Patent ID: 6343424
Filing Date: 2002-02-05
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
An apparatus for the drying, cooling and selectively winding up into rolls and transverse cutting into stackable sheets of a paper web, said apparatus comprising:a dryer, a cooler, a coiler and a transverse cutter disposed in succession along a straight line in a path of a paper web, said coiler having at least one coiling mandrel adapted to be disposed in a winding-readiness position; a conveyor for said paper web connected with said dryer and having one segment running from said cooler to said winding-readiness position and a further segment running from said one segment to said transverse cutter; a lopping device proximal to said winding-readiness position for severing end portions from said paper web; a deflector and pressing device for pressing said web onto a winding sleeve on said mandrel in said winding-readiness position, said further segment being shiftable between a position in which said web is discharged as waste and a position in which said web is fed to said transverse cutter; and laterally guided traction elements engageable with a leading end of said web and extending from an inlet to said dryer and past said cooler to a web-path bifurcation downstream of said lopping device for entraining said web to said bifurcation from the inlet to said cooler.