Abstract: The invention concerns a calender which comprises a vertical stack of interlinked rollers driven individually by regulated electric motors. The regulation process acts on the distribution of the delivered power to the individual rollers such that the forces acting on the rollers in the horizontal direction and measured in the roller bearings are minimized, so enabling slimmer rollers to be used.

Abstract: In a winding machine, the space defined by the support cylinders and the winding rolls is sealed and an overpressure is created in this space to relieve the force with which the winding rolls press against the support cylinders. For the purpose, in the area of the two lateral ends of the support cylinders sealing elements are arranged, which for adjustment to various web widths, are axially displaceable and at the same time can be moved away to an area outside the motion range of guide heads and their mounting. In the sealing position of the sealing elements, a fictional-look connection with the support cylinders is avoided.

Abstract: A winding machine has a carriage movable along the support drum or roller for applying adhesive tape strip to the web wound on rolls on opposite sides of the support roller upon application of a pressing roller on the carriage thereagainst, a cutter wheel severing the web into leading and trailing ends and simultaneously cutting the adhesive strip in two to leave strip segments on the leading and trailing ends.

Abstract: A doctor blade assembly for coating a traveling web has a blade which is held against movement away from the web or a coating drum or cylinder by a pressure strip bearing with its contact edge against the doctor blade. The pressure strip can be adjusted by spaced part rods and adjusting nuts against a spring force.

Abstract: For the application of a coating material onto a running material web, particularly a paper or cardboard web, a cylinder guides the web of material while a dosing element extends over the work width and has a surface which together with the cylinder forms an application gap converging in the travel direction of the web. In order to be able to apply various coating materials at high web speeds evenly and without disturbances, even at low application weights, the dosing element is supported swingably about an axis parallel to the cylinder, the radius of its surface guiding the coating material increases continuously in the travel direction of the web up to the dosing line and the surface ends at the dosing line with an edge whose radius is less than 8 mm.

Abstract: An elongated support roller centered on and rotatable about a horizontal axis radially engages at least one row of takeup rolls coaxial to a takeup-roll axis parallel to the support-roller axis and including at least one central roll and a pair of end rolls axially flanking the central roll. A relatively wide paper web fed to the support roller passes through a slitter between the web supply and the support roller for slitting the web into a plurality of strips including at least one central strip and a pair of end strips flanking the end strip. The central and end strips pass at least partially around the support roller and are wound on the respective central and end rolls. The support roller is rotated about its axis so that the strips wind at least partially around the support roller and at least the central roll is rotated by engagement with the support roll. Respective end-roll periphery drives radially engage the end rolls for rotating same at a greater peripheral speed than the support roller.

Abstract: A paper-winding machine having a frame and supports for paper rolls carried by the frame and forming winding stations has a pair of overhead windup rollers supported on the members and flanking the rolls, and respective sound-absorbing curtains of flexible sheet material on the windup rollers and movable from positions hanging down therefrom and absorbing sound generated at the stations and positions wound up on the respective rollers.

Abstract: For winding webs of material on cores winding machines have two support rollers on which the winding rolls are supported during winding. The web is guided from underneath through the gap between the support cylinders. When the winding rolls are exchanged, for the cutting of the web a cutting knife with a tear-off blade is raised through the gap between the support cylinders up to the cylinder bed. In order to reduce the bearing load of the winding rolls on the support cylinders in the lower wedge between the two support cylinders an air box extending over the work width and having a compressed air supply line is provided, which seals the gap between the support cylinders and has an air exit slot open towards this gap. The tear-off blade of the cutting knife is attached to a support arranged in the air box and can be moved up and down through the air exit slot into the cutting position in the cylinder bed and completely lowered into the air box.

Abstract: A diverter for paper and cardboard sheets has upper and lower guide elements between the incoming conveyor and two outgoing conveyors including an acute angle with one another, constructed so that the upper and lower guide elements are pivoted respectively about horizontal axes above and below the travel path and links are pivotally connected to these guide elements spaced from their pivot axes so that a four-point linkage of the guide elements is provided. The upper guide element is driven by a pivot drive and entrains the lower guide element via the links.

Abstract: In a device for coating a web of material, particularly a paper or cardboard web, the swivel mechanism of the coating mechanism and/or of the dosing system each have in addition to the cylinder units effecting the swinging motion from the servicing position into the working position, a hydraulic piston-cylinder unit pressing the swivel arms from the working position into an intermediate position. In this way the coating mechanism and/or the dosing system can be swung every quickly into the working position at the counter-roller and also swung away very quickly from the latter.

