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EP0596225B1
EP0596225B1 EP93114807A EP93114807A EP0596225B1 EP 0596225 B1 EP0596225 B1 EP 0596225B1 EP 93114807 A EP93114807 A EP 93114807A EP 93114807 A EP93114807 A EP 93114807A EP 0596225 B1 EP0596225 B1 EP 0596225B1
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Heinz Focke
Henry Buse
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Focke and Co GmbH and Co KG
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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
    • 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
    • B65D2203/00—Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators
    • 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
    • Y10S206/00—Special receptacle or package
    • Y10S206/831—Detachable coupon

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  • the invention relates to a cigarette pack like a Hinged box, with a box part, one with the Box part hinged lid, a collar that is anchored with a lower section in the box part and with an upper section in the closed position of the Lid is arranged within the same, and with a removable print carrier.
  • Folding boxes - also called hinge-lid packs - are worldwide known as packaging for cigarettes.
  • a cigarette group is inside the folding box with an inner wrapping surrounded by tin foil or paper.
  • the folding box exists from a box part and an articulated one Back of the same connected lid. Lie in the closed position Box part and lid along a closing edge in the area a front wall and flush in the area of the side walls to each other.
  • the pack is usually with an outer wrapper made of cellophane or plastic film.
  • EP-A-0 476 882 describes a cigarette pack according to Art a hinged box, consisting of a lid, box part, collar inserted inside and cigarette group wrapped in foil known.
  • a collar front has one up Extension on, which serves as a print carrier and along one Line of weakness is separable. The provided on the print medium Information is not recognizable when the package is closed.
  • the invention is based, folding boxes for the task To design cigarettes so that a print carrier is in shape a label or the like in a meaningful manner on or in attached to the pack and recognizable on the outside when the pack is closed is.
  • the print carrier consisting of an independent cut partly inside and partly outside the pack. It can therefore also be used from the outside Package can be recognized whether a print carrier is present.
  • the usual outer wrapping for folding boxes for cigarettes a transparent film also makes the print carrier or the part protruding from the hinged box is visible.
  • the anchoring part of the pressure carrier is releasable fixed in the pack or in the lid.
  • the print carrier with glue dots on the inside of the lid instead or in addition can have an end portion of the anchoring part inside the lid must be anchored by folding flaps, for example, with lid flaps that are common in hinged boxes, which lie on the inside of a top wall of the lid.
  • the End section of the anchoring part is according to the invention between the two lid corner flaps on the one hand and the Lid top wall, on the other hand, fixed.
  • a hinged box 10 is shown. This is known to exist from a box part 11 and a lid 12. Die overall cuboidal hinged box 10 is used for receiving a group of cigarettes forming a Cigarette blocks 13 from an inner wrapper 14 Tinfoil or paper is surrounded. The trained one Cigarette block 13 sits with the predominant, lower one Area in the box part 11. An outstanding of this the upper part is closed by the cover 12 surround.
  • Box part 11 and lid 12 consist of one piece Cut from thin cardboard.
  • the lid 12 is like this folded that lid side walls 15, 16 from adjacent Cover side tabs 17, 18 exist.
  • a lid corner flap 19, 20 is connected.
  • the two lid corner flaps 19, 20 lie on the inside a lid top wall 21.
  • a lid front wall 22 is arranged with an inside Lid inner tab 23 provided.
  • a collar 24 which is also common Collar front wall 25 and collar side tabs 26 arranged. An upper area of the collar 24 protrudes from the box part 11 out.
  • the hinged box thus formed is usually through an outer covering 27 made of cellophane or plastic film surround.
  • the pack described so far is a printed one Label, namely a print carrier 28 assigned.
  • a print carrier 28 is dimensioned and arranged that a portion of the same, namely a Anchoring part 29, when the packaging is closed or before use within the packaging, and indeed within the cover 12 extends.
  • the rest, namely a visible part 30 protrudes from the closed hinged box 10 out and is visible from the outside.
  • This visual part 30 here lies on the outside of a front wall 31 of the box part 11. The visible part 30 is therefore from recognizable from the outside, even if the clear-sighted are present Outer casing 27.
  • the print carrier 28 is inside the hinged box 10 detachably anchored.
  • the pressure carrier 28 or its anchoring part 29 is here by folding the hinged box 10 fixed.
  • the anchoring part or one in the Area of the lid top wall 21 extending end portion 32 lies between the lid top wall 21 and the two Lid corner flaps 19, 20 is therefore clamped here.
  • the print carrier 28 When the hinged box 10 is opened, the print carrier 28 initially held by the lid 12.
  • the print medium can but very easy from anchoring in the area of Lid top wall 21 are pulled out.
  • the print carrier 28 of the package when it is first opened removed and recycled or disposed of.
  • the pressure carrier 28 can also with the anchoring part 29 otherwise releasably fixed in the hinged box 10 be, especially with small glue spots.
  • the print carrier 28 on the inside of the lid front wall 22 can be pinned, but also - with the back - On a protruding from the box part 11 Area of the collar front wall 25.
  • the print carrier 28 consists of a thin-walled, for the Suitable material, especially paper, (Plastic or tinfoil) film or thin cardboard.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)
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  • Details Of Rigid Or Semi-Rigid Containers (AREA)
EP93114807A 1992-11-06 1993-09-15 Zigarettenpackung nach Art einer Klappschachtel mit abnehmbaren Druckträger Expired - Lifetime EP0596225B1 (de)

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DE4237523 1992-11-06
DE4237523A DE4237523A1 (de) 1992-11-06 1992-11-06 Klappschachtel für insbesondere Zigaretten

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EP0596225A2 EP0596225A2 (de) 1994-05-11
EP0596225A3 EP0596225A3 (en) 1997-01-29
EP0596225B1 true EP0596225B1 (de) 1998-12-09

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US (1) US5375704A (pt)
EP (1) EP0596225B1 (pt)
JP (1) JP2635506B2 (pt)
CN (1) CN1030832C (pt)
BR (1) BR9304480A (pt)
CA (1) CA2108085C (pt)
DE (2) DE4237523A1 (pt)
ES (1) ES2124759T3 (pt)

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ES2124759T3 (es) 1999-02-16
JPH06219451A (ja) 1994-08-09
CA2108085C (en) 2001-07-17
CN1091386A (zh) 1994-08-31
DE59309208D1 (de) 1999-01-21
JP2635506B2 (ja) 1997-07-30
DE4237523A1 (de) 1994-05-11
CA2108085A1 (en) 1994-05-07
EP0596225A2 (de) 1994-05-11
EP0596225A3 (en) 1997-01-29
BR9304480A (pt) 1994-05-10
CN1030832C (zh) 1996-01-31

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