A packet of cigarettes having a rigid container in turn having a hinged lid; and a group of cigarettes housed inside the container and enclosed in an inner foil wrapping having a front tear-off portion; a front wall of the container has a transparent window superimposed over the front tear-off portion of the inner foil wrapping (FIG. 1).

A packet of cigarettes, having a cup-shaped container closed by an opening lid and a first, second and third main axis perpendicular to one another, is defined by a number of main walls, each parallel to two of the three main axes, and by at least one connecting wall located between at least two main walls and forming given angles of other than zero with each of the three main axes so as to have a section varying along each of the three main axes.

In a cigarette packet appearing essentially as a parallelepiped body capable of accommodating at least two groups of cigarettes enveloped in respective wrappers surrounded by at least one internal collar, the body and wrappers each exhibit a front face, a rear face and two flank faces; the individually wrapped groups of cigarettes are positioned one adjacent to the other with the relative wrappers in mutual contact by way of the broader front and rear faces rather than by way of the flanks.

A testing device for filter-tipped cigarettes comprises a first source of positive or negative pressure arranged to be connected to at least one end of each cigarette to be tested, to produce an air flow through the wrapper of the cigarette, means for monitoring the pressure or flow rate of the air flow to detect the presence of an excessively leaky wrapping, and means for defining a chamber around the cigarette in the region of the joint between the filter and the tobacco-filled part of the cig...

In apparatus for causing rod-like articles to roll through a channel defined by opposed surfaces in which rolling is caused by relative movement of the surfaces, the channel is provided with a region of reduced width at the point of entry of the articles into the channel so that there is a positive start to rolling. A particular application is in a filter cigarette assembly machine in which axially aligned filter and tobacco portions are joined by wrapping them in a "cork" section while they are...

A device for testing the wrappers of cigarettes for leaks comprises a conveyor arranged to carry the cigarettes successively through a test region, means defining in the tests region a plurality of similar test chambers partly bounded by the respective cigarette wrapper, a source of pressure which communicates with each test chamber in turn at a first station in the test region to produce a predetermined initial pressure in each test chamber, and a pressure detector arranged to detect the pressu...

Hinge lid packs without outer wrapping have been offered in the market recently. The mechanical production of hinge lid packs is complex because the common collar is produced from a separate blank. In the hinge lid pack according to the invention, the pack part (18) and the lid (19) are connected to one another by residual connections (38, 39) made from the packaging material. These residual connections (38, 39) are severable when the lid (19) is opened for the first time. Preferably, the collar...

An improved flavored cigarette is provided which consists of a cylindrical paper sheet wrapper. Processed tobacco is disposed within the cylindrical paper sheet wrapper. A filter is at one end that is intended to be inserted in the mouth of a smoker. A structure is for supplying a flavor to sweeten the breath of the smoker, when the smoker uses the cigarette in a normal manner.

A cigarette pack of the hinged-lid type is provided with an inner wrapping [21] which provides a pull-off flap [34] located in the region of the front wall [26] of the pack, the pull-off flap being provided with printed matter, and being larger than is usual, preferably the pull-off flap is provided by a perforation line [35] placed lower than an upper edge of the front wall [26].

A soft package containing cigarettes and a sealing film. The package includes a top closure tab which acts to re-close the package once the package is opened. Pressure sensitive adhesive can be applied to the top closure tab in order that the closure tab can act to reseal the opened package to some degree.