US3279593A - Cigar carton - Google Patents

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US3279593A
US3279593A US446579A US44657965A US3279593A US 3279593 A US3279593 A US 3279593A US 446579 A US446579 A US 446579A US 44657965 A US44657965 A US 44657965A US 3279593 A US3279593 A US 3279593A
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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
    • B65D85/12—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigars
    • 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
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/42—Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
    • B65D5/72—Contents-dispensing means
    • B65D5/721—Contents-dispensing means consisting of mobile elements forming part of the containers or attached to the containers
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the present invention relates to the packaging of groups of elongated articles and more particularly to an improved carton for protecting and dispensing cigars.
  • a commercially acceptable cigar carton must provide adequate protection for the enclosed cigars as well as quick and easy access thereto by the consumer. Since cigars are tightly wedged together in abutted relation when packaged, their removal from the carton often has proved to be difficult and a source of frustration for smokers. Moreover, the removal of a cigar from a full package sometimes has caused the destruction of the package and/or the damaging of the contents.
  • the present invention by means of a relatively simple,
  • this beneficial dispensing action may be achieved by forming an effectively full width alternate bottom panel in a carton wall along a lower edge thereof.
  • the alternate bottom panel is hinged along parallel lines of weakness to a pivotabe normal bottom wall of the carton and to a flexible portion of the front wall.
  • the alternate bottom panel may be folded inwardly 90 and the normal bottom may be pivoted 90 to establish a secondary or alternate bottom structure. This folding operation, as will be understood, urges the entire contents of the carton out of the top end for easy access.
  • the wall portion to which the alternate bottom panel is hinged is made flexible to accommodate the establishment of the alternate bottom and its consequent ejection of cigars by providing special cuts, of more or less inverted J-shaped configuration at the lower extremities of the front wall.
  • the I-shaped cuts include straight cut segments extending diagonally inward and upward from the ends of the lowermost line of weakness toward the uppermost line of weakness of the alternate bottom panel and contiguous arcuate cut segments extending outwardly toward the side edges of the wall.
  • the described arrangement of cuts perm-its the vertical front corner scores of the carton to extend uninterrupted for the full carton length, to strengthen the carton structure and to maintain the integrity of the carton front wall during the establishment of the alternate bottom.
  • FIG. 1 is a plan view of a carton blank embodying the principles of the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an erected and filled carton showing the new and improved ejection structure before establishment of the alternate bottom;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the carton of FIG. 2 showing the entire contents projected by the establishment of the alternate bottom;
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 are enlarged, cross-sectional views showing details of construction of the ejection structure before and after establishment of the alternate bottom.
  • the carton of the present invention may be erected from a pre-formed paperboard blank 10.
  • Parallel scores 11-14 and transverse scores 15-17 divide theblank into consecutively articulated first side wall, front wall, second side wall, rear wall, and glue flap panels 19-23, respectively.
  • a cover panel 24, having a tuck flap 25 articulated thereto along a score line 18, is hinged along the top edge of the rear wall panel 22, while a first bottom flap 26 is hinged along its bottom edge.
  • a second bottom flap 27, similar to the flap 26, is hinged to the bottom of the front wall panel 20.
  • a generally trapezoidal alternate bottom panel 28 is formed in the front wall panel 20 and is defined in part by a score line 2-9 spaced above the bottom edge score 16.
  • the line 29 is of less than full carton width but extends to within a cigar width of the vertical edge scores 11, 12.
  • the score lines 29 and 15-18 are further weakened by superimposed cuts.
  • the sides of the alternate bottom panel 28 are defined by cuts 31 of generally inverted J-shaped configuration, straight segments of which extend diagonally upward and inward from the lower corner extremities of the vertical scores .11, 12 toward the score line 29, giving the panel 28 a generally trapezoidal shape.
  • the new and improved carton of the invention may be formed using conventional equipment by initially forming a rectangular flattened tube by folding the blank 10 along two of its longitudinal (vertical) scores (e.g., score line 11, 13) and securing the glue flap 23 to the first side wall 19 by a suitable adhesive 30. Thereafter, the so-formed tube may be squared and a normal bottom 33 may be formed by joining the bottom flaps 26, 27 along the full carton width by closing with an adhesive 34. The package is then completed by loading the cigars A-E and closing the top of the carton by folding the top panel 24 and'tucking the flap 25 between the cigars and the front wall 20, the upper edge of which may have a recessed cutout 35 to facilitate subsequent removal of the tuck flap during opening of the package.
  • vertical scores e.g., score line 11, 13
  • cigars A-E ready and complete access to the entire contents of the package, cigars A-E, may be had by simply exerting an inward and upward force F on the lower front edge of the carton which will cause the normal bottom 33 to be pivoted along the score line 17 into a face-to-face relation with the rear wall 22 and will cause an alternate bottom 36 to be established by the swinging of the alternate bottom panel 90 about the score line 16.
  • the inverted J-shaped cuts 31 extending for a predetermined distance above the score line 29 will accommodate flexion of the front wall 20, as shown clearly in FIG. 5, without deleterious tearing.
  • a carton for a plurality of tightly packed elongated articles or the like comprising (a) consecutively articulated front, first side, rear, and second side walls formed into a rectangular tube having predetermined length, width, and depth dimensions, (b) front and rear bottom flaps articulated to said front and rear walls, (c) said bottom flapsinfolded 90 and adhesively secured to define a normal bottom structure, (d) an alternate bottom panel formed in said front wall in the lowermost portions thereof,

