EP0618159A2 - Method and apparatus for coreless winding - Google Patents
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- EP0618159A2 EP0618159A2 EP94102659A EP94102659A EP0618159A2 EP 0618159 A2 EP0618159 A2 EP 0618159A2 EP 94102659 A EP94102659 A EP 94102659A EP 94102659 A EP94102659 A EP 94102659A EP 0618159 A2 EP0618159 A2 EP 0618159A2
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H19/00—Changing the web roll
- B65H19/22—Changing the web roll in winding mechanisms or in connection with winding operations
- B65H19/28—Attaching the leading end of the web to the replacement web-roll core or spindle
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H19/00—Changing the web roll
- B65H19/22—Changing the web roll in winding mechanisms or in connection with winding operations
- B65H19/2207—Changing the web roll in winding mechanisms or in connection with winding operations the web roll being driven by a winding mechanism of the centre or core drive type
- B65H19/2223—Turret-type with more than two roll supports
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
- B65H2301/40—Type of handling process
- B65H2301/41—Winding, unwinding
- B65H2301/414—Winding
- B65H2301/41419—Starting winding process
- B65H2301/41426—Starting winding process involving suction means, e.g. core with vacuum supply
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2408/00—Specific machines
- B65H2408/20—Specific machines for handling web(s)
- B65H2408/23—Winding machines
- B65H2408/231—Turret winders
- B65H2408/2312—Turret winders with bedroll, i.e. very big roll used as winding roller
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2408/00—Specific machines
- B65H2408/20—Specific machines for handling web(s)
- B65H2408/23—Winding machines
- B65H2408/231—Turret winders
- B65H2408/2315—Turret winders specified by number of arms
- B65H2408/23157—Turret winders specified by number of arms with more than three arms
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- This invention relates to a method and apparatus for coreless winding and more particularly including the stabilization of the interior portion of a coreless wound log of paper or the like.
- a "log” has the same diameter as the commercial sized roll (toilet tissue, toweling, etc.) but is much longer.
- Current practice is to transversely cut the log into rolls, viz., in the U.S. 4-1/2" long for toilet tissue and 11" long for kitchen toweling.
- a few coreless wound products have been in existence for the last 10 or 15 years. These can be separated into three categories. First, there is the large diameter tissue and towel rolls made to dispense from the center and exemplified by U.K. Patent 1,554,619. Second, there are tissue rolls with very small "core" diameters made to dispense either from special, barbed shafts or without the use of any dispensing shaft but rather using a cradle. The use of these two categories has been generally confined to Europe. Third, there is a category which is frequently discussed but has never caught on. Exemplary of this is a bathroom tissue roll for a standard home dispenser but without the core. One of the obstacles in developing such a product is the instability of the interior of the coreless log.
- the problems associated with the third category is solved through stabilizing the log interior by applying a fixing agent to the inside plies.
- this could be considered analogous to tail sealing (see U.S. Patent 3,044,532 to Ghisoni) except that it works on the inside tail.
- the invention contemplates winding a web in convolute fashion on a "bare" mandrel and applying the stabilizing agent prior to complete removal of the wound log from the mandrel.
- the stabilizing or fixing agent can be applied during the course of the log winding -- as by delivering the agent through axially or spirally spaced ports in the mandrel.
- the stabilizing agent can be applied prior to or during the "stripping" of the log from the mandrel. This is achieved through the use of a discharge orifice means adjacent the end of the mandrel from which the log is removed.
- the invention also provides a variety of means and steps for maintaining the web in contact with the mandrel, particularly during the initial stages. This can be done through the use of a vacuum -- as in the same axially or spirally, i.e., longitudinally, spaced ports used to deliver the stabilizing agent.
- the stabilizing agent has adhesive characteristics such as starch/water mixtures, tail seal adhesives, polyvinyl alcohol and the like. Even heated water or steam may be employed to provide bonding of the inner plies.
- the stabilizing agent may include liquids or liquids atomized into droplets and dispersed in air, it can be employed to pressurize the log and additionally help reduce the force required to strip the log from the mandrel.
- the operations may be combined by using a two-part adhesive procedure -- as in the well-known epoxy materials. For example, the first part may be applied during winding throughout the length of the mandrel and the second part is sprayed at the end of the mandrel during the stripping operation.
- the numeral 10 designates generally a frame which is conventional in winders --very often referred to as "rewinders". This term stems from the fact that the web is "rewound" from an already wound parent roll of sizeable length and diameter into retail sized logs or rolls.
- the frame 10 includes a pair of longitudinally extending side frames, one of which is illustrated generally schematically at 10a in FIG. 2.
- the frame provides an elongated path and supports a number of rolls therebetween in rotatable fashion.
- the numerals 11 and 12 at the upper left hand portion of the view designate pull rolls or draw rolls which operate to advance a web W from a parent roll (not shown).
- the web is further advanced by a perforator bedroll 13 and a transfer bedroll 14.
- Cross perforations are provided in the web by the knife-equipped perforator bedroll 13 operating against a stationary anvil 15.
- the widely used perforator is seen in co-owned, expired Patent No. 2,870,840.
