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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
May. 26, 2011
Applicant:
Stefan Elsperger, Soechtenau, DE;
Inventor:
Stefan Elsperger, Soechtenau, DE;
Assignee:
Krones AG, Neutraubling, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 19/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A splicing device () and a method for the transport and feeding of plastic film () to a processing station. In this processing station the articles are wrapped in the plastic film () and the film () can subsequently be shrunk. This device includes a supply of film rolls with at least three separate film rolls (to) that are subsequently fed to a conveyor. The device furthermore includes a fixation device () arranged between the conveyor and the film rolls (to). The fixation device () fixes and joins the beginnings of film of new full film rolls (to) to the sheet of film currently fed into the processing device.