Patent ID: 6964393

Claim:
Method in sequential winding stations which are located in a production line processing a paper web at successive stages, comprising the steps of: providing a full-width paper web issuing from a paper machine having a production width; providing a plurality of first reel spools; reeling said full-width paper web around one single reel spool of said plurality of first reel spools in a first reel-up at a time to form a reel; passing said reel to an unwinding station; unwinding the full-width paper web from the reel in said unwinding station and returning the empty first reel spool to said first reel-up; passing said full-width paper web to a finishing machine; passing the full-width paper web through the finishing machine; providing a plurality of second reel spools; reeling said full-width paper web around one single reel spool of said second reel spools in a second reel-up at a time to form a reel; wherein each of said plurality of first reel spools employed at said first reel-up and passed to said unwinding station having a different dimension than each of said plurality of second reel spools.