ES2349910B1 - CIGARETTE BOX WITH ENABLED SPACE TO STORE BIGS. - Google Patents

Abstract

Cigarette pack with space enabled for storing cigarette butts (Fig. 1) consisting of a pack of tobacco (1), with lid (2), characterized in that it has two differentiated volumes; the first, with a single cavity (3), is intended to contain in an upright position, the New cigarettes (3.1) and the other, is the container (4) of cigarette butts (6) compartmentalized in as many cells (5) as new cigarettes (3.1) fit in the container (3) when the pack (1) is without to show for the first time. Thus, each cell (5) admits a single butt (6), thanks to the compartments formed by a vertical dividing panel (4.1) and several horizontal dividing panels (4.2) coated or manufactured with fire retardant material being the orifice section of access to each cell (5) substantially equal to the cross section of a new cigarette (3.1) so that the cigarette butt (6) is can enter the cell (5) by exerting light pressure on the Once its total is shut down. When the cover (2) and the flap (7) are in closed position, the holes in the cells (5) They are hidden.

Description

Cigarette pack with space enabled To store cigarette butts.

Introduction

The object of the present invention relates to a new type of cigarette pack presented in your inside two well differentiated receptacles. The first of them, of a single hole, it is intended for the placement of cigarettes not yet consumed, that is, this receptacle is Full and perfectly tidy when the package is new. The other receptacle, formed by a series of cells, completely empty in new packs, is intended for storing cigarette butts of those cigarettes that are consumed, that is, the cells they fill up as the pack reduces its content in new cigarettes

The object of this invention is to avoid dirt in all types of enclosures, public or private according with the elementary norms of urbanity and good coexistence and even to facilitate compliance with modern regulations that have been published to guarantee or, at least favor quality environmental by the punitive way and also to preserve the integrity of the forest masses that with a simple bad butt off they can be totally destroyed by fire.

The invention is applicable to packs of any shape and size although, logically, the solution must be specific to each case.

Sector of the technique to which the invention relates

The invention presented affects the Sector of Current Needs of Life, Food and Tobacco chapter regarding items for smokers, from the commercial point of view, in the design, manufacture and supply of smoking articles.

Background of the invention

There are many antecedents related to solutions to prevent cigarette butts consumed go to the ground.

The consequences of lax behavior by part of smokers are very diverse and can simply affect to the aspects of cleaning in the public or private sphere but It can also affect security in general if we consider the serious consequences that can lead to the detachment of a cigarette butt in a wooded mass.

Direct responsibility for misuse of butts is logically of smokers but today responsibilities are also derived towards the authorities of local and governing bodies so in large cities are already installed on a regular basis public ashtrays in the bins of full street, beaches, cultural centers or sites Similar. Also, by the authorities of the Directorate General of Traffic has been legislated in the sense of penalizing, to through the point permit, to car drivers who throw butts on public roads either in inhabited places, or in full nature where danger increases by possible forest fires.

It is true that, considering the incidence very refusal of tobacco in the health of smokers, whether these active or passive, a recession is currently registered important in tobacco use but it is no less true than yet the number of people addicted to it is high for what it is good to make available to smokers the appropriate means that facilitate the act of depositing cigarette butts in places very accessible. That has been the reason that has driven the inventor of the present idea to develop an attractive, comfortable and simple of which there is no background.

The antecedents that are known are related mainly with portable ashtrays and bags where the smoker you can deposit the ash and the remains of the cigarette you just smoke. It is also known a cover type solution parallelepipedic with a hole in one of its lateral faces. The butts are introduced through said hole by displacing previously the pack out of the cover to make way free. Once the butt is inserted, it is pressed with the pack on the bottom of the case where the butts

There is another solution consisting of attaching to outside the box an additional tank, with lid independent, where you can deposit the butts. Without however there are no solutions that materialize inside the own pack of tobacco keeping said packet looking usual external.

Logically in normal packs, the establishing an internal division implies a reduction of its capacity so, in that case the packet must be put to available to the public with a smaller number of cigarettes. Without However, the inventor does not rule out new pack designs slightly larger in size than the most common ones to maintain, if possible, the traditional offer of cigarettes per package or pack.

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Therefore, the invention presented here refers to a special formula that comes to improve solutions existing in the market, assuming therefore a novel solution which implies indisputable advantages for people addicted to tobacco pronounced respectfully from the point of view environmental in the sense of not deteriorating the cleanliness of places public and to safeguard forest security.

