US 12,421,067 B2
Method and apparatus for processing a length of padding material
Bastian Schalk, Detmold (DE)
Assigned to Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier-und Wellpappenwerke & Co., Bielefeld (DE)
Appl. No. 17/996,977
Filed by Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier-und Wellpappenwerke & Co., Bielefeld (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 26, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/060816
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 24, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/214340, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 28, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102020111299.8 (DE), filed on Apr. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0219778 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 18/26 (2006.01); B65H 18/10 (2006.01); B31D 5/00 (2017.01)
CPC B65H 18/26 (2013.01) [B65H 18/10 (2013.01); B31D 5/006 (2013.01); B31D 2205/0047 (2013.01); B31D 2205/007 (2013.01); B31D 2205/0082 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4492 (2013.01); B65H 2301/5123 (2013.01); B65H 2402/31 (2013.01); B65H 2404/1521 (2013.01); B65H 2701/11231 (2013.01); B65H 2701/1944 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for processing a cushioning material strand produced by a cushioning conversion machine from a web-shaped stock material, the method comprising:
winding, using a winding device, the cushioning material strand around a winding center into a cushioning material winding;
guiding, using at least one guide movably mounted relative to the winding device, the cushioning material strand, wherein the guiding including following a height profile of a circumferential course of an outer layer of the cushioning material winding; and
compressing the cushioning material strand, at the outer layer of the cushioning material winding and during winding of the cushioning material strand, into the cushioning material winding.