Patent ID: 8813464

Claim:
An apparatus for aligning a package ( 10 ), comprising at least one openable and closeable vacuum chamber ( 32 ), a mechanism to feed packages into the open vacuum chamber ( 32 ), a mechanism to create a vacuum in the closed vacuum chamber ( 32 ), whereby a package ( 10 ) with a folded-in flap that has been moved into the open vacuum chamber ( 32 ) via the feed mechanism ( 20 ) aligns itself due to the vacuum created in the closed vacuum chamber ( 32 ) to be an aligned package with the flap being unfolded, the vacuum chamber further having at least one fixing means ( 22 ) for fixing the aligned package ( 10 ) by grasping the unfolded flap, and a mechanism to feed the aligned package ( 10 ) out of the open vacuum chamber ( 32 ) to a package opening device ( 40 ) for opening of the package ( 10 ).