Patent ID: 6427938
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: B26D,B65H

Abstract:
A process for cutting a running material web in which the material web is wound onto several winding cores in succession, such that winding of the material web onto a new winding core begins after a predetermined diameter has been attained in a wound roll formed on an old winding core, the process comprising:moving the new winding core between a winding roll and the wound roll, wherein the material web is fed onto the wound roll from the winding roll; forming a nip between the new winding core and the winding roll; positioning at least one cutting device one of in a region between the wound roll and the nip and in a region upstream of the winding roll relative to a web run direction; and moving the at least one cutting device, which is movably mounted on a transport device via at least one of a continuous element and a piston/cylinder unit, relative to the material web in a plane substantially parallel to the material web, whereby the running material web is completely cut.