Patent ID: 7240874

Claim:
A splicing method for the flying reel change of flat web material wound up on reels, said method comprising the following steps: a) providing an adhesive tape comprising a main carrier, a cleavable adhesive system and a material comprising a machine-detectable additive comprised of a metal powder, metal granulate or a combination thereof dispersed throughout the main carrier; b) adhering an uppermost web of a new reel with the adhesive tape to a web lying underneath said uppermost web; c) exposing a portion of said adhesive tape intended to be spliced to an old unwinding reel to be replaced; d) placing the new reel beside the old unwinding reel; e) accelerating the new reel to a rotational speed that is substantially the same as that of the old unwinding reel; f) determining the exact time that the new reel is to be pressed against the old unwinding reel to effect a splice of the new reel to the old unwinding reel by mechanically detecting the machine-detectable additive; and g) pressing the rotating new reel against the old unwinding reel at said exact time, wherein the adhesive tape bonds to the old unwinding web to effect the splice, while at the same time the cleavable system cleaves in such a way that no adhesive regions of the cleavable system are exposed afterwards.