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A band storing machine for temporarily storing band-like material in a continuously operating process line, for example by the feeding of sheet metal in band-like form to tube welding machines. The machine has two concentrically arranged roller baskets or cages for winding up the band; withdrawal of the band is effected via a lateral displacement guide which is disposed in the inner basket. The problem of buckling and otherwise adversely affecting the path of the band is to be avoided, and the band is to be treated as gently as possible. This can be done, and the band can therefore be transported in the storing machine merely by pulling, by rotatably disposing the outer roller basket about the inner roller basket, and by initially guiding the band from the uncoiling location to the processing machine in a so-called by-pass between and through the rollers transverse to the circular disk formed by the roller baskets and about the lateral displacement guide. This can be done as long as storage is not required, whereas when storage is required the outer roller basket rotates as a loading basket, and the band is pulled and wound onto the concentric roller baskets via at least one loading roller.

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