---
publication_id: "OT-2026-000003081"
title: "Method of and apparatus for manipulating bobbins"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:24:53.027218Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000003081"
categories:
  - "material-handling/package-handling"
keywords:
  - "b65h67/065"
  - "b65h67/065"
  - "a24c5/20"
  - "b65b19/26"
  - "b65g47/91"
  - "b65g59/04"
---

# Method of and apparatus for manipulating bobbins

## Abstract

Bobbins containing convoluted webs of sheet material, particularly wrapping material for smokers' products, are transferred from a stack—wherein the axes of the cores of bobbins are vertical—onto the horizontal stub of a receiver in a web processing machine by an apparatus wherein a first set of jaws serves to engage the core of a fresh bobbin from within preparatory to transfer to the receiver and simultaneous pivoting of the first set of jaws through 90°. When the supply of web on the core borne by the stub of the receiver is exhausted, the external surface of the thus exposed core is engaged by a second set of jaws which transport the core to a collecting station or the like. Sheet-like partitions which are disposed between neighboring layers of fresh bobbins in the stack are removed by suction cups which are mounted on a reciprocable pusher together with the jaws of the second set.

## 1. Drawings

[0001] Sheet 1.

[0002] Sheet 2.

[0003] Sheet 3.

[0004] Sheet 4.

[0005] Sheet 5.

[0006] Sheet 6.

[0007] Sheet 7.

[0008] Sheet 8.

[0009] Sheet 9.