Abstract: An array of dancer rollers are resiliently biased for engaging a plurality of webs in a take-up zone of a honeycomb machine. The dancer rollers engage each web and thrust it out of its plane of advance to maintain the webs under continuous tension loading as they are alternately advanced and halted during successive feeding and cutting cycles, respectively. A pair of index rollers engage the webs, pull them from supply rolls and feed them to a cyclic cutter in response to rotation of the index rollers. In this arrangement, the continuous drive rollers used in conventional web movement arrangements are eliminated with the webs being pulled from the supply roll intermittently and according to need by the index rollers.

Abstract: An array of dancer rollers are resiliently biased for engaging a plurality of webs in a take-up zone of a honeycomb machine. The dancer rollers engage each web and thrust it out of its plane of advance to maintain the webs under continuous tension loading as they are alternately advanced and halted during successive feeding and cutting cycles, respectively. A pair of index rollers engage the webs, pull them from supply rolls and feed them to a cyclic cutter in response to rotation of the index rollers. In this arrangement, the continuous drive rollers used in conventional web movement arrangements are eliminated with the webs being pulled from the supply roll intermittently and according to need by the index rollers.