Patent ID: 6923400

Claim:
Process for continuous reeling of a pulp sheet, comprising the steps of: clamping a horizontal reel on a primary arm in a substantially vertical position above a reel drum; swiveling the primary arm around an axis of the reel drum until the horizontal reel is in a substantially horizontal position and resting on the reel drum, while swiveling the primary arm running the pulp sheet over the reel drum; winding the pulp sheet on a core shaft of the horizontal reel; pressing the pulp sheet in a nip between the horizontal reel and the reel drum; measuring the value of the pressure force in the nip directly with a load sensing device disposed below the core shaft, whereby frictional losses associated with other process components are eliminated; and controlling the pressure force in the nip at a desired level, using only the measured value of the pressure force, during the entire winding process from the moment of taking over the pulp sheet onto the core shaft of the horizontal reel until the horizontal reel is pulled away from the reel drum.