CA2802073A1

CA2802073A1 - Pack for cigarettes and method and apparatus for producing same

Info

Publication number: CA2802073A1
Application number: CA2802073A
Authority: CA
Inventors: Henry Buse; Viktor Hein
Original assignee: Focke and Co GmbH and Co KG
Current assignee: Focke and Co GmbH and Co KG
Priority date: 2010-06-15
Filing date: 2011-05-13
Publication date: 2011-12-22
Also published as: CN102971234B; CN102971234A; WO2011157332A1; DE102010023753A1; EP2582595A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a pack for cigarettes, comprising at least one slide (12) for accommodating a package content (13), in particular a group of cigarettes, and a sleeve (11) that encloses the slide or each slide (12), wherein the sleeve (11) has a large-area front sleeve side (39) and a corresponding opposite rear sleeve side (41) and narrow sleeve sides (45) that connect the front sleeve side (39) and the rear sleeve side (41) to each other, and wherein adjacent sleeve sides (39, 41, 45) are connected to each other by upright sleeve pack edges (48). According to the invention, the sleeve pack edges (48) are rounded and/or chamfered and at least two slides (12) are arranged in the sleeve (11), which slides are adapted to the shape of the rounded and/or chamfered sleeve pack edges (48), wherein the slides (12) match. The invention further relates to a method and device for producing such packs.

Description

Pack for cigarettes and method and apparatus for producing same Description The invention relates to a pack for cigarettes, having at least one slide for accommodating pack contents, in particular a cigarette group, and having a shell enclosing the or each slide, wherein the shell has a large-surface-area shell front side and a corresponding shell rear side, which is located opposite, and shell narrow sides, which connect the shell front side and shell rear side to one another, and wherein adjacent shell sides are connected to one another by upright shell pack edges, according to the preamble of claim 1.
The invention also relates to a method and to an apparatus for producing such a pack.

Numerous variants of packs of the "shell and slide"
type are known in practice. In addition to handling, which is impractical in some cases, and the appearance, which is not particularly innovative, complicated production also poses a problem. Use is made here of special machines, in particular production on existing machines for hinge-lid packs is not possible.

Proceeding from this, it is an object of the invention for packs of the type mentioned in the introduction to be developed further, in particular in respect of a pleasing design and simultaneous production capability on known apparatuses.

In order to achieve this object, a pack having the features of claim 1 is proposed. Accordingly, it is provided that the shell pack edges are of rounded and/or beveled design, and that at least two slides are arranged in the shell, these slides being adapted to the configuration of the rounded and/or beveled shell pack edges, wherein the slides are of identical design.

The use of two or more identical slides within a shell allows straightforward production of the slides. In particular there is no need to produce a plurality of different slides for fitting into a common shell. The specially shaped pack edges give the pack a modern design.

According to a preferred further development, it is provided that the slides have a large-surface-area slide front side and a corresponding slide rear side, which is located opposite, and slide narrow sides, which connect the slide front side and slide rear side to one another, wherein adjacent slide sides are connected to one another by upright slide pack edges, and wherein the slide pack edges are adapted to the rounded and/or beveled shell pack edges.

A further (also independent) special feature may consist in that two slides are positioned within the shell with their slide rear sides abutting, and in that the slide pack edges are designed to be rounded and/or beveled in the region of the slide front sides, corresponding to the rounded and/or beveled shell pack edges, and in that the slide pack edges are of right-angled design in the region of the slide rear sides.
This makes it possible to fill a round-edge or beveled-edge shell with two identical semi-round-edge or semi-beveled-edge slides.

For better removal of the pack contents, it may be provided that the slides, in the region of the slide front side and of the slide rear side, have an upper-side cutout or recess, wherein preferably the recesses in the region of the slide front side and of the slide rear side are of identical design.

