Patent ID: 6863238

Claim:
A method in reel change, comprising the steps of: passing a paper web in a travel direction towards a rotating reel; reeling the paper web to form layers on a reeling core to form the rotating reel with a reeling cylinder having a torque, the reeling cylinder forming a nip with the rotating reel; affecting the paper web on the reel being formed at least by means of the torque of the reeling cylinder and a nip load; bringing a new reeling core in nip contact with the reeling cylinder; applying an adhesive or a binding agent on a surface of the paper web which is wound on the rotating reel that is being formed, wherein said surface having first passed through the nip formed by the rotating reel and the reeling cylinder; binding the paper web on the surface of the rotating reel by means of the adhesive or the binding agent by causing it to remain between the layers of the paper web on the rotating reel; cutting the paper web running to the rotating reel being formed; and stopping the application of the adhesive or binding agent on the surface of the rotating reel before or substantially simultaneously with cutting the paper web.