Magazine for flat articles, such as folding boxes lying flat

Claim 1

A magazine for receiving flat articles, in the form of folded boxes lying flat, in stacked form for delivering them individually, into a delivery conveyor in opened form, having a conveyor apparatus extending substantially in a horizontal plane rising slightly toward a delivery end of said conveyor apparatus on which the folded boxes are stacked in an oblique position and covering one another, the folded boxes are moved with their upper edge region in a forward position from a rear portion of the conveyor; a receiving chute adjoins a front end of the conveyor apparatus for receiving folded boxes; a feeler device is positioned relative to said receiving chute for monitoring the filling of the receiving chute, said feeler device triggers movement of the conveyor apparatus for refilling the receiving chute if the supply of folded boxes in the receiving chute drops below said feeler device, said receiving chute (11) substantially adjoins the conveyor apparatus (10) in a vertical alignment with the folded boxes (1) resting horizontally one above the other in the receiving chute; a wedge-shaped gap is formed between the folded boxes (1) stacked in an oblique position on the conveyor apparatus (10) and those stacked horizontally in the receiving chute (11), wherein the forwardmost folded boxes, in the conveyor direction, disposed on the conveyor apparatus protrude freely by their upper, leading edge region, past the receiving chute portion at the transition from the conveyor apparatus to the receiving chute (11) and are pressed onto the conveyor apparatus by their trailing edge region by the weight of the following folded boxes, said leading boxes tilt progressively out of the oblique position into the horizontal position in the receiving chutes; and the height of the stack of folded boxes in the receiving chute (11) is maintained constant by triggering of the conveyor apparatus (10) by said feeler device (24) associated with the receiving chute.