JP2016514073A - Packaging material blank - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a packaging material blank (3) which has a peripheral edge and can be folded around the tobacco industry product (1). At least part of the peripheral part has a non-linear shape, and when the packaging material blank (3) is folded around the tobacco industry product, at least part of the peripheral part having the non-linear shape is a part of another part of the peripheral part. Overlapping.

Description

  The present invention relates to a packaging material blank for use in wrapping tobacco industry products. Also disclosed are packaging material blanks for use in wrapping a pack of smoking articles and bundles of smoking articles contained in packs.

  Smoking articles such as cigarettes, cigars and cigarillos are generally bundled together and packaged in a sheet material such as a paper sheet laminated with a metal foil. This sheet material helps to maintain the freshness and aroma of tobacco in smoking articles. The bundle of packaged smoking articles is further housed in a pack that protects the cigarette from mechanical and environmental damage. The pack is wrapped in a clear plastic film to ensure that smoking items are protected from all environmental effects.

  To touch a smoking article, the user pulls the tab of the plastic film and the plastic film tears and opens. Thereafter, when the user opens the lid of the pack, the laminated paper is exposed. The paper generally has a line of weakness, such as perforations, so that the user can tear along the perforation line to easily detach part of the paper from the rest and keep it inside You can get smoking goods.

  In this invention, it is a packaging material blank which has a peripheral part and can be bend | folded around a tobacco industry product, Comprising: At least one part of this peripheral part has a non-linear shape, and this packaging material blank is a circumference | surroundings of tobacco industry product. When folded at, a packaging material blank is provided in which at least a part of the peripheral edge overlaps another part of the peripheral edge.

  In one embodiment, when the packaging blank is folded around the tobacco industry product, at least a portion of the periphery having a non-linear shape is the top.

  In certain embodiments, a portion of the wrapping blank can be cut from the rest of the wrapping blank and at least one edge of the removable portion has a non-linear shape. The non-linear shape may be a zigzag shape.

  The present invention provides a bundle of smoking articles that is inserted into a smoking article pack having a plurality of edges where the packaging material overlaps, including a pack of smoking articles and a packaging material for wrapping the pack of smoking articles. And at least one edge of the packaging material has a non-linear shape.

  In some embodiments, a portion of the wrapping material can be separated from the rest of the wrapping material, and at least one edge of the removable portion has a non-linear shape.

  The non-linear shape may be a zigzag shape.

  According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a smoking article pack having therein the bundle of smoking articles described above. The pack includes a lid overlying the body and one end of the packaging material having a non-linear shape.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a bundle of packaged smoking articles according to the present invention as seen from the front. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a bundle of packaged smoking articles shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 3 is a top view of the bundle of packaged smoking articles shown in FIG. 2. The packaging material blank used for the use which packages the smoking goods for 1 pack is shown. FIG. 6 is a top view of another embodiment of a bundle of packaged smoking articles according to the present invention. 1 shows a pack for packing a bundle of packaged smoking articles of the present invention.

  Embodiments of the present invention will now be described by way of example only with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  The present invention relates to a packaging sheet / blank 3 that wraps or packs around one pack of tobacco industry products such as smoking articles.

  Referring to the figures, FIGS. 1 and 2 show a pack of smoking articles 1 bundled together and packaged in a wrapping material for insertion into a smoking article pack. As shown in FIG. 4, the packaging material is composed of an elongated packaging material sheet / blank 3, and the pack is such that the plurality of smoking articles are arranged in parallel with each other in the direction of the longitudinal axis “A”. Wrapping smoking goods for a minute. The elongated packaging material sheet 3 may be formed of a metal foil, or may be formed of paper laminated with a metal foil.

  The packaging material sheet / blank 3 wraps the smoking article 1 for one pack. This is folded around a pack of smoking articles so as to form a front wall 4 and a rear wall (not shown). Here, the front wall 4 and the rear wall are parallel to the longitudinal axis “A” of the smoking article. The packaging material sheet 3 also forms a bottom wall 5 in contact with the combustion end 6 of the smoking article. Further, the packaging material sheet forms side walls 8, 9 and an upper wall 11 of the bundle 2 of packaged smoking articles, as will be described in detail below.

