Abstract: A winding machine for winding rolls of web material in which the rolls are supported by at least one roller beneath them and at least one support roller can be brought into engagement from the roll from beneath and is provided on its surface with a compressible layer of porous synthetic material.

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: 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: 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 system for joining the end of a web of material (4) running off a first winding roll (17) with the beginning of a web on a new winding roll (1) interchanged with the first winding roll (17) on an unwinding machine comprising devices for cutting through the web (4) being wound off, for holding the end of the web so produced, and for pressing the end of the web against the periphery of an interchanged new winding roll (1), in order to produce an adhesive bond, has a splice element (6) which can be placed on the web being wound off (4), moved beyond the region of a full winding roll (1) and pressed against its periphery. The splice element (6) contains a web cutting element (15) and a holding element (16) which, when placed in contact with the web being wound off (4), is located behind the web-cutting element (15) in the direction of motion of the web.

Abstract: A drum-type winder for winding webs (5) of material, especially webs of paper, with two drums that the reels rest against while being wound. The winder has a freely rotating attenuating roller (12) that extends across the operating width, that can be applied more or less horizontally to the reels (4.1 & 4.2), and that can be forced away from the reels in opposition to an adjustable force.

Abstract: An apparatus for rolling or winding up a web of material with a driven supporting roll on which one or more winding rolls contact during the winding process and with a plurality of press rolls pressable on the circumference of one of the winding rolls which are mounted substantially parallel to the supporting roll axis on an end of at least one upwardly pivoting lever mounted laterally adjacent the supporting roll. The press roll pairs are each mounted on the end of a pivoting lever and their rotation axes are movable about one axis substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the pivoting lever. Advantageously the press roll pair is also supported movable about a third axis which is approximately perpendicular to the longitudinal shaft of the pivoting lever and extends perpendicular to the rotation axes. Also the pivoting lever can be variable in its length.

Abstract: A device for threading a web of flexible material through the array of rollers of a machine, e.g. a coiler for the web, utilizes an endless guide wire guided over deflection rolls integrated with those web-guide rolls which are located along the underside of the web. The wire-deflection rolls associated with the web-guide rolls along the upper surface of the web are spaced therefrom and have means cooperating with the kite wire attaching the leading end of the web to the guide wire for deflecting the kite wire off these deflecting rolls so that the deflecting rolls can be located centrally of the web-guide path.

Abstract: The apparatus for automatically cutting and rolling up a sheet of material comprises a winder with a least one feed drum. The winder cuts the sheet of material, advantageously first the winder weakens the sheet of material along a cutting line. Then the sheet is cut through or severed by braking. The beginning of a new sheet formed by the cutting is attached to a new roll core by the winder after ejecting the finished rolled up roll and the beginning of the new sheet of material is held fixed during cutting by vacuum on the outer surface of the feed drum.

Abstract: In an apparatus for separate winding of longitudinally slit webs 4 and comprising a single support roll 5 and at least two rolls 6 for winding the slit webs, which web rolls have shafts 10 and ride on the support roll 5, the improvement which comprises positioning the web rolls 6 on the upper half of the circumference of the support roll 5 on alternate sides of a vertical plane 7 passing through the axis of said support roll 5, the apparatus including a cross-bar 11, a plurality of web-roll carriages 12 carried by said cross-bar 11 for longitudinal displacement thereon and adapted to be positioned in pairs to the width of the web strips to be wound and hence be aligned with the slits, and load-carrying means 8, 9 of adjustable force disposed on the web-roll carriages 12 and operatively connected with the web-roll shafts 10.

Abstract: In a machine for the centerless winding of webs (2), including support cylinders (3), a holder (4) for a core on which the web is to be wound, a motor-driven spindle (11) for the axial displacement of the core holder rotatably mounted on a shaft (5) displaceable in a guide (8), (9), and means for limiting the axial length of travel of the core holder, the improvement wherein said travel limiting means includes a control shaft (15) coupled with the drive motor (12) through a step-down gearing (14), (16), a slip coupling (18), (19), (20), trippers (23), (24), for limit switches (25), (26), associated with the drive motor, and a cam (21) in whose path an abutment (22) is disposed, the step-down gearing (14), (16), having such a ratio that no more than one full rotation of the control shaft (15) corresponds to the predetermined length of travel.

