Core positioning apparatus
AssigneeA B Graphic International Ltd.
InventorNigel White
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Abstract
An apparatus for loading rewind cores onto a winding mandrel (3) of a web winding machine comprises a first conveyor for conveying each of a plurality of rewind cores from a hopper or store to a loading position immediately adjacent to and coaxial with the free end of the said winding mandrel and a second conveyor (7,8) adapted to engage with a rewind core at the said loading position and to convey said rewind core over the free end of the winding mandrel (3) and along the length thereof to a predetermined position.
Claims20
An apparatus for loading a plurality of rewind cores onto a winding mandrel of a web winding machine, the apparatus comprising first conveyor means for conveying the rewind cores one at a time from a hopper to a loading position immediately adjacent to and coaxial with a free end of said winding mandrel and second conveyor means disposed adjacent to said winding mandrel and movable during a rewind core loading operation along a path parallel to a longitudinal axis of the winding mandrel to convey each rewind core in turn from the loading position over the free end of the winding mandrel and along the length thereof to a respective predetermined position, wherein, for each rewind core loading operation, said second conveyor means removes only one rewind core at a time from said loading position.
An apparatus comprising:
- a mandrel having a free end;
- a first conveyor that moves associated rewind cores to a loading position adjacent to and coaxial with the free end of said mandrel, wherein only a single rewind core at a time is located in said loading position;
- a second conveyor for engaging and moving a single rewind core from the loading position over the free end and onto the mandrel during a core loading operation, wherein during said core loading operation, said second conveyor also engages and moves at least one previously loaded rewind core already loaded on said mandrel together with the single rewind core so that when said single rewind core is moved from said loading position onto said mandrel, said at least one previously loaded rewind core is shifted on said mandrel by said second conveyor.
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