Apparatus for winding a continuously incoming paper web

An apparatus for winding a continuously incoming paper web on a reel-spool, said apparatus comprising:

• a winding station having means for winding a first reel-spool;
• a cutting member to cut said incoming paper web into a trailing web section and a leading web section;
• a take-up station having means for storing a second, empty reel-spool, on which said trailing web section is wound;
• a transfer apparatus having means for transporting said second reel-spool from said take-up station to said winding station;
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• a contact pressure roll having means for contacting a circumference of a second reel being wound on said second reel-spool continuously, from the initiation of being wound to being transferred to the winding station, wherein said contact pressure roll together with the circumference of the second reel define an inlet gap, into which the paper web enters substantially continuously without looping, the transfer apparatus has a first guide track for moving said second reel, and wherein said contact pressure roll is movable on a second guide track, which is parallel to said first guide track, from a finished primary reel in said winding station to said second reel in said take-up station, and said contact pressure roll being movable to said winding station together with said the second reel.