| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 242551000 | With attachment to preceding material | 40 |
| 20090101749 | Creel Magazine Supply System and Method - A creel magazine for continuously delivering packaged stranded material to a manufacturing process. A plurality of magazines linearly disposed in substantially parallel alignment are alternately supplied stranded materials fed to the manufacturing process from movable magazine cartridges supporting packages of stranded materials form either side of the magazine frame. The apparatus and method provide for sequential delivery of stranded materials from packages supported by cartridges at the sides of the magazines, intermediate replenishment of the depleted cartridges with cartridges loaded with replenished packages. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090283622 | FEEDING STATION FOR A PRINTING PRESS, CORRESPONDING PRINTING PRESS AND METHOD - A feeding station for a splicer of a rotary offset printing press is provided. The feeding station includes a feeding device for feeding a paper roll into a splicer; an unpack station for unpacking a paper roll; and a buffer station for storing an unpacked paper roll. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20140097287 | BULK WIRE DELIVERY SYSTEM - The invention described relates generally to a method and apparatus for improving existing bulk wire transfer methodologies and more particularly, to welding wire packages for use as an endless wire container such that the welding wire of multiple containers can be linked together to produce an uninterrupted flow of welding wire to a welding operation by employing a welding wire transfer guide, the guide having an outwardly-facing curvilinear groove, one end of said groove of said welding wire transfer guide positioned along a tangent line running between an outer diameter of the in-process coil of wire and an opposed end of said groove along a tangent line running between an inner diameter of the staged coil of welding wire. The apparatus further includes a magnetically positionable wire guide arm above at least two, preferably each bulk welding wire container. | 04-10-2014 |
| 242552000 | With accumulator | 6 |
| 20080258001 | Multifunction Unwinding Device - The unwinding device to unwind reels of web material comprises: unwinding members ( | 10-23-2008 |
| 20100170978 | Method and device for cutting and adhesion for an unrolling machine - The method involves preparing an end of a new band of a new bobbin ( | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100264248 | Automated Unwind System with Auto-Splice - A splice is made, between a tail end of first web and a lead end of a second web coiled about an unwind axis, by winding a portion of the first web adjacent the tail end of the first web about a splicing roll mounted for rotation about a splice roll axis oriented substantially parallel to the unwind axis, and then joining the tail end to the lead end by compressing an adhesive between an inside surface of the tail end and an outer surface of the second web. Compression of the adhesive is accomplished by urging the splice roll against the coiled second web while the coiled second web is rotating about the unwind axis in an unwind direction and the splicing roll is rolling about the splice roll axis in a direction opposite to the unwind direction. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20130284850 | Methods and Systems for Preventing Wrinkles in a Web Fed Through an Accumulator - Methods and systems for preventing wrinkles in a web passing through an accumulator. The accumulator comprises a plurality of rollers including at least one roller having an axis of revolution movable toward and away from the axis of revolution of another roller to release and store varying amounts of the web. At least one of the rollers has a nominally flat outer surface and at least one of the rollers has a profiled outer surface. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20150291380 | SPLICER DEVICE - The invention relates to a splicer device comprising a first unwinding device to unwind a non-endless first material web and a second unwinding device to unwind a non-endless second material web as well as a joining device for joining together the non-endless material webs to form an endless material web. The splicer device further has a storage carriage, which comprises at least one deflection roller to deflect the endless material web and is displaceable between two end positions to form or loosen material web loops of the endless material web. The at least one deflection roller has a respective central longitudinal axis and is tiltable between two tilt end positions to influence a running direction of the endless material web. The splicer device further has an information processing unit to cause tilting of the at least one deflection roller depending on positional information regarding the endless material web and/or another endless material web to be joined thereto. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20160060062 | ROBOTIC UNWIND STAND - A web unwind stand for obtaining, loading, splicing, and unwinding convolutely wound rolls of web material and forwarding the web material unwound from each of the convolutely wound rolls uninterruptedly to a downstream apparatus is disclosed. The unwind stand comprises splicing means, a first positionable roll grasping apparatus for obtaining and disposing a first of the convolutely wound rolls proximate to, and relative to, the splicing means, and, second positionable roll grasping apparatus for obtaining and disposing a second of the convolutely wound rolls proximate to, and relative to, the splicing means. | 03-03-2016 |
| 242553000 | With lead end modification (e.g., trimming) | 4 |