Abstract: A process for decelerating the drive of a web-winding apparatus including a yardage counter for the wound web and a speedometer for the web to be wound, comprising setting a computer for the nominal length of the web which computer, on the basis of the nominal length and of the instantaneous web speed, causes the drive to slow down to a standstill with a preset degree of deceleration; comparing said degree of deceleration with two different curves of which one would result in the nominal length of the web being undershot while the other would result in its being overshot if either curve alone were effective after deceleration has been initiated; and by means of the computer resetting the degree of deceleration on the basis of said two curves and switching from one to the other whenever the instantaneous degree of deceleration indicates the nominal length would be undershot or overshot.

Abstract: In a web winding apparatus comprising a pair of spaced support rolls for a core tube to be placed thereon, means for driving at least one of said rolls, means for delivering a web to a core tube supported on said rolls, and means for cutting the web when it is desired to replace the core tube, the improvement wherein said cutting means comprises an elongated blade extending longitudinally of the rolls, and means for advancing and retracting said blade in the space between said rolls so as to contact and cut said web in advanced position and to withdraw said web into standby position between cuttings. The blade can be caused to move in a straight line or an arcuate path between active and inactive positions and guide means may be provided to prevent skewing.

Abstract: An unwinding apparatus for rolls of materials pivotably mounts the rolls with a pivot drive at each end of the roll. The torque of each pivot drive is equalized relative to the machine frame in each direction of rotation by providing for each pivot drive, a resiliently mounted lever which is fixed to the pivot drive and a contact member which is linked to the lever. Four switches are arranged in pairs symmetrically with respect to the contact member and are actuated thereby in response to movement of the lever resulting from torquing by the pivot drives.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the centerless winding of webs has a pressure cylinder which lies on a wind-up roll, both of which are mounted on vertical movement. The vertical movement of the carriage mounting the wind-up roll is modulated by coupling the vertical movement of the pressure cylinder therewith such that the carriages follow the movement of the pressure cylinder to a degree corresponding to the momentary degree to which the wind-up roll has been wound.

Abstract: A broad drawing apparatus for moving webs of material comprises a roll having a plurality of individual roll sections mounted on shaft sections and a two part thrust bearing for determining the degree of curvature for the two adjacent shaft sections of every two adjacent roll sections. A ball and socket bearing for each shaft section is provided such that the ball and socket bearings of adjacent shaft sections are disposed side by side on opposite sides of the thrust bearing and wherein each thrust bearing part carries one of the adjacent ball and socket bearings.

Abstract: An apparatus for the longitudinal cutting of webs of material into individual strips has a plurality of cutter pairs consisting of a lower cutter and an upper cutter and disposed side by side. The spreading of the material on its width and the spreading apart of the strips of material after cutting is brought about solely by the mounting of the cutter pairs in an arc along the direction perpendicular to the direction of travel of the web and by the tilting movement of the cutter pairs into the plane of movement of the web of material.

Abstract: An apparatus for winding material in web form into a roll lying upon two spaced apart driven support cylinders and having a cylindrical roll core. A stand-by roll core is supported between the roll and the supporting cylinders during the winding of the roll by a support member which defines a supporting surface thereon and which is mounted for movement from a non-supporting position to a supporting position wherein the supporting surface lies in a horizontal plane and extends into the area between the supporting cylinders and the roll to such an extent that only one supporting cylinder at a time can be contacted linearly by the stand-by roll core.

Abstract: In a cutting device of the shearing type comprising two circular blades one of which is in the form of an elastic disc displaceable on a bracket by pressure from a pressure element engaged by a lever, the cutting edge of said blade in the form of an elastic disc being disposed against the cutting edge of the other blade, the improvement wherein said bracket is disposed within a bearing sleeve which in turn is disposed within a bearing of said disc, said bearing sleeve being connected to said lever in an axially inflexible manner, said pressure element disposed adjacent to the cutting area of said blade in the form of an elastic disc and passing a moment into said bearing sleeve and said bearing which is opposed to the moment of any reaction force imposed on said disc in its cutting area.

Abstract: An improvement in a pressure roller arrangement for a winding machine equipped with a winding roll onto which strip material is wound, the winding roll bearing against a support drum by means of a pair of pressure rollers which act on the winding roll to press the winding roll against a drum support. The application describes such a device in which one of the pressure rollers is connected by a swiveling lever which is supported on a cylinder piston unit and the other pressure roller is pivoted at the swiveling lever by means of a follow-up lever so that it can be moved on the first pressure roller towards and away therefrom by means of a cylinder piston unit which is supported on the swiveling lever.