A device and a method for separating sheet material is provided. The separation of sheet material is not effected statically, but a suitable pick-up position and/or a suitable pick-up mechanism is selected for each sheet material piece, for example in dependence on the quality of a surface of the sheet material piece to be picked up, in order to pick up the sheet material piece from the sheet material stack and remove it from the same.

A device and a method for separating sheet material is provided. The separation of sheet material is not effected statically, but a suitable pick-up position and/or a suitable pick-up mechanism is selected for each sheet material piece, for example in dependence on the quality of a surface of the sheet material piece to be picked up, in order to pick up the sheet material piece from the sheet material stack and remove it from the same.

The method serves for producing flexible packaging products, more particularly packaging bags, the packaging products being formed by welding together two film layers. In order to avoid imprecisions in the sequence of process steps, film sections (4) formed of film layers are separated from a film web (7a; 7b) and transferred to a transport device (1) where they are positively fixed at least at one edge by means of a fixing device (3). Then the film sections (4) are transported by means of the transport device (1) in a transport direction (5) to at least one welding station (12) while maintaining the positive fit, the film layers are welded together in the latter, and the film sections (4) are subsequently further transported while maintaining the positive fit.

The invention relates to a method for automatically splicing a first article, unwound from a first reel, to a second article wound around a second reel, the articles being flexible and in the form of webs or strips. According to the invention, the method comprises steps consisting in: positioning an adhesive tape on an end that is to be spliced belonging to the second article; automatically moving a portion of the first article to a cutting plane situated facing the end that is to be spliced belonging to the second article; holding the portion of the first article downstream of the cutting plane with respect to the first reel; cutting the first article transversely; automatically moving the end that is to be spliced belonging to the second article as far as the cutting plane; and pressing a cut end of the first article at the cutting plane against the end that is to be spliced belonging to the second article in order to stick them together using the adhesive tape.

The present invention relates to a device (1) for removing plate-shaped elements (2), in particular cardboard blanks, comprising a carrier device (16), a holding device (9) which is arranged on the carrier device (16) for holding the plate-shaped element (2), a drive (7) with a driven shaft (8), a first lever (11) which is arranged fixedly on the shaft (8) so as to rotate with it, a second lever (12) which is connected rotatably to the first lever (11) and rotatably to the carrier device (16), a fourth lever (14) which is arranged such that it can be rotated about a fixed point (18), wherein the fourth lever (14) is connected rotatably to the carrier device (16), and a third lever (13) which is connected rotatably to the first lever (11) and rotatably to the fourth lever (14).

A wire body winding device that winds a wire body around a bobbin includes a bobbin pivoting mechanism that pivotally supports and pivots the bobbin, a wire body holding mechanism that holds the wire body, and a wire body moving mechanism configured to move the wire body holding mechanism. When the wire body is pulled out, the wire body moving mechanism moves the wire body holding mechanism between a take-up position where the wire body holding mechanism is capable of holding the wire body and a wire body winding position where the wire body is woundable around the bobbin.

A device and a method for separating sheet material is provided. The separation of sheet material is not effected statically, but a suitable pick-up position and/or a suitable pick-up mechanism is selected for each sheet material piece, for example in dependence on the quality of a surface of the sheet material piece to be picked up, in order to pick up the sheet material piece from the sheet material stack and remove it from the same.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a pouch supply apparatus for supplying a sheet-type pouch. The pouch supply apparatus includes a suction unit configured to suction an end of the pouch and unwind a portion of the pouch from a core so that a pouch roll, in which the pouch is wound around the core, is moved in an unwound state and a conveyance unit configured to convey the pouch roll at least during a state in which the pouch roll is unwound by the suction unit.

As a result, it is possible to relieve an operator's workload by automatically replacing pouch rolls. Also, pouch rolls are automatically replaced, and thus, it is possible to minimize pouch supply interruption and maximize process efficiency.

A roll changing apparatus, a winding device, and a gluing device are disclosed in the present application. The roll changing apparatus includes an unwinding assembly including a first unwinding mechanism and a second unwinding mechanism; and a roll changing assembly including a first adsorption mechanism, a second adsorption mechanism, and a cutting mechanism. The cutting mechanism is used to cut off a first material strip between the second adsorption mechanism and a first adsorption area or a second material strip between the second adsorption mechanism and a second adsorption area.

The invention relates to an unwinding system, an assembly and a method for unwinding a tire component from a stock reel and for outputting said tire component in a transport direction, wherein the unwinding system comprises a reel station, an output conveyor and a transfer device for transferring a leading end of the tire component from the reel station to said output conveyor, wherein the transfer device comprises a retaining member which is movable along a guide path between a pick-up position and a release position, wherein the retaining member comprises a retaining surface for releasably retaining the leading end of the tire component, wherein the transfer device further comprises an arm that is rotatable around the inverting axis for moving the retaining member along the guide path, wherein the retaining member is movable with respect to the arm in an extension direction perpendicular to the inverting axis.