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Package for cigarettes and the like, method for the production of this package and apparatus for carrying out this method

US5575385A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 1, 1995
Grant dateNov 19, 1996
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Expiry dateMar 1, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S493/966
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A package for cigarettes and the like comprises a honey-comb structure which defines a plurality of elongated parallel cells each for receiving a respective cigarette. The structure includes two opposite walls which close said cells at their ends, one of these end walls being adapted to be opened to low access to the cells containing the cigarettes.

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