Patent ID: 6565033
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A peripheral rewinding machine for producing rolls of wound web material, comprising an insertion device for sequentially inserting winding spindles into a winding area; winding means in said winding area, which wind predetermined quantities of web material onto said spindles to form said rolls; downstream of said winding area, an extractor for extracting said spindles from the rolls of web material formed thereon; a recirculation path for returning the spindles extracted from said rolls toward said insertion device; wherein each of said spindles is present in two portions which can be connected and disconnected, said extractor extracts each of said two portions from a corresponding end of a corresponding wound roll, and means are provided for reconnecting said two portions to each other before said spindles are reinserted into said winding area, said means for reconnecting being arranged along said recirculation path.