Devices for transporting reels of material
AssigneeKoenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsErwin Lehrieder, Josef Olbort
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Abstract
Reels of material are transported by being disposed on a first transport carriage which is, in turn, disposed on a second transport carriage. The second transport carriage travels between a reel storage area, that has a plurality of storage spaces, and a reel changer of a web-processing machine. The second transport carriage, together with the first transport carriage and the reel of material that is deposited on the first transport carriage then travels to an offload or unload position of the reel changer.
Claims80
1-88. (canceled)
A device for transporting reels of material comprising:
- a storage area;
- a plurality of storage spaces in said storage area;
- at least one primary transport carriage adapted to support a reel of material;
- a web-processing machine including at least one web-processing station and a reel changer, said at least one web-processing station and said reel changer being arranged in a direction of web travel through said web-processing machine;
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- a transport route for said primary transport carriage and extending from said storage area to said web-processing machine, said transport route being parallel with said direction of web travel through said web-processing machine, said at least one primary transport carriage being movable along said transport route for moving the reels of material.
The device of claim 107 wherein said transport route is parallel to said direction of web travel.
The device of claim 85 wherein each of said reels of material has a reel diameter and further wherein a spacing between adjacent ones of said storage spaces is greater than said reel diameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.