Patent ID: 7488398

Claim:
A method for joining an initial section of a film tube which is wound up in a band-like manner on a reel with an end section of a second film tube extending over subsequent processing stations, especially a packaging system, in an at least partly band-like manner, with the band-like initial and end section each having two mutually superimposed outer lateral surfaces which each converge in their boundary regions into two interposed, inwardly folded inner lateral surfaces which thus form an inwardly situated fold axis, wherein in the two outer boundary regions of the end section a respective first tab and a respective second tab are formed by placing a respective first cut and a respective second cut, which first tab and second tab are joined in a tension-proof manner with the opposite initial section, with the initial section overlapping the end section, and the placement of the first cut and second cut on the end section is carried out in such a way that the first tab and the second tab each which projects in the longitudinal direction of the film tube are formed in the boundary regions of the end section, which first tab and second tab are inserted between the inner lateral surfaces of the initial section and are joined to the initial section in a tension-proof way.