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Cigarette package design

US5487468A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 28, 1994
Grant dateJan 30, 1996
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Expiry dateNov 28, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S206/822
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A cigarette package is dimensioned to hold an array of cigarettes in multiple rows and comprises a plurality of vertical walls defining a hexagon in cross-section. The walls are dimensioned to bear against an array of cigarettes in the package and having the same cross-sectional shape as the package. The package has a distinctive external appearance while permitting twenty or twenty-five cigarettes to be accommodated in three or four rows in the array.

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