Unwinding system for handling reels of tissue

An unwinding system for handling reels of tissue comprising:

• for each ply of laminar tissue to be applied, a pair of reels, of which one supplies a laminar web to be applied, whilst the other is placed on stand-by to be spliced onto an infeed line when the supply reel is spent, wherein:
• the pair of reels are mounted in respective reel-carrier assemblies which are capable of vertical displacement, with one reel being located on an upper part and the other on a lower part at a distance between them that enables the reel in stand-by to be prepared whilst the other reel is in an operating mode;
• each reel is mounted between respective holding cones that control unwinding rotation, with said cones also being capable of being moved closer together or further apart for loading and unloading of the corresponding reel;
• and
• a reel-carrier from which one of the reels is removed is displaced vertically until it occupies the upper part, whilst a reel-carrier that holds a fresh reel that is coming into operation drops to a lower position, freeing the upper part for incorporation of a new reel in the reel-carrier that has become unoccupied.