Patent ID: 8419605

Claim:
An apparatus for the manufacture of paper cushions from a paper web ( 13 ) rolled up to form a dispensing roll ( 12 ), wherein the apparatus has a machine ( 20 ) having a support apparatus ( 27 , 28 ) for the rotatable support of the dispensing roll ( 12 ), a shaping device ( 22 ) for the shaping of the paper web ( 13 ) and an apparatus ( 24 ) for the manufacture of the paper cushions, wherein the machine ( 20 ) has at least one coupling element ( 29 ), the apparatus comprising a transport trolley ( 10 ) provided with at least one coupling element ( 16 ) matching so that said transport trolley is releasably coupled to the machine ( 20 ), with the dispensing roll ( 12 ) horizontally slidably supported on the transport trolley so that, with said transport trolley coupled to said machine by said coupling elements, said dispensing roll is transferred from said transport trolley to said support apparatus prior to unwinding by rolling and/or sliding said dispensing roll from said transport trolley ( 10 ) onto said support apparatus.