Abstract: An opening flap 22 in a cigarette pack formed by a bonded foil laminate including an aluminum layer 10 and a paper layer 11 is defined by a tear line 23 formed by discontinuous perforations 24 extending completely through the laminate. The tear line is overlaid by a cover strip 27 of adhesive to maintain an aroma and moisture-proof seal in the folded pack.

Abstract: A hinged lid or flip top cigarette pack includes an inwardly stepped or offset collar 29 abutting the top areas of the pack front and side walls. The collar is only joined to the pack by narrow Z-folded residual connections 30, 31 at the opposite ends of the collar front wall 32, the remaining portions being severed by cut lines 36 and 40-42 which define an intermediate reinforcing strip 44. This strip is folded in against the front wall of the pack along a weakened fold line to define a rounded upper pack edge 46, which overlaps with the lower edge of the collar front wall along a narrow zone 47.

Abstract: A package and a process for making the same is disclosed. The package is especially useful for cigarettes and is of the hard cup type being made with a packing body of cardboard, pasteboard or similar material. The body of the package is provided on the outside with a moisture and odor (aroma) tight coating and, at least at the upper edge, a strip of inside tin foil wrapping is attached for the formation of a front fold. The arrangement simplifies the package blank and results in a finished package having an over-all metal coating.

Abstract: An apparatus for thermal sealing and bonding the ends of foil wrapped cigarette packages includes a conveyor for transporting a stack of packages through a heat sealing station having heat sealing units arranged on opposite sides of the path of travel of the conveyor for simultaneously heat sealing the ends of the packages. Each heat sealing unit includes a plurality of thin superposed spaced heating strips equal in number to the packages in the stack and mounted in a housing for unitary movement into contact with the ends of the stacked packages. The strips have a low thermal inertia and are made of a metal having a high heat conductivity. The housing encloses a plurality of infrared radiators, one for each strip, spaced from the side of the strips opposite the side of adapted to contact the package ends for heating the strips by radiant heat in a contact free manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement of generally longitudinal blanks from which hinged lid boxes for cigarettes or the like are manufactured. The blanks are defined on an elongated web of packaging material such as cardboard or the like, and are arranged in an inter-connected fashion such that very little if any of the material on the web is wasted, and waste material between adjacent blanks is eliminated.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for folding and sealing the longitudinal end flaps of cigarette packs. The folding is performed by means including a rotating turret having a number of radially external pockets each adapted to receive a pack. The pocket axes extend parallel to the turret axis and the pockets are open at their ends, where the end flaps which project in the intermediate folding position project out of the pocket. Folding and sealing shoes are associated with each pocket and are mounted on both sides of the turret for both radial and axial movement. Due to this movement the folding and sealing shoes first fold inwardly the longitudinal end flap--which is positioned radially inwardly relative the turret axis and which has a closure strip, in such a manner that the closure strip engages with the inside of the opposing longitudinal end flap.

Abstract: A blank 10 for the folding of a filp-top cigarette box includes laterally successive surface areas defining a first side wall 16, a front wall 17, a second side wall 18 and a back wall 19 of a main box portion 11. The front and side wall portions 21, 22, 23 of the lid 12 initially lie at an angle above the main box walls, and are connected at one end at a pivot point 42 and at the other end by a bridging portion 41 of a glue strip 20. The space provided by the angling is occupied by a trapezoidal lid reinforcing flap 35 flanked by intermediate punch-out elements 37, 38. During an initial processing step the lid portions are rotated in the plane of the blank about the pivot point and the bridging portion is double folded, to thus bring the lid and main box portions into abutment. Adjacent lines of longitudinally reversed and displaced blanks are laid out on a strip of packaging material with the trapezoidal projections and recesses of their edges interleaved, to thus minimize material waste.

Abstract: The side edges of a blank from which a flip-top cigarette box may be folded have uneven length notched or toothed configurations formed by various flap portions of narrow and full width. Adjacent lines of blanks on a strip of packaging material are disposed in opposite directions with their toothed side edges matingly interleaved, to thereby minimize material waste. A collar 12 is also integrally defined on each blank adjacent the top edge of the front wall 15 of the box, and is inset to the inside in the folded box by a Z-shaped fold.

