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Article: German Inventors Develop Cigarette Packages Producing Device
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 28, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 28 -- Heinz Focke, Doris Focke, Ju Focke, Heido Sporing and Ju Tempel, all from Verden, Germany, and Hermann Blome of Blender-Einste, Germany, have developed an apparatus for producing cigarette packs for a formed cigarette group which can be pushed out of a cigarette magazine containing vertical shafts for a respective row of stacked cigarettes.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For the production of cigarette groups having a formation comprising a plurality of vertical rows of cigarettes arranged one beside the other, after pushing a corresponding number of cigarettes out of shafts of a cigarette magazine, a transverse displacement of the ...