Abstract:
A surface winder is provided for developing rolls of web material wound on a core including a magazine for dispensing cores sequentially and a nip for receiving cores sequentially, the core transport means between said source and nip arranged to follow a generally hypocycloidal path to provide cusps for adhesive application to the core and for introducing cores into the nip, a surface winder including a pair of winding belts traveling at different speeds and in different directions, and web severance means including a pair of web pinching points one of which is on the moving web and the other on a stationary part of the web.
Abstract:
A method of zig-zag folding a pair of continuous webs or web segments (sheets) to provide stacks each having a specified number of segments wherein the segments are offset one-half segment length in one web from the other, the invention including reversely folding the leading edge portion of each web to provide a spacing for the insertion of stack separator means.
Abstract:
A stacking and delivery apparatus for stacks of products such as paper napkins and paper towels includes a magazine into which the products are delivered to form stacks and which supports the stack along a path of product movement. A plurality of fingers are mounted on a conveyor adjacent the magazine, and the conveyor moves a finger into the path of stack movement when a stack is completed and separates the completed stack from the next stack. A drive system for the conveyor moves the conveyor at different speeds during each cycle in which a stack is formed--a first, fast speed at which a finger is quickly moved into the path after a stack is completed, a second, relatively slow speed at which the finger moves the completed stack along the path as the next stack is built up behind the finger, a third, relatively fast speed at which the finger moves the completed stack rapidly along the path, and a fourth speed, which can be zero, during which a completed stack is removed from the conveyor.
Abstract:
Apparatus for handling a stream of flat, flexible web products where first and second gripper means are disposed to intersect said stream for tandem operation, and with means operably associated with the first gripping means for deactivating the same after a predetermined number of web products has been gripped.
Abstract:
A web unit handling apparatus wherein a plurality of web units are separately advanced along a plurality of delivery paths which are aligned along a lineal collection path, each web unit being transferred into the collection path and thereafter being advanced therein in synchronism with the other web units being transferred into the path.
Abstract:
A lightweight spring-loaded grinding wheel assembly for mounting adjacent a disc and wherein idling grinders are positioned away from a blade during inactive portions of the cycle, and upon release of an external force, the grinders are urged into co-acting and sharpening relationship with a blade by a flexing support.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for converting a stream of individual product such as diapers into predetermined count stacks and including a closed chain loop accumulator having differing speed input and output drives.
Abstract:
A method .[.and apparatus.]. for coating wherein the horizontal flow of coating liquid is restricted adjacent the ends of the coating roll to overcome foaming by high flow rates of liquid flow while avoiding fouling of the roll journals.
Abstract:
Apparatus for stacking web units involving a transfer mechanism to accumulate substacks when traveling in a vertical path and including L-shaped fingers for supporting the stacks in the vertical path.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for handling substacks of business forms to develop balanced stacks for packing wherein alternate substacks are rotated 90.degree. incident to the formation of a stack whereby the glued edges are alternately reversed.