Adjacent article package for consumer products

Abstract

An adjacent article package for holding a consumer product and a promotional product includes a combining sleeve formed from a blank. The first container can be a pack of cigarettes and the second container can be a small package containing promotional products such as smokeless tobacco products. The adjacent article package can be sized to be compatible with cigarette cartons, cigarette display racks, tax-stamping equipment and the like.

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         18 . An adjacent article package comprising:
 a parallelepipedal container having substantially rectangular opposed top and bottom end walls, opposed front and rear walls and opposed side walls adjoining the other walls; and   a tray container which has a cover closed over an open space in a tray base, wherein a bottom of the tray base is adhesively bonded to the top wall of the parallelepipedal container.   
     
     
         19 . An assembly of adjacent article packages comprising:
 a plurality of cigarette packages joined together by a separable sheet, the separable sheet forming removable covers of tray containers, each of the tray containers attached to one of the cigarette packages.