A further special feature consists in measures for limiting the displaceability of the slides in the shell. For this purpose, it may be provided that the slides can be moved only to a limited extent within the shell on account of stops or connecting means, wherein each slide has a plurality of stops or connecting means which are arranged preferably on different sides and/or at different heights in relation to a longitudinal axis of the slide and which interact with corresponding means on the inside of the shell such that the slides can be moved to different extents within the shell.
This can preferably be achieved such that the slides, in the region of opposite slide narrow sides, each have a projecting lug, which are provided at different heights, and that the shell, in the region of a shell narrow side, has two corresponding lugs which, on account of the slides being arranged in the shell with their slide rear sides abutting, interact with the different-height lugs of the slides, in order to limit the movement capability of the slides within the shell .to different extents for each slide.

In order to actuate the slides, it may be provided that the shell has a shell base wall, wherein the shell base wall and the respectively adjacent shell front side and shell rear side have an opening, in particular a sliding opening.
The shell preferably has a shell lid (shell upper side), which is articulated in a pivotable manner on the shell rear side, wherein the shell lid is connected to regions of slide upper sides, in particular in each case in the region between the two recesses such that, when the shell lid is opened, the regions of the slide upper sides which are connected to the shell lid, and are bounded preferably by weakening lines, are removed from the slides in order to expose the removal opening for the pack contents in the region of the recesses.

The slides may have a closure flap (side inner flap) which adjoins the slide upper sides and is fastened on the inside of the slide front side, in particular by adhesive bonding, and the closure flap, like the slide front side, has a corresponding recess for the removal opening.
The shell lid may have a flap which can be introduced into a slot, formed in the region of the shell front side, in order to close the shell lid.

A further special feature may consist in that the slides, in the region of an upper side, have a removal opening which, prior to the pack being opened for the first time, is closed by a preferably common closure means, in particular a closure tape, to form a sealed pack.

A method according to the invention has the features of claim 12. Accordingly, it is provided that in each case at least two cigarette groups are pushed out of a magazine for cigarettes and are wrapped parallel to one another in an inner wrapper in order to form at least two pack contents, and that, thereafter, the pack contents are pushed into pockets of a correspondingly multi-track folding turret, in which blanks for a slide are located, and that the blanks are folded around the respective pack contents on the folding turret and then the slides are fed to a correspondingly multi-track drying device, in particular a drying turret, and that the slides are pushed one after the other out of the multi-track drying device and fed one behind the other, along a single-track transporting route, to a further, in particular single-track, folding turret for the shell, wherein the slides, during transportation, in particular in the region of the single-track transporting route, are rotated such that the slides have their slide rear sides abutting in a manner corresponding to the arrangement in the shell.
The blanks for the shell can be introduced into pockets of the single-track folding turret, and therefore, thereafter, two slides are introduced into the pocket with their slide rear sides abutting, and folding of the blank for the shell takes place.

An apparatus according to the invention has the features of claim 14. Accordingly, provision is made for subassemblies for multi-track production of the slides, in particular a two-track folding turret and at least one adjoining two-track drying turret, and for following subassemblies for a single-track production of the shell, in particular a single-track folding turret and at least one adjoining drying turret.
Further details of the invention can be gathered from the dependent claims, from the rest of the description and from the drawings.

