JP5538125B2 - Cigarette packaging case - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a packaging case made of a plastic sheet suitable for storing cigarettes for sale and display.

As shown in FIG. 8, this type of cigarette packaging case includes a shallow dish-shaped case body 100 and a cover body 101 that covers the upper surface of the case body 100, and a plurality of cigarettes T are arranged on the case body 100. A configuration is known in which the housing 101 is covered and the opening 101 is covered with the lid 101 and the inside of the case is sealed by bonding the edge of the lid to the flange-like edge of the case body 100.
In this case, when the cigarette T is taken out, the lid 101 is partially cut along the cutting means 101a such as a tear tape provided on the lid 101 as shown in FIG. An opening 102 is formed in the opening 102, and the tobacco T is drawn out from the opening 102 (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  Further, as shown in FIG. 9, as a container for wrapping the cylindrical suction tool P such as a non-smoking pipe, the cylindrical suction tool P is accommodated in an in-plane corresponding position between the hinged container body 110 and the lid 111. A plurality of recesses 112 and recesses 113 and protrusions 114 that can be fitted to each other are formed, and the container body 110 is covered with the cylindrical suction tool P in each recess 112 formed in the container body 110. A configuration is known in which the recess 112 in which the cylindrical suction tool P is accommodated is sealed by overlapping 111 and fitting the recess 113 and the protrusion 114 (see, for example, Patent Document 2).

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 60-240678 Utility Model Registration No. 3054584

Although the packaging case shown in FIG. 8 can store the cigarette with a good appearance, when the opening 102 is formed in the case to take out the cigarette, the case remains in a perforated state. Therefore, after taking out the necessary number of cigarettes, if there is excess tobacco in the case, the tobacco tends to fall out of the case from the opening 102, and it is suitable for carrying excess tobacco in the case. Absent.
In addition, when the container shown in FIG. 9 is applied to cigarette packaging instead of the cylindrical suction tool, since the cigarettes are individually stored in the respective recesses 112, a single cigarette is taken out from the container. Other cigarettes do not easily fall out of the container, and there is no problem in carrying the container. However, when separating the overlapped container body 110 and lid 111 to take out the cigarette, the container is shaken by the operation of releasing the fitting of the concave and convex portions 113 and 114, and the impact is transmitted. The container is easily scattered outside the container, and the container cannot be opened and closed by a simple operation.

  In view of such problems of the prior art, the present invention can open and close a case containing a plurality of cigarettes with a simple operation in a cigarette packaging case formed by molding a transparent plastic sheet, After taking out the required number of cigarettes, it is an object to be able to carry the case again with the case sealed.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is configured such that the periphery is bordered in a rectangular shape in a plan view by a flange portion, the long side wall portion and the short side wall portion rise on the inside of the flange portion, and a plurality of pieces are provided between the long side wall portions. It is connected to the case main body, which is provided with a support surface portion for supporting the cigarettes side by side, via a hinge portion provided at the end of the case main body, and the periphery is a flange portion that overlaps with the flange portion of the case main body, and inside it A cover body is formed by providing a peripheral side wall to be fitted to the peripheral side wall portion of the case body and an arch-shaped top surface portion at the upper end of the peripheral side wall portion. The cover body is mounted on the case body and mounted on the support surface portion. A cigarette packaging case for holding the cigarette sandwiched between the support surface portion and the top surface portion, wherein the case body is a surface portion on which the support surface portion is formed along a dividing line formed between the longitudinal sides thereof. It is divided into a main surface portion and a sub surface portion which is another surface portion, and with the cover body attached to the case body, the sub surface portion is rotated around the hinge portion to form an opening in the case body. The main body portion is curved by pressing between the two longitudinal sides of the case main body so that the stored cigarette can be taken out from the opening portion.

