Patent ID: 7661243

Claim:
An assembly for moving paper, board and cellulosic web rolls in a roll packaging system, comprising: a plurality of roll handling stations including at least one receiving station for receiving rolls into the system, one wrapping station for winding at least one wrapper course on the periphery of the rolls, and at least one other station; and an indexing conveyor that includes a car for moving the rolls, the indexing conveyor car being adapted to move synchronously into positions coinciding with each one of said roll handling stations, the indexing conveyor car being further adapted to move at least at four different elevation levels named from lowest to highest as a lowermost elevation level, base elevation level, first elevation level and second elevation level, and at least a portion of the indexing conveyor car coinciding with one of the roll handling stations is an elevated portion constructed to operate at an elevated level in regard to the other parts of the indexing conveyor car that coincide with the other ones of the roll handling stations.