Preferred exemplary embodiments of the invention will be explained hereinbelow with reference to the drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 shows a blank for an inner wrapper of a cigarette group, Fig. 2 shows a blank for a slide, Fig. 3 shows a blank for a shell, Fig. 4 shows a three-dimensional illustration of pack contents, Fig. 5 shows a three-dimensional illustration of a slide with pack contents, Fig. 6 shows a three-dimensional illustration of two slides arranged as in a shell, Fig. 7 shows a three-dimensional illustration of a closed pack, Fig. 8 shows a pack according to fig. 7, this time in an open position, Fig. 9 shows a second exemplary embodiment of a blank for a shell, Fig. 10 shows a second exemplary embodiment of a blank for a slide, Fig. 11 shows a three-dimensional illustration of two slides made from a blank according to fig. 10 and arranged as in a shell, Fig. 12 shows a three-dimensional illustration of a closed pack made from a blank according to fig. 9, Fig. 13 shows a pack according to fig. 12, this time in an open position, Fig. 14 shows a horizontal section through a pack according to fig. 12, Fig. 15 shows an enlarged illustration of a detail of the pack according to fig. 13, Fig. 16 shows a three-dimensional illustration of two slides arranged as in a shell and with a special closure, Fig. 17 shows an open pack with slides with a special closure, Fig. 18 shows a schematic illustration of the production of packs according to the invention, Fig. 19 shows, on an enlarged scale, a detail of the schematic illustration according to fig. 18, and Fig. 20 shows, on an enlarged scale, a further detail of the schematic illustration according to fig. 18.

The invention will be explained hereinbelow with reference to a pack 10 of the shell-and-slide type.
Essential constituent parts of this type of pack are a sleeve 11, as the outer pack, and slides 12, which can be displaced in the sleeve, for accommodating pack contents.

A first special feature consists, in the present case, in two slides 12 being positioned within a common shell 11. Each slide 12 contains pack contents 13. The pack contents 13 are constituted in each case by a cigarette group which is arranged in the form of a cigarette block and is wrapped in an inner liner 14.

The slides 12 are of identical design and are positioned back to back in the shell 11.

A blank for the inner liner 14 according to fig. 1 is folded around the cigarette block or the cigarette group along folding lines 15. The starting point here is an inner-liner base side 16, which is arranged in the region of an end side of the cigarette group and which is adjoined on either side by an inner-liner front side 17 and inner-liner rear side 18, which each butt against corresponding surfaces of the cigarette group. The inner-liner front side 17 and the inner-liner rear side 18 are each adjoined by folding flaps for the inner-liner upper side 19. Folding flaps for inner-liner narrow sides 20 are arranged on either side of the inner-liner base side 16, inner-liner front side 17, inner-liner rear side 18 and inner-liner upper side 19.

Starting from the inner-liner base side 16, the inner liner 14 is wrapped in a U-shaped manner around the cigarette group and is closed in the region of the inner-liner upper side 19 by the corresponding folding flaps being folded in the manner of an envelope. The corresponding folding flaps of the inner liner 14 overlap one another in the region of the inner-liner narrow sides 20.

In order to allow access to the pack contents or the cigarette group, material weakenings 21 are provided in the inner liner 14. The material weakening 21 bounds a so-called tear-off flap 22, which is formed continuously in each case in the region of the inner-liner upper side 19 and of the inner-liner front side 17, on the one hand, and of the inner-liner rear side 18, on the other hand. The two tear-off flaps 22 are arranged on the periphery of the inner liner 14 such that, once the inner liner 14 has been folded around the cigarette group, they are positioned in the region of the inner-liner upper side 19 and of the two adjacent side surfaces. By virtue of the tear-off flaps 22 being gripped and separated off, an opening is created in the inner liner 14, and this opening allows the consumer to remove individual cigarettes.
Fig. 2 shows a blank 23 for the slides 12. The blank 23 is divided up into portions for various regions of a slide 12. Arranged to follow one after the other in the longitudinal direction are a slide front side 24, a slide base side 25, a slide rear side 26, a slide upper side 27 and a slide inner flap 28. Slide corner flaps 29 are arranged on either side of the slide base side 25 and of the slide upper side 27. Slide side flaps 30 are arranged on either side of the slide front side 24 and of the slide rear side 26, in order to form slide narrow sides 31. The individual regions of the blank 23 are separated off from one another, in turn, by folding lines 15.