According to the cigarette packaging case of the present invention, the cigarette is placed on the support surface portion of the case main body and stored, and a cover body hinged to the case main body is put on and attached to the upper surface of the case main body so that the inside of the case is sealed. At the same time, the cigarette placed on the support surface portion is sandwiched between the support surface portion and the top surface portion and held in a sandwiched state, and the case containing the cigarette can be used for sale or display or carried as it is. Since the cigarette is sandwiched between the support surface and the top surface and held in the storage position, even if the case is shaken or shocked when the case is carried, the cigarette may scatter or bend in the case. Absent.
The case body is divided into a main surface portion and a sub surface portion along a parting line formed on the surface thereof, and when taking out the cigarette, only the sub surface portion is separated from the cover body with the hinge portion as an axis. If the case body is opened in this state, an opening is formed in the case body. In this state, pressing between the two longitudinal sides of the case body attached with the cover body causes the main surface portion to bend and deform by its own elasticity. At the same time, the opening is widened, and the holding of the cigarette sandwiched between the support surface portion and the top surface portion is released, and the stored cigarette can be extracted from the opening portion.
In this case, even if the sub surface portion is rotated to form the opening portion, the cigarette is held between the support surface portion and the top surface portion as long as the case body is not curved and deformed. There is no risk of falling out. Moreover, after taking out the cigarette, the case is again sealed by returning the sub-surface part to the original position and closing the opening.

In the cigarette packaging case having the above-described configuration, the support surface portion can be formed by providing projections, uneven surfaces, or the like on the surface for partitioning one or more cigarettes placed on the upper surface. In that case, since the support surface portion is difficult to be bent due to the rib effect by providing the protrusions and the uneven surface, the support surface portion is located at a position slightly away from the opening end of the main surface portion, for example, in the plane within the main surface portion. It is preferable to provide at a position 5 mm or more away from the end.
Furthermore, it is preferable that the surface portion along the opening end portion of the main surface portion is provided in a shape in which the portion easily curves when both sides of the case main body are pressed, for example, a flat plate shape or a curved cross-sectional shape. If the main surface portion is curved along the opening end when the both sides of the case body are pressed and the opening can be pushed open to a size that allows the tobacco to be extracted, the opening end of the main surface portion Projections and ribs for partitioning the cigarette may be provided on the surface portion along the surface, and the entire main surface portion may be a support surface provided with projections and uneven surfaces on the surface. Moreover, you may provide the hollow which puts a finger | toe on the outer surface of both the long side sides of a case main body so that the bending operation of a case main body at the time of extracting tobacco may be easy.

  The cigarette packaging case of the present invention uses a plastic sheet made of polyethylene terephthalate, polypropylene, polyethylene, polycarbonate, or polylactic acid, which has good folding resistance, other resin alone, or a composite thereof. These sheets can be formed by compressed air or vacuum forming. In particular, a sheet made of polyethylene terephthalate is preferable in terms of good transparency and high rigidity. Among them, amorphous PET (A-PET) is more transparent and unstretched, and therefore has a strength regardless of the direction of the sheet. It is preferable at a high point.

It is an external appearance perspective view of the closed state (A) and open state (B) of the case for tobacco packaging of one Embodiment of this invention. It is a side view by the side of the short side of the case of the closed state of FIG. It is a center cross-sectional view of the case of the closed state of FIG. It is the same external perspective view (B) of the state where the bottom face side appearance perspective view (A) of the case of the closed state of FIG. 1 and a part of the case body are rotated to form an opening. It is sectional drawing (A) of the case of the state which accommodated the cigarette, and sectional drawing (B) of the case of the state which curved the case main body in order to take out a tobacco. (A), (B) is the figure which showed the case of other embodiment of this invention. (A), (B), (C) is the figure which showed the example of the form of the surface part along the opening edge part of the main surface part by the principal part cross section. It is sectional drawing when taking out the tobacco accommodated in the external view (A) of the conventional case for tobacco packaging, and the case. It is an expansion | deployment perspective view of the container which packages the conventional cylindrical suction tool.

A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
1 to 5 show a case for packaging cigarettes according to an embodiment of the present invention. This case 1 is attached to a case main body 2 having a support surface portion 24 on which cigarettes rest on an upper surface, and an upper surface of the case main body 2. The cover body 3 that seals the inside of the case body 2 is integrally connected by a hinge portion 4 provided at one end of both bodies.

  The case body 2 has a rectangular shape in plan view that is slightly longer in length than the cigarette T, and has a flange portion 21 that protrudes outward from the periphery of the case body 2, and a longitudinal length that rises upward from the flange portion 21 to the inside of the flange portion 21. The side wall portions 22a and 22a and the short side wall portions 22b and 22b are provided at appropriate heights, and a dividing line 23 extending between both long sides and parallel to the short side is formed on the surface. 23 is provided in a structure in which both sides of 23 are divided into a wide main surface portion 2A and a narrow sub surface portion 2B along the longitudinal direction.

