Device for winding a continuous length of material

In an apparatus for winding successive sections of a web of flexible material around successive cores of a series of cores, the combination of means for advancing the web in a predetermined direction along a predetermined path;

• a source of cores at one side of said path;
• a rotary winding member at the other side of said path;
• means for repeatedly cutting the web downstream of said winding member so that the web is subdivided into a succession of sections each having a leader, said cutting means being movable to and from an operative position;
• means for transferring cores from said source into engagement with successive sections whereby the sections set the cores in rotary motion, including means for urging the sections against the winding member by way of the respective cores so that the leader of each section extends in said direction beyond the respective core;
• means for draping each of the leaders around the respective core including at least one first draping member, means for displacing the first draping member into engagement with the first portion of the leader downstream of the winding member so that a second portion of the leader projects beyond the first draping member, at least one second draping member movable relative to the first draping member toward an operative position to thus move the second portion of the leader of a freshly formed section against the core downstream of the first draping member, as seen in the direction of rotation of the core;
• and means for bodily moving of the second draping member and the cutting means to its operative position in response to movement of the other of said operative position.