Driver Engages Coil Periphery Patents (Class 242/541)
  • Patent number: 10029875
    Abstract: A winding device for winding a web-shaped material, preferably a plastic film, has a reel for receiving the web-shaped material, a contact roller for feeding and pressing the web-shaped material against the reel, a device for rotationally driving a still empty reel, and a device for feeding the still empty reel to the contact roller. The device for rotationally driving the still empty reel and the device for feeding the still empty reel to the contact roller can act simultaneously on the still empty reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG
    Inventors: Gerd Ratz, Christian Heumann
  • Patent number: 9415888
    Abstract: A net wrapping system includes an insertion assembly configured to move between a home position and an insert position. The insertion assembly has at least one insertion assembly spreader roll configured to engage net wrapping from a net roll. The net wrapping system also includes a fixed spreader roll proximate to the net roll and configured to engage the net wrapping along a length of the fixed spreader roll circumferential surface when the insertion assembly is in the home position. The net wrapping system further includes a back wrap roll located along a net path between the fixed spreader roll and the at least one insertion assembly spreader roll and configured to cause the net wrapping to maintain engagement with substantially the same length of the fixed spreader roll circumferential surface when the insertion assembly is in the insert position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Kevin M. Smith, Bram Rosseel, Scott C. Simmons
  • Publication number: 20130032658
    Abstract: The present invention relates to transmission device for plotters characterized in that it comprises at least a freely rotating first wheel (2) arranged between the motor tube (5) and the winder tube (6) of a plotter, such that the rotation of the motor tube (5) is transmitted to said winder tube (6) through said freely rotating first wheel (2). It may also comprise a pair of freely rotating wheels (3) that are constrained to rotate together by contact, arranged between said motor tube (5) and said winder tube (6), one wheel of said pair of wheels (3) being in contact with said motor tube (5) and the other wheel of said pair of wheels (3) being in contact with said winder tube (6). It facilitates the change from direct to inverse transmission without having to use tools, and it achieves a clutch effect as the result of the sliding of the wheels with respect to the tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Antoni Balsells Mercadé, Francesc Masgrau Lagresa, Antoni Guimerà Pedrola
  • Patent number: 8302898
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for continuous reeling of a pulp web (1), particularly a paper web, for example tissue, where the pulp web (1) is carried over a reel drum (2) that is supported on rocker arms (4) and is then wound onto a winding unit (5), and the pressing force in the nip (24) is measured between paper roll (16) and reel drum (4) with the aid of a load-sensing device (7), where the rocker arm (4) can be preloaded against the load-sensing device (7), where the rocker arm (4) can be preloaded against the load-sensing device (7) by means of a preloading element (8). It is mainly characterized by the preloading force for preloading the rocker arm (4) against the load-sensing device (7) being adjustable by means of the preloading element (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Andritz AG
    Inventors: Gernot Tropper, Wilhelm Mausser, Robert Schloffer, Gerald Martiner
  • Patent number: 8191817
    Abstract: A feature of a pressure roll or a continuous pressure belt for the formation of a reeling nip using a parent roll in a reel-up for the reeling up of a material web, in particular paper web or paperboard web, is that the roll surface or, respectively, belt surface adjacent to the reeling nip has helical, an at least single-start groove, the depth of which is in the range from about 0.4 mm to about 1.5 mm, and the maximum width of which is in the range from about 35 to 60 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Wohlfahrt, Roland Thomas, Walter Kaipf
  • Patent number: 7762492
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device for dispensing and collecting handle or armature cover material or covers for use, by way of example, with door handles, knobs, and the like. In one embodiment, the device is an automated handle cover dispenser that can include a dual use handle cover refill cartridge for both supplying and collecting handle cover material, or alternatively, a plurality of reels or cartridges (e.g., a supply reel and a take-up reel). The material, when supplied, at least partially covers a handle (e.g., door handle) during use by a consumer. This maintains sanitary integrity of the handle, so as to protect a consumer or other individual from touching an otherwise dirty or unsanitary handle. The dispenser can include at least one cutter for cutting at least one side of the handle cover material so as to facilitate supply, and in particular, collection of the handle cover material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Muderlak Design, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd J. Muderlak, Kenneth J. Muderlak
