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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1997
Masanori Tahata, Kanagawa, JP;
Katsumi Aoki, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A reel feeding apparatus comprises a rotational shaft to be rotatably driven, plural pairs of reel supporting arms radially provided in an equally divided arrangement around the rotational shaft, each of the pairs of the supporting arms being arranged opposite to each other in an axial direction of the rotational shaft and movable in accordance with the rotation of the rotational shaft, and a reel supporting member rotatably provided at the reel supporting arm. Both sides of the web are supported by the reel supporting members of the opposing pair thereof. A residual paper web winding device of such reel feeding apparatus comprises a transmitting member provided on at least one of the reel supporting members of the opposing pair of the reel supporting arms, a driving unit for driving the transmitting member to be rotatable, and a gas blow unit for blowing gas to a residual paper web which is drawn out and hung down from the reel supported by the reel supporting members, so as to spread out the hung-down residual paper web.