fit should be such that when the cigarette is unused and is being presented as is seen in Figure 9 the interference fit portion is clear of the free end 21 of the tube but that once there has been appreciable use of the cigarette so that its length diminishes placing the cigarette back into the tube will cause the interference fit portion to engage with that tube thereby giving better assurance of oxygen exhaustion and of retention of the used cigarette in the tube.
- Such an expedient can clearly, and advantageously, be used in conjunction with any of the embodiments of carton which have been described.
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- Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
- Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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GB9517884 | 1995-09-01 | ||
GBGB9517884.4A GB9517884D0 (en) | 1995-09-01 | 1995-09-01 | Carton for smoking articles |
PCT/GB1996/002094 WO1997009250A1 (en) | 1995-09-01 | 1996-08-30 | Carton for smoking articles with extinguishing means and method of charging it |
Publications (1)
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EP0853590A1 true EP0853590A1 (en) | 1998-07-22 |
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EP96928582A Ceased EP0853590A1 (en) | 1995-09-01 | 1996-08-30 | Carton for smoking articles with extinguishing means and method of charging it |
Country Status (8)
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EP (1) | EP0853590A1 (en) |
JP (1) | JPH11501599A (en) |
AU (1) | AU704424B2 (en) |
CA (1) | CA2230920A1 (en) |
GB (1) | GB9517884D0 (en) |
NZ (1) | NZ316144A (en) |
WO (1) | WO1997009250A1 (en) |
ZA (1) | ZA967378B (en) |
Families Citing this family (7)
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GB9716899D0 (en) * | 1997-08-08 | 1997-10-15 | Rothmans International Ltd | Machine and process for packaging smoking articles |
FR2811519A1 (en) * | 2000-07-17 | 2002-01-18 | Mouv F F I | DEVICE CREATING THE OBLIGATION FOR THE SMOKER TO MANAGE ITS STUFFS |
AU2008267765A1 (en) * | 2007-06-25 | 2008-12-31 | Kristen Mihas | Improved apparatus and method for the extinguishing and storage of used cigarette butts |
ES1075173Y (en) * | 2011-06-07 | 2011-11-11 | Urnieta Rafael Daniel Gorostidi | CIGARETTE PACKAGE WITH INCORPORATED CENICERO |
WO2017072909A1 (en) * | 2015-10-29 | 2017-05-04 | 日本たばこ産業株式会社 | Container for combustion residues of carbon heat source of rod-shaped tobacco products, butt container, and package for rod-shaped tobacco products |
BE1025082B1 (en) * | 2017-03-22 | 2018-10-24 | Ibrahim Nasaj | DEVICE FOR DEAFING AND / OR odorless STORAGE OF A CIGARETTE. |
FR3069856A1 (en) * | 2017-08-04 | 2019-02-08 | Eric Fieschi | ECOLOGICAL CIGARETTE PACKAGE |
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US3888264A (en) * | 1973-10-10 | 1975-06-10 | Paul S Baclit | Combined cigarette package holder and ashtray compartment |
GB2063811B (en) * | 1979-11-29 | 1983-10-05 | Molins Ltd | Packing of cigarettes |
EP0077867A1 (en) * | 1981-10-23 | 1983-05-04 | Nicolaas Neuwahl | Cigarette box with an ash receptacle for the butts |
US4771882A (en) * | 1987-06-24 | 1988-09-20 | Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation | Cigarette package with spacer |
JPH0670740A (en) * | 1992-08-28 | 1994-03-15 | Nekusuto One:Kk | Tobacco case serving also as cigarette butt container having fire extinguishing function |
US5385157A (en) * | 1993-07-23 | 1995-01-31 | Smith; Kenneth | Cigarette snuffing and storing device |
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1995
- 1995-09-01 GB GBGB9517884.4A patent/GB9517884D0/en active Pending
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1996
- 1996-08-30 JP JP9510928A patent/JPH11501599A/en active Pending
- 1996-08-30 ZA ZA967378A patent/ZA967378B/en unknown
- 1996-08-30 CA CA002230920A patent/CA2230920A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 1996-08-30 AU AU68305/96A patent/AU704424B2/en not_active Ceased
- 1996-08-30 EP EP96928582A patent/EP0853590A1/en not_active Ceased
- 1996-08-30 NZ NZ316144A patent/NZ316144A/en unknown
- 1996-08-30 WO PCT/GB1996/002094 patent/WO1997009250A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
Non-Patent Citations (1)
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AU6830596A (en) | 1997-03-27 |
WO1997009250A1 (en) | 1997-03-13 |
NZ316144A (en) | 1998-10-28 |
AU704424B2 (en) | 1999-04-22 |
CA2230920A1 (en) | 1997-03-13 |
ZA967378B (en) | 1997-03-10 |
GB9517884D0 (en) | 1995-11-01 |
JPH11501599A (en) | 1999-02-09 |
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