Apparatus for storing, transporting and delivering roll-formed flat printing material for a machine processing such material

A device for storing and transporting a roll of printing material, comprising a housing for receiving and surrounding the roll of printing material, said housing being a dispenser for the printing material unwound from the roll, mutually opposed, spaced-apart retaining parts having supports disposed at a given height, a roll shaft for carrying the roll of printing material, said supports being formed as shells and being pivotable jointly, about an axis parallel to said roll shaft, between a charging position, having the roll mounted on said roll shaft feedable thereto, and an operating position, having said shells preventing said roll shaft from being ejected out of them, said shells being supported eccentrically on said retaining parts for lifting said roll shaft fed to said shells in said charging position, together with the roll, upon said shells pivoting into the operating position, to a level raised a given spaced distance relative to the charging position, and a base supporting said housing and adapted to be picked up.