Philip Morris Products S.a.

Adrian Eggen

Poh Yoke Tritz

Sergey Krasiev

David Rudolf

Athanasios Kondylis

Aleksander Lowinski

Frédéric Durussel

A container includes a housing that has a box and a lid, where the box includes a front wall and a back wall. A hinged connector is connected to the lid at a first hinge line and connected to the back wall of the box at a second hinge line. The container also includes an inner package disposed within the housing. The inner package includes a first layer that defines a flap and a second layer at least partially attached to an inner surface of the first layer, where the second layer defines an access opening through which the consumer goods can be removed. The lid is movable between a closed position and an open position. The inner package is covered by the lid and the box when the lid is in the closed position and at least partially uncovered when the lid is in the open positon.

Resealable inner package for a container

A container for consumer goods comprises an outer housing having a box and a lid () hinged to the box along a hinge line and pivotable about the hinge line between an open position and a closed position. Further, the container comprises an inner package () of consumer goods within the outer housing comprising an access opening () for removing consumer goods when the lid is in the open position. The container further comprises a reclosable flap () occluding the access opening and at least one activatable adhesive element () provided on a surface of the reclosable flap, on a surface of the lid or on both. The adhesive element can be selectively activated, and the reclosable flap can be affixed to the lid by the activated adhesive element, such that upon opening the lid the reclosable flap is lifted off the inner package to at least partly reveal the access opening.

Container with customisable opening-and-closing mechanism of inner package

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Neuchatel, Switzerland

Adrian Eggen