Abstract: A contact roller is shiftable in two mutually perpendicular directions so that it can press the cut end of a web, e.g. of thin scratch-sensitive film, against an empty roll in a waiting position while maintaining contact with the roll being completely wound in the winding position. The empty sleeve and the wound roll are mounted upon arms of a turret or the like so as to be swingable about a command axis but independently of one another.

Abstract: A slitting and rewinding machine for a web to be slit into a plurality of strips, comprising two turnstyles for the reception of a plurality of winding shafts, which receive winding cores, and comprising a loading carriage for the supply of empty winding cores and for the reception of finished rolls. The technical problem is such a structure of the slitting and rewinding machine that particularly in the case of winding shafts having a small diameter a quick and reliable performance of the loading operation and of the unloading operation is possible. Each winding shaft is received on one end in a drive frame. The other end of each winding shaft is beared rotatable in a support frame. The support frames can be moved on an axial guide. One sliding device for the support frame with the respective winding shaft is associated respectively with the unloading station and the loading station. A loading carriage comprises on the one side a roll case and on the other side a sleeve case for each turnstyle.