EP0850837B1 - Packaging machine for the production of cigarette packs - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a packaging machine for the production of Packets of cigarettes, with a group of along an endless trajectory moving first shots - folding mandrels - for package contents and / or Packaging material and with a group of second recordings - holding bags - that are movable in a plane offset from the folding mandrels, partially finished packs from the folding mandrels to the holding pockets aligned on them can be transferred in the axis-parallel direction.

In the manufacture of packs, especially cigarette packs, by Packaging machines with high performance are folding and filling steps in the range of preferably continuously revolving folding units, in particular folding revolvers carried out. It is necessary to check the packaging material, the contents of the pack and the partially completed packs of different groups of organs feed, which are arranged along the circumference of the folding turret. During manufacturing The first group of shots of (soft) cup packs consists of folding domes. The partially folded or almost finished packs are in axially parallel direction - during the rotary movement of the folding turret - to one hand over neighboring group of organs or recordings, e.g. on pockets, in whose area the packs are finished.

From EP-A-0 135 388 a cigarette packaging machine is known in which Packs held in a folding turret and together with the Recordings are movable in the axial direction.

GB 1 171 764 shows a cigarette packaging machine in which cigarette groups are brought together with pre-folded packaging in the area of a folding turret. For this purpose, the packaging is moved from an axially aligned position into a radial one aligned position and then in radial relative movement with the Cigarette groups merged.

US 2 971 636 is concerned with the construction of a turret conveyor for Packagings. Bags are folded into folded boxes in the axial direction of the revolver introduced. The latter are being raised for this.

DE 29 18 139 shows a packaging machine in which bottles are lifted in an open, square-shaped pack can be inserted from below in the area of a packaging revolver.

The invention has for its object the workflow in such (initially ) to improve packaging machines and, above all, shorter cycle times ensure with careful management and holding of the packs and the Packaging material.

a) die Faltdorne einerseits und die Haltetaschen andererseits sind kontinuierlich entlang endloser Bewegungsbahnen bewegbar und mindestens in einem Teilbereich ihrer Bewegungsbahnen hinsichtlich Relativstellung und Fördergeschwindigkeit in Axialrichtung aufeinander ausgerichtet,

b) die Faltdome und die Haltetaschen sind mindestens im Bereich der ausgerichteten Bewegungsbahnen in Axialrichtung relativ zueinander bewegbar, derart, dass in einer Aufnahmestellung zur Übergabe von teilweise fertiggestellten Packungen von den Faltdornen an die Haltetaschen zwischen letzteren kein bzw. nur ein geringer Abstand in Axialrichtung gegeben ist,

c) die Faltdorne und die Haltetaschen sind längs des Umfangs eines gemeinsamen, kontinuierlich drehbaren Faltrevolvers angeordnet, wobei die Faltdome einerseits und die Haltetaschen andererseits in Ausgangsstellungen mit einem größeren axialen Abstand - größer als die Abmessung einer Packung - voneinander angeordnet und in gleichen Umfangsebenen mit achsparalleler Ausrichtung zueinander positioniert sind,

d) die Faltdome sind feststehend am Faltrevolver positioniert und die Haltetaschen sind am Faltrevolver zur Übernahme der teilweise gefalteten Packungen von den Faltdornen in Richtung auf diese in die Aufnahmestellung bewegbar, in der die Haltetaschen unmittelbar an den jeweils zugeordneten Faltdom anschließen, und die Haltetaschen sind nach Übernahme einer Packung in die Ausgangsstellung zurückbewegbar.

