EP0725018B1 - Zigarettenstange, Verpackung mit einer Mehrzahl solcher Zigarettenstangen, und Verfahren zum Füllen eines Verkaufsautomates mit Zigarettenstangen - Google Patents

Zigarettenstange, Verpackung mit einer Mehrzahl solcher Zigarettenstangen, und Verfahren zum Füllen eines Verkaufsautomates mit Zigarettenstangen Download PDF

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EP0725018B1
EP0725018B1 EP19960300736 EP96300736A EP0725018B1 EP 0725018 B1 EP0725018 B1 EP 0725018B1 EP 19960300736 EP19960300736 EP 19960300736 EP 96300736 A EP96300736 A EP 96300736A EP 0725018 B1 EP0725018 B1 EP 0725018B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
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    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B65D85/1072—Bundle of cigarette packs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D71/02—Arrangements of flexible binders

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  • the present invention relates to a cigarette parcel in which a plurality of cigarette packs are bundled as a block and a container in which a plurality of the cigarette parcels are packed.
  • filter cigarettes manufactured are packed by the twenty to have cigarette packs, and these cigarette packs are gathered and packed by the predetermined number to have parcels (cartons). After this, these parcels are packed in a container, that is, a corrugated fiberboard box, and then, shipped from the above plant to cigarette shops.
  • the corrugated fiberboard boxes are opened and the parcels or cartons are taken out of the boxes.
  • the cigarette packs are sold by the parcel, or sold individually after cigarette packs are taken out of the parcels. Also, the cigarettes packs are loaded in a vending machine to be sold by the machine.
  • replenishing a vending machine with cigarette packs takes more time as the number of cigarette packs to be supplemented is increasing.
  • it is necessary to first take out parcels from a corrugated fiberboard box but this takingout work is not easy. That is, the parcels packed in the corrugated fiberboard box are arranged in close contact with each other, and it is not easy to take out a first parcel from the fiberboard box.
  • cigarette packs should be supplemented by the two or three cigarette packs at a time so that a caretaker of the vending machine can grab with his/her one hand.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a cigarette parcel for cigarette packs and a container in which the cigarette parcels are packed so that consumption amount of packing paper is reduced to make suitable for resource conservation and a takingout work from the container and packing work of cigarette packs into a vending machine can be carried out easily.
  • this cigarette parcel for cigarette packs according to the present invention
  • this cigarette parcel comprises a pack set obtained by stacking a plurality of cigarette packs, this pack set being in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces, and packing means for packing the pack set, the packing means including a first band wound around the pack set in one direction for binding the pack set, this first band having two first ends connected separably to each other, and a second band wound around the pack set in a direction crossing the first band for binding the pack set, this second band having two second ends connected separably to each other.
  • the pack set is bound only with two bands, and packing paper covering the pack set in whole is not needed for the pack set.
  • Each of the first and the second bands has preferably an adhesion part in which both of the first ends and both of the second ends are overlapped and bonded to each other.
  • the first and the second band ends are separated from each other at their adhesion parts.
  • first ends of the first band and the second ends of the second band are preferably arranged on two adjacent faces, respectively, of the pack set.
  • a container that is, a corrugated fiberboard box
  • both ends of the upper band of the first and the second bands are arranged on a top face of the cigarette parcel, the cigarette parcels can be taken out of the fiberboard box easily by pulling these both ends upward after the adhesion between the both ends on the band is peeled off.
  • one of the first ends and one of the second ends which are respectively overlapped on the outside of the other ends preferably have grab parts extending integrally from the adhesion part. In this case, when the grab part is grabbed and then, pulled, the adhesion between the both ends of the first or second band can be peeled off easily.
  • the both ends can be rebonded to each other when the band has been used for taking out from the fiberboard box, as mentioned above.
  • each of the cigarette parcels is the same as those mentioned above, but as can be seen from the abovementioned explanation, the both ends of the upper band of the first and the second bands are arranged on the top face of the pack set.
