Patent ID: 6098916
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A peripheral rewinding machine for the production of logs of sheet material on tubular cores, comprising a first winding roller, on which the sheet material is directed, a second winding roller defining, with the first winding roller, a throat, through which the new core is introduced, a third winding roller mounted mobile to allow a diameter of the log to increase and the log to be discharged at the end of winding, means for separating the sheet material at the end of winding and means for inserting a new core, wherein said means for separating the sheet material comprises a blade that can be brought cyclically into contact with a portion of the sheet material in a winding cradle formed between the first, second and third winding rollers, the movement of the portion of the sheet material being delimited on one side, by the new core being inserted by a core inserting means into the throat between the first and second winding rollers and, on the other, by the log in a removal stage;wherein said blade is carried by a rocking lever, said rocking lever having a fulcrum on the rotational axis of the first winding roller, on which the sheet material is directed.