Patent ID: 6341474
Filing Date: 2002-01-29
Classification: B65B,B65D

Abstract:
A process for producing cigarette packs of the soft-carton type from an outer blank (12) which is severed from a continuous material web (22), which is made of paper and which has folding tabs connected to one another by adhesive bonding, and wherein, in a region of an end wall (77) of a pack to be produced, there is to be applied a revenue stamp (31) which extends transversely across the end wall (77) and which is adhesively attached, by stamp legs (83, 84), in regions of an adjacent front pack wall (13) and a rear pack wall (14), said method comprising the steps of:a) providing the material web (22) with applications of glue (29, 30) in web regions to which the legs (83, 84) of the revenue stamp (31) arc to be glued, said web regions corresponding to the front pack wall (13) and rear pack wall (14); and b) after the cigarette pack and a U-shaped fold of the revenue stamp (31) have been completed, activating the applications of glue (29, 30) by contact heat during abutment of the legs (83, 84) against the front wall (13) and the rear wall (14) in such a way that the legs (83, 84) are connected to the front wall (13) and rear wall (14) by means of said applications of glue (29, 30).