Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for handling sheet stacks, in which sheet stacks including at least one sheet are moved into a storage area with the help of handling apparatuses into sheet piles of at least one sheet stack. By virtue of the support beds, a handling apparatus and a straddle carrier, and a flexible and efficient buffer storage system for sheet stacks are provided for interfacing with existing sheet processing lines.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for feeding a sheet substack formed by one or a greater number of stacked sheets from a sheet stack (8), in particular feeding the sheets into a cutting saw from a feed station (1) or similar unit, the feed station comprising a pusher (11) for transferring the sheet substack from atop a sheet stack (8) and a back gauge (12) or similar element, in which station at least one of the following, either the back gauge (12) or the sheet stack (8), or even both, is/are movable relative to each other in the vertical direction, in which method the sheet stack (8) or the back gauge (12), or both, is/are moved relative to each other in the vertical direction and the pusher (11) is employed for pushing the sheet substack remaining above the upper edge of the back gage (12) to further processing.