Patent ID: 7059557
Filing Date: 2006-06-13
Classification: B65H,D01G,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In combination, a preparatory machine for sequentially delivering wound laps, each wound lap having a longitudinal axis and a tube disposed in parallel to said common longitudinal axis; a conveyor belt disposed parallel and adjacent to said preparatory machine for sequentially receiving the delivered wound laps; first means for driving said conveyor belt in stepwise manner; and second means located between said preparatory machine and said conveyor belt for sequentially rotating each wound lap 90° horizontally in a plane of said longitudinal axis thereof and conveying each wound lap from said preparatory machine onto said conveyor belt in coaxially equi-spaced apart relation, said second means including a vertically disposed rotatable shaft, at least one horizontally disposed receiver mounted on said shaft to engage within said tube of a wound lap, a drive for rotating said shaft to rotate an engaged lap on said one receiver 90° and a carriage having said shaft and said drive mounted thereon, said carriage being movable transversely of said conveyor belt to move an engaged lap on said one receiver from said preparatory machine to said conveyor belt.