Abstract: A method of winding a continuous web on a succession of cores comprises the steps of sequentially rotating a core to which the web is attached to longitudinally advance the web and wind it on the core while applying a strip of adhesive to a transfer roller and then stopping rotation of the core. Subsequently a crosswise row of perforations is formed in the web offset from the core and then the web is longitudinally advanced while pressing the roller against the web to transfer the adhesive strip to the web at and immediately upstream and downstream from the perforation row. The web is subsequently differentially. longitudinally advanced web upstream and downstream of the perforation row to tear the web longitudinally apart at the perforation row, thereby forming a trailing web end attached to the web wound on the core and a leading web end each carrying some of the adhesive strip.

Abstract: An apparatus for subdividing a flexible web into at least two strips and winding same up into individual rolls has a supply roll on which the flexible web is wound, at least one takeup roll on which the web is also wound, and a drive for rotating the takeup roll and thereby pulling the web from the supply roll. The supply roll is braked to tension the web. Between the supply and takeup rolls the web is longitudinally slit into at least two individual strips. A pair of pinch rolls between the slitting means and the takeup roll engage the individual strips without slip a drive or brake rotates the pinch rollers at a speed such that the tension in the web upstream of the pinch rollers is substantially greater than the tension downstream of the pinch rollers.

Abstract: A box tube blank having first, second, third, and fourth panels joined together at first, second, third, and forth creases is broken in starting with the blank oriented in a starting plane with the first and third creases superposed and the second and fourth creases outermost. First the second and fourth creases are pressed toward each other parallel to the starting plane to spread the first and third creases away from each other until the second and fourth creases are juxtaposed and the first and third creases lie outermost and the blank lies generally perpendicular to the starting plane. Then the tube blank passes between an upstream pair of parallel rollers extending perpendicular to the starting plane to compress it parallel to the starting plane.

Abstract: A winding machine having a longitudinal cutting device for sectioning the web of material into individual webs includes two winding stations each provided with a winder bracket movable with respect to the web of material and having a guide head connected to a rotary drive and insertable into the winding core between the longitudinal cutting device and the winding stations a driven cylinder is arranged against which a roller having individual freely run segments, can be pressed for frictionally engaging the individual webs.

Abstract: A coating device includes a transfer roller communicating with a bank of coating material and engaging a web of material to be coated, a squeegee bung mounted to resiliently press against a periphery of the transfer roller and to define a contact surface across which the coating material flows, and a counter roller provided with an air blade for final dosing of the coating material applied to the web.

Abstract: Sheets of cardboard continuously fed in a shingled stream are stacked upon a progressively lowered speed form until the desired stack height is reached, whereupon a vertically-fixed horizontal movable bar grate is inserted between the oncoming sheets and the finished stack, concurrently with vibration of the stop board against which the leading edges of the sheets impact.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a plurality of relatively narrow rolls of paper from a relatively wide band of paper has a relatively wide main roller to which is fed strips cut from the wide paper band. A plurality of pairs of support heads are arranged in two rows extending along the main roller with the rows spaced angularly from each other. Each pair of support heads is spaced in the respective row axially from the other support heads of the respective row and each pair of support heads is adapted to engage in an end of a respective roll core about which a respective one of the strips is wound. A drive rotates the main roller and thereby winds the strips up on the respective roll cores. Respective elongated supports extend axially along the main roller adjacent the rows of support heads and can be raised and lowered. A respective blower box at each of the rolls has an upwardly open mouth snugly engageable with the respective roll held in the respective pair of holders.

Abstract: A relatively wide strip of paper is slitted longitudinally into a plurality of strips that are fed to a rotating relatively wide main roller. A plurality of pairs of support heads are arranged in two rows extending along the main roller with the rows spaced angularly from each other. Each pair of support heads is spaced in the respective row axially from the other support heads of the respective row and each pair is adapted to engage in an end of a roll core about which a respective one of the strips is wound. A drive rotates the main roller and thereby winds the strips up on the respective roll cores. Two respective vertically movable unloading beams extend axially along the main roller underneath the respective rows of support heads substantially the full length of the main roller. Respective guides extend along each of the beams substantially the full length of the main roller and respective carriages associated with the holder pairs can travel along the guides of the respective beams.

Abstract: An apparatus for positioning the beginning of a web of material, especially paper, against the roll of a winder from below. The beginning of the web is conveyed up against an upright plate-shaped web-positioning mechanism by compressed air. The compressed air is emitted in an essentially laminar flow up along the surface of and essentially parallel with the surface of a baffle.

Abstract: The guide head for heavy rolls includes a bracket, a nonrotatable trunnion formed with three parts each having a respective outer surface, a rotatable hollow guide formed with a an annular surface, a radial bearing spaced radially inwardly from the inner surface of the guide and forming therewith a an annular clearance receiving an elastic O-ring capable of deforming under the load mounted on the guide.