  • the present invention provides a method for feeding cigarette packs to a vending machine, as described in appended claim 10.
  • a column of a vending machine cigarette packs which have been taken out from a container, that is, a corrugated fiberboard box and whose band used for the takingout has been eliminated are stacked and filled.
  • both ends of the remaining band of each of the cigarette packs are positioned on the front side to which the column is opened. After that, both ends of the band remaining on each of the cigarette packs in the column are separated and pulled out.
  • a cigarette parcel 2 for cigarette packs comprises, for example, five packs of cigarette 4 and a pair of pack bands 6 and 8 for binding these cigarette packs 4.
  • Each of the cigarette packs 4 contains 20 pieces of filter cigarettes.
  • the cigarette pack 4 is manufactured by a packing machine for packing manufactured filter cigarettes (not shown) by the twenty, but cigarette packs are classified into soft pack or hard pack according to its packing paper and packing method. In this preferred embodiment, the cigarette packs 4 are shown as soft packs.
  • each of the cigarette packs 4 has a front face 12 and a rear face (not shown) in parallel with each other, and in the pack set 10, two vertically adjacent cigarette packs 4 have their rear face of the upper cigarette pack and the front face 12 of the lower cigarette pack in contact with each other and are stacked in the state their profiles accord to each other.
  • the vertically adjacent cigarette packs 4 have their tops 14 and bottoms 16 arranged contrary to each other. This is because the top side of the cigarette pack 4 is different in strength from the bottom side.
  • the cigarette packs 4 are hard packs, a difference in strength is hardly generated between the top side part and the bottom side part, and thus, the adjacent cigarette packs can be stacked with their tops and bottoms aligned.
  • One pack band 6 is wound around the pack set 10 along the profile of the longitudinal section of the pack set 10, while the other pack band 8 is wound around the pack set 10 along the profile of transverse section of the pack set 10 and crosses the pack band 6 on the top and the bottom faces of the pack set 10, respectively.
  • the pack band 8 is located over the pack band 6. Incidentally, it is needless to say that the winding strength of the pack bands 6 and 8 is limited to the degree that each of the cigarette packs 4 of the pack set 10 is not deformed.
  • the pack bands 6 and 8 are constituted by film tapes with the width of 10 to 30 mm, preferably of 20 mm.
  • the film tape has a sufficient tensile strength for bundling the pack set 10 in addition to thermal degradation and thermal plasticity.
  • the pack bands 6 and 8 may be made of paper such as Japanese paper or singlefaced art paper, but the singlefaced art paper is preferable in this case because of its availability.
  • the pack band 6 has a pair of ends 20 and 22, and these ends 20 and 22 are overlapped with each other on the side face of the pack set 10, that is, one of first side faces defined by the tops 14 and the bottoms 16 of the cigarette packs 4 in the pack set 10, and bonded to each other at an adhesion part 24.
  • the pack set 10 is wound with the pack band 6 in the longitudinal direction and bundled by this pack band 6, and the pair of first side faces of the pack set 10 are maintained in the state where the tops 14 and bottoms 16 of the cigarette packs 4 are located within same planes, respectively.
  • the end 20 is located over the end 22 and bonded to the end 22 through the adhesion part 24 with its tip portion remained.
  • the tip portion of the end 20 is formed as a grab part 26, and in this case, the grab part 26 extends upward.
  • the adhesion part 24 is obtained by bonding the ends 20 and 22 together by heat seal or precoated hot melt adhesive.
  • bonding by heat seal is preferable.
  • the adhesion part 24 can be obtained by applying heat from a heat sealer and pressure to the ends 20 and 22 in the overlapped state.
  • the adhesion strength of the adhesion part 24 is not so great, and when the grab part 26 is pulled downward seen in Fig. 1, the ends 20 and 22 of the pack band 6 can be peeled out of each other from the adhesion part 24.