Cutouts 32 are arranged in the region of the slide front side 24, of the slide rear side 26 and of the slide inner flap 28, in a manner corresponding to the position of the tear-off flaps 22 in the inner liner 14, in order to facilitate access to the pack contents 13. In the region of the slide upper side 27, between the two adjacent cutouts 32, a region 33 is bounded by material weakenings 34 and can be severed from the slide upper side 25 in order to create a removal opening.
Furthermore, the blank 13 has spots of glue 35 for the slide corner flaps 29 and also continuous glue strips 36, in the region of the slide side flaps 30, in order for the latter to be glued.
A further special feature of the slides 12 consists in that upright slide pack edges 37 on either side of the slide front side 24 are designed as round edges. For this purpose, corresponding material weakenings are provided in the blank 23 in the region of the slide front side 24. The two upright pack edges on either side of the slide rear side 26 are designed as standard right-angled pack edges.

The folded shell 12 according to fig. 5 is formed such that the slide side flaps 30 overlap one another, and are adhesively bonded to one another by the glue strips 36, in the region of the slide narrow sides 31. The slide inner flap 28 is folded against the inside of the slide front side 24 and fastened there by the spots of glue 35 on the upper periphery of the slide front side 24. The slide corner flaps 29 are secured in position by the spots of glue in the region of the slide base side 25 and of the slide upper side 27.

Fig. 3 shows a blank 38 for the shell 11. As in the case of the blank 23 for the slide 12, a shell front side 39, a shell base side 40, a shell rear side 41 and a shell upper side 42 are arranged one after the other in the blank 38. These regions are separated from one another by folding lines 15. The shell upper side 42 is also adjoined by a shell insertion flap 43. Shell side flaps 44, for forming shell narrow sides 45, are arranged to the sides of the shell front side 39 and of the shell rear side 41. Adjacent to the shell base side 40, shell corner flaps 46 are arranged on the shell side flaps 44 of the shell rear side 41.
Once again, glue strips 36 are provided in the region of the shell side flaps 44 of the shell front side 39.
The shell base side 40 is provided with spots of glue in order to fasten the shell corner flaps 46.
In order for it to be possible to move the slides 12 in the shell 11, the shell blank 38 also has two elongate openings 80, as sliding openings. The openings 80 are each arranged in the region of the shell front side 39 and of the shell rear side 41 and extend into the region of the shell base side 40. This allows the slides 12 to be gripped on the underside, and at the sides, by the consumer and to be pushed upwards in order for cigarettes to be removed. The openings 80 have different extents, starting from the shell base side 40, along the shell front side 39 and the shell rear side 41 in the direction of the shell upper side 42. This means that the slides 12 can be pushed out of the shell 11 to different extents. In the present case, the opening 80 in the region of the shell rear side 41 is longer than the opening 80 in the region of the shell front side 39, and therefore the slide 12 which is at the rear in fig. 8 can be pushed out of the shell 11 to a further extent than the front slide 12. This facilitates removal of the pack contents 13 from the rear slide 12, which would otherwise be imputed by the shell upper side 42.
A contoured cutout 47 is provided in the region of the upper periphery of the shell front side 39. In the region of the cutout 47, the lower periphery of the shell insertion flap 43 is pushed behind the shell front side 39 in order to close the shell (fig. 7).

The shell has rounded shell pack edges 48 both on either side of the shell front side 39 and on either side of the shell rear side 41.
Precisely two slides 12 are accommodated within the shell 11. By virtue of the slide 12 being arranged with the slide rear side 26 of one slide 12 against the slide rear side 26 of another slide 12, the slide pack edges 37 of rounded cross section are positioned in the correspondingly rounded pack edges 48 of the shell 11.
Accordingly, the right-angled pack edges in the region of the slide rear sides 26 are directed toward one another.