To achieve this object, the packaging machine according to the invention has the following features:

a) the folding mandrels, on the one hand, and the holding pockets, on the other hand, can be moved continuously along endless movement paths and are aligned with one another with respect to the relative position and conveying speed in the axial direction in at least a partial area of their movement paths,

b) the folding domes and the holding pockets can be moved relative to one another at least in the region of the aligned movement paths, in such a way that in a receiving position for the transfer of partially finished packages from the folding mandrels to the holding pockets between the latter there is no or only a small distance in the axial direction is

c) the folding mandrels and the holding pockets are arranged along the circumference of a common, continuously rotatable folding turret, the folding domes on the one hand and the holding pockets on the other hand in starting positions with a larger axial distance - larger than the dimension of a pack - from one another and in the same circumferential planes with axially parallel Are aligned to each other,

d) the folding domes are fixedly positioned on the folding turret and the holding pockets are movable on the folding turret for taking over the partially folded packs from the folding mandrels in the direction of the latter into the receiving position in which the holding pockets connect directly to the respectively assigned folding dome, and the holding pockets are behind Transfer of a pack can be moved back to the starting position.

Between the groups of images, especially between the folding domes on the one hand and the pockets on the other is for constructional and functional reasons there is a distance in the axial direction. This must be done when the packs are handed over from one group of recordings to the other group of recordings be overcome. For this purpose, a part of the scope of the Folding turret moves the adjacent receptacles in the axial direction towards each other, so they prefer close together. Are preferred the mandrels are fixed while the pockets are in Axially parallel direction can be moved to bridge the distance are stored.

With continuously revolving folding revolvers, the sliding ones are Recordings, especially the bags, on guides attached, which are displaced by form-fitting guide elements are, in particular by tracing rollers, which are fixed Curves run.

The folding mandrels on the one hand and the pockets on the other are movable, assigned with circumferential folding and holding elements. The organs belonging to the pockets are stationary on the folding turret positioned, do not follow the axial movement of the pockets.

Further details of the invention relate to the constructive design of the bags, assigned to them Folding and holding elements and on the constructive design of the Total folding turret.

Fig. 1

eine Verpackungsmaschine bzw. wesentliche Aggregate derselben in schematischer Seitenansicht,

Fig. 2

einen Faltrevolver als Einzelheit der Verpackungsmaschine in einem axialen Längsschnitt,

Fig. 3

zwei Gruppen von Aufnahmen des Faltrevolvers in einer Abwicklung, bei schematischer Darstellung,

Fig. 4

eine Einzelheit des Faltrevolvers, nämlich einen Ausschnitt der Darstellung gemäß Fig. 2 in vergrößertem Maßstab,

Fig. 5

eine Darstellung entsprechend Fig. 4 für einen anderen Ausschnitt der Fig. 2,

Fig. 6

einen Faltdorn einerseits und eine Tasche andererseits in Übergabeposition, in perspektivischer Darstellung,

Fig. 7

eine Einzelheit einer Tasche in perspektivischer Darstellung

Fig. 8

die komplette Tasche mit einem Halteorgan, ebenfalls in perspektivischer Darstellung,

Fig. 9

eine Tasche im Bereich der Übergabe einer Packung an abförderndes Organ, in perspektivischer Darstellung.

Details of the folding turret and the organs assigned to it are explained in more detail below using an exemplary embodiment of the packaging machine. It shows:

Fig. 1

a packaging machine or essential units thereof in a schematic side view,

Fig. 2

a folding turret as a detail of the packaging machine in an axial longitudinal section,

Fig. 3

two groups of recordings of the folding turret in one development, with a schematic representation,

Fig. 4

3 shows a detail of the folding turret, namely a section of the illustration according to FIG. 2 on an enlarged scale,

Fig. 5

4 for another section of FIG. 2,

Fig. 6

a folding mandrel on the one hand and a pocket on the other hand in the transfer position, in a perspective view,

Fig. 7

a detail of a bag in perspective

Fig. 8

the complete bag with a holding element, also in perspective,

Fig. 9

a bag in the area of the delivery of a pack to the conveying organ, in perspective.

