Abstract: The invention relates to a process for packaging cigarettes as a cigarette block, possibly wrapped in inner paper, in an outer pack which is at least partially rounded and non-scored in the side-wall region and comprises at least one blank, two outer-pack layers which extend over the entire outer periphery of the side-wall region being arranged one above the other and connected to one another along a seam, and base-closure and, if appropriate, lid-closure flaps of the at least one blank being folded over and connected, it being the case that the two layers are connected to one another, over the entirety of surface areas located opposite one another, at least in an essentially uniform connecting pattern such that stressing occurring in rounded wall regions is essentially avoided.

Abstract: Web-shaped packaging material, which is to be cut into strips for integration into a package, is fed through a web-changing device which has knives and two conveying sections, the conveying sections converging upstream of the strip-cutting station. In order to be able to perform a web change-over, the web-changing device comprises a fixed knife arranged between the two conveying sections and movable knives which cooperate with the fixed knife for severing the respective webs of packaging material to produce leading and trailing edges which correspond to the shape of the front and rear edge of the strips. A deflecting device for the severed front end of a new web of packaging material is provided in each conveying section.

Abstract: In apparatus for the packaging of cigarettes, a collar defining member is positioned relative to a block of cigarettes, which has previously been wrapped in an inner paper, during the transfer of the wrapped block from a carrier cell of a first conveyor into a receiving cell of a second conveyor. The collar defining members are automatically fed into a transfer station, defined by a space between the conveyors where a carrier cell and a receiving cell are in an aligned confronting relationship, and the collar defining member is folded about the wrapped block of cigarettes as it is pushed from a carrying cell into a receiver cell.