A device for handling elements comprises a shank provided with a stop; a rod which is longitudinally movable and rotatable with respect to the shank, comprising a flap at one end thereof, so as to define a clamp between the stop and the flap for gripping an element. A method comprises placing elements separated by at least one slit on a surface; inserting a tip of a shank provided with a flap inside the slit; placing a stop in contact with an upper part of the element; rotating the shank, holding the element on the upper part by the stop and on a lower part by the flap; and separating the element.

A filling apparatus and to a method are for filling containers with document-of-value stacks, and to a document-of-value processing apparatus. The filling apparatus is designed for filling containers with document-of-value stacks, for example document-of-value stacks that are set down by a document-of-value processing machine in a delivery region of the document-of-value processing machine. The filling apparatus has a feed interface, a delivery interface and a transport path along which the containers can be transported from the feed interface to the delivery interface, and a filling region in which in each case one container that has been fed to the filling apparatus can be positioned in order to be filled with document-of-value stacks by means of a gripping device.

The present disclosure relates to a carrying device for carrying a stack of products, such as a stack of sheets of paper. The carrying device extends in a longitudinal direction (L), a transversal direction (T) and a vertical direction (V), the directions being mutually perpendicular. The carrying device may assume a carrying configuration in which the carrying device may carry the stack of products. The carrying device comprises a first carrying assembly, a second carrying assembly and a carrying device base, each one of the first and second carrying assemblies being connected to the carrying device base. Each one of first and the second carrying assemblies may comprise a delimitation assembly and a supporting surface assembly connected to the delimitation assembly, the supporting surface assembly comprising at least one supporting surface, wherein the vertical direction (V) extends from the supporting surface assembly to the carrying device base when the carrying device assumes the carrying configuration.

A magazine for packs of blanks includes a vertical channel configured for inserting and extracting packs of blanks, a succession of groups of supporting parts movable between a retracted position to allow the packs of blanks to move along the channel towards a portion under the supporting part, and an at least partly extracted position, in which the supporting part intercepts a pack of blanks moving down the channel and provides a steady support for the pack of blanks, and transmission means configured to automatically move each supporting part from the retracted position to the at least partly extracted position when the supporting part immediately below it intercepts a respective pack of blanks, thereby defining the steady support.