Abstract: The side edges of a blank from which a flip-top cigarette box may be folded have elongated recesses or toothed configuarations formed by various side flap portions of narrow and full width. Adjacent lines of blanks on a strip of packaging material are disposed in opposite directions and longitudinally offset or displaced with their side edges matingly interleaved, to thereby minimize material waste.

Abstract: A parallelopiped-shaped package formed from a multilayer, laminated packaging foil having at least one layer of thermoplastic material. The closing flaps are constructed and arranged to be thermal welded together without the plasticized layer coming into contact with the bonding tool.

Abstract: The invention concerns a package with a hinged lid and consists of a collar made out of a separate blank, especially to enclose cigarettes, and of a blank with successive portions of the blank for the front wall, bottom, back wall, lid back wall, lid top surface and lid front wall, each with side flaps or side strips to form side walls and lid side walls, which are spaced along a separating line that runs from the front side to the back side of the package.

Abstract: A foldable blank for forming a cigarette pack is disclosed in the form of a blank which is first formed into a tube. The blank is sealed at its two longitudinal end flaps into side end flaps and the internal longitudinal end flap is connected by means of a closure strip which extends along the entire length of that flap to the inside of an outer longitudinal end flap. The pack is constructed using the outer longitudinal end flap as a folded member with the closure strip to the top of the inner longitudinal end flap.

Abstract: A packet made from a foldable blank is provided in which at least two end flaps of the blank are interconnected by pressing together in an intermediate position projecting from the plane of the end wall and front wall of the packet and being folded over into the plane of the end wall and front wall. There is also provided an improved method of mechanically making and closing packets, in which the end flaps projecting from the front surfaces are pressed together and connected to one another by pressing jaws and then folded over towards the front surfaces and fixed in the plane of the front surface. The apparatus described is for use in such a method.

Abstract: There is provided a method of and apparatus for packing rod-shaped articles, especially cigarettes. A rotatable turret is used, into which blanks are introduced into pockets of the turret, with partial folding of the blanks, whereafter groups of articles are axially introduced into the blanks in pockets, the article groups being introduced alternately from opposite sides of the turret. There is also provided an apparatus whereby article groups can be ejected alternately on both sides of a magazine and also an apparatus wherein, to form article groups from three article rows or layers, the middle row containing fewer cigarettes than the top and bottom rows, a lateral chute wall of the magazine terminates above the region of the cigarette groups to be ejected, merely articles of the top and bottom rows being ejectable in this region via a recess in the entraining member associated with the lateral chute, such recess being at the height of the middle cigarette row.

Abstract: There is disclosed a technique for forming a pack from a foldable blank consisting of a compound foil for receiving rod-shaped articles, typically cigarettes. The blank encloses the contents of the pack in a tubular manner, and the front ends overlapping at least partially interconnected flaps are folded in such a way that an inner longitudinal end flap rests against the contents of the pack. Two side end flaps are folded on these longitudinal end flaps, and the second outer longitudinal end flaps are folded on the side end flaps and the first inner longitudinal end flaps. The sides of the longitudinal end flaps facing toward each other and the edge region of the inwardly folded side end flaps are connected together in a sealed manner by means of a straight bonded or adhesive strip which extends over the width of the pack in the half portion of the front face facing toward the outer longitudinal end flap.

Abstract: There is provided a packet of cardboard or similar material, for cigarettes, cigarillos and the like, having a mainly double-layered cover which is articulated to the back wall and, when the box is closed, engages around an inwardly offset collar formed in the zone of the front and side walls and unitary with the basic body member. The collar is provided, at least in relation to the front wall, by Z-shaped folding.

Abstract: A cigarette packet of a laminated sheeting is disclosed which comprises an outer, thermally-bonded weldable layer, and wherein the end flaps of the blank forming the packet are joined to each other and project beyond the end sides. The end flaps are folded in such a way that an inner, longitudinal end flap bears on the packet contents, and two side end flaps are folded on this longitudinal end flap, and a second outer longitudinal end flap on the side of the first inner longitudinal end flap. The particular improvement disclosed utilizes a laminated foil having on both sides an outer thermally bondable layer, which extends over the entire end face of the layer and along an edge turned toward the edge of the inner longitudinal end flap. The side end flaps are joined at their diagonals along a welding strip which extends on a diagonal fold line adjoining the weld strip which extends along the length of the end face.