  • an adhesive layer 28 as the adhesion part 24 is formed in advance on the end 22 of the pack band 6 as shown in Fig. 2.
  • This adhesive layer 28 can be obtained by applying an adhesive such as a common glue made of starch and poly vinyl acetate or an adhesive with readhesive property such as acrylic resin, rubber resin and urethane resin. If the adhesive layer 28 has a readhesive property, even once the ends 20 and 22 are peeled off, the ends 20 and 22 can be bonded together again at a later time.
  • a doublefaced tape piece 30 as the adhesion part 24 is bonded to the end of the paper pack band 6.
  • the adhesion strength of this doublefaced tape piece 30 is greater on one face than on the other face.
  • the other pack band 8 is made of the same material as that of the abovementioned pack band 6, the its both ends are also bonded to each other as with the case of the pack band 6. That is, both ends 32 and 34 of the pack band 8 are bonded to each other through an adhesion part 36 similar to the adhesion part 24, and the tip portion of one end 36 is constituted as a grab part 38.
  • the pack set 10 is wound with the pack band 8 in its transverse direction and bundled with this pack band 8, and a pair of second side faces of the pack set 10, that is, second side faces defined by sides of each of the cigarette packs 4 are maintained within the same planes, respectively.
  • the adhesion part 36 of the pack band 8 is located on the top face of the pack set 10, that is, the front face 12 of the highest cigarette pace 4 in Fig. 1.
  • the width of the pack bands 6 and 8 is set about 20 mm, these pack bands 6 and 8 can favorably bind the pack set 10, and each of the cigarette packs 4 will not wobble.
  • the width of the pack bands 6 and 8 is less than 10 mm, a binding force for the pack set 10 is not enough and each of the cigarette packs 4 in the cigarette parcel 2 may wobble.
  • the width of the pack bands 6 and 8 is more than 30 mm, consumption amount of the material for these pack bands 6 and 8 is increased and it is not favorable in the viewpoint of resource conservation.
  • the cigarette parcels 2 are shipped from a cigarette manufacturing plant to retail shops in the state where they are packed in vertical two tiers in a corrugated fiberboard box 40.
  • Fig. 4 shows the corrugated fiberboard box 40 with its top face, that is, its two pairs of flaps 42 and 44 opened.
  • the cigarette parcels 2 are arranged in four ranks and five files, and thus, forty cigarette parcels 2 in total are packed in the corrugated fiberboard box 40 without a clearance.
  • the cigarette parcels 2 in each tier are positioned so that the grab parts 38 of the pack bands 8 are faced to the opening side of the corrugated fiberboard box 40.
  • a caretaker of the vending machine grabs the grab part 38 on the pack band 8 of one cigarette parcel 2 to be taken out and then, pulls the end 32 of the pack band 8 to peel the both ends 32 and 34 of the pack band 8 from the adhesion part 36, respectively, as shown in Fig. 4.
  • the caretaker grabs the both ends 32 and 34 of the pack band 8 which have been peeled off from each other with both hands and pulls up the both ends 32 and 34 as shown by arrows in Fig. 5.
  • the cigarette parcel 2 is pulled out of the upper tier of cigarette parcels with the pack band 8 and easily taken out from the corrugated fiberboard box 40.
  • the pack band 8 becomes useless and thus, may be disposed of.
  • each cigarette pack 4 of the cigarette parcel 2 will not become loose.
  • a vending machine 46 for the cigarette packs 4 is shown with its front door 48 opened.
  • the vending machine 46 is provided with a housing 50, in which a large number of columns 52 are arranged by group in vertical plural tiers. These columns 52 extend vertically, in which cigarette packs 4 are stacked and contained. Thus, each group of columns 52 is different from each other in length or size according to the size or sales share of the cigarette packs 4 to be contained therein.
  • a dispensing device 54 is arranged at the bottom of each of the columns 52, and these dispensing devices 54 can dispense a cigarette pack 4 from the corresponding column 52.
