Abstract: A toilet paper dispenser and folder system has a frame subassembly having front and rear parallel panels, an upper feeder roller and a lower feeder roller. Each panel has a large aperture and a paper roll holder aperture and a lower roller aperture and an upper roller slot. A paper rotation subassembly has a cylindrical housing with a cutting edge and a guide, and roller arm and a backplate. A pulley subassembly has a rotator bolt with two threaded ends and a bushing and threaded nuts and larger and smaller pulleys each with a central hole, and a belt between the pulleys.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of forming coreless rolls of pressure sensitive adhesive tape involves the use of a mandrel assembly having a specific circumferential tape supporting segment thereon for winding tape. The circumferential tape supporting segment has a tape engaging surface portion that, in a radial orientation, is compressible yet sufficiently stiff to support the tape as it is successively wound about the mandrel to form a tape roll, and that is sufficiently pliant to permit ready axial removal of a wound tape roll from the shaft. The innermost wrap of pressure sensitive adhesive tape about the mandrel is masked by an adhesive liner. That liner is formed from one portion of a liner/tab segment which had been applied to the tape previously, and prior to winding, the tape is severed, and the remainder of that liner/tab forms an end tab on the outermost end of the previously formed coreless tape roll.

Abstract: A winding and cutting machine for rolled paper provided with a roller shaft holding a roll from an inner side, a feeding roller and a feeding aid roller to hold and pull the paper for a predetermined length, and a fixed cutting blade disposed between the feeding roller and a winding rotational body which is constructed as to press the paper to the fixed cutting blade into the predetermined length by winding the paper and giving tensile force to the paper.

Abstract: A method of forming sheet rolls made of a heat transfer recording sheet having a transfer ink layer on a surface of a base by winding the recording sheet around the outer peripheries of a plurality of cores. The method includes supplying a web heat transfer recording sheet, cutting a portion thereof corresponding to a region between two adjacent sheet rolls to form cut ends, placing a non-adhesive waste sheet and a pair of adhesive tapes attached to the waste sheet ends between the transfer recording sheet, the tapes having an adhesive portion, an outside-exposed portion, and a portion attached to a cut end of the recording sheet, winding the sheet around a core outer periphery, positioning the waste sheet between winding apparatus and a discharging portion, and cutting the waste sheet so positioned.

Abstract: Device and process for severing a material web. The process includes winding the material web onto a reel and severing the material web using an expanding device. The device includes an expandable device for severing the material web, wherein the device is adapted to sever the material web after the material web is wound onto the reel.

Abstract: An apparatus, system and method are disclosed for separating and/or winding a web. A web is adhered by vacuum force to a rotating transfer roll. A turret is provided that is capable of indexing about a longitudinal axis, the turret having a plurality of mandrels rotatably affixed to the turret. A web passes to the transfer roll and to winding position of the turret. A severing means, such as an air knife, water knife, interference device, or severing roll is configured to separate the web. The web may be synthetic, textile, or paper. The web may be perforated at periodic intervals so that the web sections may be separated at pre-existing perforations and then wound upon mandrels of the turret in a continuous operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing a film has a cutting mechanism for cutting an elongate film, first and second feed mechanisms disposed on respective opposite sides of the cutting mechanism, an inserting mechanism for inserting an end of the film into a spool, and a cam switching mechanism for changing the timing of operation of the cutting mechanism depending on sized films having various different lengths. The sized films having various different lengths can automatically and easily be inserted into spools with a simple arrangement.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for threading a material web onto a reel. The process includes guiding a beginning of the material web to be wound around the drum, directing blower air to keep the material web away from the reel, supplying the material web to a preparation station, and threading the reel with the material web. The apparatus includes a drum positioned to precede the reel, a blower bar arranged cross-wise to a web travel direction and including at least one exit opening adapted to provide blower air, a blower supply device adapted to supply blower air to the blower bar, and a control unit adapted to control activation of the blower air.

Abstract: Device and process for severing a material web. The process includes winding the material web onto a reel and severing the material web using an expanding explosive device. The device includes an expandable explosive device for severing the material web, wherein the explosive device is adapted to sever the material web after the material web is wound onto the reel.

