Abstract: A roller cutting and winding-up machine has, subsequent to a cutting station, winding-on stations on both sides of a deflecting and supporting roll. Each winding-on station comprises two brackets, on each of which is mounted one of two swivel arms which, independently of the swivel arms of the other winding-on stations, are adapted to be swivelled between a coil winding-on position and a coil depositing position. The arms are driven by means of a power-medium operated tooth rack via a toothed wheel so that by a single drive means there is provided not only contact pressure for the winding-on operation but a large swivelling range of the arms. The brackets of the winding-on stations are individually movable transversely of the working area range of the machine.

Abstract: A biaxial stretching machine has a return line for each row of grippers, the return line including a storage region defined by a section of storage track and a screw for feeding grippers to the storage track. The screw is of diminishing pitch and is axially compressible to vary the effective capacity of the storage region. In one form the return screw can be compressed by a spindle-nut-arrangement.