Method and Device For Preparing a Grand Bale of Pulp Sheet and Corresponding Grand Bale

Grand bale of pulp sheet, which includes two or more pulp-sheet bales stacked on top of each other, each pulp-sheet bale of which is bound in a web-like wrapping band, in such a way that the wrapping band has a start lying against the pulp-sheet bale and an end remaining on the surface of the wrapping band, characterized in that 1.5 or more rounds of the wrapping band are wrapped around the pulp-sheet bale, in such a way that a bond is arranged to be formed by gravity between the rounds of wrapping band, between two of the pulp-sheet bales stacked on top of each other in the grand bale of pulp sheets.

Device for preparing grand bales of pulp sheet or similar, which grand bales of pulp sheet are arranged to contain pulp-sheet bales, which device includes a jig unit, by means of which grand bales of pulp sheet are arranged to be assembled from pulp-sheet bales;

• a wrapping station, by means of which a web-like wrapping band is arranged to be wrapped around the pulp-sheet bale, in such a way that the wrapping band has a start lying against the pulp-sheet bale and an end remaining on the surface of the wrapping band;
• and conveyors, which are arranged to carry the pulp-sheet bales to the wrapping station and forwards to the jig unit, characterized in that the wrapping station and the jig unit are arranged to form a grand bale, in such a way that the wrapping band is bound between the pulp-sheet bales also by the gravity acting on the upper pulp-sheet.