The sheet wraps onto a steel spool pressed against a driven reel drum, the arrangement usually called a Pope reel. When a roll is full, a turn-up moves the sheet onto a new empty spool without stopping the machine. The finished roll, also called a reel, is the unit the lab samples and the mill tracks for quality before it goes to the winder.
Reel 14 is on hold for shade, the rest of the set cleared the lab.
Also heard as
- Pope reel
- parent reel
Related terms
Turn-up
Transfer of the running sheet from a full reel spool onto a new empty one at the paper machine reel.
Reel sample
Strip of paper torn across the full width of a finished reel for lab testing before the reel is released.
Jumbo
Shop name for the full-width parent roll wound at the paper machine reel before slitting.
Dry end
Back section of a paper machine, from the dryers through calender and reel, where the sheet is finished.