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Container for smoking articles

A technology for smoking products and containers, which is applied in the field of containers for smoking products such as cigarettes or cigars, which can solve the problems of manual labor and other problems, and achieve the effect of reducing the risk of fire and reducing the phenomenon of littering

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-02-24
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LTD
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[0013] Accordingly, the present invention provides a smoking article container which not only retains the advantages of a reusable cylindrical shell, but overcomes the disadvantages associated with requiring laborious manual refilling of such shells

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[0043] The present invention provides a container for smoking articles comprising an inner disposable cylindrical cartridge containing a plurality of smoking articles in an annular arrangement around a central ash and / or butt receptacle (ashtray), In use, the pack is housed within the outer shell, which is also cylindrical, which allows dispensing of smoking articles from the pack and provides access for the butt receptacle. Once all the smoking articles have been smoked, the pack, including any waste in the butt receptacle, can be discarded and a new pack loaded into the housing.

[0044] figure 1 A cross-sectional side view of a cigarette packet according to an embodiment of the invention is shown. The cylindrical cigarette case 10 includes an outer wall 12 and an inner wall 14 disposed concentrically within the outer wall 12 . The annular space 16 delimited between the inner portion 14 and the outer wall 12 is filled with an annular distribution of smoking articles 18 , s...

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A container for smoking articles (18) comprises a disposable cylindrical cartridge (10) comprising an outer wall (12) and an inner wall (14) that together define an annular space (16) containing a plurality of smoking articles, the inner wall further defining a central receptacle (20) for receiving smoking article butts, and a cylindrical outer case in which the cartridge is received, the case comprising a cylindrical side wall (42), a top surface (46) and a bottom surface (44), the top surface having a central aperture (48) that gives access to the central receptacle of the cartridge, and therotatable bottom surface having an offset dispensing aperture (50) through which a smoking article can be dispensed' from the annular space of the cartridge.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a container for smoking articles such as cigarettes or cigars. Background technique [0002] The vast majority of smoking articles are provided to consumers in packs made of folded cardboard or cardboard, intended to be disposed of after use. However, such packages are easily deformed and the contents are damaged. Also, it may be difficult to remove the first smoking article or two from a freshly opened pack. Additionally, containers for ash and butts are often not provided, thereby creating a litter and fire hazard when the smoker smokes away from the ashtray. [0003] Packs with integrated ashtray components have been proposed, generally based on conventional parallelepiped cigarette pack designs such as that described in WO 01 / 47380. [0004] Other proposed cigarette containers are cylindrical and contain the cigarettes in a circular distribution. US3451533 describes such a container in which the space at the cen...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A24F15/04
CPCB65D85/10A24F15/04A24F19/145A24F13/18B65D83/02B65D85/1009B65D85/1036B65D85/1081
Inventor M·A·J·贝文
Owner BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LTD
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