Japan Tobacco Inc.

Japan Tabacco Inc.

Shunsuke Tawada

Tetsuya Nakamura

Hideki Mori

Masahiro Fukui

Akira Miyazawa

Akihiro Saito

Kouya Nakamura

Hidehisa Tokita

Nobuhiko Higashi

Noriaki Mitsui

A swing-open type package has a box body (), a lid () to be put onto the box body () from above, and a swing device connecting the lid () and the box body (), the swing device including a movable rear wall portion () formed by a part of a rear wall of the box body (), and a support flap () connecting the lid () and a transverse wall () of the box body (), and enables a swing motion of the lid () when a front wall of the lid () is raised from the boxy body () so that the swing motion causes the lid () to tilt and open wide.

Swing-open type package

Box for a package

A cigarette box has an outer case () provided in a portion of a bottom wall () thereof with a movable base () capable of turning around a hinge (), and an inner case () disposed in the outer case (), the inner case () holding an inner pack of cigarettes. The inner case () is connected to the movable base () only at a bottom wall () thereof, and protrudes from an open face () of the outer case () in a lateral direction of the outer case () when turned around the hinge () together with the movable base (), which opens the cigarette box.

Cigarette box and a blank set therefor

A cigarette box has a box body () enclosing a filter-cigarette inner pack and having an access opening () at the top thereof, and a slide lid () attached to cover an upper portion of the box body (), where the slide lid () is allowed to reciprocate along the breadth of the box body () to open and close the access opening ().

Cigarette box and blank set for same

A cigarette box includes an inner case () enclosing a filter-cigarette inner pack and having an access opening () at the top thereof, and an outer case () enclosing the inner case () and having a push window () at the bottom thereof. The outer case () has a hinged cap (). In a closed position, the hinged cap () closes the access opening () of the inner case (). When the inner case () is pushed upward through the push window () to stick out of the outer case (), the hinged cap turns around a hinge () from the closed position to an open position in the manner associated with the sticking-out of the inner case, thereby opening the access opening () of the inner case ().

A cigarette box includes an inner case () enclosing a bundle of cigarettes, an outer case () enclosing the inner case () in a manner allowing the inner case () to be moved up and down, and having a hinged lid () forming a part of a top wall thereof and a window () formed in a side wall to partly expose the inner case (), and a link () connecting the inner case () and the hinged lid (). When the inner case () is pushed up through the window () of the outer case (), the link () urges the hinged lid () upward so that hinged lid () is opened. In an open position, the hinged lid () provides an access opening () projecting from the plane of the top wall of the outer case () and facing sideways of the outer case ().

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Tokyo, Japan

Shunsuke Tawada