摘要 |
Apparatus and method for applying tax stamps to individual cigarette packages of different cigarette cartons having different height dimensions comprises cigarette carton unsealing and opening stations, a cigarette package tax stamp application station, and cigarette carton closing and re-sealing stations. A pair of plow mechanisms are disposed at the cigarette carton opening station, which comprises a two-stage cigarette carton opening station, so as to ensure the opening of each top flap member of each cigarette carton. In addition, a waxed tax stamp paper roll disposed at the tax stamp application station is indexably movable with respect to the stamping iron of the tax stamp application station so as to always ensure that the tax stamps are applied to central portions of each cigarette package of each cigarette carton indexably moved to the tax stamp application station.
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