Description of the invention

The present invention, as it has remained exposed in the introduction, refers to a new type of pack for cigarettes that has a division inside that it forms two distinct volumes, one of them significantly larger than the other. The first one, of a single cavity, is the usual one in every packet, that is, it is the one that contains cigarettes new arranged neatly, in an upright position, to be consumed The other, of significantly smaller total volume, formed for as many individual cells as new cigarettes has the unused box, is intended to receive cigarette butts corresponding as the smoker consumes the content from the pack. (This document means "cigarette butt" the rest of a cigarette that has already been smoked while having a length approximately equal to a quarter or a fifth of the initial length In most cases this rest coincides with the length of the filter). This second volume of distribution cellular, is what characterizes the invention not only by its own existence, with full integration in the pack, so that the outer appearance of said pack is practically identical to the normal ones, but also because the aforementioned container for cigarette butts It is perfectly compartmentalized with a specific place for each stub. This implies that every cigarette not consumed has reserved a specific place in the same package in order to deposit your remains, after being smoked. These remains are they usually know as butts.

The additional container, adjacent to the container of new cigarettes, it has the peculiarity that it favors total shutdown of the cigarette already consumed by the fact that enters a space whose air intake is prevented by the own butt that enters very tightly through the designed hole to that effect On the other hand, being totally independent, no there is contamination of cigarettes without consuming that, as it has been said, they are also housed in an exclusive receptacle.

As a complement to the invention, it is incorporated into the pack a small side flap intended for closing the butts compartment which guarantees the desired cleaning on something that is normally put in a purse, wallet or garment pockets.

Brief description of the drawings

Six figures that are considered are included sufficient for a perfect understanding of the invention.

Figure 1

This figure shows a view in perspective of the special package object of the invention. The Said packet is shown with the lid in the open position appreciating that its capacity is for 18 cigarettes although two of They have already been consumed. Of the two filters or cigarette butts corresponding, one of them has been fully introduced in its lateral accommodation and the other is in the process of being introduced. For the perfect observation of this situation, the side flap It is fully open.

The following elements have been indicated:

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Pack

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Top

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Container of new cigarettes 3.1. Cigarette new

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Butt Container

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Cells for butts

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Butt lodged in his cell

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Butt in process of introduction

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Closing flap

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Figure 2

This figure represents, in a way schematic, the pack of the invention in the three views orthogonal plan, elevation and profile. The pack is fully closed.

Some elements already mentioned in the previous figure.

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Figure 3

This figure represents an empty pack which shows the enclosure for new cigarettes and the one for the butts. The latter is compartmentalized by some dividing panels that are introduced into the enclosure of butts The group of panels once fitted together has represented outside the pack.

In addition to the elements already defined above, the following is noted:

4.1.-

Vertical Divider Panel

4.2.-

Horizontal Divider Panel

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Figure 4

This figure is also represented in its three orthogonal views, the pack of the invention with the particularity of showing certain semi-transparency that allow See the interior layout of its elements.

The container of new cigarettes, of the which two have already been consumed, is on the left side and that the cigarette butt container is on the right side showing two butts introduced in their accommodation. It is clearly observed that when new cigarettes are upright, the butts are introduced into their cells horizontally.

The lid of the pack and the side flap They are in closed position.

The same elements of figures are indicated previous.

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Figure 5

This figure is similar to the previous one, showing also semi-transparency and adding a more profile view. In some views, the side flap has been drawn in the open position or semi-open in order to see better the detail of said flap. The The lid of the pack is closed in all views. They point the same elements of the previous figures.

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Figure 6

This figure is a possible solution of deployment in a plane of the pack of the invention with a view to Its manufacturing process. It is observed that the face that gives access to side butt container is perforated to allow introduction of the same in the corresponding cells.

The following has been noted:

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Unfolded pack

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Figure 7

This figure represents the detail of the dividing panels that, properly fitted together, will form the compartmentalization cells once the set is introduced in The cigarette butt container.

The vertical dividing panel is unique, being However, several horizontal panels are necessary. These panels will be protected with aluminum foil similar to that protects some interior areas of the packs Traditional

The following has been noted:

4.1.-

Vertical Divider Panel

4.2.-

Horizontal Divider Panel

Description of a preferred embodiment

Cigarette pack with space enabled for storing cigarette butts (1) (Figs. 1 to 7) consisting of a pack (1), of external appearance in parallelepipedic form, with a cover (2) at the top, but with the particularity that its interior volume is divided into two distinct parts, the first of which, of a single cavity (3), is a container for new cigarettes (3.1) and the second one is a container (4) for cigarettes consumed, that is, cigarette butts (6). This container, having a straight prism shape of rectangular section, it is compartmentalized in so many cells (5) for cigarette butts (6) how many cigarettes (3.1) fit in the container (3) when the pack (1) It is brand new. The compartmentalization in cells (5) is achieved fitting together a vertical divider panel (4.1) and several horizontal dividing panels (4.2) (Figs. 3 and 7). For materialize the lace the panels are torn as is shown in the figures. In this way as the smoker goes consuming cigarettes (3.1), you have the possibility to save the corresponding butt (6) in one of the cells (5) for butts thus preserving the environment of tobacco residues that, in addition to constitute a certain type of dirt, produces an unpleasant smell and, in certain circumstances may pose a serious danger of fire.