1 schematically shows core areas of a packaging machine schematically for the manufacture of cigarette packs 10 shown. It is a continuous one revolving folding turret 11 and one in the direction of movement followed by the drying turret 12. Between the folding turret 11 and drying turret 12 there is a transfer turret 13. The package contents, namely cigarette groups 14, will Folding turret 11 fed through a pocket chain 15. Their bags 64 take the cigarette groups 14 from a cigarette magazine (Not shown).

The aggregates listed above can in a known manner be trained. The pocket chain 15 is in an advantageous embodiment shown and described in EP 226 872. Details of the folding turret 11 result from EP 226 872. The transfer turret 13 is described in EP 605 838 as an exemplary embodiment, also the drying turret 12.

The present embodiment of a packaging machine refers to the manufacture of cigarette packs 10 of the Type soft cup. The cigarette groups 14 are in this Execution on the circumference of the folding turret 11 in axially parallel Direction pushed out of the pockets 64 of the pocket chain 15 in Recordings distributed along the circumference of the folding turret 11 are. During the continuous rotation of the folding turret 11 the cigarette groups 14 are first cut into an interior 16 encased, for example made of tin foil or paper consists. The inner blank 16 is in the area of a tinfoil unit 17 the folding turret 11 or the cigarette group 14 fed. An advantageous embodiment for a such tinfoil unit 17 is the subject of DE 196 44 079.3. Is specific in the present embodiment the inner blank wrapped around the receptacle, the is designed as a hollow folding mandrel 18.

The folding mandrels 18 provided with the inner blank 16 become from the folding turret 11 into the area of a paper unit 19 promoted. This is designed in the same way as that Tin foil unit 17. Here is an outer blank 20, for example made of paper, ready and around the inner cut 16 - folded on the folding mandrel 18 - under Formation of a cup-shaped outer wrapper of the cigarette pack 10th

During the further rotation of the folding turret 11 are in the lower Area of the same, the cigarette groups 14 from pockets 64 the pocket chain 15 out and in the folding mandrels 18 and in the pre-folded blanks of the cigarette packaging 10 inserted. The largely finished cigarette packs 10 including the contents of recordings on folding turret 11, which are arranged offset to the folding mandrels 18 in the axial direction are. These are holding bags 21. While Another turn of the folding turret 11 becomes the cigarette packs 10 completed and to the transfer turret 13 to hand over. This transports the cigarette packs 10 to the drying turret 12.

The folding turret 11 forms in terms of structure and function a special feature. The (two) groups of recordings, namely the folding mandrels 18 on the one hand and the holding pockets 21 on the other hand, are along the circumference of the common folding turret 11 each arranged at the same circumferential distances from each other. The row of folding mandrels 18 on the one hand and the row of holding pockets 21 on the other hand have a clear in the axial direction Distance from each other, which is function-related. According to Fig. 2, the folding turret 11 is designed so that two partial turrets 22 and 23 arise. Movable parts of the two partial revolvers 22, 23 form a (one-piece) unit, namely one Rotary body 24 with radially directed supporting walls 25, 26 and these transverse wall 27 connecting them. The folding mandrels 18 on the one hand and the holding pockets 21 on the other are radial outer boundaries of the supporting walls 25, 26 arranged or stored.

The rotating body 24 is on or in a fixed support body 28 stored, which in turn with the machine frame below, (not shown). In the longitudinal center of the folding turret 11 is a shaft 29 with handwheel 30 for manual Moving the folding turret or the rotating body 24.

The folding mandrels 18 are thin-walled, elongated hollow bodies with the inner dimensions of the cigarette packs 10. The two ends open folding mandrels 18 are projecting or projecting on one side, so fixedly attached to the rotating body 24, namely on the supporting wall 25.

In a first manufacturing step, the inner blank 16 is Area of the tinfoil unit 17 around the folding mandrels 18. By rotating the folding turret 11 on the tinfoil unit 17 folding mandrels 18 moving past each take one ready Inner blank 16 with. This lies under a U-shape Folding in a direction of rotation of the folding turret 11 forward narrow side wall 31 of the folding mandrel 18. In the area this side wall 31 is the inner blank 16 by a Pressure element fixed, namely by one consisting of individual rollers Pressure roller 32. Each folding mandrel 18 is one of these Pressure roller 32 assigned, which rotates with the folding turret 11 and from a position at a greater distance from the folding mandrel 18 after feeding an inner blank 16 to the folding mandrel 18 or the recorded inner blank 16 is pressed.