The regions 33 in the slide upper sides 27 which are bounded by material weakening 34 can be adhesively bonded to the inside of the shell upper side 40, and therefore, when the lid of the shell 11 or the shell upper side 40 is opened for the first time, the regions 33 are severed from the slide upper sides 27 (fig. 8).
Even if the pack edges above were designed as round edges, it is also conceivable, of course, for the corresponding pack edges also to be designed as beveled edges or as some other kind of special edge.
Figs. 9 to 15 show a second embodiment of the invention. The inner liner 14 here corresponds to the blank 14 which is shown in the first exemplary embodiment according to figs. 1 to 8.
A blank 49 for the shell 11 according to fig. 9 differs from the blank 38 according to fig. 3 in a number of aspects. First of all, the shell insertion flap 43 is designed to be shorter. Correspondingly, rather than having a peripheral cutout 47, the shell front side 39 has an incision 50 which is spaced apart from the upper periphery of the shell front side. The lower end of the shell insertion flap 43 is inserted into this incision 50 in order to close the pack 10 (fig. 12).
A further special feature consists in means for limiting the displaceability of the slides 12 within the shell 11.

In the first instance, the slides 12, in the region of the slide side flaps 30, each have a lug 51, 52 formed by punching. The lugs 51, 52 can be folded about a folding line 53, as shown in fig. 11, such that free peripheries of the lugs 51, 52 are oriented in the direction of the slide upper side 27. It is important here for the lugs 51, 52 in the region of the opposite slide narrow sides 31 to be arranged at different heights in relation to the longitudinal axis of the shell 11. With the shells 11 being arranged "back to back", this results in the lugs 51, 52 being positioned as shown in fig. 11, that is to say in the region of adjacent slide narrow sides 31, but at different heights.

The shell 11 according to fig. 9 has corresponding means, that is to say two lugs 54, which are arranged on the upper periphery of a slide side flap 30 and can be folded about a common folding line 55 such that they have their free periphery oriented in the direction of the shell base side 40. In contrast to the lugs 51, 52 on the slides 12, however, the lugs 54 are folded over in the direction of the interior of the shell 11, and therefore they come into contact with the lugs 51, 52, which are arranged on the outside of the slides 12, as soon as the slides 12 are pushed upwards to a corresponding extent within the shell 11. The folded arrangement of the lugs 51, 52, 54 in relation to one another means that these lugs interlock. In addition, the movement of the slides 12 within the shell 11 is braked by the friction of the lugs 51, 52 and 54 against one another before the design-specific end position of the slides 12 has been reached.
Arranging the lugs 51, 52 at different heights means that the two slides 12 can be pushed out of the shell 11 to different extents, as fig. 13 shows. The identical design of the slides 12 is nevertheless maintained.

The illustration according to fig. 14 shows that the pack contents 13 in the two slides 12 need not have the same quantity of cigarettes. The solution shown is one in which one pack contents has only twelve cigarettes and the other has thirteen cigarettes. This allows for the filling with twenty-five cigarettes which is preferred in some countries. Of course, it is also conceivable to have other cigarette formations, for example with more or fewer rows of cigarettes.

Fig. 16 shows a variant in which the cutouts 32 of the slides 12 are concealed on the upper side in each case by a closure tape 56. The closure tape 56 extends in each case over the two slides 12 which are arranged back to back. The closure tape 56 is dimensioned such that it completely covers the openings formed in the slides 12 and projects laterally beyond the openings, this therefore ensuring a secure connection, for example adhesive bonding, to the slides 12.

It is also conceivable to design the closure of the openings such that the slides 12 are designed as sealed packs. In this case, it is also possible to dispense with the inner liner 14.

In order to open the closure tape 56, a respective grip tab 57 is provided at a free periphery of the tape 56 in the region of the slide front side 24 and of the slide rear side 26. This allows the closure tape to be opened irrespective of the orientation of the slide 12 in the shell 11. In addition, the two slides 12 required may be identical.

In the case of the solution which is shown in fig. 16, it is also possible to dispense with the region 33 on the slide upper side 27. However, it is also conceivable to provide the region 33 and to connect the same to the closure tape 56, and therefore this region 33 is severed from the slides 12 when the respective closure tape 56 is opened for the first time.

