Patent ID: 7216755

Claim:
An apparatus for producing cigarette packs for a formed cigarette group ( 11 ) which can be pushed out of a cigarette magazine ( 12 ) containing vertical shafts ( 13 ) for a respective row of stacked cigarettes ( 10 ), the cigarette group ( 11 ), subsequent to the shafts ( 13 ), being able to be transported along a conveying section containing a shaped part ( 26 ) for forming the cigarette group ( 11 ) and to be pushed into a pocket ( 20 ) of cigarette conveyor ( 21 ), characterized in that at least some of the cigarettes ( 10 ), preferably arranged in vertical rows ( 22 , 23 ) in the cigarette group ( 11 ), and at least lateral push rods ( 18 ) can be moved transversely in the region of the shaped part ( 26 ) in order to produce the formation of the cigarette group ( 11 ) with directly adjacent cigarettes ( 10 ), and the arm-like push rods ( 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ) for each shaft ( 13 ) of the cigarette magazine ( 12 ) are designed with a different effective height for seizing different numbers of cigarettes ( 10 ) per shaft ( 13 ), in particular for seizing either two or three stacked cigarettes ( 10 ), push rods ( 16 , 18 ) with a relatively small overall height for seizing, in particular, two cigarettes ( 10 ) being arranged at a distance from a lower push-out plane of the cigarette magazine ( 12 ), in particular at a distance from a base plate ( 24 ), in such a way that the pushed-out cigarettes ( 10 ) of the shaft ( 13 ) in question are offset in terms of height with respect to cigarettes ( 10 ) of adjacent shafts ( 13 ) during the pushing-out operation.