Krones Ag

Irmengard Prankl

Herbert Spindler

Juergen Werner

Thomas Wimmer

Peter Koch

Johann Luber

Stephan Wittmann

Florian Junglas

Thorsten Kroell

Thomas-Florian Mayer

Florian Kochinke

Helmut Schwarz

Magdalena Heitauer

Jürgen Werner

Christian Rosenwink

Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for supplying, staging, and/or handling, and/or for replacing rolls () with flat material and/or film material wound thereonto and serving as packaging material () for packaging piece goods, bundles, or the like sets of articles. Depleted rolls () are removed from at least one installation position (EB, EB) of a packaging machine (), and new rolls () are mounted into the particular installation position (EB, EB), with new rolls () being staged to the packaging machine () in a specified feeder device. Each of the installation positions (EB, EB) of the packaging machine () includes at least one rotatable receiving mandrel () for the rotatable reception and holding of the rolls (). The at least one receiving mandrel () is shiftable in its axial direction upon removing a depleted roll () and/or upon mounting of a new roll ().

Method and apparatus for supplying, staging and for replacing rolls with flat material and/or film material wound thereonto

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Rimsting, Germany

Irmengard Prankl