Philip Morris Inc.

Philip Morris Management Corp.

Jeffrey M Haskin

John Mathew Adams

Xuan M Pham

David Moir

Angel Amendola

Ronald R Stewart

Robert Gallino

Frederick M Della Crosse

Kenneth B Shepard

A cigarette packing machine exit apparatus having a contoured heating surface and a pivoted heater retraction feature. The contoured surface preferably is in the form of diagonally oriented elongated narrow ridges that act as contact surfaces to concentrate heat on the seal of the cigarette packs being conveyed along the surface. The pivoted retraction feature serves to raise and then lower the heater when the packing machine is shut off so that the packs then on the heater surface are raised and are held spatially separated from the heater.

Cigarette packing machine exit apparatus

A sealed cigarette carton is formed by activating an adhesive pre-applied to a carton blank and then setting the adhesive. Cigarette packaging apparatus and method utilizing packaging stock comprising a pre-applied adhesive forms cigarette cartons that are sealed by heat-activating and then setting the pre-applied adhesive.

Method for making a heatsealable carton

Growing community of inventors

LaGrange, GA, United States of America

Jeffrey M Haskin