US Patent Issued to VALMET on June 10 for "Method and a machine for winding a web onto spools to form a succession of web reels" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,605, issued on June 10, was assigned to VALMET AB (Sundsvall, Sweden).

"Method and a machine for winding a web onto spools to form a succession of web reels" was invented by Fabrizio Bartolini (Lucca, Italy) and Marco Capitani (Lucca, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method of winding a web (W) of tissue paper or a non-woven material onto spools (2) to form a succession of web reels (3) on the spools (2) wherein the force in the winding nip (5) is measured and, as the diameter of the web reel (3) grows, the spool (2) on which the web reel (3) is wound is moved during winding along a horizontal plane such that, in the...