Patent ID: 8382025

Claim:
A method for connecting-splicing-two material webs that are withdrawn from an old reel and a new reel, each reel being driven, comprising: providing a new reel, an old reel, a new material web, and an old material web; detecting a position of an adhesive point provided on the new reel for determining the position of the new reel; swiveling a turnstile into a change position for splicing by a turnstile drive, the old reel and the new reel being mounted on both ends of the turnstile; accelerating the new reel with the new material web in the change position up to a withdrawal speed of the old material web; swiveling the turnstile by the turnstile drive in the direction of a splicing position depending upon the position of the adhesive point in a position-controlled manner; moving an adhesive roller in a direction of a press-on position; pressing, by the adhesive roller, the old material web onto the new reel with the new material web and, as soon as the adhesive point passes the press-on position, connecting the new material web and the old material web; and cutting the old material web by a cutting knife after a defined overrun when the adhesive point is in contact with the old web running off the old reel and the adhesive roller is situated in the press-on position, wherein positions of a first drive of the new reel, a second drive of the turnstile, a third drive of the adhesive roller and a fourth drive of the cutting knife are controlled depending upon a position of the new reel, wherein the four drives are position-controlled electric motors thereby producing a synchronous operation of the four drives which guarantees incrementally precise placing of the cutting knife or the adhesive roller onto the new reel.