Jane C Henson

US Patent:

7014039, Mar 21, 2006

Filed:

Jun 19, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/465460

Inventors:

Jane Cottrell Henson - Clemmons NC, US
Veronica Nicole Walton - Winston-Salem NC, US

Assignee:

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company - Winston-Salem NC

International Classification:

B65D 85/10

US Classification:

206267, 206236, 206265, 206259, 206774, 206779

Abstract:

Smoking articles, such as filter cigarettes, are packaged in a metal box which is curved to a shape that conforms to the curvature of the human body so that the box can be comfortably carried in a shirt or pant pocket. The metal box comprises a lid and a four sided tray. The lid and the tray have rolled lips which interengage to mechanically and slidably retain the lid to the tray. The lid covers the open front of the tray and is slidable along an arcuate path corresponding to the radius of curvature of the lid to selectively open or close the front of the tray. The lid of the box includes an abutment that prevents the lid of the box from being completely removed unless additional force is applied to push the abutment past the rear wall of the tray.

US Patent:

6726006, Apr 27, 2004

Filed:

Jun 26, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/891936

Inventors:

Douglas Amon Funderburk - Winston-Salem NC 27106
Charles Ray Ashcraft - Winston-Salem NC 27104
Walter Bohdan - Powhatan VA 23139
Ellen Strickland Gossett - Winston-Salem NC 27107
Nancy Harmon Hawley - Clemmons NC 27012
Jane Cottrell Henson - Clemmons NC 27012
William Edward Hazlett - Chesterfield VA 23838
Daniel Klaus Self - Greenville SC 29607

International Classification:

B65D 8510

US Classification:

206268, 206256, 206264, 2064595, 53471

Abstract:

A flask-shaped package or container for packaging smoking articles, such as cigarettes, has a generally parallelepiped shape with slightly curved front and back body panels. The container comprises a body and a lid integrally molded in one-piece of a plastic material with an open bottom having an internal peripheral shoulder and a base made of a separate plastic/metal foil laminate that is bonded to the shoulder by induction heating a heat-activated adhesive covering the metal foil of the base. The body has a central internal front-to-back stiffening rib and an access opening in its top and front panels with a surrounding ledge to which is adhesively bonded a removable foil closure. After the access opening is closed with the foil closure, cigarettes are inserted into the container body through the open bottom thereof. A protective paperboard liner that prevents adherence between the heat-activated adhesive and the cigarettes is inserted into the open bottom and supported by the central rib and the cigarettes. The base laminate is then inserted into the open bottom and bears on the shoulder so that when the adhesive is activated by induction heating, the base bonds to the shoulder and seals the container.