Manufacturing Page 6

Another angle of a banding & cellophaning machine. The cigars are pulled over onto a table where the machine operator fills the boxes up and nails the lid down. The roll of protective film can be seen in the upper center of the picture.
In the background, packing trunks which hold 1000 cigars, 20 rows at 50 cigars per row, are on rollers which allow the first cigars packed to be rolled to the end to be banded, cellophaned, and packaged by the machine operator.

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