| US 7,467,711 B2 | ||
| Chamfered hard pack for rod-shaped smoking articles and blank for making the same | ||
| Hitoshi Tambo, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 12, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/330,087. | ||
| Application 11/330087 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP04/10134, filed on Jul. 15, 2004. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2003-275479 (JP), filed on Jul. 16, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0169605 A1, Aug. 03, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. B65D 85/10 (2006.01); B65D 43/16 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 206—273 [206/265; 229/160.1] | 8 Claims |
| 1. A hard pack for rod-shaped smoking articles, comprising:
a hard box part of a parallelepiped shape, having an open end and a bottom wall,
a lid joined to the open end of said box part to open and close the open end, and
an inner package contained in said box part, said inner package including the rod-shaped smoking articles and an inner wrapper
wrapped around the rod-shaped smoking articles, wherein
said box part includes a front wall, a rear wall, two side walls, and first chamfered edges formed on lateral edges where
the front wall and the rear wall meet the side walls, and the first chamfered edges extend from the bottom wall over a specified
length and have a width ranging between 0.8 mm and 2 mm,
each of the side walls is formed by superimposing an interior portion and an exterior portion,
the interior portion and the exterior portion each include one lateral edge having a chamfer and the other lateral edge, and
wherein the other lateral edge included in each one of the interior portion and the exterior portion has an indentation for
avoiding interference with the chamfer included in the other of the interior portion and the exterior portion.
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