Pouch pack for tobacco as well as a process and apparatus for making this

Claim 1

Process for making pouch packs for fibrous material, especially cut tobacco, comprising a multilayer blank made of plastic foils, which forms a pocket with a front wall, a rear wall, a bottom and side walls and, as a continuation of the rear wall, a closure flap, said side walls being perpendicular to said front and said rear wall when the pouch is filled with the fibrous material, an orifice of the pocket being sealed by a closing seam, wherein, after the pocket (24) has been filled with fibrous material, with the blank lying flat and spread out in the region on the orifice (32) of the pocket, the closing seam (36) extending over the entire length of the orifice is made, and then lateral strip-shaped projecting lengths (40, 41) of the closure flap (25) together with edge ends of the closing strip are folded inwardly against the inner side of the closure flap, and wherein, finally, the closure flap together with the inwardly folded projecting lengths (40, 41) is folded over against the front wall (26) of the pocket; wherein for folding in the projecting lengths (40, 41) the closure flap (25) is pivoted into an intermediate position at an angle to the pocket (24), especially at an angle of 45°, and wherein in this position the projecting lengths are folded over against the closure flap whereafter the flap is finally folded against the front wall (26) of the pocket.