Patent ID: 6914671
Filing Date: 2005-07-05
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for the production of cigarette packs across whose respective end face a band strip attached to the pack extends, said apparatus having a folding turret, in which a cigarette formation including a plurality of cigarettes is wrapped in a pack blank to form cigarette packs and a drying turret in which glue surfaces or glue beads of the cigarette packs are dried, comprising: a. pockets arranged along the circumference of said drying turret, the pockets having opposed open sides, b. the pockets configured to receive at one open side thereof said cigarette packs to be dried, and c. an inspection means arranged in the region of the path of movement of said drying turret for checking the correct positioning of said band strip on said cigarette packs, d. the inspection means arranged at the open side of the pockets opposite the open side in which said cigarette packs are received, e. the main line of sight of the inspection means being directed at the region of said band strip attached to said end face of said cigarette packs.