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 1, both the main surface portion 2A and the sub surface portion 2B are surrounded by a long side wall portion 22a and a short side wall portion 22b, and both the long side wall portions 22a of the main surface portion 2A. , 22a are provided in a band shape with a suitable width between them, and the surface portion between the other side surface portions of the main surface portion 2A and the long side wall portions 22a, 22a of the sub surface portion 2B is formed as a flat flat bottom surface portion 25. is there.
The long side wall portion 22a and the short side wall portion 22b both rise upward from the flange portion 21 at a substantially right angle, are bent at the upper end horizontally after being bent at an appropriate width, and are bent to the bottom portion 25. It has a U-shaped cross-sectional shape, and the long side wall portion 22a is provided at a constant height as a whole, and the short side wall portion 22b is provided in a mountain shape having the highest short side center.
The support surface portion 24 has a shape in which curved concave surfaces 24a that enclose the outer peripheral surface of the tobacco T are arranged between the longitudinal side wall portions 22a and 22a of the main surface portion 2A. As shown in FIG. The bottom surface portion 25 having an appropriate width (D) is sandwiched between the dividing line 23 that is the opening end portion of 2A, and is arranged at the approximate center of the main surface portion 2A. In this embodiment, five curved concave surfaces 24a are arranged side by side, and five cigarettes T are stored in the support surface portion 24, and the tobacco T is positioned by each curved concave surface 24a and supported at the storage position.
The main surface portion 2A and the sub surface portion 2B of the case body 2 can be individually rotated about the hinge portion 4 as an axis, and a rotation operation is performed on the side end portion of the sub surface portion 2B opposite to the hinge portion 4. A protruding piece 2B1 is provided.

The cover body 3 is connected to the end portion of the case main body 2 via the hinge portion 4, and the periphery is a flange portion 31 that overlaps with the flange portion 21 of the case main body 2. Peripheral side walls 32 that are externally fitted to the portions 22a and 22a and the short side wall portions 22b and 22b are provided, and an arch-shaped top surface portion 33 is integrally formed at the upper end of the peripheral side wall 32.
When the cover body 3 is bent to the upper surface side of the case main body 2 by the hinge portion 4 and covered with the case main body 2, the peripheral side wall 32 is press-fitted outside the peripheral side wall portions 22a and 22b of the case main body 2, and The flange portion 31 overlaps with the flange portion 21 of the case main body 2 so that the entire upper surface of the case main body 2 is covered with the top surface portion 33 to seal the inside of the case 1.
The peripheral side wall 32 and the top surface portion 33 of the cover body 3 are placed with the lower surface of the top surface portion 33 placed on the support surface portion 24 as shown in FIG. It is joined to the surface of the cigarette T, and is provided in a height and shape that can hold the cigarette T in a sandwiched state between the support surface portion 24 and the top surface portion 33.

  The case 1 of the present embodiment formed in this way stores the cigarette T on the support surface portion 24 of the case body 2 and covers the cover body 3 hinged to the case body 2 to cover the upper surface of the case body 2. By mounting, the inside of the case 1 is hermetically sealed, and the case 1 containing the cigarette T can be used for sale or exhibition or carried.

The operation of taking out the cigarette T stored in the case 1 can be performed as follows.
First, as shown in FIG. 4A, the case 1 is gripped so that the cover body 3 is on the lower side and the case main body 2 is on the upper side, and is provided at the side end of the sub-surface portion 2B of the case main body 2. The sub-surface portion 2B is rotated around the hinge portion 4 in a direction away from the cover body 3 by picking the protruding piece 2B1, and an opening 5 is formed in the case body 2 as shown in FIG. To do.
If the opening 5 is formed, the long side of the case body 2 is gripped in the vicinity of the opening end of the main surface portion 2A, a force is applied to the center of the case, and the case body 2 is pressed from both sides. .
When the case main body 2 is pressed from both sides, the opening end of the main surface portion 2A is bent and deformed by its own elasticity, and thereby the opening 5 is greatly opened and the opening end of the main surface 2A is bent and deformed. As shown in FIG. 5B, the support surface portion 24 is deformed in conjunction with the movement of the cigarette T, and the holding of the cigarette T sandwiched between the support surface portion 24 and the top surface portion 33 is released and stored. The cigarette T can be extracted from the opening 5.
In this case, as long as the case main body 2 is not bent and deformed, the holding state of the cigarette T by the support surface portion 24 and the top surface portion 33 is maintained, so even if the sub surface portion 2B is rotated and the opening 5 is formed, There is no possibility that the cigarette T falls out of the opening 5.
After the cigarette T is taken out, the opening portion 5 is closed and the case 1 is returned by returning the sub-surface portion 2B to its original position and fitting the peripheral side surface portions 22a, 22b to the peripheral side wall 32 of the cover body 3. The inside becomes sealed again and can be carried as it is.

