The invention concerns a method for finishing the surface layers of the machine reel that is formed during reeling of the web.

The invention also concerns a device for finishing the surface layers of the machine reel that is formed during reeling of the web.

When a full machine reel is separated from the face of the reeling drum, there is no nip contact any longer. Then, air readily penetrates into the machine reel through the gap between the full machine reel and the arriving web, which produces deteriora¬ tion of the quality of the machine reel. Since air has access between the layers, the layers become slack. Such a drawback of waste layers is relatively extensive and equals up to about 500 metres of web that is reeled. When a full machine reel is stopped, the slack surface layers can move to either side.

At present, attempts are made to prevent the drawbacks described above so that, in connection with change of reel, reeling without a nip is not employed. At present, the properties of the web permit utilization of the web tension. However, the risk of web break in connection with reel change is increased considerably, so that this technique is not optimal either.

The object of the invention is to provide a method and a device by whose means the drawbacks present in the prior-art solutions are avoided.

The method in accordance with the invention is characterized in that, in the method,

(a) a member that presses the web is brought onto the face of the reel that is being completed before the reel that is being completed is transferred to the reel change position,

(b) the full reel is transferred to the reel change position so that the member that presses the web during nip-free reeling forms a contact with the web, which contact prevents access of air between the web layers, and follows the full reel during its transfer to the reel change position, and

(c) during the reeling of the surface layers to be finished, the member that presses the web is shifted apart from the face of the reel that is being completed along such a path of movement that the member that presses the web maintains a contact of the desired extent with the face of the reel that is being completed.

On the other hand, the device in accordance with the invention is characterized in that the device comprises a member that presses the web and that is brought onto the face of the reel that is being completed before the reel that is completed is trans¬ ferred to the reel change position, that the member that presses the web is fitted to form a contact with the web, which contact prevents access of air between the web layers, when the full reel is transferred to the reel change position, that said member that presses the web is fitted to follow the full reel during its transfer to the reel change position, and that the member that presses the web is provided with actuators which are fitted to shift the member that presses the web during the reeling of the finishing surface layers apart from the face of the reel that is being completed along such a path of movement that the member that presses the web is fitted to maintain a contact of the desired extent with the face of the reel that is being completed.

In the solution in accordance with the invention, in the final stage of the reeling, nip- free reeling and a member that presses the web are employed. The member that presses the web prevents access of air between the web layers. Then, the result is a highly carefully finished face of the machine reel. As the member that presses the web, it is preferable to use a brush device. Also, a fragmentary roll and a spreader

bar are some further preferred alternative embodiments of the member that presses the web. Owing to the solution in accordance with the present invention, in practice, no waste of web is produced, because of which the solution in accordance with the invention is also economically a significant improvement over prior-art solutions.

The invention will be described in detail with reference to a preferred embodiment of the invention shown in the figures in the accompanying drawing, to which embodiment alone the invention is, however, not supposed to be confined.

Figure 1 is a side view of a preferred embodiment of the method and the device in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a schematic side view of the reeling stage in which the device in accord¬ ance with the invention is brought onto the face of the reel that is being completed before the reel that is being completed is shifted to the reel change position.

Figure 3 shows the reeling stage in which the device in accordance with the inven¬ tion starts finishing the surface layers of the machine reel that is formed in the reeling of the web.

Figure 4 is a schematic side view of the reeling stage in which the complete machine reel is being shifted to the change position.

In Fig. 1, the reeling system is denoted generally with the reference numeral 10. In this embodiment, the reeling system 10 comprises a reeling drum 11, which revolves in the direction indicated by the arrow A, and the web P is reeled onto the second roll, i.e. the reel spool 12. The web P is reeled onto the reel spool 12 by the intermediate of the reeling drum 11 through the nip N. The reel drum 12 revolves in the direction indicated by the arrow B. The reel spool 12 is mounted on reeling rails 14, and the reel spool 12 is provided with a centre drive 16 and with a reel- spool shifting device 17. The reference numeral 13 represents the machine reel that is being formed, and the reference numeral 15 denotes the reeling carriage, with

which the reel-spool shifting device 17 is connected operationally. Further, the reeling system 10 comprises devices for initial reeling 18. The reference numeral 12a denotes an empty reel spool, which revolves in the direction indicated by the arrow C. Such a reeling arrangement is conventional and does not represent any part of the invention proper.

According to the basic realization of the invention, the member 20 that presses the web is brought onto the face of the reel spool 12 that is being filled, i.e. onto the face of the machine reel 13, before the reel 12 that is being completed is shifted to the change position. In the embodiment as shown in Fig. 1, the member 20 that presses the web comprises a carriage 21, a beam 22, and a brush device 23. The carriage 21 is fitted to move along the guides 25. The actuator of the brush device 23 is denoted with the reference numeral 24. In this embodiment, the actuator 24 is a transfer cylinder, which is fitted to displace the carriage 21 along the guides 25.

As comes out from Figs. 2...4, the full reel 12 is shifted to the change position so that, during nip-free reeling, the brash device 23 forms a contact with the web P, which contact prevents access of air between the web layers, and the brush device follows the full reel 12 during its transfer to the change position. In this embodi- ment, when the carriage 12 collides against the reeling carriage 15, the brush device 23 can rise, and then the brush device 23 can finish the surface layers of the machine reel 13 that is being formed. The brush device 23 is attached pivotally to the frame part 21 of the brush device 23, i.e. to the carriage 21. Of course, the beam 22 of the brush device 23 can be combined with an actuator (not shown) which is fitted to displace the brush device 23 during the reeling of the surface layers to be finished away from the face of the reel 12 that is being completed along such a path of movement D that the brush device 23 maintains a contact of the desired extent with the face of the reel 12 that is being completed.

In the embodiment shown in the figures in the drawing, a brush device 23 has been used as the member 20 that presses the brush. As the member 20 that presses the web, it is equally well possible to use, e.g. , a fragmentary roll or a spreader bar.

Above, just one preferred embodiment of the invention has been described, and it is obvious to a person skilled in the art that numerous modifications can be made to said embodiment within the scope of the inventive idea defined in the accompanying patent claims.