Device and method for receiving, transporting, and dispensing film bags

Device for receiving, transporting, and dispensing film bags, having:

• a film bag magazine with multiple parallel magazine shafts for providing the film bags, characterized by
• two circulating conveyor belt devices which can be driven independently of each other, with film bag receiving areas arranged thereon which circulate about two common axes, wherein the two axes are drivable independently of each other and each axis drives one of the two conveyor belt devices;
• a first drive device which is rotatable about one of the two axes, the so-called first axis, and drivable by the first axis, and
• a second drive device which is rotatable about the other one of the two axes, the so-called second axis, and drivable by the second axis;
• a first deflection device which is rotatable about the second axis without being drivable by the second axis, and
• a second deflection device which is rotatable about the first axis without being drivable by the first axis,
• wherein at the first circulating conveyor belt device, a first number of film bag receiving areas is arranged, the first circulating conveyor belt device extends around the first drive device and around the first deflection device, and is drivable by the first drive device, wherein the film bag receiving areas are positionable underneath the magazine shafts for receiving the film bags in a film bag receiving position, and
• wherein at the second circulating conveyor belt device, a second number of film bag receiving areas is arranged and extends around the second drive device and around the second deflection device and is drivable by the second drive device, wherein the film bag receiving areas are positionable underneath the magazine shafts for receiving the film bags in the film bag receiving position.