The cigarette wrapping case 1 of the present invention has an opening formed when a dividing line 23 is formed obliquely in the case body 2 and the sub-surface portion 2B is rotated as shown in FIG. 6 (A), for example. The portion 5 may be opened including an inclined surface, and the cover body 3 is provided with hinge portions 4 and 4 on both sides of the short side of the case body 2 as shown in FIG. 3 may be configured to be opened and closed by being divided into double-spreads.
Further, in the illustrated form, it is preferable to dispose the support surface portion 24 at an appropriate distance from the opening end of the main surface portion 2A so that the main surface portion 2A can be easily bent when pressed from both sides of the case body 2. . The surface portion between the opening end portion and the support surface portion 24 is a flat bottom surface portion 25 as shown in FIG. 7A, but the bottom surface portion 25 at this position is as shown in FIG. It may be a flat plate with a projection or a curved cross-sectional shape curved outward from the case.
In the case 1 shown, the cover body 3 is externally fitted to the case body 2 so that the cover body 3 is fixed to the outer peripheral surface of the case body 2 so that the inside of the case 1 is hermetically sealed. The main surface 2 </ b> A of the case body 2 may be fastened to the cover body 3 using the fastening means.

  The illustrated case shows an example of the embodiment of the present invention, and the cigarette wrapping case of the present invention is not limited to this, but in an appropriate form according to the number of cigarettes to be stored, the packaging mode, and the like. It is possible to configure.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Case for tobacco packaging, 2 Case main body, 2A Main surface part, 2B Subsurface part, 21 Flange part, 22 Side wall part, 22a Long side wall part, 22b Short side wall part, 23 Dividing line, 24 Support surface part, 24a Curved concave surface , 25 bottom surface part, 3 cover body, 31 flange part, 32 peripheral side wall, 33 top surface part, 4 hinge part, 5 opening part, T tobacco

Claims (3)

The periphery is edged in a rectangular shape in plan view by the flange portion (21), and the long side wall portions (22a, 22a) and the short side wall portions (22b, 22b) rise from the inside of the flange portion (21). A case body (2) provided with a support surface part (24) for supporting a plurality of cigarettes (T) side by side between the parts (22a, 22a);
It is connected via a hinge part (4) provided at the end of the case body (2),
The periphery is a flange portion (31) that overlaps with the flange portion (21) of the case main body (2), and the peripheral side wall (32) that is externally fitted to the peripheral side wall portions (22a, 22b) of the case main body (2) And a cover body (3) provided with an arched top surface portion (33) at the upper end of the peripheral side wall portion (32),
For cigarette wrapping by holding the cover body (3) on the case body (2) and holding the cigarette (T) placed on the support surface portion (24) between the support surface portion (24) and the top surface portion (33). Case (1),
The case body (2) includes a main surface portion (2A) which is a surface portion on which the support surface portion (24) is formed along a parting line (23) formed between the longitudinal sides thereof, and a sub surface portion which is another surface portion. Divided into (2B),
While the cover body (3) is mounted on the case body (2), the sub-surface part (2B) is rotated about the hinge part (4) to form an opening (5) in the case body (2). The main body (2A) is curved by pressing between the longitudinal sides of the case body (2) so that the stored cigarette (T) can be taken out from the opening (5). Case for cigarette packaging.   The cigarette packaging case according to claim 1, wherein a support surface portion (24) is provided at a position 5 mm or more away from the opening end of the main surface portion (2A).   The case for cigarette packaging according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the opening end portion of the main surface portion (2A) is provided in a curved cross-sectional shape.

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