Machine for coiling a flat continuous element to form rolls

Machine for coiling or winding a continuous element in sheet form to form coils, this machine being equipped with a device for cutting the sheet so as to change from one coil to another, of the type comprising a stand on which is mounted a turret equipped with at least two parallel spindles each associated with rotational drive means, the rotation of the turret simultaneously allowing a full coil to be removed and an empty spindle to be brought up to a coiling station, and a carriage that can move at right angles to the axis of the spindles and which itself bears rolls for supplying the machine with sheet that is to be coiled, characterized in that the carriage comprises:

• a tension measuring roll for measuring tension on which the sheet arrives roughly horizontally,
• a contact roll for contact with the coil at the coiling station, the contact roll being placed beneath the tension-measuring roll, roughly vertically in line therewith, and
• a cutting device placed between the tension-measuring roll and the contact roll, upstream of the point of coiling onto the spindle or the coil that is to be formed.