Patent ID: 7908825

Claim:
Method for producing packs ( 10 ) with an outer wrapping of shrinkable film, wherein the packs ( 10 ) which are provided with the outer wrapping are transported through a shrinkage station ( 22 ) having heating elements ( 24 , 25 ; 45 , 46 ) for transmitting shrinkage heat to the packs ( 10 ), characterized by the following features: a) the packs ( 10 ) are transported through the shrinkage station ( 22 ) in two parallel pack rows ( 26 , 27 ) of individual packs ( 10 ) lying next to each other, b) downstream of the shrinkage station ( 22 ), adjacent, mutually assigned packs ( 10 ) of the two pack rows are brought together by transverse displacement with packgroups of in each case two packs ( 10 ) lying one above the other being formed, and the pack rows ( 10 ) are transported in the region of the shrinkage station ( 22 ) on downwardly or upwardly inclined pack paths so that the mutually assigned packs ( 10 ) of the two pack rows ( 26 , 27 ) are combined into planes of certain height exclusively by transverse displacement with respect to the pack group.