  • Patent number: 7753308
    Abstract: A roll paper is received in a receiving area so as to have a horizontal rolling axis. In the vicinity of a lowest part of the receiving area, an inclined surface faces the receiving area. At a position being lower than the inclined surface, a rotation making member is placed to face the receiving area. In such arrangement, the inclined surface makes the roll paper be slid towards the lowest part of the receiving area when the inclined surface receives the roll paper that is out of the receiving area. In response to movement of the roll paper towards the lowest part of the receiving area, the rotation making member rotates the roll paper around the horizontal rolling axis towards a winding direction of the roll paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Yukio Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 7472861
    Abstract: A theoretical based winding process and control for a surface winding machine that can provide the capability to wind products with a desired wind profile, uniform sheet compression, improved compressibility, winding stability, and ease of operator control adjustment, is disclosed herein. The theoretical based surface winding process utilizes the principle of winding a log with a desired wind profile by controlling the surface speed of at least one roller of the surface winding machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Matthew Daniel Dooley, Brian Christopher Schwamberger
  • Patent number: 7455259
    Abstract: The structure of a fibrous web roll is controlled by winding a fibrous web (W) into a fibrous web roll (15) through a winding nip (N) between the fibrous web roll (15) being formed and a winding drum (13). The structure of the fibrous web roll (15) being formed is controlled by regulating the direction of passing the web to a windup, thereby regulating the wrap angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Pauli Koutonen, Marko Jorkama
  • Patent number: 7441723
    Abstract: A rolling and feeding structure of a fabric rolling machine comprises a frame disposed on the fabric rolling machine, a transmission axle rotatably coupled to a sidewall of the frame, two lumps, two stoppers corresponding to the lumps and each having an end pivotally coupled to the frame, a displacement gap defined between the stopper and the lump for installing a rolling rod and enabling a displacement of the rolling rod from the starting point of the transmission axle in the displacement gap, two limit members for forming a fixing relation with the stoppers and including a first position of the displacement gap and having a fixing relation with the stopper, and a second position with an open angle formed between the limit member and the lump for releasing the fixing relation. The foregoing measure improves the fabric rolling quantity and features an easy operation for feeding the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Pai Lung Machinery Mill Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shih-Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 7419117
    Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus for winding material. The apparatus includes first and second roll carriages that are each configured to support a roll shaft. At least one of the first and second roll carriages is configured to be rotated by a drive member. The apparatus also includes an engagement roller displaceable from a first engagement roller position where the traveling roller is free of a web to a second, different engagement roller position where the traveling roller is configured to engage the periphery of a roll of web material that is at least partially wound about the roll, a traveling roller displaceable from a first traveling roller position to a second traveling roller position and a cutter where the cutter is configured to cut through the web after the first roll carriage moves from a first roll carriage position to a second roll carriage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bengt Arne Andreasson, Birger Elmgaard Sørensen
  • Patent number: 7278602
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and an apparatus for winding material. The apparatus includes first and second roll carriages that are each configured to support a roll shaft. At least one of the first and second roll carriages is configured to be rotated by a drive member. The apparatus also includes an engagement roller displaceable from a first engagement roller position where the traveling roller is free of a web to a second, different engagement roller position where the traveling roller is configured to engage the periphery of a roll of web material that is at least partially wound about the roll, a traveling roller displaceable from a first traveling roller position to a second traveling roller position and a cutter where the cutter is configured to cut through the web after the first roll carriage moves from a first roll carriage position to a second roll carriage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: M&J Fibretech A/S