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US3367552A (en) * 1966-12-07 1968-02-06 Milprint Inc Dispenser carton with swingable bottom
US4940190A (en) * 1989-03-13 1990-07-10 Amcor Limited Container
US4967909A (en) * 1989-12-29 1990-11-06 The Procter & Gamble Company Package with sliding closure/sheet product elevator
US5065936A (en) * 1989-06-01 1991-11-19 King Charles S Collapsible box for tissues/papers
US5762186A (en) * 1993-10-25 1998-06-09 Focke & Co. (Gmbh & Co.) Soft pack for cigarettes
US6676013B2 (en) 2000-10-10 2004-01-13 Meadwestvaco Packaging Systems, Llc Carton and carton blank
US11084649B2 (en) * 2016-05-12 2021-08-10 Philip Morris Products S.A. Container with inner stiffener for smoking articles, inner stiffener, method

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US1648156A (en) * 1923-04-21 1927-11-08 Angel Del Hoyo Y Tejada Package for cigarettes and other articles
US1928889A (en) * 1930-04-04 1933-10-03 Waldorf Paper Prod Co Dispensing and display box
US1953418A (en) * 1930-05-28 1934-04-03 Imp Tobacco Company Container for cigarettes and the like

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US1648156A (en) * 1923-04-21 1927-11-08 Angel Del Hoyo Y Tejada Package for cigarettes and other articles
US1928889A (en) * 1930-04-04 1933-10-03 Waldorf Paper Prod Co Dispensing and display box
US1953418A (en) * 1930-05-28 1934-04-03 Imp Tobacco Company Container for cigarettes and the like

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3367552A (en) * 1966-12-07 1968-02-06 Milprint Inc Dispenser carton with swingable bottom
US4940190A (en) * 1989-03-13 1990-07-10 Amcor Limited Container
US5065936A (en) * 1989-06-01 1991-11-19 King Charles S Collapsible box for tissues/papers
US4967909A (en) * 1989-12-29 1990-11-06 The Procter & Gamble Company Package with sliding closure/sheet product elevator
US5762186A (en) * 1993-10-25 1998-06-09 Focke & Co. (Gmbh & Co.) Soft pack for cigarettes
US5979648A (en) * 1993-10-25 1999-11-09 Focke & Co., (Gmbh & Co.) Soft pack for cigarettes
US6676013B2 (en) 2000-10-10 2004-01-13 Meadwestvaco Packaging Systems, Llc Carton and carton blank
US11084649B2 (en) * 2016-05-12 2021-08-10 Philip Morris Products S.A. Container with inner stiffener for smoking articles, inner stiffener, method

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