Method and device for producing a package for a group of smokable articles

A device for manufacturing items of packaging for groups of smokable articles, the items of packaging each having a wrapping of a thin packaging material, the device comprising:

• a severing element with which a material web of the packaging material is severable into individual blanks;
• a blank subassembly in a region of which the groups of smokable articles are wrappable with the individual blanks in each case;
• an application element which is arranged upstream of the severing element and with which flavoring and/or aromatic portions for the smokable articles are applied to the material web;
• and
• a processing means with which the flavoring and/or aromatic portions, after application, are at least in regions reduced in height such that the flavoring and/or aromatic portions are spread flat and/or pressed flat by the processing means,
• wherein the processing means is a roller having a circumferential length corresponding to a length of the individual blanks which are in each case to be severed from the material web, such that same regions of the roller respectively touch in each case same regions of respective individual blanks, and of respective flavoring and/or aromatic portions on the individual blanks;
• whereby the individual blanks transfer same fractions of their flavoring and/or aromatic portions to same specific positions of the roller creating a deposit pattern of the flavoring and/or aromatic portions on a circumferential face of the roller, whereby the roller always transfers the deposit pattern to same positions of subsequent individual blanks of the material web, and whereby the deposit pattern on the roller is such that the transfer of flavoring and/or aromatic portions to the subsequent individual blanks takes place only at positions of each respective individual blank on which there previously have been applied the flavoring and/or aromatic portions.