    Inventors: Bengt Arne Andreasson, Birger Elmgaard Sørensen
  • Patent number: 7182287
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gripper for residual windings (1), which may be wound from residual strip (2), running from strip plants at the roll end, where said gripper can be pivoted or displaced about a strip plant and which can be embodied for a more rational operation mode, whereby the gripper (3), in addition to the function there of as drawing device (3a), is embodied as winding device (3b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Denker, Michael Schäfer
  • Patent number: 6964394
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reeling of a web, in which the web is reeled around a reel spool. In the invention, the reel spool rests and/or it is supported substantially during the entire “nip closed” reeling process of the reeling device, substantially in its position with respect to the same supporting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Jarkko Räty, Jussi Lundberg, Pekka Ruha
  • Patent number: 6905090
    Abstract: In the method and device in connection with a reel-up of a paper web there is a rotating reel spool (2) around which a reel (R) has been formed from the paper web (W) passed to the reel-up. In the method web (W) passed to the reel is cut, and the surface layers of the reel are bound by a pressing device (3) which is in contact with the surface of the rotating reel (R) and has a press member (3b) forming a nip with the peripheral surface of the reel and rotating substantially at the same surface speed therewith. In addition to using the press member (3b), the final end, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Risto Mäkinen, Petri Enwald, Janne Veräjänkorva
  • Publication number: 20040251373
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gripper for residual windings (1), which may be wound from residual strip (2), running from strip plants at the roll end, where said gripper can be pivoted or displaced about a strip plant and which can be embodied for a more rational operation mode, whereby the gripper (3), in addition to the function there of as drawing device (3a), is embodied as winding device (3b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Wolfgang Denker, Michael Schafer
  • Publication number: 20040099761
    Abstract: In a rewinding machine for winding web material onto a core to form rolls which has an unusual capability for accurate regulation of the winding, the web material is supplied to a winding drum and is transferred to the core to form the roll. The core is supported, rotated in controlled manner, and transported along a path in which the roll of web material wound on the core is enlarged whilst bearing continuously on the winding drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Alberto Recami, Giuliano Pagliani
  • Publication number: 20040061021
    Abstract: A rewinder having a first winding roll that transports and supports the web, at least one core support plate that is curved for receiving and guiding cores adjacent the first winding roll, and a web separator adjacent the first winding roll and movable into pressing relationship with the web at a velocity at least equal to that of the web. The rewinder of exemplary embodiments winds a web of material a nip defined by the first winding roll, a second winding roll and a rider roll. The web separator of exemplary embodiments comprises a rotatable plurality of fingers that rotates about a common shaft. Because the web separator contacts the web moving at a velocity at least equal to that of the web, the web is effectively separated upstream of the web separator, between the core and the web separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Tad T. Butterworth
  • Patent number: 6676063
    Abstract: A re-reeling device for forming a roll of paper in a re-reeling machine comprising, on a frame, three rollers (16, 17, 18) having mutually parallel axes that are perpendicular to the direction of feed of the paper (11), in which two winding rollers, a bottom one (17) and a top one (16), supported on the frame, co-operate with a third roller (18) that maintains a certain pressure on a roll of paper or log being formed, where the third roller (18) is carried by a pair of arms (22) which can oscillate with respect to the frame, the paper (11) that is being wound passing on one of the two rollers, and the finished roll or log (19) coming out of an outlet aperture or gap (30) identified between the bottom roller and the third roller, the cores (12) for said rolls being fed, one after another, by a pusher (15) and being introduced into a calibrated channel (24) made underneath the top roller (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Inventor: Giovanni Gambini
  • Patent number: 6607159
