Abstract: For a very rapidly running press, in which webs are attached together by application of a series of linear transverse portions of glue instead of clipping them together, the known adhesive applicator technology when a different spacing is desired between the portions of glue or adhesive applied to the sheet, require changeover of the entire apparatus. With the present invention there is a division of the adhesive application operation between two different groups of components of which one group is a part of an operating machine while the second group is mutually interchangeable with other members of the group having a different size. The first group of components includes a shaft for the applicator cylinder with its drive, its bearing, a control means and a central body nonrotatably attached to the shaft.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a succession of equispaced and transversely extending glue strips on a longitudinally extending web has an applicator drum rotatable about a drum axis and having a cylindrical outer surface with a circumference equal to a whole-number multiple of the desired distance between succeeding strips. The drum is formed with at least one axially extending manifold passage and an axially extending row of bores opening radially outward at the drum surface and inward into the passage. Guide and transport rollers displace the web longitudinally at very high speed past the applicator drum with the web looped over same and engaging same over an angularly extending contact region. A drive rotates the drum about the axis at a peripheral speed substantially equal to the very high displacement speed of the web.

Abstract: A stack of sheets is stood on a support surface inclined to the horizontal by 15.degree. at the upstream end of a track. A pair of elements perpendicular to this surface and mounted on a carriage clamp this stack and the carriage is displaced to the opposite end of the track. An applicator brush underneath the track in its center is rotated about an axis perpendicular to the track and parallel to the support surface. This brush is partially immersed in a hot-glue bath so that on rotation it may stroke a layer of glue on the bottom of the stack held in the clamp on the carriage.