Apparatus for withdrawing the leaders of webs from reels of convoluted flexible material
AssigneeHauni-Werke Korber & Co. KG
InventorWolfgang Steiniger
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Abstract
The leader of a fresh reel in a cigarette making or other tobacco processing machine is engaged by the tongs on an endless chain and is advanced to a splicing device so that it can be spliced to the trailing portion of a running web which is being paid out by an expiring reel. The tongs can be opened preparatory to introduction of the leader of the fresh web between its jaws by a severing device which serves to cut the protective strip around the outermost convolution of the fresh web as well as to deflect the thus exposed leader of the web on the fresh reel into the open tongs during pivoting of the severing device from its operative to its inoperative position.
Claims16
Apparatus for withdrawing the leader of a web of convoluted flexible material which is stored in the form of a reel, particularly for advancing the leader of such web into the range of a web splicing device, comprising a carrier having means for rotatably supporting the reel;
- tongs arranged to engage the leader of the web forming part of the reel on the supporting means of said carrier;
- means for transporting the tongs along a predetermined path, said tongs comprising a first jaw mounted on said transporting means and a second jaw mounted on said transporting means for movement with reference to said first jaw;
- and means for moving the leader of the web between said jaws so that the tongs can entrain the leader along said path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.