Abstract: An apparatus for uninterruptedly feeding sheet material sequentially from a plurality of rolls. A first roll from which the sheet material is continuously unwound is displaced away from a feed position by swinging a frame, carrying the first roll and a second roll to replace the first roll, around a predetermined axis while the second roll is moved to the feed position. With the second roll at the feed position, the web which continues to travel from the first roll is pressed against the second roll which is then rotated while maintained in engagement with the web, this operation being brought about by a combined pressing and driving structure which presses the web of the first roll against the second roll and which rotates the second roll simultaneously with the travel of the sheet material from the first roll.

Abstract: The invention relates to an alternate side web splicing apparatus in which a bumper roll and a knife roll supported on a frame are adapted successively to be fired in the same direction from ready positions to perform an undersplice and in which means is provided for automatically changing the ready position of the knife roll while properly orienting the blade thereof and for firing the bumper roll and the knife roll in the opposite direction to perform an oversplice.

Abstract: A device for butt splicing a succeeding web to a preceding web comprisingA rotatable cutting drum provided with a cutting member,A rotatable cutting and splicing drum provided with a cutting member and means for holding the leading end of the succeeding web after cutting, andA rotatable splicing drum provided with means for holding a piece of a splicing tape, characterized in that rotation of the drums causes the cutting drum and the cutting and splicing drum to cut at least the preceding web of the succeeding and preceding webs, and the leading end of the succeeding web after cutting, while being held by the cutting and splicing drum, is fed into a splicing zone, whereby the cutting and splicing drum cooperates with the splicing drum to butt splice the succeeding web on the preceding web by applying the splicing tape thereto.