Reel-changing apparatus particularly suitable for feeding working machines

A reel-changing apparatus for feeding working machines, wherein there is provided an assembly for cutting and reconnecting a reeled material (T), comprising:

• a mobile cutting tool (CT) positioned for intercepting a first face of the material (T) of a band unwound from a first reel (BB1) standing in a working position and exhausted or close to exhaustion;
• a counter-acting tool (BM) capable of intercepting a second face of the material (T) of said band, at the cutting tool (CT), and provided with a suction head (ASP), said counter-acting tool being capable of moving from a rest position to a working position in contact with the material (T) of the band unwound from said first reel (BB1) exhausted or close to exhaustion;
• wherein the mobile cutting tool (CT) and the counter-acting tool (BM) cooperate with each other for cutting the material (T) unwound from said first reel (BB1),
• wherein the counter-acting tool (BM) holds by air suction an edge of the material cut from said first reel (BB1) for bringing said edge to being reconnected to a leading edge of a second reel (BB2) brought to the working position by the reel-changing apparatus in replacement of the first reel (BB1), and
• wherein the mobile cutting tool (CT) is movable transversely with respect to the band (T) to be cut and is retractable for allowing insertion of a new reel.