| 20090200414 | SPLICING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An apparatus and method for splicing tapes dispensed from a tape dispenser. According to one embodiment, a first, running or unwinding roll of tape is provided with a first splicing element secured to its trailing end portion. A second, stationary or standby roll of tape is provided with a second splicing element secured to its leading end portion. The second splicing element comprises a body made of a self-supporting material and formed with at least one aperture sized to receive the tape from the first roll. While tape is being dispensed from the first roll, the running tape is inserted into the aperture of the second splicing element. When the first roll of tape becomes depleted, the first splicing element engages the second splicing element, thereby splicing the leading end portion of the second tape roll to the trailing end portion of the first tape roll. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20140034772 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPLICING WEBS PROVIDED WITH REPEATED PATTERNS - An apparatus for splicing a new web having repeated patterns, to a web in use moving along a predetermined path and also having repeated patterns. The apparatus having: a handling device to advance the new web at the same speed as the web in use and positioning a segment of the new web to overlap a segment of the web in use such that the corresponding patterns align; a cutting device for cutting the overlapping segments of the webs at the area interposed between two successive patterns and dividing each web into an upstream portion and a downstream portion; a folding device for selectively folding either the upstream portion of the web in use and the downstream portion of the new web outside the overlapping area; and an applicator for applying a splicing buffer on the adjacent the cut portions of the two webs to be joined. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20150053809 | AUTOMATIC SPLICING DEVICE - Control device | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150344252 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CURRENT COLLECTOR - An apparatus for manufacturing a current collector includes a supply reel configured to have metal foil wound on the supply reel, a pair of transfer rollers disposed on one side of the supply reel, a hole formation unit disposed on one side of the transfer rollers and configured to include an upper roller including first protrusion cutter modules and first groove cutter modules configured to form through holes in the metal foil transferred by the transfer roller and a lower roller including second protrusion cutter modules and second groove cutter modules configured to form the through holes in the metal foil, and a pair of thickness control rollers disposed on one side of the hole formation unit, spaced apart from each other, and configured to control so that a thickness of the current collector is smaller than the specific interval. | 12-03-2015 |
| 242554000 | With automated control | 11 |
| 20090057476 | Method and device for positioning strips and rolls in order to connect same to an unwinding machine - A method and device for positioning strips and rolls in order to connect same to an unwinding machine. The method is characterised in that it consists in physically representing the position at which the side of the roll ( | 03-05-2009 |
| 20150343730 | METHOD OF MANAGING THE FEEDING OF AN ELONGATED ELEMENT TO A TYRE BUILDING STATION - A method for managing the continuous feeding of an elongate element wound on reels to a station for building a tyre, wherein the elongate element is continuously supplied from an unwinding device of successive reels. When the terminal end of the elongate element wound on a first reel leaves said first reel, the method provides for: the first reel to be moved away from the unwinding device on a first movable carriage; a second reel, successive to the first reel, and mounted on a second movable carriage, to be positioned in place of the first reel; and the terminal end of the elongate element previously wound on the first reel, to be joined to the starting end of the elongate element wound on the second reel. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20170233206 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HANDLING FLAT AND/OR FILM MATERIAL WOUND ONTO ROLLERS | 08-17-2017 |
| 242554100 | Material registration | 1 |
| 20100090052 | Method and device for connecting two material webs - A method and a corresponding apparatus for connecting two material webs which are pulled off from an old and a new reel are specified, wherein each reel is driven and wherein the splicing takes place while both reels are in motion. One position of all units participating in the splicing operation is regulated as a function of a position of the new reel, by a position of an adhesive point which is applied to the new reel being detected for this purpose. | 04-15-2010 |
| 242554200 | Cutting | 5 |
| 20090114757 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CHANGING THE REEL IN AN UNWINDER - To obtain the automatic change of the reel in an unwinder, in particular for reels of paper and other materials in web form, operation in which a reel ( | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100187348 | PRINTING PRESS AND PAPER-SPLICING METHOD FOR REEL STAND UNIT - A paper splicing method for a printing press and a reel stand unit that prevents misregistration at a paper-splicing section in the top-to-bottom direction and that enables improvement of printing quality and stable printing are provided. Provided is a printing press including a reel stand unit configured to bond a web fed out from an old reel to a new reel and continuously feed paper by splicing paper from the old reel to the new reel, wherein the distance in the length direction of an overlapping section of the old reel and the new reel spliced by the reel stand unit is smaller than the minimum distance between driving rollers provided in the printing press. The driving rollers are, in particular, the distance between a printing unit and a blanket cylinder. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100288867 | NON-STOP UNWINDING DEVICE WITH LIMITED BULK FOR ROLLS OF WEB-LIKE MATERIAL - An unwinding device ( | 11-18-2010 |
