Abstract: A method and a device for winding a continuously arriving foil web into a coil on a winding shaft, having a rotatably driveable contact roller, a winding station assigned to the contact roller for the winding shaft for winding the coil, a take-up station for receiving a fresh winding shaft and taking up the foil web, a transverse cutting device between the winding station and the take-up station for transversely cutting the foil web, wherein a charging station for creating an electrostatic charge between the winding shaft and the foil web and a blower device are assigned to the take-up station for the fresh winding shaft.

Abstract: A method and a device for winding a continuously arriving foil web into a coil on a winding shaft, having a rotatably driveable contact roller, a winding station assigned to the contact roller for the winding shaft for winding the coil, a take-up station for receiving a fresh winding shaft and taking up the foil web, a transverse cutting device between the winding station and the take-up station for transversely cutting the foil web, wherein a charging station for creating an electrostatic charge between the winding shaft and the foil web and a blower device are assigned to the take-up station for the fresh winding shaft.

Abstract: Bag segments arriving one after the other in a travel direction at an upstream input station are first lifted one by one as they arrive at the input station, are inverted them, and are deposited in a stack at a downstream stacking station atop one of a pair of similar pin-type stacking carriages held at an upper level. The one stacking carriage and the stack carried thereby are periodically displaced downstream from the stacking station to a downstream station at the upper level and the other stacking carriage is raised in the stacking station from a lower level below the one carriage to the upper level with the one carriage such that the segments are subsequently deposited on the other carriage in the stacking station. The one carriage is then lowered in the downstream station from the upper level to the lower level to strip off the stack it carries and thereafter is displaced at the lower level back upstream to the stacking station.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying transverse welds on a plastic foil web in dependence on the print register is provided with a conveyor which is advanced by means of a control unit intermittently and synchronously with respect to a welding unit. The control unit includes a drive disk whose eccentric pin is adjustable and guided by an eccentric block. Via a coupling rod, the drive disk is connected to a rocker which is accommodated in a gear segment and whose oscillation is adjustable by a spindle. The gear segment cooperates with the conveyor via a clutch-brake unit which provides the intermittent advance of the conveyor by uncoupling from or connecting the latter with the gear segment and is controlled by a plurality of contactless switch elements. For precise adjustment of the advance of the conveyor, the spindle cooperates with a motor which operates in dependence on the print register as monitored by a photocell.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming aligned front and rear hand holes in the front and rear panels of a bag according to the invention has a support having a front face and an oppositely directed rear face adapted to respectively support the front and rear panels of the bag and formed with respective aligned front and rear annular recesses of a shape corresponding to that of the hand holes to be cut. Respective annular front and rear outer holddowns are engageable with the respective faces for pressing the respective panels thereagainst around the respective recesses. An annularly continuous front cutter blade is engageable in the front recess and an annular but discontinuous rear cutter blade is engageable in the rear recess. A rear inner holddown is also engageable with the rear face within the recess.

Abstract: An apparatus for the manipulation of plastic bags output from an automatic bag machine comprises an input conveyor for receiving bag elements from the bag machine, a delivery unit having two outer turnstiles spaced from one another according to the width of the bag elements, and a stacking unit. The turnstiles have suction arms to firmly hold bag elements taken from the input conveyor. The bag elements are depositable on the intermittently operated stacking unit. The stacking unit comprises an endless stacking conveyor belt provided with a plurality of pegs thereon, these pegs being spaced from one another according to the stack size. The stack-conveyor belt comprises two conveyor chains with the aforementioned pegs attached thereto, said chains being spaced from one another with a passage space therebetween. The delivery unit further comprises an additional middle turnstile and this middle turnstile is movable through the passage space between the conveyor chains.

Abstract: An apparatus for making bags from a multilayer synthetic-resin strip workpiece has a vertically displaceable upper welding element which has an upper upstream welding tool extending across the strip and an upper downstream welding tool generally parallel thereto, and a blade fitted in the tool element to project downward from the upper tools.

Abstract: An apparatus for making bags from a multilayer synthetic-resin strip workpiece has a transport device for conveying the workpiece longitudinally in a transport direction along a path, a lower welding tool along the path beneath the upper tool, and a heater for at least one of the tools. A conveyor belt extending along the path downstream of the tools has a horizontal conveyor surface positioned to receive the workpiece after same is conveyed by the transport device past the welding tools. A holddown roller rotatable about a horizontal axis is displaceable vertically above the conveyor surface. A drive connected to one of the welding tools and to the transport device, conveyor belt, and holddown roller generally synchronously vertically and codirectionally displaces the one welding tool and the holddown element and synchronously horizontally and codirectionally displaces the conveyor surface and holddown element.

Abstract: An apparatus for making bags from a multilayer synthetic-resin strip workpiece has a transporter for conveying the workpiece longitudinally in a transport direction along a path, an upper vertically displaceable welding element along the path having relative to the direction an upper upstream welding tool extending across the path and generally parallel thereto an upper downstream welding tool, and respective vertically displaceable lower upstream and downstream welding tools vertically aligned with the upper upstream and downstream tools. A blade extends transverse to the path between one of the upstream tools and the respective downstream tool. Displacement together of the tools with a workpiece between them welds the workpiece together along upstream and downstream seams at the respective tools and cuts the workpiece across with the blade between the seams, and away from one another frees the severed downstream end section of the workpiece.

Abstract: High production rates and decreased wear and tear and stress on parts are obtained in a bag fabrication machine with the web fed intermittently by respective bag lengths, for operations such as perforating, transverse severing or welding with the web halted.A sector plate is oscillated between two extreme positions faster in one direction than in the other by a flywheel-carried crank pin orbiting about an axis eccentric from the plate axis; the pin engaging a block sliding in the plate radially of its axis. The plate motion is applied as input to an electrically operated clutch and brake unit and the output is applied to web advance rolls. Switches on the slide block, actuated at the extreme sector positions, control the alternating clutch and brake engagement to drive the rolls for web feed during the slower sector motion of relatively longer duration; and also declutching with braking to halt the web precisely, for and during a faster sector plate return motion.