Rigid wrapper containing packets of cigarettes

Abstract

Packets of cigarettes appearing prismatic in shape with a triangular cross section are ordered side by side and in direct contact one with another to form a group alignable on a predominating longitudinal axis, with the axes of the single packets transverse to the direction of alignment. The assembled group of packets is prismatic in shape, with a longitudinal section of trapezoidal appearance, and wrapped in a rigid carton aligned likewise on the predominating longitudinal axis, similarly prismatic and presenting a longitudinal profile of isosceles trapezoidal outline.

1 . A rigid wrapper containing packets of cigarettes, referable to a given predominating longitudinal axis, prismatic in appearance and presenting a trapezoidal longitudinal section.  
   
   
       2 . A wrapper as in  claim 1 , wherein the longitudinal section is of isosceles trapezoidal outline.  
   
   
       3 . A wrapper as in  claim 1 , comprising a bottom face of rectangular outline; an access opening parallel to the bottom face and of rectangular outline; two mutually opposed flank faces associated with respective shorter sides of the bottom face; also a front face and a rear face parallel one with another and associated with respective longer sides of the bottom face.  
   
   
       4 . A wrapper as in  claim 3 , wherein the front and rear faces occupy planes perpendicular to the plane occupied by the bottom face and present an isosceles trapezoidal outline composed of a longer base adjoining the longer side of the bottom face, a shorter base adjoining a longer side of the access opening, and two angled sides each adjoining a respective flank face.  
   
   
       5 . A wrapper as in  claim 4 , wherein each of the flank faces occupies a plane inclined relative to the plane occupied by the bottom face and presents a top edge adjoining a shorter side of the access opening, a bottom edge adjoining a shorter side of the bottom face, and two side edges each adjoining a respective angled side of the front and rear face.  
   
   
       6 . A wrapper as in  claim 3 , further comprising a top face of which the outline matches the outline of the opening, joined to at least the front face or the rear face along a hinge line and capable of movement thus between a closed position in which it is disposed parallel to the bottom face, occluding the opening, and an open position in which it is distanced from the opening.  
   
   
       7 . A wrapper as in  claim 3 , wherein the cigarette packets are of prismatic geometry, presenting a substantially triangular section.  
   
   
       8 . A wrapper as in  claim 7 , wherein the packets are disposed inside the wrapper with respective longitudinal axes extending perpendicular to the predominating longitudinal axis of the wrapper.  
   
   
       9 . A wrapper as in  claim 8 , wherein the packets are arranged mutually parallel and in contact one with another in such a way as to form at least one group of packets appearing prismatic in shape and presenting a trapezoidal longitudinal section.  
   
   
       10 . A wrapper as in  claim 9 , wherein the at least one group of packets comprises a first row of packets disposed with respective side faces offered to and resting on the bottom face, and a second row of packets disposed with respective side faces offered to and facing the access opening, in such a way as to interpose each packet of the second row between two corresponding packets of the first row.  
   
   
       11 . A wrapper as in  claim 10 , comprising at least two groups of packets positioned one on top of another in such a way as to form a single group appearing prismatic in shape and presenting a longitudinal trapezoidal section.  
   
   
       12 . A wrapper as in  claim 1 , further comprising a protective overwrap fashioned from transparent and heat-shrinkable material.  
   
   
       13 . A wrapper as in  claim 1 , fashioned from a flat diecut blank of wrapping material with an axis of symmetry disposed transversely to the predominating longitudinal axis, presenting two transverse crease lines, also a plurality of precreased areas extending parallel to the longitudinal axis, delimiting a plurality of longitudinal panels compassed between the transverse crease lines and coinciding with the faces of the wrapper, and at least one longitudinal connecting flap, wherein at least one of the longitudinal panels presents two substantially rectangular opposite end folds, and at least two of the longitudinal panels present respective tongues at their two opposite ends, designed to unite and combine with the respective end folds in forming the flank faces of the wrapper.  
   
   
       14 . A wrapper as in  claim 13 , wherein the panel presenting the end folds provides the bottom face, and the two panels presenting the respective tongues are positioned one on either side of the panel providing the bottom face, in such a way as to provide the front face and the rear face respectively.  
   
   
       15 . A wrapper as in  claim 13 , wherein the two panels presenting the respective tongues are of isosceles trapezoidal outline.  
   
   
       16 . A wrapper as in  claim 14 , wherein the blank comprises at least one longitudinal panel providing the top face, positioned adjoining the panel that provides the rear face.  
   
   
       17 . A wrapper as in  claim 16 , wherein the longitudinal connecting flap is of isosceles trapezoidal outline, joined to the longitudinal panel providing the top face on the side remote from the panel providing the rear face, and matchable to the longitudinal panel providing the front face.