Packing the Cigarettes

Preparing foil

image of foil reel for packing machine

Once the cigarettes were fully formed, they had to be packed. Here, John Carter prepares a reel of foil for a 379 PackerClick for a glossary definition. The 379 Packer was from an older generation of packers made in the 1940s and 1950s. The 379 wrapped twenty cigarettes in a foil bundle and covered them with a label.