Core-insertion device for a winding machine

Abstract

A core-insertion device for a winding machine with at least one support or carrier drum for winding of web-like material to be wound, in particular paper or the like, with a device for feeding cores to a take-up position running approximately parallel to the at least one support or carrier drum(s), with a displacement device for holding, in a detachable way, and displacing the core(s) from the take-up position to a winding position located at the surface of the at least one support or carrier drum(s). The displacement device comprises, firstly, an elongated core carrier having a pivot joint arranged above its center of mass and core-holding device in its lower region, and secondly, an element which can be moved between the take-up position and the winding position for a free-swinging accommodation of the elongated core carrier at its pivot joint and for displacing the core carrier including at least one core from the take-up position to the winding position. It is possible merely to move the winding cores itself, but not its receiving recess, from the take-up position to the winding position on a predetermined path and at an unchanging angle with respect to the core axis, deeply into the winding bed, and then to release them there only when the winding cores have come into contact with the support drums.

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