Fig. 18 shows a schematic illustration of an apparatus and a method sequence for producing packs 10 according to figs. 1 to 17.
Starting from a cigarette magazine 58, production takes place, in the first instance, on two tracks corresponding to the number of slides 12 in a shell 11.
The cigarettes are supplied in upright shafts and are pushed off out of the shafts of the cigarette magazine 58 into a two-track cigarette turret 59.

Once a cigarette turret 59 has rotated through 180 , the cigarette groups are pushed out of the cigarette turret 59 and transported along a horizontal two-track conveying route in the direction of the arrow 60.
Allowance can be made for the formation of cigarette groups with different numbers of cigarettes as the latter are pushed out of the cigarette magazine 58.
In the next operating step, the cigarette groups are wrapped in the inner liner 14. This takes place in a wrapping station 61, which is likewise of two-track design. The blanks for the inner liner 14 are drawn off as a continuous material web from two reels and the blanks are then separated. Thereafter, the cigarette groups are moved against the inner-liner blanks 14 supplied and wrapped therein in a known manner.
Following wrapping in the inner liner 14, the resulting pack contents 13 are transported along a further horizontal transporting route in the direction of arrow 62.

Next, the pack contents 13 are introduced in pairs into correspondingly arranged pockets 63 of a two-track folding turret 64. Beforehand, however, blanks 23 for the slides 12 are removed from a blank magazine 65, preferably above the folding turret 64, and introduced into the pockets 63 and pre-folded. Once the pack contents 13 have been fed, the slides 12 are completed in a known manner. Once the slides 12 have been pushed out of the folding turret 64, folding of the slide side flaps 30 continues as the slides 12 are transported along a further horizontal transporting route along arrow 66.

In order for glue connections to set, the slides 12 are pushed into a two-track drying wheel 67. As the slides 12 circulate on the drying wheel 67, it is possible for at least some glue connections to set. Thereafter, the slides 12 are pushed one after the other out of the drying wheel 67 and are transported one after the other along a single-track conveying route in the direction of the arrow 68. When the slides 12 are pushed out of the drying wheel 67, it should be ensured that the slides 12 with possibly different contents are pushed out alternately. This ensures that each pack 10 subsequently contains the same number of cigarettes.

As they are transported further in the region of the single-track conveying route, the slides 12 are accumulated and transported further in the direction of arrow 69. The accumulated slides 12 are then pushed in groups into a further drying wheel 70, and setting of the glue can therefore be brought to an end.

Thereafter, the slides 12 are conveyed along an adjoining single-track conveying route in the direction of arrow 71.

At the end of the single-track conveying route, the slides 12, once again, are accumulated and transported away in pairs in the direction of an adjoining horizontal conveying route following arrow 72.
Corresponding to the manner in which production has taken place up until this point, the pairs of slides 12 are each located with the slide front side 24 against a slide rear side 26 of another slide 12. In order for the slides 12 to pass into the correct "back to back"
position relative to one another, the slides 12 have to be rotated. This takes place during further transportation along the single-track horizontal transporting route. For this purpose, use can be made of the prior-art means such as, for example, pack diverters.
In the next step, the slides 12 are packed into a shell 11. For this purpose, use is made of a further folding turret 73, which is assigned a blank magazine 74 with blanks 38 for the shells 11. As in the case of the folding turret 64, the blanks 38, in the first instance, are removed from the blank magazine 74 and introduced into pockets 75 of the folding turret 73 and pre-folded. Thereafter, a pair of slides 12 is moved into the pocket 75 and folding of the blank 38 is completed, as on the first folding turret 64 for the slides 12.

Once the shell 11 has been brought together with two slides 12, the packs 10 which have been completed in this way are fed to a single-track drying wheel 76. The drying wheel 76 is adjoined by a relatively small transfer turret 77, which transfers the packs 10 to a horizontal conveying route in the direction of arrow 78. The packs 10 are then, finally, passed on, in groups, into a further drying wheel 79.

