Adhesive dispenser in a reel-up in a paper machine

An apparatus for winding a traveling web of fibrous material onto a reel shaft to form a roll of the fibrous material, comprising:

• a supporting device for supporting the web during winding;
• a winding device for supporting the reel shaft and rotating the reel shaft about an axis thereof, at least one of the supporting and the winding devices being movable toward the other to place the rotating reel shaft in a winding position proximate the supporting device such that the web on the supporting device is engaged by the rotating reel shaft;
• at least one spray nozzle operable to spray an adhesive, the spray nozzle being located to spray the adhesive onto at least one of the web and an outer surface of the reel shaft such that the web is adhered to and begins to wind about the reel shaft as the reel shaft is brought into engagement with the web on the supporting device;
• an adhesive supply apparatus including a hopper for holding a quantity of adhesive and operable to heat the adhesive in the hopper to render the adhesive flowable, and to supply the adhesive under pressure to the spray nozzle;
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• a reel-changing device for receiving an empty reel shaft and transferring the empty reel shaft into the winding device, and wherein the nozzle is located to spray adhesive onto the reel shaft while held in the reel-changing device.

An apparatus for winding a travel web of fibrous material onto a reel shaft to form a roll of the fibrous material, comprising:

• a supporting device for supporting the web during winding;
• a winding device for supporting the reel shaft and rotating the reel shaft about an axis thereof, at least one of the supporting and the winding devices being movable toward the other to place the rotating reel shaft in a winding position proximate the supporting device such that the web on the supporting device is engaged by the rotating reel shaft;
• at least one spray nozzle operable to spray an adhesive, the spray nozzle being located to spray the adhesive onto at least one of the web and an outer surface of the reel shaft such that the web is adhered to and begins to wind about the reel shaft as the reel shaft is brought into engagement with the web on the supporting device;
• an adhesive supply apparatus including a hopper for holding a quantity of adhesive and operable to heat the adhesive in the hopper to render the adhesive flowable, and to supply the adhesive under pressure to the spray nozzle;
• wherein the supporting device comprises a rotatable reel drum about which the web is partially wrapped;
• a frame for rotatably supporting the reel drum, and a nozzle support structure movably connected to the frame and supporting the spray nozzle, the support structure being movable so as to move the spray nozzle towards the reel shaft for spraying the adhesive onto the outer surface of the reel shaft and away from the reel shaft after spraying the adhesive thereon;
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• a lowering device for lowering the reel shaft from a stock toward the winding device, and wherein the support structure is operable to move the nozzle to positions proximate the reel shaft while held in the lowering device.

A method for winding a traveling web of fibrous tissue material in a papermaking machine comprising the steps of:

• heating an adhesive to a predetermined temperature in a tank with a heater to render the adhesive flowable;
• guiding the tissue web from the papermaking machine toward a rotating reel shaft;
• dispensing the flowable adhesive to at least one applicator nozzle;
• applying the adhesive from the applicator nozzle onto at least one of the tissue web and the reel shaft;
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• initiating contact between the tissue web and the reel shaft such that the tissue web adheres to the reel shaft and is wound thereabout.

A method for winding a traveling web of fibrous material in a papermaking machine comprising the steps of:

• heating an adhesive to a predetermined temperature in a tank with a heater to render the adhesive flowable;
• guiding the web from the papermaking machine toward a rotating reel shaft;
• dispensing the flowable adhesive to at least one applicator nozzle;
• applying the adhesive from the applicator nozzle onto at least one of the web and the reel shaft;
• initiating contact between the web and the reel shaft such that the web adheres to the reel shaft and is wound thereabout;
• spraying the adhesive from the applicator nozzle;
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• using reel-changing device to retrieve an empty reel shaft from a stock of empty reel shafts, the reel-changing device then lowering the retrieved reel shaft from the stock and transferring the reel shaft into a winding device operable to rotate the reel shaft to wind the web thereon, and wherein the adhesive is sprayed onto the reel shaft after being retrieved by the reel-changing device.

An apparatus for winding a traveling web of fibrous material onto a reel shaft to form a roll of the fibrous material, comprising:

• a supporting device for supporting the web during winding;
• a winding device for supporting the reel shaft and rotating the reel shaft about an axis thereof, at least one of the supporting and the winding devices being movable toward the other to place the rotating reel shaft in a winding position proximate the supporting device such that the web on the supporting device is engaged by the rotating reel shaft;
• at least one spray nozzle operable to spray a gel adhesive, the spray nozzle being located to spray the gel adhesive onto at least one of the web and an outer surface of the reel shaft such that the web is adhered to and begins to wind about the reel shaft as the reel shaft is brought into engagement with the web on the supporting device;
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• an adhesive supply apparatus including a hopper for holding a quantity of gel adhesive and operable to heat the gel adhesive in the hopper to render the gel adhesive flowable, and to supply the gel adhesive under pressure to the spray nozzle.

A method for winding a traveling web of fibrous material comprising

• the steps of:
• heating a gel adhesive to a predetermined temperature in a tank with a heater to render the adhesive more flowable;
• guiding the web toward a rotating reel shaft;
• dispensing the heated gel adhesive to at least one applicator nozzle;
• applying the gel adhesive from the applicator nozzle onto at least one of the web and the reel shaft;
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• initiating contact between the web and the reel shaft such that the gel adhesive adheres the web to the reel shaft aid the web is wound thereabout.