Abstract: An apparatus for advancing cut products from a saw to a wrapper includes a plurality of product supports for supporting multiple rows of cut products. A first or buffer portion of the apparatus includes an entry portion of the product supports and includes a first conveyor and a pair of flight bars mounted on the first conveyor. A second or pusher portion of the apparatus includes an exit portion of the product supports and includes a second conveyor for each of the product supports and a pair of pushers mounted on each of the second conveyors. A first drive motor advances the first conveyor and the flight bars thereon for pushing cut products on the product supports from the entry portion toward the second conveyors.

Abstract: In a papermaking machine for forming tissue paper, a turning bar is disposed having a curved surface about which a web of tissue paper is turned. The bar has an internal air plenum which supplies air to two sets of holes or slots. The first set is arranged to direct air normal to the curved surface of the bar or in the machine direction, the second set is arranged to direct air toward the edges of the tissue which is turned around the bar. The second holes or slots produce air jets which apply a cross machine direction tension to the web which prevents wrinkling of the web. The first set of holes or slots forms jets of air that prevent the tissue web from contacting the turning bar.

Abstract: A Pope-type reel for use on a papermaking machine to wind a substantially continuous, traveling paper web into successive wound paper rolls has a primary drive stand which pivots co-axially with the rotational axis of the reel support drum. A primary reel spool drive is mounted to the primary drive stand to provide torque to the reel spool from the initial winding of the traveling paper web onto the reel spool while it is supported by a pair of primary arms over the upper periphery of the support drum until the reel spool is rotated downwardly by the primary arms onto a pair of horizontal guide rails. At this time, the reel spool drive is disengaged, and a secondary reel spool drive engages the now partially wound web roll to provide torque continually until the paper web roll is completely wound.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reeling a traveling web, such as paper produced on a paper-making machine, includes a pair of spaced, horizontally disposed rails for supporting one or more reel spools. One of the reel spools is rotated to bring it up to machine speed. A support drum is moved translationally substantially vertically from beneath the rotating reel spool to engage it along a nip line of contact. The on-coming web is directed into the nip of the rotatably driven reel spool to begin the web reeling process to build a wound web roll. The support drum remains in contact with the wound web roll building upon the reel spool continuously until the desired wound web roll diameter is attained. The reel spool/wound web roll is maintained under the control, or influence, of three forces at all times during the formation of the wound web roll: 1) torque from a drive attached to the reel spool, 2) nip pressure from the support drum, 3) web tension of the web coming onto the driven reel spool.