    Abstract: A take-up reel has a diameter equal to or more than 85 times a thickness of a veneer sheet wound thereon and equal to or more than 300 mm so as to be of a curvature of the take-up reel to reduce cracking in parallel to fiber orientations that occurs in winding a veneer sheet after drying on a winding surface of the take-up reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Taiheiseisakusho
    Inventors: Youichi Ohshio, Yasuyuki Ohdaira, Akihiro Mizuno, Shinichi Nakagawa, Yasuyuki Kohara, Mitsumasa Narita, Hideki Kawamori, Reiji Yamada, Masanori Murakami, Kazumi Sugiyama, Tomoharu Okada
  • Patent number: 6595459
    Abstract: A system for winding webbed material such as paper toweling or toilet tissue upon a core is disclosed. The system comprises apparatus and processing steps. A plurality of elongated mandrels are adapted to receive cores slipped over their outer surface. Furthermore, a first conveyor having a drive device for moving mandrels in series along a drive train is provided. At least the first end of said mandrel is adapted for engaging the drive means. Further, a mandrel transfer station comprising a receiving mechanism for accepting cored mandrels is capable of winding webbed material upon the cored mandrel in a continuous process. A driving force is applied to at least the first end of said cored mandrel, thereby forming logs of webbed material. In some embodiments of the disclosure, a belt and pulley system is used to convey cored mandrels along an assembly line in a longitudinal manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: John R. Hanson
  • Patent number: 6557795
    Abstract: A take-up reel has a diameter equal to or more than 85 times a thickness of a veneer sheet wound thereon and equal to or more than 300 mm so as to be of a curvature of the take-up reel to reduce cracking in parallel to fiber orientations that occurs in winding a veneer sheet after drying on a winding surface of the take-up reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Taiheiseisakusho
    Inventors: Youichi Ohshio, Yasuyuki Ohdaira, Akihiro Mizuno, Shinichi Nakagawa, Yasuyuki Kohara, Mitsumasa Narita, Hideki Kawamori, Reiji Yamada, Masanori Murakami, Kazumi Sugiyama, Tomoharu Okada
  • Publication number: 20030038207
    Abstract: A take-up reel has a diameter equal to or more than 85 times a thickness of a veneer sheet wound thereon and equal to or more than 300 mm so as to be of a curvature of the take-up reel to reduce cracking in parallel to fiber orientations that occurs in winding a veneer sheet after drying on a winding surface of the take-up reel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Applicant: KABUSHIKIKAISHA TAIHEISEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Youichi Ohshio, Yasuyuki Ohdaira, Akihiro Mizuno, Shinichi Nakagawa, Yasuyuki Kohara, Mitsumasa Narita, Hideki Kawamori, Reiji Yamada, Masanori Murakami, Kazumi Sugiyama, Tomoharu Okada
  • Patent number: 6502783
    Abstract: A carrier tape recycling apparatus for receiving bare carrier tape from a manufacturing system and for winding the carrier tape onto a plurality of tape reels for reuse. The carrier tape recycling apparatus includes a reel drive mechanism configured to support and rotationally drive a plurality of tape reels such that bare carrier tape dispensed from the manufacturing system may be wound onto the tape reels. The reel drive mechanism provides a slip drive allowing each tape reel disposed in the recycling apparatus to rotate and receive carrier tape independent of other tape reels disposed in the recycling apparatus, so as to compensate for variation in the rate at which carrier tape is supplied to each tape reel disposed in the carrier tape recycling apparatus. The present invention also includes a method of using the recycling apparatus to recycle bare carrier tape dispensed from a manufacturing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek T. Smith, Tony T. Ibarra, Merle Bicknell, Todd D. Higgins
  • Patent number: 6467720
    Abstract: Process and winding machine for winding a material web onto a reel spool. The winding machine includes the winding machine includes a carrier drum, such that the carrier drum and the reel spool are arranged to form a winding nip. Two separation elements are positionable in a region of the two edges of the material web and at a distance from the respective edge of the material web. A device is included for moving the two separation elements cross-wise to a web travel direction and at least to a center of the web while the material web is running. In this manner, the two separation elements are adapted to form edge strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Zygmunt Madrzak, Matthias Wohlfart
  • Patent number: 6332587
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Möller, Werner Leitenberger, Jörg Maurer
  • Patent number: 6129305
