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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2012
Applicants:
British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited, London, GB;
British American Tobacco Japan, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24F 15/06 (2006.01); B65D 85/10 (2006.01); B65D 5/72 (2006.01); A24F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A24F 15/06 (2013.01); A24F 15/00 (2013.01); B65D 5/728 (2013.01); B65D 85/1009 (2013.01); B65D 85/1045 (2013.01);
Abstract
A pack for smoking articles including an outer housing () having an open end and an inner casing () telescopically received within the outer housing and moveable between an open position in which the inner casing () at least partially extends out of the open end of the outer housing (), and a closed position in which the inner casing () is retracted further into the outer housing than in the open position. The inner casing () includes an elongate access aperture () configured to enable elongate smoking articles to be laterally dispensed therefrom in a direction transverse to their longitudinal axes.