| 20150069170 | AUTOMATIC SPLICING DEVICE - A control device, that based on number one and number two component presence signals, respectively calculates number one and number two cutting points of number one and number two tapes from predetermined pitch of number one and number two cavities, and number one and number two distances between number one and number two detection positions and number one and number two cutting positions. By this, cutting points can be specified even when tapes have different pitches between cavities, and the tapes can be spliced reliably. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20220135358 | ADJUSTABLE FIELD OF VIEW LASER SYSTEM FOR WEB PROCESSING - Techniques for processing a web with a laser are provided. In an example, an apparatus for processing web material can include multiple processing stages and a laser assembly. Each of the multiple processing stages can be configured to process a moving web of material along a web path. The laser assembly can be configured to process the moving web of material with a laser at a first stage of the multiple stages. The laser assembly can include a laser configured to generate a laser beam, a gimble assembly configured to direct the laser beam along a cut path at a position of a web path of the moving web of material, and a servo driven mirror assembly configured to provide an adjustable field of view for the laser stage at the position of the web path. | 05-05-2022 |
| 242554400 | Differentiated material portion (e.g., material end, tear, or signal) | 1 |
| 20090184192 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CONNECTING STRIP-LIKE MATERIAL - The invention enables to automatically connect a terminal end portion of a strip-like material drawn out from a winding member constituting an apparatus of supplying the strip-like material and a start end portion of a succeeding strip-like material, at supply support portions | 07-23-2009 |
| 242554500 | Drive or brake control | 1 |
| 242554600 | Speed matching (e.g., new roll to running material) | 1 |
| 20080245922 | Automatic multi-roll touch-less toilet paper dispenser - The apparatus discloses a multi-roll toilet paper dispenser that automatically dispenses toilet paper. When a person places their hand in proximity of the sensor, the dispenser begins to dispense paper. A finite amount of toilet paper is dispensed allowing the user to tear off the dispensed paper from a roll. After the portion of toilet paper has been removed from the dispenser the dispenser can then dispense subsequent finite amounts of toilet paper. The dispenser allows for dispensing one or more additional rolls of toilet paper after the first roll has been expended. The dispenser can detect the wrapped orientation of each roll and feed accordingly. The presence of the user's hand is detected with an optical or thermal sensor. | 10-09-2008 |
| 242555000 | Splicing running material (i.e., flying splice) | 13 |
| 20100123037 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING TAPE - A dispensing apparatus includes a first running spool of elongated material and second and third stand-by spools of elongated material. The first spool has a trailing end portion and a first obstacle element secured to its trailing end portion. The second spool has a leading end portion and a first catching mechanism secured to the leading end portion, as well as a trailing end portion with a second obstacle element secured to its trailing end portion. The third spool has a leading end portion and a second catching mechanism secured to its leading end portion. A support member is configured to at least partially support the leading end portions of both the second and third spools. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20140252155 | Endless clip-strip feed splicer - A splicer machine for feeding strips of closures or clips. The clips formed of flat plastic material, and for receiving portions of flexible bags. More specifically, the automated handling of strips of such clips, where strips of the clips are held together by interlocking portions of the clips. | 09-11-2014 |
| 242555100 | Shift new material | 1 |
| 20160060059 | A WEB MATERIAL UNWIND STAND - A web unwind stand for obtaining, loading, splicing, and unwinding a web material from a plurality of convolutely wound rolls and forwarding the web material unwound from each of the convolutely wound rolls uninterruptedly to a downstream apparatus is disclosed. The unwind stand has a frame, a positionable roll grasping apparatus having a mandrel connectively engaged thereto and, splicing means. The positionable roll grasping apparatus is capable of obtaining and disposing the convolutely wound rolls proximate to the splicing means relative to the frame. | 03-03-2016 |
| 242555300 | Between new roll and expiring material | 10 |
| 20090242686 | Device for Applying a Paper Web onto a Paper Reel and Corresponding Reel Changer - A device for applying a paper web onto a paper reel is provided, including a web application roller mobile between a guiding position of the paper web and an application position of the paper web onto the paper reel, and an actuator for moving the web application roller between its two positions. The device includes a locking mechanism adapted for locking the web application roller in its application position. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20130112800 | Splicing Apparatus for Unwinding Strands Of Material - A splicing apparatus for continuously unwinding strands of material from wound packages. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20140217227 | CONTINUOUS FASTENER FEEDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Methods and apparatuses for continuous fastener feeding for sequentially delivering single fasteners to a fastener installation device are disclosed. In one embodiment the apparatus includes a first fastener reel for supporting a first fastener tape securing a plurality of fasteners and a second fastener reel for supporting a second fastener tape for securing a plurality of fasteners. A fastener tape joining device positioned downstream of the first and second fastener reels receives the respective first and the second fastener tapes and selectively engage the first and second fastener tapes when one of the fastener tapes becomes depleted of fasteners. