Patent ID: 8555605

Claim:
A method of cigarette packaging, the method comprising the steps of: packing at least a first cigarette packet labeled with a first unique code and a second cigarette packet labeled with a second unique code, wherein the unique code is provided on a cardboard, a poly film, a label, a sticker or a tax stamp of each cigarette packet, into a first carton with windows at the sides of the unique codes of the cigarette packets in the first carton; detecting the unique codes of all the cigarette packets in the first carton after the packaging of at least the first cigarette packet and the second cigarette packet into the first carton, wherein the unique codes are detected in the first carton from the outside of the closed first carton; using a control unit to record the at least two unique codes of the at least two cigarette packets into the first carton as part of an information that at least the two cigarette packets with the first unique code and the second unique code are packed into the same carton in a database; packing the first carton and at least a second carton into a case, wherein at least a third cigarette packet labeled with a third unique code and a fourth cigarette packet labeled with a fourth unique code are packed into the second carton, and wherein the third and fourth unique codes are provided on a cardboard, a poly film, a label, a sticker or a tax stamp of each cigarette packet, the second carton having windows at the sides of the unique codes of the cigarettes packets in the second carton; detecting the first unique code in the case by detecting the unique code of only one cigarette packet of each carton in the case; and using the control unit to input the detected first unique code into the database and to read from the database all the unique codes of the cigarette packets that are packed into the same carton as the detected first unique code.