Pack for cigarettes and method and apparatus for producing said pack

A pack for cigarettes (10) or other smoking articles having an outer pack (25), in the form of a hinge-lid pack with a box part (26) and lid (27), and having an inner pack in the form of a sealing block with a blank (12) of material which surrounds a cigarette group, wherein the inner pack (11) comprises an opening aid (18) in an end-face region of an inner front wall (13) of the inner pack (11) and at least in a part of a region of an inner end wall (17), wherein the opening aid (18) comprises a closure means in the form of a closure tab (20) which is produced from a separate blank and which is arranged on the outside of the inner pack (11) and is fastened on the inner pack (11) by means of releasable adhesion and for opening the inner pack (11) is pulled at least in part away from the inner pack (11) and, as a result, exposes a removal opening (19) at least in part, wherein:

• the inner pack (11) comprises a removal opening (19) as a free opening, the removal opening (19) being produced during production of the inner pack (11);
• b) the closure tab (20) covers the removal opening (19) completely and on all sides in a closed position, with an overlapping edge or overlapping strip (21, 22, 23) which extends all around the removal opening (19);
• c) the closure tab (20) is free of adhesives in the region of the removal opening (19), wherein the adhesive-free region of the closure tab (20) is slightly greater than the region of the removal opening (19) and runs all around and surrounds the removal opening (19);
• d) the closure tab (20) comprises a glue-free actuating tab (24) in a region adjacent to the inner front wall (13) in the closed position;
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• e) the means of releasable adhesion are strips of releasable adhesive located on the closure tab (20) in regions directly adjacent to the adhesive-free region of the closure tab (20).