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140326822 | REEL UNWINDER AND UNWINDING METHOD - A reel unwinder including a first unwinding position, in which a first reel is positioned; a second unwinding position, to which the first reel is transferred when it is replaced with a second reel; a stand-by position, in which the second reel is kept in stand-by; a first unwinding member adapted to start rotation of the second reel when the first reel is replaced with the second reel. Moreover, the unwinder includes a second unwinding member, with at least one endless flexible element. The endless flexible element extends from the first unwinding position to the second unwinding position, and is adapted to maintain the first reel in contact with the second unwinding member and in rotation by the second unwinding member in the first unwinding position, in the second unwinding position and while it is being transferred from the first unwinding position to the second unwinding position. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20150090831 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR CHANGING CARRIER UNITS WITH FLAT PACKAGING MATERIAL WOUND ON SUPPLY ROLLS WITHIN A PACKAGING MACHINE - The invention comprises a method and a device for changing removable carrier units ( | 04-02-2015 |
| 242555400 | Stationary roll positions | 2 |
| 20120223177 | TAPE SPLICING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Disclosed herein are embodiments of a tape splicing system for coupling a leading end of a staged tape to a trailing end of a running tape to form a continuous tape. The splicing system can comprise a connector having an opening for allowing the running tape to pass through, a leading end element having an opening for engaging the connector, and a trailing end element. The leading end element can be secured to the leading end of the staged tape and the trailing end element can be secured to the trailing end of the running tape. The connector can couple the leading end element to the trailing end element to splice the staged tape to the running tape. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20150034758 | UNWINDER OF REELS OF WEB MATERIAL - The unwinder of reels of web material wound around winding spindles (A), comprises a unwinding station ( | 02-05-2015 |
| 242555500 | Turret support for new roll | 3 |
| 242555600 | With particular splicer | 2 |
| 20080230646 | Unwiding Device for Reels of Web Material and Relative Method - The unwinding device comprises: a rotating element ( | 09-25-2008 |
| 20150008277 | TAPE SPLICING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Disclosed herein are embodiments of a tape splicing system for coupling a leading end of a staged tape to a trailing end of a running tape to form a continuous tape. The splicing system can comprise a connector having an opening for allowing the running tape to pass through, a leading end element having an opening for engaging the connector, and a trailing end element. The leading end element can be secured to the leading end of the staged tape and the trailing end element can be secured to the trailing end of the running tape. The connector can couple the leading end element to the trailing end element to splice the staged tape to the running tape. | 01-08-2015 |
| 242555700 | With peripheral drive | 1 |
| 20090050731 | Methods for carrying out a flying reel change - A flying reel change is accomplished by joining an exhausting web of a first reel that is to be replaced to a web of a fresh or replacement reel. The fresh reel is caused to run at the speed of the exhausting reel to be replaced prior to such joining. The exhausting web is joined to the fresh web once the diameter of the reel to be replaced has reached a set minimum. This minimum diameter may be fixed by the characteristics of a core for this exhausting reel. | 02-26-2009 |
| 242556000 | With particular splice means (e.g., glue or pressure) | 3 |
| 242556100 | Adhesive tape | 3 |
| 20130146701 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING A ROLL TO A TARGET - Method and apparatus of splicing a paper web, in which a paper web from a new reel is spliced to a paper web from an emptying reel and a position of glue or two sided tape in the surface of the new paper reel is marked. The method includes receiving a command for splicing, determining the splicing time instant, accelerating a rotation of the new paper reel, detecting the glue or tape, controlling, based on the detected glue or tape, the rotation of the new paper reel in such a manner that the rotation speed of the new paper reel and the position of the glue or tape are as required at the splicing time instant, and splicing the paper web at the splicing time instant. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20140131504 | AUTOMATIC SPLICING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for automatic web splicing, comprises of an unwinding section, a splicing section, an accumulator, and a controller to facilitate clamping, cutting and splicing of the webs to provide continuous web supply to a utilizing machine, the system comprises also at least two receiving platforms, a space defining a splicing area between the delivering platform and the receiving platform, one platform for receiving a running web and other platform for a new web and at least one dispenser so as to splice trailing edge of a running web and a leading edge of a new web with an adhesive tape. The system joins the two webs in completely auto mode and keeps the utilizing machine running continuously without stoppage. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20150060590 | SPLICING DEVICE AND SPLICING METHOD - A splicing device and splicing method in which automatic and accurate splicing is performed by inserting two carrier tapes into the device. The splicing device including cutting devices for cutting the tail end of number one carrier tape and the leading end of number two carrier tape at a predetermined cutting position; a positioning device for indexing number one and number two carrier tapes towards each other respectively to splicing position at which positioning pins engage with indexing holes of the number one and number two carrier tapes; and a joining device which, with splicing tape affixed to connected protective tape positioned at the splicing position, folds protective tape and joins the splicing tape to both surfaces of number one and number two carrier tapes straddling thereof. | 03-05-2015 |
