Cigarette packing machine and method

摘要

A method and machine for folding sheets (6) of packing material about respective groups (7) of cigarettes to form respective packages (3), and wherein a web (49) of packing material is first fed through a control station for detecting the position of a reference mark (57) made on the web (49) at a work station upstream from the control station, and is then fed through a cutting station where the web (49) is cut into sheets (6) of packing material, each of which is fed to a packing station where each sheet (6) of packing material is folded about the respective group (7) of cigarettes.