Method and device for unpacking a component

A method for unpacking a component (16) produced by means of a generative manufacturing method from a particulate material fill (18) of unconsolidated particulate material, which fill is arranged in a receiving space together with the component, which receiving space is circumferentially limited by a vertical circumferential wall structure (12) of a construction box (10), which is open in an upward direction, in which a height-adjustable construction platform (14) is received on which the particulate material fill containing the component is arranged,

• the method being characterized in that:
• an auxiliary frame (20) having a vertical circumferential wall structure (22) open in a downward direction and configured to receive the particulate material fill (18) containing the component (16) is arranged vertically above the vertical circumferential wall structure (12) of the construction box (10),
• the construction platform (14) is displaced upward, so that the particulate material fill (18) containing the component (16) is transferred from the construction box (10) to the auxiliary frame (20) and is received in the latter,
• the auxiliary frame (20) with the particulate material fill (18) containing the component (16) received therein, and the construction box (10) are moved away from each other, so that the latter is free for a following construction job, and
• the component (16) is unpacked at least in part from the particulate material fill (18) and is removed from the auxiliary frame (20).