    Abstract: Winding machine for continuous winding of a material web, in particular a paper or cardboard web, onto a reel into a winding roll, having a movable pressing drum, which forms a winding gap with the winding roll, having at least one primary transport device by means of which the reel can be moved along a first guide track, and at least one secondary transport device that guides the reel along a second guide track. To prepare for a reel change, the new reel can be shifted by the primary transport device into a reel-changing position in which a new winding gap is formed between the new reel and the pressing drum. In the reel-changing position, the material web is guided over a circumference region of the new reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Moller, Ralf Preising, Rudolf Beisswanger, Zygmunt Madrzak, Walter Kaipf
  • Patent number: 6105897
    Abstract: Reel winding roll that includes a core and an elastic surface layer positioned on the core. The roll also includes surface orifices formed on the elastic surface layer, air gathering spaces that are sealed at least in the circumferential direction, and channels arranged to couple the surface orifices to the air gathering spaces. The process includes guiding a moving web over a circumferential portion of the reel winding roll, and receiving, in the air gathering spaces, air entrained by the moving web. The entrained air is guided to the air gathering spaces through the surface orifices and the channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Cramer, Ludger Goddemeier, Franz Kayser
  • Patent number: 6062507
    Abstract: A vertical winder for winding a web on a center wound roll has a fixed vertical frame (A) supporting a carriage for vertical movement thereon. The carriage has a vertically movable upright section (B) and a cantilevered section (C) positioning at least one elongated driven roll (D) above the center wound roll. A drive motor (E) mounted on the carriage drives the elongated drive roll, and a fluid-operated cylinder (F) positions the elongated carriage between lowered and raised positions during the build of a center wound roll. The method provides for delivering a web in open width at a central location to the center wound roll during driving and building of the center wound roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Alexander Machinery, Inc.
    Inventor: Shala W. Summey, III
  • Patent number: 5979818
    Abstract: The rewinding machine for the formation of logs (L) of web material (N) wound on a core (A), includes a first winder roller (15) around which the web material (N) is fed, and a second winder roller (17) forming, with the first winder roller, a nip (19) through which the core (A) and the web material (N) pass. A web material-severing device (43) cooperates with the first roller (15). Located upstream of the nip (19), with respect to the direction of movement of the web material (N), is a surface (33) defining, with the roller (15), a channel (39) into which the core (A) is inserted. A conveyor (47; 57; 67) introduces a core into the channel (39). The material-severing device (43) cooperates with the roller (15) along the channel (39) between the region of insertion of a new core and the nip (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Fabio Perini S.p.A.
    Inventors: Eva Perini, Guglielmo Biagiotti
  • Patent number: 5878974
    Abstract: A device to wind and unwind a textile web onto and from a spool, when it comes into or out of a wet-processing group is disclosed. The device includes a guide and tension roll supported at the free ends of winding arms and resting on the spool. A moisture-extraction device in the form of a suction pipe is mounted immediately upstream of the guide and tension roll. The web may thus be wound onto the spool with a relatively low moisture content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinefabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Schumacher, Wolfgang Kurschatke
  • Patent number: 5845868
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for winding tissue webs into a parent roll includes a rotatable reel drum having a flexible outer shell for engaging a web of tissue paper against a reel spool. A deflection sensor is mounted adjacent to the inner surface of the outer shell for measuring the amount of deflection of the flexible outer shell caused by the paper roll. The amount of deflection is related to the pressure at the nip point and, by moving the reel spool and flexible reel drum away from each other as the diameter of the paper roll increases, the pressure can be controlled at a desired level. Accordingly, a predetermined light nip pressure can be applied to the roll as the tissue web is wound thereon and large parent rolls of high bulk tissue can be manufactured with desired properties when unwound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Valmet-Karlstad AB
    Inventors: Bernt Erik Ingvar Klerelid, Tord Olof Sixten Svanqvist, Bo Lennart Herbert Ortemo
  • Patent number: 5803398
    Abstract: A multiple durometer pressure roller for winding a web of deformable material onto a core, particularly for reducing air entrainment in the wound roll. The pressure roller includes a rigid cylindrical shaft, a resilient central sleeve supported by the shaft, and two end sleeves supported at each end of the resilient sleeve. The end sleeves have a lower durometer than the resilient sleeve. In a preferred embodiment, the end sleeves and the resilient sleeve are covered by an outer cover having a higher durometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Daniel R. May, Kevin A. Cole, Sharon A. Guzman, Scott W. Tang