On the radially inner side of the folding mandrel 18, namely on a (large-area) inner wall 33, the inner blank pressed by a folder 34, which also the or each Folding mandrel 18 is assigned. The angular in cross section Fold 34 presses the corresponding part of inner blank 16 also on a rear side wall 35 in the conveying direction Folding mandrel 18. The folder 34 is for performing the folding movement can be actuated by a parallelogram linkage 67. This or its handlebars are movable by feeler rollers 68, 69 which in grooves 70, 71 of the fixed part of the folding turret 11 enter during the rotation of the same.

Radially outer areas of the inner blank 16 are on an outer wall 36 of the folding mandrel 18 is not created by here shown folding organs. Because of the dimensions and relative position of the inner blank 16 project floor flaps 37 on the free End over the folding mandrel 18 (Fig. 4). The bottom flap 37 are for formation before attaching the outer panel 20 a bottom of the inner blank 16 folded.

The outer blank 20 becomes after folding the inner blank 16 fed to the folding mandrel 18, in a manner analogous to the internal blank 16. The outer cut 20 usually has one another relative position on the folding mandrel 18, such that each other overlapping folding tabs of the outer panel 20 are in the area extend the rear side wall 35 of the folding mandrel.

After completion, namely folding the inner blank 16 and of the outer blank 20 is in the lower region of the folding turret 11 the cigarette group 14 is inserted into the folding mandrel 18. The pockets 64 of the pocket chain 15 run for this purpose coaxial with the folding mandrels 18, directly next to it this in the region of a recess 38 of the rotating body 24. Die Cigarette group 14 is during this movement phase of the Folding turret 11 by a slide 39 with a slide head 40 first out of pocket 64 of pocket chain 15 and into Folding mandrel 18 inserted over the open side. The pushing motion is continued such that the cigarette group 14 under Taking the inner blank 16 and the outer blank 20, namely by pulling the same from the folding mandrel 18, through this is moved through. The cigarette group 14 thereby passes in the so far completed packaging. The educated Packing unit is coaxial with the slide 39 hand over the holding bag 21.

The slide 39 can be actuated by a transverse roller 65, which is arranged at the end of the slide 39 and in a circumferential cam groove 66 of the fixed support body 28 entry. The slide 39 is therefore automatically in accordance with the requirements the rotary movement of the folding turret 11 is actuated.

The cigarette pack 10 is in the region of the holding pockets 21 finished folded. In particular, about the cigarette group 14 protruding areas of the inner blank 16 with formation an end wall of the cigarette pack 10 folded. After that the cigarette pack 10 is fed to the transfer turret 13.

A special feature is that between the folding mandrels 18 on the one hand and the holding pockets 21 on the other hand in the normal position existing distance to the delivery of the packaging unit removed from the folding mandrel 18 to an adjacent holding pocket 21 is. As can be seen, for example, from FIG. 2, below, close folding mandrel 18 and holding pocket 21 during this phase directly in the axial direction.

In the present embodiment, the holding pockets 21 for this purpose in the axis-parallel direction during the rotary movement displaceable. The holding pockets 21 are axially parallel Direction attached to a carrier, in the present case on two spaced-apart support rods 41, 42. These are in an axially parallel guide 43 on the outer circumference of the rotating body 24 slidably mounted. The axially parallel Back and forth movements of the support rods 41, 42 are by a circumferential control groove 43 formed in the support body 28 causes in one connected to the support rods 41, 42 feeler roller 44 entry.