Abstract: This device ensures insertion of a film into the entrance of a transverse drawing machine, leaving a longitudinal drawing machine. This device includes a fixed cylinder with an axis perpendicular to the travel axis of the film, located upstream of the entrance to the transverse drawing machine, whose lower generatrix is located in the film travel plane in the transverse drawing machine, a chest whose axis is perpendicular to the travel axis of the film, mounted on a movable support, so that it can be displaced between a retracted position and a position in which the chest is located between the fixed cylinder and the entrance to the transverse drawing machine, the upper surface of the chest then being disposed substantially in the plane in which the film travels in the transverse drawing machine.

Abstract: A sheet roll forming system for forming sheet rolls by winding a heat transfer recording sheet around an outer periphery of a plurality of cores including a core supplying apparatus and a sheet roll discharge apparatus. The core supplying apparatus includes a cantilever shaft supporting the cores, a tray below the shaft and movable up and down in a direction of the shaft, and core stoppers on the tray where the shaft is an air shaft that can increase in diameter when air is supplied from a charge and exhaust apparatus. The sheet roll discharge apparatus includes the shaft supporting rolls of the recording sheet on the cores, a tray below the shaft, and a stopper on the tray.

Abstract: A tape loading apparatus and method wherein a cassette previously loaded with waste tape is engaged in a work station. A trailing section of the waste tape is extracted from a front opening of the cassette together with a second portion of a leader spliced thereto. The second portion of the leader is separated from the waste tape which is then connected to a previously discarded tape length which is susceptible of engagement with a winding for upon the action of which all waste tape is extracted from the cassette. When extraction is over, a first portion of the leader is separated from the extracted waste tape and then spliced to a new use tape to be loaded into the cassette.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for winding a web roll on a surface winder for automatically starting up an end of a web for winding utilizes an elongated cradle (A) into which a web end severed by a cutting apparatus (B) after a full web roll is doffed falls into a flexible cradle a free end of which is raised responsive to lifting apparatus (D) causing a severed end of an incoming web to be started on a new roll core which has been positioned by a dispenser (C) over the severed end of the web, and wherein further raising of the cradle places the new roll core with the severed end upon the surface winder.

Abstract: An apparatus for extracting leader tape from a cassette to load the cassette with use tape is provided. In this apparatus, a first staging area is adapted to receive a cassette from an input mechanism wherein a pin orthogonally mounted on a rotating pick controlled by a rotary switch engages and extracts the leader tape when the rotating pick is rotated by the rotary switch. A second staging area is adapted to receive the cassette with the extracted leader tape from the first staging area wherein the use tape is spliced to the extracted leader tape and use tape is loaded into the cassette.

Abstract: A tape loading apparatus and method wherein a cassette previously loaded with waste tape is engaged in a work station. A trailing section of the waste tape is extracted from a front opening of the cassette together with a second portion of a leader spliced thereto. The second portion of the leader is separated from the waste tape which is then connected to a previously discarded tape length which is susceptible of engagement with a winding fork upon the action of which all waste tape is extracted from the cassette. When extraction is over, a first portion of the leader is separated from the extracted waste tape and then spliced to a new use tape to be loaded into the cassette.

Abstract: A film winder takes up developed films continuously into a film magazine. The developed films attached to a leader are guided by a leader feed adjusting unit. After being cut from the leader by a film cutter, the films are fed to a film guide by a press roller of a separator. The films are turned by a turn guide and a turn roller and are fed to a take-up member. The films are wound in the film magazine one by one.

Abstract: An apparatus for winding a continuous incoming paper web on a reel-spool. The apparatus includes a fixed winding station, a fixed take-up station and a contact pressure roll. The roll continuously lies against the circumference of a secondary reel during the winding process. The web is conveyed so that it enters continuously into the inlet gap without looping.

Abstract: It is known to use the leading edge of a film strip to guide the strip through processing apparatus. However, this leading edge may be damaged as the film is loaded into and unloaded out of a camera. Described herein is a film unloading device in which a curved guillotine blade (240) is used to provide a newly cut leading edge by which a film strip can be guided through processing apparatus. The guillotine blade (240) is reciprocated between a rest and an operative position by a motor which operates in one direction only. The blade (240) is mounted on a rotating drum (250) by means of a crank pin (258), the drum being rotated through 180.degree., in the direction indicated by arrow 252, to move the blade (240) from its rest to its operative position and then through a further 180.degree. to move the blade (240) back to its rest position.

