Sasib S.p.a.

Mario Fossi

Renato Manservisi

A method for obtaining wrapper sheet blanks from a continuous web having opposite parallel edges, wherein each blank is composed of first and second portions, the first portion having the shape of a rectangle and the second portion having the shape of a non-rectangular parallelogram joined to the first portion along a common imaginary edge. The method includes making a plurality of first cuts in the web which are spaced apart from each other in a direction parallel to the opposite parallel edges of the web, each first cut producing a first cut edge which is perpendicular to, and contiguous with one of the opposite parallel edges of the web and wherein each first cut edge constitutes an edge of a respective one of the first portions of the blanks; and making a plurality of second cuts in the web which are spaced apart from each other in a direction parallel to the opposite parallel edges of the web, each second cut producing a second cut edge which is inclined relative to, and contiguous with both a corresponding one of the first cut edges and the other of the opposite parallel edges, and wherein each second cut edge constitutes an edge of a respective one of the second portions of the blanks.

Method for obtaining a wrapper sheet for a cigarette pack

The wrapper sheet (1) for forming the outer wrapping in cigarette packs of the so-called 'soft or american' type, has the outline of a rectangle with a bevel angle (101) and, in correspondence of the angle adjacent to the bevel angle, with an appendix (201) projecting out of the ideal contour of the rectangle and being exactly alike to the triangle cut out from the bevel angle. Upon folding of the outer wrapper (1) around the tinfoil-wrapped cigarette pack, the two bottom flaps result to be both shaped as isosceles trapeziums, while the appendix comes to be concealed under one of said flaps.

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