The ends of the support rods 41, 42 facing the holding pocket 21 are connected to each other by a transverse crossbar 45. The holding bag 21 is attached to this. Traverse 45 and holding bag 21 are rigidly connected to one another, so that the Holding bag 21 floating freely at the free ends of the support rods 41, 42 or the cross member 45 is attached. By extending the support rods 41, 42 as a result of rotation of the folding turret 11 the holding pockets 21 are successively in the direction of the assigned opposite folding mandrel 18 moves until the Holding bag 21 each with an open side, namely one Insertion opening 46, immediately adjacent and aligned to Folding mandrel 18 is positioned. The slide 39 or its Slider head 40 can now the cigarette pack 10 including its contents insert into the holding pocket 21 (Fig. 6).

The holding pockets 21 are divided for constructional reasons namely from a cross-section U-shaped lower pocket 47 and one attached to side walls 48, 49 of the same Upper pocket 50. This is screwed to the lower pocket 47, namely the side walls 48, 49, connected.

The holding pocket 21 forms one in the region of a side wall 49 Longitudinal slot 51. A pressure element can pass through this, namely a pressure bar 52. This serves for temporary Fixing one above the other and by gluing interconnected folding tabs of the outer wrapper or Outer cutout 20. The pressure bar assigned to each holding pocket 21 52 is attached to a pivot lever 53. This is pivotable via a shaft journal 54, which in turn can be actuated by a feeler roller 56 running in a control groove 55 is. When the holding pocket 21 is moved in an axially parallel manner The pressure bar 52 is retracted in the direction (position according to Fig. 6).

A holding element is also assigned to the holding pocket 21, namely a plunger 57. Its plunger rod 58 is between the Support rods 41, 42 arranged. The push rod 58 occurs in the middle through the traverse 45. A plunger head 59 is inside the holding pocket 21 in the longitudinal direction of the same. The Tappet head 59 acts when a cigarette packet is inserted 10 in the holding pocket 21. The plunger head 59 is initially immediately in the area of the insertion opening 46 and migrates then with the inserted cigarette pack 10 in the opposite end position to form a bottom of the Holding bag 21 (position according to FIG. 7).

The movements of the plunger 57 are also in accordance with the rotational movement of the folding turret 11 controllable. On one with the Push rod 58 connected approach 60, a sensing roller 61 is arranged, in a control groove 62 of the fixed support body 28 occurs.

The plunger 57 has the primary task of the finished cigarette pack 10 slide out of the holding bag 21 and on to hand over the transfer turret 13. During this phase the holding bag 21 moved into a retracted position, that is the holding bag 21 moved into a retracted position, that is in a position at a greater distance from the folding mandrels 18, such that the holding bag 21 in question completely from the Path of movement of the other holding pockets 21 in the normal position the same is moved out. In this position the cigarette pack 10 from a holder of the transfer turret 13 taken over. This is positioned so that its pockets revolve in the plane in which the holding pockets 21 in the Normal position are positioned (for example, Fig. 2 above).

The sequence of the individual movements in the area of the folding turret 11 with regard to the folding mandrels 18 on the one hand and the holding pockets 21 on the other hand is in Fig. 3 as a settlement and in shortened version shown. The individual selected positions are continuously marked with the letters a to i. The corresponding positions on the folding turret 11 result from Fig. 1, it should be noted that the cigarette packs 10 or the cuts for this during one Phase of more than one revolution of the folding turret 11 of this will be promoted.

In position a, the inner blank 16 is on the Folding mandrel 11. The folding of the bottom folding flaps 37 begins Head folding is completed in position b. In station c begins to fold the bottom flaps of the outer panel 20. This folding process has ended in station d. During the Folds in the area of the bottom, i.e. in stations b, c, d, the slide head 40 of the slide 39 is inside of the folding mandrel 18 adjacent to the bottom folds, so that these against a solid surface.