  • a controller 56 is arranged at a lower part of the housing 50, and this controller 56 receives input of coins or paper money or commands from one of selector buttons for cigarette packs and controls operation of the corresponding dispensing devices 54.
  • Input slots for coins and paper money and the selector buttons are provided on the front face of the front door 48, and display window for cigarette packs is also arranged on the front face of the front door 48.
  • chutes 58 for guiding cigarette packs dispensed by the dispensing devices 54 from the columns 52 are provided, and these chutes 58 guide the cigarette pack toward a pack receiver 60.
  • the pack receiver 60 is arranged at a lower part of the front door 48 and communicates to a dispensing opening on the front face of the front door 48. Thus, a consumer can take out the cigarette pack received on the pack receiver 60 through the dispensing opening.
  • the column 52 is provided with a pair of side plates 64 protruding from a back wall 62 of the housing 50 toward the front, and these side plates 64 extend in the vertical direction in parallel with each other.
  • the lower ends of the side plates 64 are positioned with a predetermined clearance from the top face of the corresponding dispensing device 54, and this clearance is set smaller than the thickness of the cigarette pack 4.
  • the column 52 has a storage space 66 for the cigarette packs 4 defined by the side plate pairs 64, and this storage space 66 has its upper and lower faces opened.
  • a stopper rod 68 made of a steel wire is arranged, and this stopper rod 68 extends in the vertical direction.
  • the upper and the lower ends of the stopper rod 68 are bent toward the front side of the housing 50 and then, rotatably supported by a pair of horizontal partition plates 70 and 72.
  • the upper partition plate 70 is arranged above the upper end of the column 52.
  • the lower partition plate 72 is arranged above the top face of the dispensing device 54, and a clearance is secured between this top face of the dispensing device 54 and the lower partition plate 72 so that only one cigarette pack 4 can pass through it.
  • a handle 74 is horizontally mounted at the lower end of the stopper rod 68, and this handle 74 is positioned on the top face of the lower partition plate 72.
  • the stopper rod 68 can be rotated around the upper and lower ends thereof.
  • a pair of stoppers 76 and 78 cooperating with the handle 74 protrude on the top face of the lower partition plate 72 and these stoppers 76 and 78 limit the movement of the handle 74.
  • the intermediate part of the stopper rod 68 extends perpendicularly almost the center of the column 52 as shown by a solid line in Fig. 7 to prevent the cigarette packs 4 flying out from the column 52.
  • the handle 74 is operated and brought into contact with the other stopper 78, the intermediate part of the stopper rod 68 is rotated from the solid line position to a position shown by a two dot chain line in Fig. 7 and located at the side of the other side plate 64, whereby the front face of the column 52 is fully opened.
  • a groove 80 is formed on the top face of the dispensing device 54, through which a pusher 80 can be reciprocated.
  • the pusher 82 When the pusher 82 is moved forward from the rear face to the front face of the column 52, the pusher 82 is in the standing state protruding from the groove 80.
  • the cigarette pack 4 at the lowest position in the column 52 (see the two dot chain line in Fig. 7) is pushed out by the pusher 82, dispensed from the column 52 in the direction shown by an arrow A in Fig. 7 and received by the corresponding chute 58.
  • the remainder of cigarette packs 4 stacked in the column 52 After ejecting the cigarette pack 4, the remainder of cigarette packs 4 stacked in the column 52 is lowered by its own weight by the thickness of one cigarette pack.
  • this pusher 82 After that, when the pusher 82 is moved backward, this pusher 82 is brought into contact with the lowest cigarette pack 4 in the column 52, falls into the groove 80 and passes under this
  • the caretaker moves the handle 74 in the direction shown by an arrow B in Fig. 7 to bring it into contact with the stopper 78.
  • the stopper rod 68 is rotated in the direction shown by an arrow C in Fig. 7 as mentioned above, and the front face of the column 2 is widely opened.
