Device for transporting and storing cigarettes

Device for transporting and storing cigarettes, having a storage unit (20) comprising a plurality of containers (21) which are arranged one beside the other and are connected fixedly to one another, having an interior (49) for receiving the cigarettes, which interior is bounded by a large-surface-area front wall (47), a large-surface-area rear wall (48), narrow side walls (31, 32) and a bottom wall (28), and in which the cigarettes can be stored with their longitudinal axes transverse to the plane of the front wall (47), and having a conveyor (16) for feeding the cigarettes, in particular, from a cigarette-making machine and conveying away the cigarettes, in particular, to a packaging machine, it being possible for the individual containers (21) to be filled or emptied one after the other in a filling station (18) by the conveyor (16), characterized in that the bottom wall (28) is mounted pivotably in the region of the filling opening (25) and can be pivoted from an essentially horizontal normal position into an oblique position, sloping down to the filling opening (25), by means of at least one leg (29, 30) which slopes down to the filling opening (25).