Reception sleeve
AssigneeMultivac Sepp HaggenmüLler SE & Co. KG
InventorAlbert Gabler
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Abstract
A reception sleeve that may be mounted on a mandrel of a packaging machine for winding up a film used in the packaging process on the reception sleeve. The reception sleeve may include a plurality of hinges. Each hinge may have a hinge axis, wherein each hinge axis may be oriented in a direction parallel to a central axis of the reception sleeve. The reception sleeve may be mounted on a reception mandrel of the packaging machine, preferably for winding a residual film grid remaining after sealing trays in the packaging machine. The mandrel may include a mechanism for selectively tensioning the reception sleeve thereon to tension the reception sleeve to allow the mandrel to transfer a winding torque to the reception sleeve, and to reduce the tension so the reception sleeve can easily be removed from the mandrel.
Claims12
A reception sleeve for winding up a film at a packaging machine, wherein the reception sleeve comprises:
- a plurality of hinges, wherein said hinges are oriented parallel to a central axis of the reception sleeve.
A method of winding-up a film on a packaging machine said method comprising the following steps:
- pushing a reception sleeve onto a reception mandrel of a residual film winder of said packaging machine, wherein said reception sleeve comprises a plurality of hinges and said hinges are parallel to a central axis of the reception sleeve;
- winding a film onto the reception sleeve to form a roll of the film;
- pulling off the reception sleeve together with the roll of the film from the reception mandrel after the winding step;
- folding the reception sleeve inwards toward the central axis on one of the plurality of hinges after the pulling off step;
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- removing the reception sleeve from the roll after the folding step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.