Abstract: A method and apparatus automatically switches from one web media type to another, using a single drive roller to access and drive one of two web media supply cassettes mounted within an imaging system. A gear motor and eccentric shaft position and load the drive roller against either of two driven rollers. The media is nipped between the drive roller and one of the driven rollers and is advanced by the drive roller into the imaging system as needed. To switch media supply cassettes, the media is cut beyond the drive roller. The media is then drawn back into the supply cassette to free the media path for the alternate media to advance from the other of the two media supply cassettes.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of coreless rewinding of retail-sized logs wherein the logs are developed alternately side-by-side on small diameter elongated mandrels.

Abstract: A paper web having a longitudinally extending zone coat of adhesive is continuously wound around the cylindrical surface of a rotating drum for a selected number of wraps to form a multi-layer cylindrical master stack. Web tension is controlled during winding to cause each succeeding wrap to be placed in relatively greater tension, so that when the completed cylindrical stack is cut transversely and unwrapped from the drum, equalization of the tensile stresses in the web wraps results in a flat master stack of rectangular sheets of equal length. The stack is further processed by cutting along transverse and longitudinal cut lines to form individual pads of adhesive-backed notes. Tension control may be based directly on the increase in drum radius resulting from the buildup of web wraps or by maintenance of print pattern register between continuous equally spaced print patterns in overlying wraps.

Abstract: A photographic film cassette manufacturing apparatus, has a perforator for providing a long film with perforations and a cutter for cutting the long film into individual filmstrips to be contained in the film cassette driven synchronously with transport of the long film. A magnetic recording head for recording data on a magnetic recording layer of the long film is driven in synchronism with the perforator and the cutter. The long film is transported in a first direction before being cut into the individual filmstrips. In cooperation with the cutting, a trailing end of the individual filmstrip in the first direction is moved in a direction which is reverse to the first direction to secure the trailing end to the spool. A cassette shell consisting of a pair of shell halves is temporarily assembled by mating the shell halves together while containing a spool inside the shell halves, and thereafter opened to an extent that confining elements still confine the position of flanges of the spool.

Abstract: A tape cassette is provided which has indicia indicating the characteristics of the tape contained therein. In one embodiment an information discriminating mark, capable of being optically sensed is provided on the magnetic tape. Fluctuations in the transmittance of the tape are detected by a photodetector device and a difference in the detected output is utilized for identifying the type of the tape cassette. In another embodiment, the bottom surface of the tape cassette is provided with physical indicia indicating the characteristics of the tape contained therein.

Abstract: A winding apparatus winds up a continuously fed web of material onto a number of winding cores. Shortly before removing a finished roll from a main winding location, a drive mechanism is coupled onto a winding core, located in a waiting position. The drive mechanism drives the winding core before the core is set down on a web of material running over a winding drum. The winding core remains driven until the winding core with already wound-up web of material has been transferred at the main winding location onto bearing arms. Due to the continuing driving of the winding core during a change of rolls, qualitatively high-grade rolls can be wound with a wide variety of webs of material.

Abstract: A continuous log roll winder cuts and transfers on the fly without stopping the winding process. The web passes around a rotating drum with the adhesive side out and travels to a wind-up spindle. A knife cuts the web against the surface of the drum. By heating the knife to temperatures above 300.degree. F., the web and adhesive does not stick to the knife; the adhesive does not accumulate on the knife; and the adhesive does not transfer through the cut in the web backing and deposit on the rotating drum.

Abstract: A moving web (1) is severed, after the intended length has been wound up, by fracture mechanical crack propagation starting from perforation cuts introduced by means of a laser system (9-11) into a web material embrittled by cooling (8) at the severance location.

Abstract: A web winding apparatus including a main winding drum and a web separator roll which are operatively interconnected to rotate in synchronism. The drum has a channel in the surface thereof. The roll has a cutter blade projecting from the surface thereof. At selected times during synchronous rotation of the drum and the roll the cutter blade is forced into the channel to move the web into the channel and tear the web in the channel. A hook blade having a large number of hooks is mounted at the fore side of the channel. Edges of the hooks are arranged side by side in a rearward looking pattern in the direction of rotation of the drum. Therefore, when the cutter blade plunges into the channel and the web is torn in the channel, the tail edge of the separated web is caught by the hook and held against the surface of the drum.