Inventors:
Fred P. Brown - Centerville MA
Assignee:
Packaging Industries, Inc. - Hyannis MA
International Classification:
B65H 2524
Abstract:
A web handling system is described for incrementally feeding a web, and preferably multiple webs, to a processing station. Each web is advanced to the processing station by a pair of web-feeding rollers. One motor drives all of the web-feeding roller pairs through respective clutch-brakes connected to each roller pair. Each web has index marks imprinted along its length at intervals corresponding to intervals at which it is desired to precisely register the web with the processing station. A first detecting means disposed along one of the web paths (or similar detecting means along another web path) initially detects an index mark on the web travelling that path to provide a signal which decelerates the motor and thus slows all of the web-feeding rollers and the webs. Second index mark detecting means, one for each web path, then detect the index marks on the respective associated webs as they now more slowly advance towards the processing station. When actuated, each second index mark detecting means produces a signal which disengages the clutch and applies the brake of the clutch-brake associated with the same web to independently stop each web.