Patent ID: 7578395

Claim:
An apparatus for eliminating trimmings of rolls or logs of ribbonlike material coming out of a cutting machine, where at least one roll or log is cut into rolls ( 14 ) and small rolls or trimmings ( 15 ) from a leading portion of the log and/or small rolls or trimmings ( 15 ′) from a trailing portion of the log, said rolls ( 14 ) and trimmings ( 15 , 15 ′) being made to advance one after another by at least one conveyor ( 11 ), which acts in a plane of feed ( 13 ), said apparatus being characterized in that the plane of feed ( 13 ) comprises two sets of fixed supporting elements ( 16 , 16 ′) for supporting the rolls, said fixed supporting elements being set at a distance apart from one another so as to define an opening ( 19 ), in which there are arranged guides ( 18 ) for mobile supporting elements ( 17 ) for supporting the rolls, the mobile supporting elements ( 17 ) being controlled so as to displace to and fro between the two sets of fixed supporting elements ( 16 , 16 ′) and with respect to the opening ( 19 ) on said guides which are set at a distance apart from one another, said mobile supporting elements being displaced to and fro in response to a signal and/or according to a pre-set pitch, further comprising arresting elements ( 21 , 22 ) for arresting the rolls ( 14 ) with respect to said at least one set of fixed supporting elements ( 16 ′) wherein said two sets of fixed supporting elements ( 16 , 16 ′) and said mobile supporting elements ( 17 ) are hollow and in that the latter can be telescopically displaced with respect to the former.