B.a.t. Cigarettenfabriken Gmbh

Herbert Wolfel

Heinz Krappitz

Johannes Wolfrum

An apparatus for supplying a stack of carton blanks from a pallet to the magazine of a carton-packing machine in which the carton blanks are arranged vertically adjacent to each other, in particular for the tobacco industry, comprises an unloading carriage which is pivotable about a horizontal axis from a substantially vertical position into a substantially horizontal position and has an unloading fork which is movable along the unloading carriage and the prongs of which in the vertical position of the unloading carriage and thus in the horizontal position of the unloading fork can be inserted beneath the stack into the gaps between the boards at the upper side of the pallet. A drive displaces the unloading carriage and thus the prongs in the direction of the gaps between the boards at the upper side of the pallet; a retaining device provided on the unloading carriage holds, in the substantially horizontal position of said unloading carriage, the stack of carton blanks in the vertical position; a conveyor for the transfer of the individual blanks from the unloading carriage to the magazine is integrated into the unloading carriage.

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Bayreuth, Germany

Herbert Wolfel