US Patent Issued to BW CONVERTING on July 22 for "Center drive unwind system" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,557, issued on July 22, was assigned to BW CONVERTING INC. (Green Bay, Wis.).

"Center drive unwind system" was invented by Cory L. Schubring (De Pere, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for unwinding includes loading a first reel of web material into a first unwind position where the web is unwound. A splicing unit is then moved in the machine direction toward the first unwind position until there is sufficient space to allow a further reel to be loaded into a second unwind position where the web from the second reel is unwound once loaded. Then, the web from the first reel is spliced to the second reel, and the web of the ...