Abstract: A method and arrangement for severing packaging blanks, including a drive roller, a register roller at a location downstream of the drive roller and high-speed driving rollers downstream of the register roller for removing severed web portions. The drive roller is provided with a circumferential web-engaging surface and a knife located in a circumferential gap in the web-engaging surface. The drive roller cooperates with a counter roller, and a pendulum roller is located upstream of drive roller.

Abstract: An arrangement for the raising and transporting of packing container blanks is used in a packaging machine of the type which converts tubular packing container blanks to filled and sealed packing containers. The arrangement has a carrier plate which by a plurality of suction heads grips a flattened packing container blank situated in a magazine and transports the same to a conveyor (4). During the transport the packing container blank is converted with the help of stationary supports, situated in the path of movement of the blank, so that it obtains a substantially square cross-section.