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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 1988
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1987
Thomas T Tudor, Crestwood, KY (US);
Chris P Radley, Louisville, KY (US);
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville, KY (US);
Abstract
A cigarette carton and a cigarette carton spacer for spacing and protecting smaller than standard size cigarette packs in a standard size cigarette carton. A single or plurality of spacers can be used depending upon the size of the undersized packs to be installed in the standard size carton. At least one spacer is installed to extend longitudinally along the centerline of the carton between adjacent rows of the packs in the carton. The spacer is an elongated rectangular panel of single wall corrugated board having a length dimension corresponding to the length dimension of the interior of the carton and a width dimension corresponding to the height dimension of the interior of the carton. Each longitudinal edge of the spacer is formed with a plurality of spaced apart finger notches open to its peripheral edge. Each finger notch along one longitudinal spacer edge is in alignment with a different one of the finger notches along the other longitudinal spacer edge. In addition, the spacer could also be formed with at least one finger notch in each of the transverse spacer edges. The flutes of the corrugated intermediate layer of the single wall corrugated board extend at an acute angle to the longitudinal edges of the spacer.