Abstract: A cutting roller having cutting blades and a receiving roller are provided downstream of pulling-out rollers for pulling out a web, and the web passing between them is cut. Accelerating rollers rotated at a transmitting speed higher than that of the pulling-out rollers apply a tension to the web. The cutting blades are formed with narrow cutouts, and the receiving roller is provided with narrow annular grooves. Stretched tension guide members extend through the notches and the narrow annular grooves so as to guide the web. The portions of the web corresponding to the notches and the narrow annular grooves are not cut by the cutting blades and are left as uncut portions. However, these portions are broken easily by the tension applied to the web. Since the widths of the cutouts and the annular grooves are very narrow, the torn marks on the broken portions of the web are not remarkable.

Abstract: A plurality of cigarette piling heads are provided on a cigarette piling drum. The same number of cigarettes as the number of cigarettes in a cigarette package are piled on each cigarette piling head. An intermediate drum includes the same number of cigarette holding heads as the number of the cigarette piling heads and is provided at an axial end of the cigarette piling drum. A pushing-out drum has the same number of pushers as the number of the cigarette piling heads and is disposed at the other axial end of the cigarette piling drum. The cigarettes on each cigarette piling head are transferred to the corresponding cigarette holding head. The intermediate drum is disposed adjacent to and at a side of the first drum of a packing apparatus. The cigarette holding heads swing synchronously with packing heads of the intermediate drum. The cigarette piling heads swing synchronously with the cigarette holding heads of the first drum.