Device for taking out sheet rolls and mounting sheet roll cores

Claim 1

A sheet winder with a slitter, in which sheet winder a strip-like sheet is slit by a slitter into a plurality of slit sheets to be supplied to respective take-up shafts disposed at take-up positions and taken up on cores supported on said take-up shafts, said sheet winder comprising: (a) take-up shaft withdraw and restoring means for effecting withdraw of each take-up shaft from its take-up position in the axial direction of the shaft and for restoring the shaft to its take-up position; (b) a movable sheet roll support movable in a direction normal to the axis of each take-up shaft at the take-up position so as to be moved to a sheet roll acceptance position, a take-up shaft supply position, and a waiting position; (c) a vertical guide post provided on said movable sheet roll support; (d) at least one sheet roll holder capable of being raised and lowered along said vertical guide post and having an end portion extending toward a sheet take-up position; (e) a sheet roll support base disposed for movement back and forth along said at least one sheet roll holder; (f) core holding means provided on an end portion of said at least one sheet roll holder for holding a core parallel to the take-up shaft; (g) means for positioning and driving said movable sheet support; and (h) means for raising and lowering said at least one sheet roll holder.