List of designations 10 Pack 42 Shell upper side 11 Shell 43 Shell insertion flap 12 Slides 44 Shell side flaps 13 Pack contents 45 Shell narrow sides 14 Inner liner 46 Shell corner flaps Folding lines 47 Cutout 16 Inner-liner base side 48 Shell pack edges 17 Inner-liner front side 49 Shell blank 18 Inner-liner rear side 50 Incision 19 Inner-liner upper side 51 lug Inner-liner narrow 52 lug side 21 Material weakening 53 Folding line 22 Tear-off flap 54 lug 23 Slide blank 55 Folding line 24 Slide front side 56 Closure tape Slide base side 57 Grip tab 26 Slide rear side 58 Cigarette magazine 27 Slide upper side 59 Cigarette turret 28 Slide inner flap 60 arrow 29 Slide corner flaps 61 Wrapping station Slide side flaps 62 Arrow 31 Slide narrow sides 63 pocket 32 Cutout 64 Folding turret 33 Region 65 Blank magazine 34 Material weakening 66 Arrow Spots of glue 67 Drying wheel 36 Glue strips 68 arrow 37 Slide pack edges 69 Arrow 38 Shell blank 70 Drying wheel 39 Shell front side 71 arrow Shell base side 72 arrow 41 Shell rear side 73 Folding turret 74 Blank magazine 75 Pockets 76 Drying wheel 77 Transfer turret 78 Arrow 79 Drying wheel 80 Opening

Claims

1. A pack for cigarettes, having at least one slide (12) for accommodating pack contents (13), in particular a cigarette group, and having a shell (11) enclosing the or each slide (12), wherein the shell (11) has a large-surface-area shell front side (39) and a corresponding shell rear side (41), which is located opposite, and shell narrow sides (45), which connect the shell front side (39) and shell rear side (41) to one another, and wherein adjacent shell sides (39, 41, 45) are connected to one another by upright shell pack edges (48), characterized in that the shell pack edges (48) are of rounded and/or beveled design, and in that at least two slides (12) are arranged in the shell (11), these slides being adapted to the configuration of the rounded and/or beveled shell pack edges (48), wherein the slides (12) are of identical design.

2. The pack for cigarettes as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the slides (12) have a large-surface-area slide front side (24) and a corresponding slide rear side (26), which is located opposite, and slide narrow sides (31), which connect the slide front side (24) and slide rear side (26) to one another, wherein adjacent slide sides (24, 26, 31) are connected to one another by upright slide pack edges (37), and wherein the slide pack edges (37) are adapted to the rounded and/or beveled shell pack edges (48).

3. The pack for cigarettes as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that two slides (12) are positioned within the shell (11) with their slide rear sides (26) abutting, and in that the slide pack edges (37) are designed to be rounded and/or beveled in the region of the slide front sides (24), corresponding to the rounded and/or beveled shell pack edges (48), and in that the slide pack edges are of right-angled design in the region of the slide rear sides (26).

4. The pack as claimed in claim 2 or one of the further preceding claims, characterized in that the slides (12), in the region of the slide front side (24) and of the slide rear side (26), have an upper-side cutout (32) for the removal of the pack contents (13), wherein preferably the cutouts (32) in the region of the slide front side (24) and of the slide rear side (26) are of identical design.

5. The pack as claimed in claim 1 or one of the further preceding claims, characterized in that the slides (12) can be moved only to a limited extent within the shell (11) on account of stops or connecting means, wherein each slide (12) has a plurality of stops or connecting means which are arranged preferably on different sides and/or at different heights in relation to a longitudinal axis of the slide (12) and which interact with corresponding means on the inside of the shell (11) such that the slides (12) can be moved to different extents within the shell (11).

