Abstract: In order to improve the efficiency and quality consistency of the cartoning of cigar packets, a cartoner was designed, it consists mainly of a blank holder, a blank conveying system, a packet conveying and collation system, a gluing system, a folding system, and a drive system. The carton blanks stored in the blank holder are picked up one by one by the blank feeding system and conveyed to a positioning plate from where the carton blank along with the collated cigar packets coming from the packet conveying and collation system are transferred into the folding system, then the carton blank is folded and glued. The designed cartoner was tested on "Yellow Crane Tower (Snow Dream No. 10)" brand cigars in Sanxia Cigarette Factory, the results showed that the designed cartoner ran smoothly with the packaging speed comparable to the manual packaging speed of 16 workers. Compared with manual packaging, the breakage rate of cigar packets and the unqualified packaging rate of cartons reduced by 0.4 and 2.5 percentage points, respectively. This technology provides technical support for the promotion of automation in cigar packaging.