Device and method for safely and quickly transferring new glass sheets from the production line to a transport vehicle

The invention relates to a device and to a method for safely and quickly transferring new glass sheets from the production line to a transport vehicle, having the following features; a) a glass-sheet roller conveyor having a glass-rack gripping and stacking device for receiving glass sheets from a production line, b) two parallel running rails extending centrically at a right angle toward the glass-sheet roller conveyor, an underfloor energy supply rail being arranged in the region between the running rails, c) at least one glass-rack carriage, which moves on the running rails and which has at least one glass rack lying on said glass-rack carriage, a glass rack being able to be loaded with obliquely positioned glass sheets and the glass racks being fixed in the oblique position by means of a pivoting device, and d) a rotary device arranged in the course of the running rails for rotating a glass-rack carriage by 180 degrees for loading one glass-rack carriage at a time.