Patent ID: 7232031

Claim:
A method for packing cigarettes in soft packets comprising a single wrap consisting of a first section and a second section, the first section constituting the label and partially wrapping a corresponding group of cigarettes, of a substantially parallelepipedal shape, to form a front, rear, two sides and bottom of the packet, the second section wrapping the rest of the group of cigarettes to form a top face of the packet; the method comprising: feeding along a first portion of a packing machine a first and a second web of the same type of single ply paper wrapping material; overlapping and sealing the first web to the second web in a single layer each along corresponding join portions so as to obtain a single sealed web having a single overlapped portion; cutting the sealed web transversely into separate blanks with each blank having only the single overlapped portion, forming a single wrap of the packet from a single blank by folding and wrapping the single blank around a corresponding group of cigarettes to completely enclose the group of cigarettes in a soft packet.