Winding machine, especially for thin strip webs and thin films

A winding machine for winding webs onto winding sleeves, comprising:

• a support;
• a plurality of pairs of support arms on said support defining respective winding stations with the arms of each pair receiving a respective winding sleeve between them for winding up a respective web into a respective roll about a respective axis;
• slide means on said support carrying said arms and enabling shifting of said arms parallel to said axes for adjustment of said arms to widths of said webs to be wound into said rolls;
• respective holders on said arms of each pair engageable with said respective winding sleeve and rotatable about the respective axis, each of said arms being formed with a plurality of openings throughgoing in a direction parallel to said axes;
• a respective elongated drive motor assigned to each arm, received in one of said openings of the respective arm, operatively connected to a respective one of said holders, and driving said holders to rotate said respective winding sleeves and wind said webs into said rolls on said pairs of arms,
• each of said drive motors extending through at least one other of said openings in each of at least two neighboring arms,
• each of said pairs of arms including a first arm on one axial side of the respective pair and a second arm on an opposite axial side of the respective pair,
• each motor assigned to the first arm of a respective pair being end-reversed through 180.degree. and offset in said direction with respect to a said motor assigned to the second arm of the respective pair,
• each motor assigned to the first and second arms of each pair being laterally offset from the motors assigned to the arms of an adjacent pair but being of the same end orientation,
• a motor assigned to the first arm of a respective pair being end-reversed through 180.degree. and nonoffset in said direction with respect to said motor assigned to the second arm of said adjacent pair.