Process for splicing the bottom end portion of the first stack of web material and the top end portion of the second stack of the material
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorMartin Scaife
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method for splicing a strip of material packaged in stacks arranged parallel to each other. The method comprises a step of reversely rotating the bottom end portion around the transverse edge of the bottom end portion and/or reversely rotating the top end portion around the transverse edge of the bottom end portion until the longitudinal tangential vector of the bottom end portion forms an angle of 90 and 270 degrees with the longitudinal tangential vector of the top end portion.
Claims10
A process for splicing the bottom end portion of a web material in a first stack to a top end portion of a web material in a second stack,
- said process comprising the following steps
- providing a first stack of web material
- providing a second stack of web material
- arranging said second stack parallel to said first stack
- holding said bottom end portion of said first stack of web material
- holding said top end portion of said second stack of web material
- reversely rotating said bottom end portion around the transverse edge of said bottom end portion and/or reversely rotating said top end portion around the transverse edge of said bottom end portion until the longitudinal tangential vector of the bottom end portion forms and angle of 90 and 270 degrees with the longitudinal tangential vector of the top end portion
- joining said bottom end portion to said top end portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.