- the web in proceeding along the path defined by the frame 10 is in partial wrapping relation with the transfer bedroll 14.
- the numeral 16 designates a knife roll which cooperates with the bedroll 14 for the cutoff and impalement of the free leading edge of the web W. This feature is described in co-owned, expired Patent No. RE. 28,353.
- the numeral 17 designates generally a mandrel-equipped turret which is mounted for rotation in the rewinder frame 10 and which is disposed in parallel, side-by-side relation with the bedroll 14.
- the turret 17 is equipped with six mandrels as at 18, the mandrels being arranged for sequential movement through an orbit into web-contacting relation.
- the mandrel 18 is moved from station A through stations B and C with no operations being performed.
- the rotation of the mandrel is started via drive belts 19 as described in more detail in co-owned, expired Patent No. 3,116,890.
- One of the belts operates to raise the rotational speed of the mandrel 18 to exactly transfer speed at the time of actual transfer.
- the mandrel 18 is engaged with the accelerating driving belt and is accelerated to web speed as pointed out above. As the mandrel 18 moves toward station E, transfer occurs.
- the mandrel 18 continues moving down and increasingly away from the bedroll 14. It also is now in contact with the decelerating driving belt. Prior to reaching station F, a discrete predetermined length of the web has been wound and cut off, after which the mandrel arrives in station F, which is the finished roll-removing station.
- Finished roll removal is achieved at station F by a mechanism such as is seen in co-owned, expired Patent No. 2,769,600. Reference may be had thereto for details of construction and operation not set forth herein.
- the operation of the turret 17 is achieved through a Geneva gear and other suitable mechanism (not shown) which indexes the turret.
- each of the mandrels 18 has an axially extending passage 21 for applying both vacuum for adhering the web and pressure for delivering the stabilizing fluid.
- each mandrel 18 is equipped with a plurality of ports 22 connected to the passage 21. As illustrated, these ports are disposed in a spiral arrangement but other arrangements can be employed. It is advantageous to have the ports spaced axially, i.e., longitudinally, so as to insure thorough coverage of the interior plies of the web roll being developed in the rewinder.
- vacuum is applied first to the ports 22 to maintain the leading edge of the severed web in contact with the surface of the mandrel. Once this is achieved, winding progresses so that the vacuum can be terminated. Then the passage 21 and ports 22 are available for use in delivering the stabilizing fluid.
- the turret is equipped with a subframe as at 23 and which necessarily rotates with the turret 17 and therefore the mandrels 18.
- a vacuum valve 24 which is generally horseshoe shaped. This applies vacuum only at a predetermined or preselected portion of the rotation of the turret, i.e., only during a portion of the orbit of each mandrel 18. For example, this would occur just shortly before transfer as when a mandrel is approaching station E.
- Vacuum is developed by a vacuum reservoir 25 coupled to a vacuum pump 25a and which is coupled to the stationary vacuum valve 24 by means of vacuum line 26.
- the vacuum is connected to chamber 22 associated with mandrel 18.
- the drive shaft for the turret subframe 23 is designated 27 -- see the central part of FIGS. 1 and 2.
- the means for supplying the stabilizing fluid includes a source 28, a pump 29 and a reservoir 30. Fluid is discharged through line 31 to a pressure fluid valve 32. More particularly, pressurized adhesive from source 28 is mixed with air flow at 33 using a venturi or atomizing nozzle.
- the subframe 23 has a plurality of conduits therein for selective coupling with the valves 24, 32. As illustrated in FIG. 2, there is a chamber or conduit 34 coupling the vacuum in valve 24 with the upper mandrel while the chamber 35 couples the lower mandrel to the valve 32.
- each mandrel 18 is coupled to a chamber or conduit 34, 35 which in one position of the turret is coupled to the horseshoe vacuum valve 24 and in another rotated position to the pressure adhesive valve 32.
- vacuum is applied so as to adhere the leading edge of the web to the mandrel and after winding has progressed enough to develop a few convolutions or turns of the web on the mandrel, the vacuum is removed from the passage 21 by virtue of the rotation of the turret 17 and thus brings the conduit aligned with the particular mandrel into the position wherein it is coupled to the pressure system for applying adhesive or fixing material to the inner plies.
- This embodiment as illustrated first in FIG. 3 again has an axially extending passage 121 but instead of a plurality of ports 22 disposed along its length has a plurality of radially aligned ports 127 located adjacent the discharge or cantilevered end of the mandrel.
- the end of the mandrel from which the log is to be stripped is unclamped from its location within the turret and provides a free, cantilevered end so that the stripping mechanism can operate.
- This embodiment also utilizes a different way of maintaining the leading edge of the severed web against the mandrel 118. Essentially, this is "envelopment", thereby avoiding the need for vacuum.
- An advantageous means for achieving this is seen in co-owned, expired patent 3,679,010 and express reference is made for details of constructions and operation not set forth herein. However, the principal features are described in connection with FIGS. 4 and 5.
