Multipack for a group of cigarette packs (10) that are arranged in two rows and are enclosed by a multipack blank (11) made of thin cardboard. The multipack blank (11) is designed and folded such that a top side (12) is free and it is possible to see the cigarette packs (10) positioned therein. The pack unit is enclosed by an outer wrapper (22) made of transparent or see-through film with a tear-open strip (23).

For the application of glue to band labels (10) or other kinds of blanks, the latter are transported by means of a band label conveyor, in particular by means of a suction belt (15) with conveyor strand (16). Glue is applied by means of glue nozzles (30, 31), which spray glue on the band labels (10) in a substantially horizontal direction. In order to prevent any deleterious effects caused by dripping glue remnants, the band labels (10) are transported in a special manner, in such a way that tha…

A cigarette magazine chute wall is formed by two metal sheets 11, 12 glued together in an arc-shaped zone 10b and filled with a moldable spacer material 14 in a wedge-shaped zone 10a. Grooved pins 15, 16 and threaded bushes 17, 18 are embedded in the filler to implement the anchoring of the sheets and their subsequent assembly in a magazine. A mold assembly is built up by clamping together a plurality of curved mold plates 20, and disposing a pair of magnetically fixed sheets 11, 12 between adja…

An installation for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes consists of a production station (10) and a packaging station (11). The production station (10) consists of a plurality of, especially two, manufacturing machines (12, 13) positioned in a special way in relation to one another. The cigarettes produced by the two manufacturing machines (12, 13) are processed by a common packaging machine (14), in order to produce cigarette packets.

A cuboidal pack for cigarettes, such as a soft pack or a box with a hinged lid, is provided with a separate printed carrier, or coupon-like insert, that is used for advertising purposes or conducting drawings, contests and the like. The separate printed carrier is inserted between adjacent layers of the wrappers forming the pack and is of a size that is adapted to be folded to cover one end wall and a portion of the front and/or back walls, while not covering the usually visible surfaces of the …

Cigarette packs, namely hinge-lid packs and soft-cup packs in particular, are designed in such a way that the pack content, namely a cigarette group, is surrounded on all sides by an inner wrapping (11) consisting of paper with a decorative print applied on the outside. For reasons of cost above all, the print is applied only on those surface regions of the inner wrapping (11) which are exposed when the pack (hinge-lid pack) is open or by virtue of construction. The inner wrapping (11) is produc…

In the event of the transmission of forces or movements of drive members with a circular cross-section and connection members, in particular actuating levers (11), provided on said drive members, a non-round configuration is provided, in order to secure a precise relative position of the members, in a region where the actuating lever (11) is mounted on a shaft or the like. The shaft or a shaft end is provided with a flattened portion A bore (13) in the actuating lever (11) has a mating flattened…

Drying turrets (10) serve for stabilizing the shape of cigarette packs (13) immediately after their completion. For this purpose, the drying turret (10) is provided with a plurality of pockets (11) for receiving the cuboidal cigarette packs (13) in a positive manner. To locally increase the pressure exerted on the cigarette packs (13), at least one of the pocket walls (partition wall 18, inner wall 21, outer wall 23) defining the pocket (11) is provided with a shoulder (37) which exerts the loca…

In order to maintain the quality of cigarettes in a cigarette storage chamber (10), the latter is arranged in a housing (16) which is closed on all sides. Constant climatic conditions which are appropriate for maintaining the quality of the cigarettes are established within the housing. The cigarette storage chamber is located in apparatus for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes between cigarette making machine or filter-attaching machine and a cigarette packaging machine.

A package of the shell and slide type for accommodation of cigarettes is disclosed. This type of package has an outer shell and an inner sliding drawer, with the drawer having a center section with two upwardly folded bridges attached on opposite sides to the center section and cover flaps attached on the two orthogonal opposite sides. The sliding drawer itself is composed from two partial blanks, one of which has the bridge elements and the other the cover flaps. The blanks are cut from a singl…