The invention relates to a packaging apparatus for small items, to the use of a packaging apparatus and to a method for producing a connected
blister pack. The packaging apparatus comprises a packaging material guide for providing a web of formed packaging material suitable for containing small items, a longitudinal joining device arranged downstream of the packaging material guide, and a transverse joining device arranged downstream of the packaging material guide, which joins the web of formed packaging material at predetermined intervals at a transverse joining region transversely to the conveying direction, wherein the transverse joining device comprises two joining tools having a plurality of
embossing tools which can be moved individually transversely to the conveying direction during the packaging operation and
embossing tool stop regions which interact such that a palpable
embossing can be formed in the transverse joining region by means of the embossing tools.