  • Patent number: 5779183
    Abstract: A method and a device for finishing the surface layers of the machine reel (13) that is formed during reeling of the web (P). In the method; a member (20) that presses the web is brought onto the face of the reel (12) that is being completed before the reel (12) that is being completed is transferred to the reel change position. The full reel (12) is transferred to the reel change position so that the member (20) that presses the web during nip-free reeling forms a contact with the web, which contact prevents access of air between the web layers, and follows the full reel (12) during its transfer to the reel change position. During the reeling of the surface layer to be finished, the member (20) that presses the web is shifted apart from the face of the reel (12) that is being completed along such a path (D) of movement that the member (20) that presses the web maintains a contact of the desired extent with the face of the reel (12) that is being completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Valmet Corporation
    Inventors: Esa Aalto, Markku Kyytsonen, Aaron Mannio, Silvo Mikkonen
  • Patent number: 5499778
    Abstract: A paper-winding machine having a frame and supports for paper rolls carried by the frame and forming winding stations has a pair of overhead windup rollers supported on the members and flanking the rolls, and respective sound-absorbing curtains of flexible sheet material on the windup rollers and movable from positions hanging down therefrom and absorbing sound generated at the stations and positions wound up on the respective rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Jagenberg Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhard Hehner, Georg Muller
  • Patent number: 5364044
    Abstract: An apparatus for making a plurality of relatively narrow rolls of paper from a relatively wide band of paper has a relatively wide main roller to which is fed strips cut from the wide paper band. A plurality of pairs of support heads are arranged in two rows extending along the main roller with the rows spaced angularly from each other. Each pair of support heads is spaced in the respective row axially from the other support heads of the respective row and each pair of support heads is adapted to engage in an end of a respective roll core about which a respective one of the strips is wound. A drive rotates the main roller and thereby winds the strips up on the respective roll cores. Respective elongated supports extend axially along the main roller adjacent the rows of support heads and can be raised and lowered. A respective blower box at each of the rolls has an upwardly open mouth snugly engageable with the respective roll held in the respective pair of holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Jagenberg Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ewald G. Welp, Erhard Milke
  • Patent number: 5360180
    Abstract: A relatively wide strip of paper is slitted longitudinally into a plurality of strips that are fed to a rotating relatively wide main roller. A plurality of pairs of support heads are arranged in two rows extending along the main roller with the rows spaced angularly from each other. Each pair of support heads is spaced in the respective row axially from the other support heads of the respective row and each pair is adapted to engage in an end of a roll core about which a respective one of the strips is wound. A drive rotates the main roller and thereby winds the strips up on the respective roll cores. Two respective vertically movable unloading beams extend axially along the main roller underneath the respective rows of support heads substantially the full length of the main roller. Respective guides extend along each of the beams substantially the full length of the main roller and respective carriages associated with the holder pairs can travel along the guides of the respective beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Jagenberg Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ewald G. Welp, Erhard Milke, Reinhard Hehner
  • Patent number: 5356087
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for automatically feeding sleeves in roll cutting machines of the support roller type, a wide web (12) of paper or the like is unwound at an unwinding station (10). At a cutting station (20) the wide web (12) is slit lengthwise into at least two narrower, partial-width webs (24). The narrower, partial-width webs (24) are wound up using winding sleeves (44, 54) at two winding stations (40, 50) arranged either side of the support roller(s) (30) and each comprising at least one winding device (41, 51) so that adjacent partial-width webs (24) are wound at different winding stations (40, 50 respectively).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Beloit Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip W. Smith, Jurgen Treutner, Gerhard W. Dorfel