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PCT No. PCT/FI97/00557 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 21, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 21, 1999 PCT Filed Sep. 18, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/13263 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 1998In a method for packaging flat articles, articles are brought in a continuous stack (P) along a support level to a grouping station so that their planes are upright from the support level, wherein product batches to be placed in a package, such as a box, are separated from the stack by an automatic grouping device. For grouping articles having different thicknesses at different ends in the direction of their plane, a stack portion (OP) is separated from the stack, the stack portion is gripped by a gripping device, and it is rotated around one axis so that its direction deviates from the original. The first stack portions (OP) so rotated are placed next to such second stack portions, whose directions in relation to said one axis deviate 180 DEG from the direction of the first stack portions, and the first and second stack portion so placed next to each other are formed to the product batch to be placed in the package.
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