Abstract: A reel-change device for feeding high-performance packaging machines with web-like packaging material wound to form reels (11, 11a, 12), wherein one of two working journals (13, 14) is resupplied with a ("full") reel (11a), while the other working journal carries the working reel (12) which is feeding the packaging machine. The new reels (11a) are extracted from a reel stock (18) by means of a transport arm (21) with a transport journal (22) and are pivoted to one side or the other in order to be brought into a position equiaxial with the one working journal which has been emptied (13, 14). When there is correct alignment, the reel (11a) is pushed onto the empty working journal (13, 14). For this purpose, the transport art (21) is pivotable and can be shifted axis-parallel relative to the working journals (13, 14).

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for continuously supplying sheets from a plurality of supply rolls to a packaging machine utilizes a transfer device for transferring an end of a fuel reel into a path of movement of an end of an emptying reel so that these ends are displaced from one another by a small distance which is between 5 and 15 mm. The transfer device includes first and second suction conveyors which have a small section which overlaps so that the end of the full reel can be transferred into the path of movement of the end of the emptying reel.