R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Mark Shane Hatcher

Wesley Steven Jones

Jerry Wayne Pipes

Jared H Aller

Laya Katina Palmer Horton

Joseph Dominique

Christopher George Palmer

Adam Richardson

Jeremiah Robert Etchison

Pankaj C Patel

Craig T Demarest

The present disclosure is directed to various packaging devices or arrangements and the blanks configured to form the inner and outer packages that make up the devices. The blanks typically include a plurality of panels that are folded and bonded together to define a compartment when formed into a package. The compartment may be employed to store a consumable product, such as cartridges for an aerosol delivery device. Related methods for forming the blanks into the packages are also provided.

Packaging for an aerosol delivery device and consumable components

Methods and machines are provided for forming a five-sided carton of packages of smoking articles. A piece of film material is applied to a plurality of packages of smoking articles such that five sides of the plurality of packages are at least partially covered by the film material, but the sixth side remains uncovered. The film material is applied such that the group of packages is sufficiently tightly bound so that none of the packages may slip free from the carton. The sixth side of the plurality of packages in the carton remains exposed so that tax stamps may be easily applied. The film of material may be applied so that a gap is formed relative to the sixth side.

Five-sided cigarette carton packaging

Dual packaging tray

Cigarette carton assembly

Growing community of inventors

Pfafftown, NC, United States of America

Mark Shane Hatcher