  • the caretaker stacks the cigarette parcels 2 taken out from the corrugated fiberboard box 40 in the column 52 and stores the cigarette parcels 2 in the column 52.
  • the cigarette parcels 2 are bound only with the other pack band 6.
  • the grab parts 26 of the pack bands 6 should be positioned on the front face of the column 52 and be faced upward as shown in Fig. 7.
  • the handle 74 When replenishment of the column 52 with cigarette parcels 2 is completed, the handle 74 is moved to the original position to be brought into contact with the stopper 76. At this time, the stopper rod 68 is positioned at the center of the front face of the column 52 to prevent the cigarette parcels 2 flying out from the column 52.
  • the caretaker grabs the grab part 26 of the pack band 6 in relation to each of the cigarette parcels 2 stored in the column 52 and pulls the grab part 26 sequentially in the direction shown by an arrow D in Fig. 7 to peel off the ends 20 and 22 of the pack band 6 in the bonded state from each other, and then, pulls out the pack band 6 in the direction shown by an arrow E in Fig. 7.
  • the pack band 6 is removed from the cigarette parcel 2 as shown two dot chain line in Fig. 7.
  • each of the cigarette parcels 2 in the column 52 is separated to the individual cigarette packs 4.
  • the column 52 can contain the cigarette packs 4 in the state of the cigarette parcel 2, replenishment with the cigarette packs 4 can be done easily, and time required for the replenishment can be drastically reduced. Also, each of the cigarette parcels 2 can be easily separated to individual cigarette packs 4 only by pulling out the pack bands 6.
  • the cigarette parcel 2 is obtained by binding the pack set 10 with two pieces of the pack bands 6 and 8, packing paper which has been required for packing the pack set becomes unnecessary. As a result, the cigarette parcel 2 can be not only obtained at a cheaper price than conventional parcels or cartons but also contribute to resource conservation.
  • the column 52 of the abovementioned vending machine 46 is the type in which the cigarette parcels 2 are stacked longitudinally with respect to the column 52, but when the pack sets are stacked laterally, the pack set 10 can be bound with the pack bands 6 and 8 as shown in Fig. 8.
  • the pack band 6 is wound over the pack band 8.
  • the grab part 26 of the pack band 6 is positioned on the top face of the pack set 10, while the grab part 38 of the pack band 8 is positioned on one of the second side faces of the pack set 10.
  • the pack set 10 of the cigarette parcel 2 is not limited to an aggregate of five cigarette packs 4 but may be an aggregate of ten cigarette packs 4, and no restriction is applied on the number of the cigarette packs 4 in the cigarette parcel 2.
  • the cigarette parcels 2 not to be packed in a vending machine may be sold at the store counter as they are.
  • the adhesion parts 24 and 36 on the pack bands 6 and 8 in the cigarette parcel 2 are preferably capable of being rebonded. That is, if, after taking out the cigarette parcel 2 from the corrugated fiberboard box 40, the both ends of the pack band used for the takingout can be bonded again, handling of the parcel 2 becomes easy for buyers.

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  1. Zigarettenpaket mit einer durch Stapeln zahlreicher Zigarettenpackungen (4) gebildeten Verpackungseinheit (10), wobei die Verpackungseinheit (10) in Form eines rechtwinkligen Quaders mit sechs Außenflächen vorliegt, und mit einer Verpackungseinrichtung zum Verpacken der Verpackungseinheit (10),
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    daß zu der Verpackungseinrichtung gehören:
    ein erstes Band (6), das um die Verpackungseinheit (10) in eine Richtung zum Zusammenbinden der Verpackungs-einheit (10) gewunden ist, wobei das erste Band (6) zwei erste Enden (20, 22) besitzt, die separat zueinander verbunden sind; und
    ein zweites Band (8), das um die Verpackungseinheit (10) in einer das erste Band (6) kreuzenden Richtung zum Zusammenbinden der Verpackungseinheit (10) gewunden ist, wobei das zweite Band (8) zwei zweite Enden (32, 34) besitzt, die separat zueinander verbunden sind.