6. The pack as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that the slides (11), in the region of opposite slide narrow sides (31), each have a projecting lug (51, 52), which are provided at different heights, and in that the shell (11), in the region of a shell narrow side (45), has two corresponding lugs (54) which, on account of the slides (12) being arranged in the shell (11) with their slide rear sides (26) abutting, interact with the different-height lugs (51, 52) of the slides (12), in order to limit the movement capability of the slides (12) within the shell (11) to different extents for each slide (12).

7. The pack as claimed in claim 1 or one of the further preceding claims, characterized in that the shell (11) has a shell base side (40), wherein the shell base side (40) and the respectively adjacent shell front side (39) and shell rear side (41) have an opening (80), in particular a slide opening, for moving a respective slide (12), wherein preferably the openings (80), starting from the shell base side (40), have different longitudinal extents in the direction of a shell upper side (42) such that the slides (12) can be displaced to different extents within the shell (11), preferably such that a slide (12) which is arranged adjacent to the pivotable shell upper side (40) as a lid of the shell (11) can be pushed further out of the shell (11) than the at least one other slide (12).

8. The pack as claimed in claim 1 or one of the further preceding claims, characterized in that the shell (11) has a shell upper side (42) as a lid, this being articulated in a pivotable manner on the shell rear side (41), wherein the shell upper side (42) is connected to regions (33) of slide upper sides (27), in particular in each case in the region between the two cutouts (32) such that, when the lid is opened, the regions (33) of the slide upper sides (27) which are connected to the shell upper side (42), and bounded preferably by weakening lines (34), are removed from the slides (12) in order to expose a removal opening for the pack contents (13) in the region of the cutouts (32).

9. The pack as claimed in claim 8 or one of the further preceding claims, characterized in that the slides (12) have, as closure flap, a slide inner flap (28) which adjoins the slide upper sides (27) and is fastened on the inside of the slide front side (24), in particular by adhesive bonding, and in that the closure flap, like the slide front side (24), has a corresponding cutout (32) for the removal opening.

10. The pack as claimed in claim 8 or one of the further preceding claims, characterized in that the shell upper side (42) has a shell insertion flap (43) which can be introduced into an incision (50), formed in the region of the shell front side (39), in order to close the lid.

11. The pack as claimed in claim 1 or one of the further preceding claims, characterized in that the slides (12), in the region of slide upper sides (27), have a removal opening which, prior to the pack (10) being opened for the first time, is closed by a preferably common closure means, in particular a closure tape (56), in particular to form a sealed pack.

12. A method for producing packs (10) for cigarettes, in particular, as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that in each case at least two cigarette groups are pushed out of a magazine (58) for cigarettes and are wrapped parallel to one another in an inner wrapper (14) in order to form at least two pack contents (13), and in that, thereafter, the pack contents (13) are pushed into pockets (63) of a correspondingly multi-track folding turret (64), in which blanks (23) for a slide (12) are located, and in that the blanks (23) are folded around the respective pack contents (13) on the folding turret (64) and then the slides (12) are fed to a correspondingly multi-track drying device, in particular a drying turret (67), and in that the slides (12) are pushed one after the other out of the multi-track drying device and fed one behind the other, along a single-track transporting route, to a further, in particular single-track, folding turret (73) for the shell (11), wherein the slides (12), during transportation, in particular in the region of the single-track transporting route, are rotated such that the slides (12) have their slide rear sides (26) abutting in a manner corresponding to the arrangement in the shell (11).

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, characterized in that blanks (38) for the shell (11) are introduced into pockets (75) of the single-track folding turret (73), and in that, thereafter, two slides (12) are introduced into the pocket (75) preferably with their slide rear sides (26) abutting, and folding of the blank (38) for the shell (11) takes place.

14. An apparatus for producing packs for cigarettes, in particular, as claimed in claim 1, characterized by subassemblies for multi-track production of the slides (12), in particular a two-track folding turret (64) and at least one adjoining two-track drying turret (67), and by following subassemblies for a single-track production of the shell (11), in particular a single-track folding turret (73) and at least one adjoining drying turret (76).