- the condition of the machine 110 in FIG. 4 corresponds to the time in the winding cycle when the web has just been cut and the leading edge L (see FIG. 5) is about to be blown into the nip defined by the mandrel 118 and the main rider roll 137. This is achieved through the air assist delivery from the member 136. Once this is achieved, a winding cycle is initiated relative to the mandrel 118.
- the air-assist member 136 Shortly after transfer, the air-assist member 136 is retracted by downward movement of the arm 138 to the position 138'. This is achieved by the cylinder and piston rod unit 139 operating through linkage 140. The member 136 remains in the retracted position -- as at 138' throughout the major portion of the winding cycle. This shifting of the member 136 permits the mandrel 118 to be moved out of the winding position to make room for a subsequent mandrel.
- the turret (not shown herein) begins to index and the rider roll 137 is retracted by the actuation of the cylinder and piston rod unit 145. This clears the orbital path. As the indexing is completed, air is delivered to the cylinder unit 139.
- the machine 110 is equipped with a microswitch (not shown) which is actuated by the air-assist member 136 hen it is in its uppermost position -- this delivering a signal for actuating the cylinder and piston rod unit 146.
- This same signal is employed to open a valve (not shown) associated with air delivery pipe so as to create the air jets in the passages 148 (see FIG. 5).
- the air jets are employed for driving the leading edge L into the nip defined by mandrel 118 and the rider roll 137.
- the air-assist member 136 develops the desired enveloping action of the web W relative to the mandrel 118. More particularly, the air-assist member 136 does this in conjunction with cutoff.
- the member 136 is equipped with a slot 149 into which the knife 147 moves for cutoff. At this time the web is supported on each side of the slot 149.
- the air jet emanating from the passage 148 on the right side of the slot 149 urges the leading edge L into the nip between rider roll 137 and mandrel 118 to wrap itself around mandrel 118.
- the foregoing arrangement avoids the need for vacuum to hold the web against the mandrel and thus frees the passage 121 in the mandrel 118 for the delivery of the stabilizing fluid, i.e., the adhesive.
- the invention is practiced in making coreless convolutely wound web rolls by first transferring the leading edge portion of a web to a mandrel and maintaining the web in contact with the mandrel ultimately to provide a hollow axially extending interior in the wound roll. Winding is continued until a predetermined diameter log has been achieved. Then the log is removed from the mandrel by means of a stripping mechanism such as that seen at 37 in FIG. 1 -- just below station F.
- the interior of the log has a stabilizing agent applied thereto sometime prior to the complete removal of the log from the mandrel. This can be done either during the wind as illustrated in FIG. 2 or after the wind and incident to the stripping as seen in FIG. 3.
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JP (1) | JP3386566B2 (ja) |
AU (1) | AU5760194A (ja) |
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CA (1) | CA2115116A1 (ja) |
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US6360985B1 (en) | 1998-05-29 | 2002-03-26 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Dispenser adapter for coreless rolls of products |
US6405969B1 (en) | 1995-06-07 | 2002-06-18 | 3M Innovative Properties Company | Coreless adhesive tape winding mandrel and method |
US6439502B1 (en) | 1995-02-28 | 2002-08-27 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Dispenser for coreless rolls of products |
US6595458B1 (en) | 1999-05-11 | 2003-07-22 | Fabio Perini S.P.A. | Method and device for the production of rolls of web material without a winding core |
US6617007B1 (en) | 1995-06-07 | 2003-09-09 | 3M Innovative Properties Company | Tape roll liner/tab, application apparatus and method |
US9809417B2 (en) | 2015-08-14 | 2017-11-07 | The Procter & Gamble Company | Surface winder |
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US6439502B1 (en) | 1995-02-28 | 2002-08-27 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Dispenser for coreless rolls of products |
US6405969B1 (en) | 1995-06-07 | 2002-06-18 | 3M Innovative Properties Company | Coreless adhesive tape winding mandrel and method |
US6617007B1 (en) | 1995-06-07 | 2003-09-09 | 3M Innovative Properties Company | Tape roll liner/tab, application apparatus and method |
US6360985B1 (en) | 1998-05-29 | 2002-03-26 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Dispenser adapter for coreless rolls of products |
US6595458B1 (en) | 1999-05-11 | 2003-07-22 | Fabio Perini S.P.A. | Method and device for the production of rolls of web material without a winding core |
WO2001046051A1 (en) * | 1999-12-22 | 2001-06-28 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Rewinder mandrel system |
US6270034B1 (en) | 1999-12-22 | 2001-08-07 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Rewinder mandrel system for winding paper |
US6412729B2 (en) | 1999-12-22 | 2002-07-02 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Rewinder mandrel system |
US9809417B2 (en) | 2015-08-14 | 2017-11-07 | The Procter & Gamble Company | Surface winder |
IT201900023415A1 (it) | 2019-12-11 | 2021-06-11 | Mura Emilia Rosa Lucia La | Un manufatto multi strato in carta tissue o simile, macchina e linea per la fabbricazione di tale manufatto e relativo metodo di produzione |
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BR9400635A (pt) | 1994-10-11 |
CA2115116A1 (en) | 1994-09-30 |
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ZA94945B (en) | 1994-08-24 |
JP3386566B2 (ja) | 2003-03-17 |
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