Packaging machine for producing cigarette packs

A packaging machine for producing packs with a group (23) of cigarettes as pack content, having individual separable manufacturing units (11-16) which are arranged adjacent to one another on a manufacturing line and which are separable from one another in each case in respective regions between each of the separable manufacturing units (11-16) and are removable from the manufacturing line as required, wherein the packaging machine can be converted from a first configuration, in which a first pack type can be manufactured, into a second configuration, in which a second pack type which differs from the first pack type can be manufactured, by removing at least one of the separable manufacturing units (11-16) from the manufacturing line, by replacing at least one of the separable manufacturing units (11-16) with another one of the separable manufacturing units (11-16) and/or by adding at least one further of the separable manufacturing units (11-16) to the manufacturing line,

• wherein the packaging machine, in the first configuration, has at least the following in succession in a manufacturing flow direction:
• a separable forming unit (11) for forming cigarette groups;
• a first separable folding unit (13) in which an inner blank composed of cardboard or of some other material suitable for forming a dimensionally stable inner pack is folded around the respective cigarette group (23) so as to form an inner pack (22);
• a separable sealing inner pack unit (14) adjoining the first folding unit (13), in which a sealing inner pack (26) of a first type is formed in each case from the inner pack (22) or in which a sealing inner pack (26) of the first type is folded into a final state or in which in each case one sealing inner pack (26) of the first type comprising the inner pack (22) is formed, wherein the separable sealing inner pack unit (14) has a turning device (60, 60′) which rotates the respective inner or sealing inner pack (22, 26) with the cigarette group (23) integrated therein within a conveying plane in which the cigarette group (23) is conveyed in the region of the turning device (60, 60′), or within a horizontal plane parallel thereto, through 180°, which can be in a single 180° rotation or in two 90° partial rotations;
• a second separable folding unit (15), in which an outer blank composed of cardboard or of some other material suitable for forming a dimensionally stable outer pack is in each case folded around the sealing inner pack (26) of the first type in each case so as to form an outer pack (27);
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• a separable curing unit (16) adjoining the second separable folding unit (15), in which adhesive between folding tabs, which have been adhesively bonded to one another, of the respective outer blank of the outer pack (27) can cure.