Carrier roll winding machine having blow box and web severing

摘要

A carrier roll winding machine for winding up a web, such as a paper web. Two carrier rolls form a winding bed for a reel and the reel is fed with a web wrapped around the bottom of and then passing between the two rolls and to the reel. A blow box beneath the space between the carrier rolls having a compressed air connection. The blow box has a respective wall at each of the carrier rolls and a sealing element at each of the walls sealing to the respective carrier roll. The region, of at least one wall or of both walls, supporting the sealing element are movable from the sealing position to a non-sealing position either by translatory movement or pivoting movement with reference to the remaining stationary wall parts of the blow box. A web severing device is movable to sever the web when a wall portion and sealing element are moved away from the carrier roll permitting the severing device to pass to the web.