  The side walls 8, 9 include side flaps 4a, 4b that extend from the front wall 4 and the rear wall toward the side of the bundle, are folded around the side of the smoking article and are located thereon (in FIG. 2). Only the right one is visible). The flap 4a extending from the front wall 4 overlaps the flap 4b extending from the rear wall.

  Similarly, the upper flaps 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, which extend from the front wall 4, the rear wall and the two side walls 8, 9 and are opposite to the bottom wall 5, are folded over the mouth end 7 of the smoking article. Thus, the upper wall 11 is formed. The upper flaps 14c, 14d extending from the side walls 8, 9 are first folded, then the upper flap 14b extending from the rear wall is folded, and finally the upper flap 14a extending from the front wall 4 is the other upper flap 14b. , 14c and 14d are folded so as to overlap all of them.

  The packaging material sheet 3 includes a weak line 12. This line can be made by cutting, perforating, or puncturing to form a brittle line. The line of weakness 12 extends between the two long sides of the packaging material sheet 3 and defines one part 13 of the packaging material sheet. When the packaging material sheet 3 wraps the smoking article 1 for one pack, the line of weakness 12 is on the front wall 4 and on the side flap 4a correspondingly forming part of the side walls 8 and 9 of the bundle. (Only one is visible in FIG. 2). Accordingly, the portion 13 forms the upper end of a pack of smoking articles.

  To remove the portion 13 from the pack of smoking articles, the user pulls the upper flap 14a extending from the front wall 4 of the pack of smoking articles 2 and tears the package along the line of weakness 12 or Separate. The user pulls in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis “A” of the smoking article, the direction represented by the arrow (“B”) in FIGS. This direction is the first direction.

  The upper flap 14a extending from the front wall and forming part of the upper wall 11 includes a front edge 14e, as best seen in FIG. The front edge portion 14e has a zigzag shape so as to be longer than the corresponding straight front edge portion of the conventional smoking article packaging for one pack. The rough direction of the front edge is parallel to the front wall 4 and the rear wall of the package of smoking articles 2 for one pack. Advantageously, the longer zigzag 14e increases the friction between the smoking article bundle 2 and the smoking article pack in which it is accommodated, and the risk of accidental opening of the smoking article lid Reduce.

  In another embodiment, the leading edge 15 of the flap 14a extending from the front wall 4 is curved, as shown in FIG.

  The front edge portion of the upper flap 14a located at the uppermost portion is not limited to following the above-described path or being formed into a shape. Of course, any configuration in which at least a portion of the leading edge of the uppermost upper flap follows a non-linear path is within the scope of the present invention. For example, the leading edge of the uppermost upper flaps 14a, 14b may follow a wavy or oscillating path.

  The present invention is not limited to the upper flap 14a extending from the front wall 4 being positioned at the top. As a matter of course, the upper flap 14b extending from the rear wall may be the uppermost portion. Thus, in this embodiment, the upper flap 14b extending from the rear wall includes a leading edge that is designed to at least partially follow a non-linear path.

  Although not shown, in yet another embodiment, the uppermost side flaps 4a, 4b extending from the front and / or rear walls include a leading edge that at least partially follows a non-linear path. . Thus, the uppermost side flap extending from the front and / or rear wall includes a leading edge that follows a zigzag, curved, wavy or oscillating path as described above. Of course, the leading edge of the top side flap and the top flap may follow their own path.

  A bundle of smoking articles is contained in a smoking article pack. Preferably, as shown in FIG. 6, the smoking article pack 20 includes a main body 21 and a lid 22, and the lid 22 can be opened and closed to touch a bundle of smoking articles.

  In the embodiment described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, the top edge of the uppermost flap extending from the front wall 4 is hidden when the pack is closed and visible when the lid is opened.

  Of course, the bundle 2 of smoking articles described above is not limited to the pack described herein. The bundle of smoking articles can be inserted into any pack that can touch the smoking article contained inside by packaging the smoking article for one pack in the packaging material and having a removable part.

  As used herein, the term “smoking article” refers to smokeable products such as cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos and the like, whether based on tobacco, tobacco derivatives, expanded tobacco, recycled tobacco, or tobacco substitutes. Including but not limited to products that are heated but not combusted. The smoking article may be provided with a filter for gas flow sucked by the smoker.

