Patent ID: 8387967

Claim:
An apparatus for handling stacks ( 18 ) of printing media ( 11 ) which are arranged above one another and are made from packaging material, in particular a magazine ( 16 ) for excise stamps or coupons, within an apparatus for producing packs ( 10 ) for cigarettes, the apparatus having a shaft ( 19 ) for receiving the stack ( 18 ), which shaft ( 19 ) is delimited at least partially by stationary walls ( 20 ) and is upright, wherein the shaft ( 19 ) has at least one suction device ( 25 ) which acts in regions on the stack ( 18 ) in order to hold and/or align the printing media ( 11 ) on at least one of the stationary walls ( 20 ) by means of vacuum. wherein the printing media ( 11 ) are arranged in the stack ( 18 ) so as to lie flat on one another, and wherein edges of the printing media ( 11 ) face the at least one of the stationary walls ( 20 ) of the shaft ( 19 ), with the result that the suction action of the at least one suction device ( 25 ) acts on an edge of the printing media ( 11 ).