A wrapper for a group of tobacco industry products is disclosed. The wrapper has a barrier material and a tab arranged such that pulling the tab separates a section of the barrier material from the remainder of the barrier material to form an extraction opening. The barrier material has a cut arranged such that when the tab is pulled the barrier material is torn along a path extending from the cut to form the extraction opening in the barrier material.

A pack for cigarettes or rod-form articles, having a box part, which is delimited at least by a front wall, a rear wall, side walls and a base wall, the box part containing a collar, at least comprising a collar front wall, which butts against the front wall of the box part, and collar side walls, which are adjacent to side walls of the box part, and at least one base flap arranged in extension of the collar front wall and, forming an underside support for at least one cigarette group, or group of rod-form articles, is directed transversely to the collar front wall, and therefore the collar serves to compensate for at least one different dimension of the cigarette group, or group of rod-like articles.

The invention relates to a cigarette pack, having an inner pack (12) for pack contents, in particular for a group of cigarettes (11), and having an outer pack (13), preferably in the form of a hinge/lid pack, wherein the inner pack (12) which preferably directly encases the pack contents has lateral walls made of (thin) cardboard (50), which are formed by overlapping lateral tabs (51, 52, 53) of a blank (33) for the inner pack (12). The invention is characterized in that end corner tabs (55), which are arranged on both sides of a lid wall (37) of the inner pack (12), have a respective substantially V-shaped design, and in that each of the end corner tabs (55) is arranged between inner lateral tabs (51) and outer lateral tabs (52, 53) of the lateral walls (50) of the inner pack (12).

There is provided a resealable container for consumer articles comprising a package of consumer articles, the package having an access opening through which consumer articles can be removed; and a resealable panel covering the access opening of the package and extending beyond the periphery of the access opening of the package. The package is formed by folding a blank of flexible sheet material having a thickness around a group of consumer articles such that a first end portion of the blank overlaps a second end portion of the blank. An area of a surface of the first end portion of the blank is sealed to an area of a surface of the second end portion of the blank. One of the first and second end portions comprises non-printed indicia at a predetermined location relative to an edge of the end portion.

The present invention is related to a reclosable pack (1) of smoking articles (2), said pack comprising a sealed enclosure having a front wall, a back wall, two side walls (7), a top-end wall (8) and a bottom-end wall (6), said enclosure comprising a flexible packaging laminate around a bundle of smoking articles (2), the laminate having a built-in easy-opening access comprising a permanently tacky adhesive (3) sandwiched between two film structures, said structures comprising an outer score line (13) formed through the thickness of the outer layer structure (12) and an inner score line (14) formed through the thickness of the inner layer structure (9), both delimiting separable opening portions, in which a region of the outer opening portion between the outer (13) and inner (14) score lines is attached to an underlying surface of the inner structure via a permanently tacky adhesive (3), the outer opening portion being peelable from the underlying surface of the inner layer structure (9) to build an opening flap (4), and the outer opening portion being re-attachable to the underlying surface of the inner structure (9) via said permanently tacky adhesive for reclosing, in use, the opening access, wherein the permanently tacky adhesive (3), in use, remains located after being peeled on the underlying surface of the inner structure (9) and wherein the permanently tacky adhesive layer (3) is patterned and located on the surface delimited by the outer score line (13) and the inner score line (14).

Reclosable package of cigarettes, comprising: a group of cigarettes; a soft envelope having a parallelepiped shape and comprising a front surface, a rear surface, a top surface, a bottom surface and two side surfaces, the envelope encloses the group of cigarettes and is provided with a cigarette extraction opening; a stiffening element wrapping the envelope along at least two opposite surfaces of the envelope and at the extraction opening; a reclosable opening system consisting in an adhesive closing panel superimposed in a removable manner on an adhesive frame panel, the opening system covers the extraction opening; wherein the closing panel is movable between an opening position and a closing position of the extraction opening, and wherein the opening system is fastened to the stiffening element by firmly superimposing the frame panel on at least two opposite walls of the stiffening element and at the extraction opening.

A wrapper for a group of tobacco industry products is disclosed. The wrapper has a barrier material arranged to extend over an edge of a bundle after the barrier material is wrapped around a group of tobacco industry products to form the bundle. A tab is arranged such that pulling the tab forms an extraction opening that extends over the edge of the bundle. Wherein, prior to pulling the tab for the first time, at least a part of the barrier material is unbroken across the edge.

A paper material is provided herein, wherein the paper material includes a fibrous material including at least 5 dry weight percent of fibers derived from a plant of the Nicotiana species; wherein the paper material has a basis weight ranging from about 5 g/m.sup.2 to about 450 g/m.sup.2; and wherein the paper material has a caliper ranging from about 0.01 mils to about 200 mils. The paper material can be suitable for use in a smoking article in the form of at least one of a tipping material, a plug wrap and a wrapping material. The paper material can be suitable for use in at least one of a soft carton container suitable to house smoking articles, a label, a paper substrate of a barrier layer, a hard carton suitable to house smoking articles and a container suitable to house smokeless tobacco products.

A sheet-like packaging material for packaging tobacco products, said packaging material comprising at least a paper layer including a flavoring component, and a barrier layer having barrier properties against the flavoring component, wherein the barrier layer is a non-metal layer.

A container of consumer goods comprises a housing (10a) and one or more consumer goods (18) wrapped in a wrapper (20) and contained within the housing (10a), the wrapper (20) comprising a plurality of intersecting lines of weakness (22) that together define a plurality of interconnected detachable portions (24) of the wrapper (20).