Method of packaging a web, and a package produced thereby
AssigneeBKI Holding Corporation
InventorsPaavo Hyvarinen, Tapio Niemi, Jarmo Makinen
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method and package for packaging a web. In the method of the invention, a web is slit into two or more narrower webs which are folded into superimposed layers. The method comprises the steps of directing the webs to a nip formed by two rotating reels and by inducing the webs, held alternately against the surfaces of the first and the second reel, to move with the reel the length of a predetermined rotational angle to provide folding, and joining the ends of the webs together so that the webs form a continuous whole whose length corresponds to the combined length of the webs.
Claims8
A method of packaging a web comprising:
- slitting a web to form a slit web of two or more narrower webs;
- and
- folding the slit web into superimposed layers by:
- directing the slit web to a single nip formed by first and second rotating reels,
- inducing the slit web to move with the first and second rotating reels a length of a predetermined rotational angle to provide simultaneous folding of the two or more narrower adjacent webs of the slit web by holding the two or more narrower webs alternatively against surfaces of the first and second rotating reels to simultaneously form adjacent stacks, the narrower web of each stack having a first end and a second end, and
- joining the ends of the two or more narrower webs together so that the two or more narrower adjacent webs form a continuous web whose length corresponds to a combined length of the two or more narrower adjacent webs.
A method of packaging a web comprising:
- slitting a web to form a slit web of two or more narrower webs;
- and
- folding the slit web into superimposed layers by:
- directing the slit web to a single nip formed by first and second rotating reels,
- inducing the slit web to move with the first and second rotating reels a length of a predetermined rotational angle to provide simultaneous folding of the two or more narrower adjacent webs of the slit web by holding the two or more narrower webs alternatively against surfaces of the first and second rotating reels to simultaneously form adjacent stacks, the narrower web of each stack having a first end and a second end, wherein the narrower webs are delivered to a single container during the folding step resulting in the adjacent stacks being disposed within the single container, and
- joining the ends of the two or more narrower webs together so that the two or more narrower adjacent webs form a continuous web by joining the first ends of the two or more stacks in pairs, the pairs being formed at one end of the stacks beginning with an outermost stack, and at the other end the pairs being formed starting from the stack next to the outermost stack, the webs of the stacks forming a continuous whole whose length corresponds to the combined length of the two or more narrower webs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.