Method and device for handling blanks of wrapping material for cigarette packets

The invention relates to a method and a corresponding device for handling blanks (11) of wrapping material for cigarette packs (10), in particular of the type soft pack, the blanks (11) are held ready in a stack in a magazine (22) and the blanks (11) removed from the magazine (22) and a packaging machine (21) for cigarette packs (10), in particular a soft packer supplied. According to the invention it is provided that the blanks (11) of a coding station (23) for attachment of a coding (19, 20) on the blanks (11) are supplied and that the blanks (11) after encoding to a stream of blanks with overlap of adjacent blanks ( 11) together, and (to the packaging machine 21) are passed.