After station d, the slide head 40 is withdrawn, and in an end position outside the range of motion of the Pocket chain 15. This can therefore in this position g between Slider head 40 and folding mandrel 18 are moved past. In the position g, the slide 39 is already in the opposite Direction effective. The cigarette group 14 in the concerned Pocket 64 of pocket chain 15 is moved by the slider head 40 ejected from the folding mandrel 18, taking the blanks with them on the outside of the folding mandrel 18. The so formed Packing unit is moved by the slide 39 into an adjacent one Holding bag 21 introduced. The transfer process takes place in position h. In this position, the holding bag 21 is through corresponding movement of the plunger 57 into a position immediately moved adjacent the folding mandrel 18 so that the packing unit via the open insertion opening 46 into the holding pocket 21 can reach.

The holding bag 21 is then with the packing unit in the Normal position retracted (position i). In this position the pressure bar 52 is effective through the longitudinal slot 51 of the holding pocket 21 passes through and lies on this side, overlapping and glued folding flaps of the outer panel 20 presses together.

During the further movement of the folding turret 11, the inner blank becomes 16 folded in the region of an end wall, so that the Inner blank 16 completely surrounds the cigarette group 14. The holding pockets 21 remain in the normal position until position e / f is reached, adjacent to the transfer turret 13, which is positioned in the area of the normal position of the holding pockets 21 is.

To transfer the cigarette packs 10 to the transfer turret 13, the holding pockets 21 are withdrawn further, that is, under Increasing the distance to the folding mandrels 18 (position according to Fig. 9). The plunger 57 or its plunger head 59 remains in the previously reached position, i.e. under contact with the Cigarette pack 10 in the holding bag 21. This will accordingly withdrawn relative to the cigarette pack 10 and to the plunger head 59 in the position according to e and f (Fig. 3). At the same time the exposed cigarette pack 10 by means of entrainment or Pocket walls 63 of the transfer turret 13 are detected. The pressure bar 52 is during this phase, namely in positions e and f, withdrawn from the holding pocket 21.

The device described can adapt individual organs used for the manufacture and filling of other types of packs especially for the production of hinge-lid packs for cigarettes.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

10

cigarette pack

11

folding turret

12

drying turret

13

Transfer turret

14

cigarette group

15

bag chain

16

inner blank

17

Stanniolaggregat

18

folding mandrel

19

paper unit

20

outer panel

21

holding pocket

22

sub-turret

23

sub-turret

24

rotating body

25

supporting wall

26

supporting wall

27

partition

28

supporting body

29

wave

30

handwheel

31

Side wall

32

pressure roller

33

inner wall

34

butterfly

35

Side wall

36

outer wall

37

Bodenfaltlappen

38

deepening

39

pusher

40

slide head

41

supporting rod

42

supporting rod

43

control groove

44

follower roll

45

traverse

46

insertion opening

47

under pocket

48

Side wall

49

Side wall

50

upper case

51

longitudinal slot

52

pressure strip

53

pivoting lever

54

shaft journal

55

control groove

56

follower roll

57

tappet

58

pushrod

59

ram head

60

approach

61

follower roll

62

control groove

63

pocket wall

64

bag

65

follower roll

66

cam

67

parallelogram

68

follower roll

69

follower roll

70

groove

71

groove

Claims (10)

1. Packaging machine for producing cigarette packs (10), having a group of first mounts - folding mandrels (18) - which move along an endless movement path and are intended for pack contents and/or packaging material, and having a group of second mounts-retaining pockets (21) - which can be moved in a plane which is offset in relation to the folding mandrels (18), it being possible for not yet finished packs (10) to be transferred from the folding mandrels (18) to the retaining pockets (21), which are aligned therewith, in the axis-parallel direction, having the following features:

   a) the folding mandrels (18), on the one hand, and the retaining pockets (21), on the other hand, can be moved continuously along endless movement paths and, at least in a sub-region of their movement paths, are aligned axially with one another in respect of relative position and conveying speed,

