A method for wrapping a roll, particularly a paper roll, in an elastic material such as a paper web or plastic film

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method for wrapping a roll (1), particularly a paper roll in a, continuous wrapper web (2) of elastic material such as a paper web wrapper or plastic film, in which method the wrapper material web (2) is wrapped about the, roll by rotating the roll (1) and, further, in which method the wrapper material is tensioned by means of a, braking arrangement (8) adapted to the essentially immediate vicinity of roll. The invention is implemented so that the wrapper material web (2) is tensioned, essentially during the entire time of its wrapping about the roll (1) to be wrapped and that, just prior to the braking, arrangement (8) of the web (2) on the machine direction path, the wrapper, material …