Device for emptying and then disposing of trays filled with brochures

A method for receiving, emptying, and then disposing of trays filled with brochures, comprising:

• feeding a filled tray in a transport direction to a slide of a turning device, the turning device located in a receiving position;
• subsequently rotating the slide in a first rotational direction by 60-120° around a rotational axis substantially perpendicular to the transport direction to an emptying position and emptying the tray filled with brochures by pushing the brochures out of an open end of the tray in a direction substantially perpendicular to the transport direction;
• subsequently, after the tray has been emptied, rotating the slide from the emptying position to a disposal position by rotating the slide from the emptying position, with the empty tray still arranged on the slide around said rotational axis substantially perpendicular to the transport direction back in a second rotational direction opposite the first rotational direction and further in said second rotational direction around the same rotational axis, around which the slide was rotated from the emptying position back to the receiving position, past the receiving position to said disposal position, the slide thus having been rotated by 45-110° in the second rotational direction relative to the receiving position, so that the emptied tray falls from the slide;
• and
• subsequently rotating the slide in the first rotational direction back to the receiving position.