   b) the folding mandrels (18) and the retaining pockets (21) can be moved axially relative to one another, at least in the region of the aligned movement paths, such that, in a receiving position for the transfer of not yet finished packs (10) from the folding mandrels (18) to the retaining pockets (21), there is only a very small distance, if any at all, between the latter in the axial direction,

   c) the folding mandrels (18) and the retaining pockets (21) are arranged along the circumference of a common, continuously rotatable folding turret (11), the folding mandrels (18), on the one hand, and the retaining pockets (21), on the other hand, in starting positions, being spaced apart from one another by a relatively large axial distance-larger than the dimension of a pack (10) - and being positioned in the same circumferential planes with axis-parallel alignment,

   d) the folding mandrels (18) are positioned in a fixed manner on the folding turret (11), and the retaining pockets (21) can be moved on the folding turret (11), for the purpose of receiving the partially folded packs (10) from the folding mandrels (18), in the direction of the latter'into the receiving position, in which the retaining pockets (21) directly adjoin the respectively associated folding mandrel (18), and the retaining pockets (21) can be moved back into the starting position once they have received a pack (10).
2. The packaging machine according to Claim 1, characterized in that the folding turret (11) comprises two sub-turrets (22, 23) which are axially adjacent to one another and connected to one another, the first mounts - folding mandrels (18) - being arranged on a sub-turret (22) and the second mount - retaining pockets (21) - being arranged on the second sub-turret (23).
3. Packaging machine according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that by means of mechanical control members, in particular cam plates or curved grooves, the retaining pockets (21) can be moved, during the rotary movement of the folding turret (11), in the axis-parallel direction into a position directly adjacent to an associated folding mandrel (18) and then back into the normal position.
4. Packaging machine according to Claim 1 or one of the further claims, characterized in that one group of mounts, in particular the retaining pockets (21), can be moved into a further, third position, in particular into a position at a distance from the normal position, such that, during movement of the retaining pockets (21), the pocket contents can be pushed out and transferred to a removal conveyor and/or to a transfer turret (13).
5. Packaging machine according to Claim 1 or one of the further claims, characterized in that the folding turret (11) comprises two sub-turrets (22, 23) which are connected to one another, one group of mounts - folding mandrels (18) - being fitted on one sub-turret (22) and the other group of mounts - retaining pockets (21) - being fitted on the other sub-turret (23).
6. Packaging machine according to Claim 1 or one of the further claims, characterized in that the contents of the folding mandrels (18) - a cigarette group (14) - can be pushed, by means of a pusher (39) with pusher head (40), out of a conveyor for the cigarette groups (14), in particular a pocket (64) of a pocket chain (15), into the folding mandrel (18) adjacent to the pocket (64) and through this folding mandrel into the retaining pocket (21), the partially folded blanks positioned on the outside of the folding mandrel (18) being carried along in the process.
7. Packaging machine according to Claim 1 or one of the further claims, characterized in that the retaining pockets (21) have, on the side which is directed towards the folding mandrel (18), a push-in opening (46) for the cigarette packs (10) and, on the opposite side, a base which can be displaced within the retaining pocket (21), in particular a head (59) of a displaceable push rod (57).
8. Packaging machine according to Claim 1 or one of the further claims, characterized in that the retaining pockets (21) are arranged such that they project on one side of a carrier which can be displaced in the axis-parallel direction, in particular on carrying rods (41, 42) which can be moved by contact rollers (44) in control grooves (43).
9. Packaging machine according to Claim 8, characterized in that those ends of the carrying rods (41, 42) which are directed towards the retaining pocket (21) are connected to one another by a crossmember (45), and in that the retaining pocket (21) is arranged on this crossmember (45).
10. Packaging machine according to Claim 1 or one of the further claims, characterized in that on at least one side - side wall (49) - the cross-sectionally closed retaining pocket (21) has a recess, in particular a longitudinal slot (51), for the through-passage of a movable pressure-exerting member, preferably of a pressure-exerting strip (52) for pressing folding tabs of the cigarette packet (10) against one another.

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