US1759366A - Cigarette package - Google Patents

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May 20, 1930. c A PENN 1,759,366

CIGARETTE PACKAGE Filed Feb. 16, 1929 Patented May 20, 1930 UNITED STATES CHARLES FA.

PATENT OFFICE PENN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COM- PANY, OI NEW-YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY CIGARETTE PACKAGE Application filed February-.16, 1929. Serial No. 340,503.

package designed to conform in appearance to that of a package ofa selected smoking tobacco.

Many smokers prefer to make their owncigarettes, and certain types of smoking to bacco have been widely advertised and are known practically Wherever cigarettes are smoked as designed for a filler in hand made desirable that there be something more than cigarettes.

In order to enable the advertising 'of the brand of smoking tobacco and the fame of said tobacco to inure to the benefit of the same tobacco when in cigarette form, it is the mere statement that the filler of the cigarette is of the well known tobacco.

One of the primary objects-of the present invention'is a method of marketing such tobacco in the form of cigarettes, in a package conforming in appearance to that of the original package of the brand ofsmoking tobacco, and having in connection therewith certain characteristics of the form.-

Another object is the provision of a package of the character in question having in connection therewith a. pendant, in the form of a'cord and an attached tag, designed to resemble a bag of smoking tobacco with a tag.

. Another object is the provision of a string and, tag, L designed. to simulate, the draw string of a bag, .so connected with the package that when the draw string is partially detached from the package, the end ofthe package will be opened to enable access to the cigarettes.

Another object is the provision of a'package of cigarettes shaped, and having in com nection therewith well known characterisrettes, thereby to obtain for the new form the advantages in the way of fame and ad-' vertising accruing to the brand.

With these and other objects in view theinvention consists in the construction and novfel combination of parts fully described hereinafter, illustrated in the accompany ing drawings, and pointed out in the claims appended hereto, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size HEIWSSUED and minor details of constructionwithin the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings forming a part hereof Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a package of cigarettes, prior to the closingof the end,

and with a part broken away.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing'the first step of folding.

Fig.3 is a perspective "view of apart of the package, showlng the top folded.

Fig.4 is a similar view with the stamp in place and one end of the cord connecte Fig. 5 is a perspective view of apart of:

the package showing the method of placing the outer wrapper, usually of transparent paper. I

Fig. 6 isa perspective view of the completed package.

Fig. 7 is a similar view showing the first step in the operation of opening the package.

Fig. 8 is a similar view of a part of the package showing it completely opened. Cigarettes of the character in questlon are usually put up in a wrapper of foil, or a composite wrapper of foil and-paper. Outsideof this is a shuck of heavier paper, and the outer wrapper is of transparent material, such for instance, as glassine paper. In Fig. 1, the wrapper of foil or foil and pa er,'indicated at 1, is placed adjacent to the clgarettes 2. The open end of the foil wrapper is closed usually by pushing in the end folds indicated at 3 and 4, onto the ends of the cigarettes, and afterwards pushing in the side folds 5, and securing them together.

In the present arrangement, one of the end folds 4 is separated from'the side folds 5' by slits -indicated at 6, and prior to the folding, of the fold 4 a cord, 7, such as are used as draw strings fortobacco bags, is placed across the package end, justinside the fold L The fold 4 is now folded down upon the cigarette ends and the cord.

Thep'ackage so formed is placed in the 1 wrapper folded-at one end of the cigarettes,

shuck, as shown in 3, after which the revenue stamp 9 is placed across the sealed folds 5, and one end of the cord 7 is secured to the stamp and to the folds 5, in anysuitable manner, as for instance, by paste. Afterwards the glassine wrapper 10 'is placed, and

the open end is folded in the same manner as the wrapper 1, that is, by pushing in the end folds 11 and 12, and afterwards the side folds 13, which are then sealed together.

In pushing'in the end fold 12, the other end of the cord, namely; that to which the tag 14 is attached, is pushed in with the fold,

so that itlies partly beneath the fold, as shown in Fig. 6, wherein that part of the cord which is covered, is indicated in dotted lines. The tag 14 may be attached to the cord in any suitablemanner, as for instance, in the manner shown, or by passing the cord through an opening in the tag. The tag bears advertising matter of the same character as v is found on the corresponding tagof a bag of smoking tobacco. I

In opening the'package, the cord is pulled outward, and-breaks the transparent wrapper. Further outward pulling upon the cord cuts the inner wrapper and the outer wrapper along the lines indicated at 15 inFig. 7, but leaves the pendant, that is, the cord and tag attached.

In. practice, the cigarettes are packaged by machinery, which'forms the wrapper 1 about a suitable number of cigarettes, inserts the package so formed into' theshuck, or folds the shuck about the package, and afterwards applies the stamp and the ,glassin'e wrapper. The tearing cord may be placed by the same machinery, so that the entire operation of wrapperand placing the cord is automatic.

' The end of the package is usually sealed by part 1 wax, and this wax holds theconnected of the cord to the package.-

; What is, claimed as new is 1. Acigarette package having at one end a fold free at its side edges from the adjacent folds, a tearing cordlying beneath said fold, said cord havin a portion connected withthe folded end of t e ackageand another. por tion connected with a tag.

2. A package, of cigarettes designed to simulate'a bag of smoking tobacco of a standard brand provided with a draw string havcord free, said extremity being provided with a ta 3. A cigarette package including an inner wrapper and an outer wrapper, the inner wrapper having at one end a fold free at its side edges from the adjacent fold, a tearing cord having the intermediate portion thereof lying beneath said fold, one of the ends of the cord being connected to the folded end inga tag at the free end thereof, the ackage being of-substantially the shape an size of the bag, and including an inner and an outer the mner wrapper having a fold free at its side edges from the other folds, a tearing cord having the intermediate portion thereof covered by the free fold, one of the ends of the cord being secured to the folded end of the inner wrapper, and that portion of the other .-end adjacent to the free fold being folded inwardly beneath the adjacent fold of the outer wrapper, leaving the extremity of the I so

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