The inventor of the present idea conceives the application of this simple solution both in any of the current packs, with identical dimensions to those that have these, as in new resized packs opportunely.

It is understood that as conceived this invention, its application to the current packs, maintaining its external dimensions, with space clearance for the container (4) butts, requires a decrease of the cabin (3) intended to house new cigarettes (3.1) in addition to others necessary modifications for the formation of cells (5) and formation of a closing flap (7) that is considered Essential to avoid bad smells.

In the figures of this document, the inventor Presents a pack design that can accommodate 18 cigarettes (3.1) in the container (3) of new cigarettes and that, In addition, it is equipped with 18 cells (5) designed to house corresponding butts (6) in an orderly manner, without these mix with each other, thanks to the existence of a compartmentalization achieved with a vertical dividing panel (4.1) and a series of horizontal dividing panels (4.2) that they fit thanks to the existence of the tears they have All the panels.

With this provision, which is what represents in the figures of this document, the use of the pack (1) is very simple because when the smoker chooses consuming a cigarette (3.1) will be enough, as usual, open the lid (2), remove a cigarette from the container (3) of new cigarettes and smoke it normally until consumed by complete, at which time you must open the flap (7) enter the butt (6.1), exerting some pressure, in any of the cells (5), as shown in figure 1, finally proceeding to close the flap (7) remaining in this position by means of any closing system (not shown) but which may be of Adhesive type, small tab, permanent magnet, etc.

Since the number of new cigarettes (3.1) It is identical to that of cells (5) for cigarette butts, each cigarette butt (6) will remain lodged in its corresponding cell (5) when the smoker has consumed the entire package, at which time you can throw it at any of the recycling bins or waste existing in the city.

The invention includes the interesting property of the self-extinguishing of the butts (6), even if it is not previously made, because cells (5) are built or coated with fire-resistant tin or aluminum foil cigarette but, above all, there is a lack of air from the moment in which the butt (6.1) (Fig. 1) begins to enter its housing when pressed on the hole of each cell (5), said section hole being practically equal to that of the cigarette (3.1).

It is also evident that, as is traditional, the pack (1) can support any advertising reason concerning the tobacco brand itself or any notice about the danger of tobacco use for both the active smoker and For the passive.

It is also understood that the invention is applicable to packs with various dimensions being precise, in Each case, a specific design.

It is not considered necessary to make the content of this description for a subject matter expert can understand the scope and advantages derived from the invention, as well as develop and implement the object of the same. However, it should be understood that the invention has been described according to a preferred embodiment thereof, whereby It may be subject to change without affecting or suppose any alteration of the basis of said invention. Is say, the terms in which this description has been exposed preferred of the invention, should always be taken with character Broad and not limiting.

Claims (3)

1. Pack of cigarettes with space for storing cigarette butts (Fig. 1) consisting of a pack of tobacco (1), of which they have a parallelepipedic shape with an upper lid (2), characterized in that it has two perfectly differentiated volumes inside, the first of which, of a single cavity (3), is the one destined to orderly contain in a vertical position, a determined number of new cigarettes (3.1) and the other, substantially smaller, is the container (4) of cigarette ends (6 ) which is compartmentalized in as many horizontal cells (5) as new cigarettes (3.1) fit in the container (3) when the pack (1) is unused, so that in each cell (5) a cigarette butt can be housed ( 6), independently, thanks to the compartments formed by coupling a vertical dividing panel (4.1) and a series of horizontal dividing panels (4.2). 2. Cigarette pack with space for storing cigarette butts, according to claim one, characterized in that the dividing panels (4.1) and (4.2) that make up each cell are coated or manufactured with fire retardant material such as tin foil, aluminum, or the like and because the section of the access hole to each cell (5) is substantially equal to the cross section of a new cigarette (3.1) so that the butt (6) can be introduced into the cell (5) by exerting slight pressure while ensuring its total shutdown. 3. Cigarette pack with space for storing cigarette butts, according to previous claims, characterized in that when the lid (2) and the flap (7) are in the closed position, all the access holes to the cells (5) are hidden.