Patent ID: 8522515

Claim:
An apparatus for customizing an as-formed cigarette package configured to receive a plurality of as-formed cigarettes therein, the apparatus comprising: a feeder unit configured to serially feed a plurality of as-formed cigarette packages along a feed direction to a stationary register position on a support member adjacent to a conveyor device; and, an imprinting unit configured to interact with a single cigarette package in the stationary register position at a time so as to selectively and directly imprint at least one of an alphanumeric character and a graphical character thereon, wherein the feeder unit is further configured such that a second single, as-formed cigarette package fed by the feeder unit toward the stationary register position displaces a first single, as-formed cigarette package disposed in the stationary register position, following imprinting of the first single, as-formed cigarette package by the imprinting unit.