Abstract: In an apparatus for girding packages with endless synthetic-resin strips, an assembly for bonding the ends of a web segment to one another comprises a press in the form of a fixed surface and a spring-loaded press bar shiftably mounted in a rotating truncated drum along a diameter thereof. An outer tangentially extending surface of the bar has a rotation path interrupted by the fixed surface. The drum also carries a blade forming one side of a wedge-shaped channel for guiding a trailing web-segment end during a bonding phase of an operating cycle. Upon the beginning of the bonding phase a leading web portion surrounds the package and traverses the drum channel. The rotation of the drum causes the press bar to clamp the web to the fixed surface, whereupon the blade cuts the web and produces a web segment having a trailing end.