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An apparatus for feeding a cigarette packaging machines with stacks 2 of cardboard blanks (2' Figs 4, 5) includes a centering means (9, 10, Fig. 6) for locating a supporting member 4 bearing a plurality of stacks 2 of blanks, the stacks being arranged mutually side by side so as to form parallel and mutually adjacent rows 5; and a vertically and horizontally displaceable unit 12 for removing and transferring individual rows, provided with a head fitted with dependent pushers 20 which are arranged vertically side by side and are adapted to move a single row (5) of stacks (2) in a horizontal transfer direction onto a head-mounted platform 24, and then across the platform onto a conveyor 3 for input to the packaging machine when the platform together with the head has been raised to the level of the conveyor. Layers of stacks are separated by sheet which may be removed by grippers and shredded. in another embodiment (Figs 9-11) the loaded support member is loaded onto a turn-table and centred, and the vertically and horizontally movable unit 12 mounts a plurality of suction devices for lifting and transporting the individual row and plurality of dependent levers for pushing the row across a platform constituted by a plurality of strips onto the conveyor. <IMAGE>
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