Patent ID: 7987964

Claim:
A method for transferring articles from a first conveying device onto a second conveying device comprising: providing a plurality of rotating bodies, said rotating bodies rotating about a common axis to carry said articles rotationally in a machine direction from an upstream conveyor to a downstream lay down point, said machine direction comprising a general direction movement of said articles from a start of a web converting process to a finish of said web converting process; said rotating bodies having first, second and third article carrying surfaces not sharing a common plane; acquiring said articles from said upstream conveyor with said rotating bodies; while said rotating bodies are carrying said articles in a machine direction, rotating said rotating bodies in a cross-machine direction to re-orient said articles, said cross-machine direction comprising a direction generally perpendicular to said machine direction; while said rotating bodies are carrying said articles in a machine direction, sliding said first and said third article carrying surfaces; depositing said re-oriented articles at a lay down point.