Patent ID: 7281709

Claim:
A method for establishing a stream of flat articles of different article types (A, B, C), the method comprising the steps of: providing a conveying surface ( 22 ) and a plurality of supply means, said plurality of supply means being arranged in succession along the conveying surface and being equipped for depositing one article type each on the conveying surface, preforming imbricated formations in the ( 26 . 1 , 26 . 2 , 26 . 3 ) in the supply means, wherein the imbricated formations comprise a plurality of articles or one article each and wherein imbricated formations preformed by different supply means comprise different numbers of articles, and depositing the preformed imbricated formations ( 26 . 1 , 26 . 2 , 26 . 3 ) as imbricated formations or stacks behind each other on the conveying surface, wherein the succession of deposited imbricated formations on the conveying surface corresponds with the succession of the supply means.