Patent ID: 9340387
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: B65H

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for splicing a new web, provided with repeated patterns, to a web in use, also provided with repeated patterns, unwound from a respective reel and fed along a predetermined path towards a processing machine; said apparatus comprising: an actuator device selectively driven for splicing a segment of said new web to a segment of said web in use one on top of the other in overlapping positions and with the corresponding patterns aligned; wherein said actuator device comprises: a handling assembly which can be selectively activated just before the exhaustion of said reel for advancing said new web at the same speed of said web in use and with said segments overlapped and aligned, wherein the handling assembly comprises a first and a second carriage arranged on opposite sides of said webs, jointly movable in a direction parallel to at least a segment of said path and adapted to keep adhering to each other the overlapping segments of said webs.