Patent ID: 8713779

Claim:
A system for preparing winding mandrels with winding cores inserted thereover on which to form reels of web material, the system comprising: a robot; a cutting unit for cutting a tube for forming tubular winding cores of settable axial length; a station for mutually axially distancing the tubular winding cores inserted on a winding mandrel; an insertion unit for inserting the winding mandrels into a series of previously cut and axially aligned tubular winding cores, wherein said robot is arranged and controlled for: extracting said mandrel from previously formed reels of web material; inserting said mandrel in a set of said previously cut and axially aligned tubular winding cores; transferring said winding mandrel with said previously cut and axially aligned tubular winding core inserted thereover into a rewinding machine to form said reels of web material around said previously cut and axially aligned tubular winding cores.