Roll of sheet for use with a drug packaging device

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EP 1 029 818 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	06.09.2000 Bulletin 2000/36

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	23.08.2000 Bulletin 2000/34

(21)	Application number: 00109244.4

(22)	Date of filing: 08.09.1997

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: B65H 23/06

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

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Priority:

20.09.1996 JP 25049296

(62)	Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
	97115567.6 / 0831048

(71)	Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Yuyama Seisakusho
	Toyonaka-shi, Osaka (JP)

(72)	Inventors:
	Yuyama, Shoji, c/o K. K. Yuyama Seisakusho Toyonaka-shi, Osaka (JP) Nose, Hiroshi, c/o K. K. Yuyama Seisakusho Toyonaka-shi, Osaka (JP) Yasunaga, Itsuo, c/o K. K. Yuyama Seisakusho Toyonaka-shi, Osaka (JP) Etou, Naomichi, c/o K. K. Yuyama Seisakusho Toyonaka-shi, Osaka (JP) Amano, Hirokazu, c/o K. K. Yuyama Seisakusho Toyonaka-shi, Osaka (JP)

(74)	Representative: Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Anwaltssozietät
	Maximilianstrasse 58 80538 München 80538 München (DE)

(54)	Roll of sheet for use with a drug packaging device

(57) It is desired to prevent disalignment of the edges of a folded sheet by smoothly feeding the sheet while keeping tension fluctuactions to a minimum when the sheet is unwound from a paper roll (R) set in a paper feed unit to a packaging unit even though the paper roll diameter decreases gradually as the sheet is unwound. A sheet length measuring sensor or rotary encoder is provided in the paper feed path through which the packaging sheet unwound from the paper roll is fed toward the packaging unit. An angle sensor (25) is provided which comprises Hall element sensors provide on a support shaft and magnets provided on a core pipe of the paper roll. Any change is the signals from one of these sensors relative to the signal from the other sensor is used to calculate the paper roll winding length, and the sheet tension is adjusted to an optimum, constant level by controlling the sheet braking force stepwise according to the roll diameter measured by the sensors.

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