  Furthermore, the packaging material blank of the present invention can be folded around any tobacco industry product and is not limited to wrapping a pack of smoking articles.

Tobacco industry product means any article manufactured or sold in the tobacco industry, typically
a) Cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars, tobacco for pipes or hand-rolled cigarettes (whether based on tobacco, tobacco derivatives, expanded tobacco, recycled tobacco, or tobacco substitutes),
b) Non-smoking products that have introduced tobacco, tobacco derivatives, expanded tobacco, regenerated tobacco, or tobacco substitutes, such as snuff, snus, hard tobacco, non-burning thermal products,
c) Includes other nicotine delivery means such as inhalers, tablets, gums and the like. This list is not intended to be limiting, but merely illustrates the types of products that are manufactured or sold in the tobacco industry.

  Tobacco industry pack means any pack that can contain and / or contain tobacco industry products.

For the purpose of solving various problems and developing technology, the entire disclosure, including illustrations, is various in that the claimed invention can be implemented to provide better smoking article bundles or packaging blanks than in the past. The embodiment of is shown. The advantages and features of this disclosure are merely exemplary of the embodiments and are not exhaustive and / or exclusive. They are submitted only to aid understanding and to teach the claimed principles. They should be understood as not being representative of all claimed inventions. Thus, specific aspects of the disclosure are not discussed herein. Alternative embodiments may not be presented as a specific part of the present invention. Other further embodiments not described may be available as part of the present invention and are not to be considered abandoned. Many of these undescribed embodiments incorporate the same principles as the present invention, and it should be understood that other embodiments are exactly the same. Thus, it is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and changes may be made without departing from the scope and / or intent of the disclosure. As such, all of the examples and / or embodiments are not limited throughout this disclosure. Also, the embodiments described in this specification should not be inferred by comparing the embodiments not described. These are not different except for the purpose of saving space and reducing repeated expressions. Various embodiments may appropriately include various combinations of the described elements, components, features, parts, processes, techniques, and the like, or may be configured solely from these, or may be mainly configured. good. There may be conflicting features, elements, implementations, etc. that may not exist simultaneously in one embodiment. Similarly, some features may be applicable in certain disclosed aspects but not in other aspects. In addition, this disclosure includes other inventions not currently claimed. Applicant shall have all rights relating to those inventions, including the right to file additional applications, continuation applications, partial continuation applications, divisional applications and / or the like to claim these inventions not currently claimed. Possess. Thus, the disclosed advantages, embodiments, examples, functions, features, structures, and / or other aspects are not limited to those disclosed, as defined by the claims or the equivalents of the claims.

Claims (10)

  A wrapping blank having a peripheral edge and foldable around the tobacco industry product, wherein at least a part of the peripheral edge has a non-linear shape, and the wrapping blank is folded around the tobacco industrial product. A packaging material blank in which at least a part of the peripheral edge overlaps with another part of the peripheral edge.   The packaging material blank according to claim 1, wherein when the packaging material blank is folded around the tobacco industry product, at least a part of the peripheral edge portion having a non-linear shape is the uppermost part.   The packaging material according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a part of the packaging material blank can be separated from the rest of the packaging material blank, and at least one edge of the removable part has a non-linear shape. blank.   The packaging material blank according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the non-linear shape is a zigzag shape.   A bundle of smoking articles, which is inserted into a smoking article pack having a plurality of edges where the packaging material overlaps, including a pack of smoking articles and a packaging material for wrapping the pack of smoking articles. A bundle of smoking articles, wherein at least one edge of the material has a non-linear shape.   6. A bundle of smoking articles according to claim 5, wherein a part of the packaging material can be separated from the rest of the packaging material and at least one edge of the removable part has a non-linear shape. .   The bundle of smoking articles according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the non-linear shape is a zigzag shape.   A smoking article pack containing therein a bundle of smoking articles according to any one of claims 5 to 7, wherein the pack includes a main body and a lid overlying one end of a packaging material having a non-linear shape. Including smoking goods pack.   A packaging material blank substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.   A bundle of smoking articles substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

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