Patent ID: 7644913

Claim:
Method for supplying individual quantities of flat and in particular different part products to a serial further processing, comprising the following steps: Arranging, in a preparatory step, part product groups, each comprising one of said individual quantities of part products, in a row, fashioning, in a first direction, the row into a storage formation, dissolving, in a supply step being independent of time and place of the preparatory step, the storage formation in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, successively separating part product groups from the front end of the row being restored by dissolving, and supplying the separated part product groups to the further processing, wherein the preparatory step, before fashioning of the storage formation, further comprises: turning the part product groups being arranged in the row by 180° such that a region of the part product groups being the leading region before the turning becomes the trailing region after the turning, and further comprising the step of: producing the row of part product groups in such a manner that the part product groups overlap or that the part products overlap or that the part product groups are distanced from each other and that one edge or one corner of the part products of each part product group are aligned, and wherein the separating step further comprises gripping each part product group in the range of said aligned edges or corners for separating the part product groups from the restored row.