Easy opening reclose systems for cigarette packaging

Abstract

The present invention is related to a reclosable pack () of smoking articles (), said pack comprising a sealed enclosure having a front wall, a back wall, two side walls (), a top-end wall () and a bottom-end wall (), said enclosure comprising a flexible packaging laminate around a bundle of smoking articles (), the laminate having a built-in easy-opening access comprising a permanently tacky adhesive () sandwiched between two film structures, said structures comprising an outer score line () formed through the thickness of the outer layer structure () and an inner score line () formed through the thickness of the inner layer structure (), both delimiting separable opening portions, in which a region of the outer opening portion between the outer () and inner () score lines is attached to an underlying surface of the inner structure via a permanently tacky adhesive (), the outer opening portion being peelable from the underlying surface of the inner layer structure () to build an opening flap (), and the outer opening portion being re-attachable to the underlying surface of the inner structure () via said permanently tacky adhesive for reclosing, in use, the opening access, wherein the permanently tacky adhesive (), in use, remains located after being peeled on the underlying surface of the inner structure () and wherein the permanently tacky adhesive layer () is patterned and located on the surface delimited by the outer score line () and the inner score line ().