Abstract: A method is provided for temporarily storing a series of successive textile sheets having a length L in an overlapping relationship in a collecting apparatus, including the successive steps of conveying the textile sheets one after another to an inlet of a carrier mechanism, while preventing an uncontrolled relative movement with a neighboring sheet in an overlapping contact area, clamping each textile sheet between the carrier mechanism and cooperating clamping means and conveying the clamped textile sheets along a path to an outlet of the carrier mechanism in successive steps having an adjustable step length d, removing the textile sheets from the collection apparatus at the outlet without disturbing a position of a neighboring sheets and displacing the carrier mechanism by one of translation, rotation and translation combined with rotation around one of a vertical axis and at least one horizontal axis.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method, apparatus and equipment for processing supple sheets comprising feeding a series of successive sheets (4) to a processing unit (23) by releasing them from the successive winding of a belt roll (3) and conveying them to the inlet side of said unit where they are processed and for collecting them at the outlet of said unit. The collection is carried out by the successive clamping of the sheets between the successive windings of a belt roll (13). The roll so formed is directly usable at the inlet of a subsequent processing unit by submitting it to a suitable translation combined or not with either a rotation around an axis (33) parallel to the shaft (16) of the belt roll or around an axis perpendicular to said shaft.