  2. Zigarettenpaket nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    daß jedes der ersten und zweiten Bänder (6, 8) weiterhin einen Haftabschnitt (24, 36) besitzt, an dem die beiden Enden (20, 22; 32, 34) überlappt und miteinander berbunden sind.
  3. Zigarettenpaket nach Anspruch 2,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    daß die ersten Enden (20, 22) des ersten Bandes (6) und die zweiten Enden (32, 34) des zweiten Bandes (8) jeweils auf zwei aneinandergrenzende Außenflächen der Verpackungseinheit (10) angeordnet sind.
  4. Zigarettenpaket nach Anspruch 3,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    daß die ersten und zweiten Enden (20, 32) die auf der Außenseite angeordnet sind, einstückige Handhabungsabschnitte (26, 38) besitzen, die sich von den Haftabschnitte (24, 36) erstrecken.
  5. Zigarettenpaket nach Anspruch 4,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    daß die Haftabschnitte (24, 36) wiederhaftend sind.
  6. Behälter mit einem rechtwinkligen Gehäuse (40), dessen Oberfläche zu öffnen ist, und mit Zigarettenpaketen (2) gemäß Anspruch 1, die in dem Gehäuse (40) angeordnet und in dieses gepackt sind, wobei die ersten Enden (22, 24) des ersten Bandes (6) an der Seitenfläche der Verpackungseinheit (10) angeordnet sind, wenn die Zigarettenpakete (2) in das Gehäuse (40) gepackt sind, und wobei die zweiten Enden (32, 34) des zweiten Bandes (8) auf der Oberseite der Verpackungseinheit (10) positioniert sind, wenn die Zigarettenpakete (2) in das Gehäuse (40) gepackt sind.
  7. Behälter nach Anspruch 6,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    daß jedes der ersten und zweiten Bänder (6, 8) weiterhin einen Haftabschnitt (24, 36) besitzt, an dem die beiden Enden (20, 22; 32, 34) überlappt und miteinander verbunden sind.
  8. Behälter nach Anspruch 6,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    daß die ersten und zweiten Enden (20, 32) die auf der Außenseite angeordnet sind, einstückige Handhabungsabschnitte (26, 38) besitzen, die sich von den Haftabschnitte (24, 36) erstrecken.
  9. Zigarettenpaket nach Anspruch 8,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    daß die Haftabschnitte (24, 36) wiederhaftend sind.
  10. Verfahren zum Zuführen von Zigarettenpackungen zu einem Verkaufsautomaten (46), wobei der Verkaufsautomat (46) mit Säulen (52) versehen ist, in denen die Zigarettenpackungen (4) gestapelt sind, und wobei eine Vorderseite der Säulen (52) geöffnet ist, wobei zu dem Verfahren ein Schritt gehört, bei dem Zigarettenpakete (2) in der Säule (52) des Verkaufsautomaten (46) gestapelt werden, wobei die Zigarettenpakete (2) eine Verpackungseinheit (10) aufweisen, die durch Stapeln zahlreicher Zigarettenpackungen (4) gebildet ist,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    daß die Verpackungseinheit (10) ein Band (6, 8) besitzt, das um die Verpackungseinheit (10) in einer Richtung zum Verpacken der Verpackungseinheit (10) gewunden ist, wobei das Band (6; 8) zwei Enden (20, 22; 32, 34) besitzt, die separat zueinander verbunden sind, und wobei die Enden (20, 22; 32, 34) auf der Vorderseite der Säule (52) angeordnet sind, wenn die Zigarettenpakete (20) in der Säule (52) gestapelt sind, und wobei hierzu ein Verfahrensschritt gehört, bei dem das Band (6; 8) nach Trennen der beiden Enden (20, 22; 32, 34) des Bandes (6; 8) jeder der Zigarettenpakete (2) in der Säule (52) aufgerissen wird.
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