Web rewinding apparatus

A web rewinding apparatus comprising:

• a turret winder comprising:
• a rotatably driven turret assembly supported for rotation about a central axis, said turret assembly supporting a plurality of rotatably driven mandrels, each of said mandrels being capable of engaging cores upon which a web material is convolutely wound thereabout, each of said mandrels being carried in a closed mandrel path about said central axis, each of said plurality of mandrels extending from said turret assembly at a first mandrel end and having a second unsupported end and having a mandrel axis generally parallel to said central axis, each of said plurality of mandrels being supported upon said turret assembly at said first mandrel end for independent rotation of said mandrel about said mandrel axis;
• and,
• a cupping assembly for releaseably engaging said second unsupported ends of said plurality of mandrels, said cupping assembly comprising:
• a cupping arm turret having a cupping arm turret central axis;
• a cupping arm cooperatively associated with each mandrel of said plurality of mandrels, each of said cupping arms being disposed radially about said cupping arm turret and having a mandrel cup for releaseably engaging said unsupported end of said mandrel, each of said cupping arms having a hold-open position and a hold-closed position, each cupping arm being carried in a radial orbital path about said cupping arm turret central axis while disposed in either of said hold-open position or said hold-closed position;
• and,
• a first actuator for disposing said cupping arm from said hold-open position to said hold-closed position.