Method of manufacturing packs of cigarettes and pack produced by such method

A cigarette package produced by a method of manufacturing a cigarette package from a foil wrapping which surrounds a block of cigarettes on all sides and from a printed paper wrapper, which leaves one end of the foil-wrapped block of cigarettes free and which is closed by a bottom fold at its other end, comprising the steps of

• cutting at least one tab on a foil blank by two incisions in the region of the bottom fold to be subsequently produced,
• bending the tab off approximately at right angles to the foil blank,
• bringing the foil blank and a wrapper blank of substantially the same size together and connecting said blanks to each other in a manner such that corresponding edges of the two blanks coincide approximately on three of the corresponding edges and that said foil blank projects beyond said wrapper blank on a fourth edge,
• feeding said connected blanks to a parallelpiped-shaped folding mandrel with the foil blank against the mandrel and in a position projecting beyond the long or wide sides of the folding mandrel and positioning the bent tab of the foil blank so as to cover at least a part of a smaller, bottom side of the folding mandrel,
• folding the connected blanks around the long and wide sides of the folding mandrel so as to form long overlapping portions on at least one long or wide side of the folding mandrel,
• gluing the overlapping portions at the at least one long or wide side,
• at said other end folding narrow flaps (which constitute portions of both said foil blank and said wrapper blank which project beyond the long sides of the mandrel) in a direction toward the bottom side of the mandrel and then,
• folding a first wide flap, which projects beyond a wide side of the mandrel opposite to an exposed projecting portion of the wrapper blank from which the tab has been bent-off, in a direction toward said tab, and then
• folding a bottom flap which includes said exposed projecting portion of the wrapper blank against the last mentioned flap, said tab thereby lying on the bottom side of the folding mandrel, thereby producing the bottom fold and the cigarette package which is open at said one end,
• withdrawing the cigarette package from the folding mandrel via said one end, comprising the foil wrapping which surrounds the block of cigarettes on all sides and of the printed paper wrapper, both of which are closed at the other end of the block of cigarettes by the bottom fold, wherein
• said bottom fold is formed by said at least one tab of the foil blank, said tab forms an innermost layer of the package, and by said flaps, engaging over each other, of the long and wide sides, said exposed projecting portion of said wrapper blank, constituting an outermost layer and a portion of said bottom flap which is free of foil as a result of the bent-off tab, is glued on an inner side thereof to the outside of the opposite said first wide flap.