Abstract: An apparatus for uniformly winding elongate sheets of punched material, typically used for grouping and packaging beverage containers, includes a reciprocating shuttle which evenly distributes the material as it is wound on a reel. The shuttle includes a plurality of adjacent sheet receiving slots which permit simultaneous reciprocation and even winding of a like plurality of sheets and a moveable elongate guide member which is moveable between a raised loading position and a lowered, retaining position. Mechanism is also included which permits adjustment of the reciprocatory stroke of the shuttle as well as of the center about which such reciprocation occurs.

Abstract: An apparatus for uniformly winding elongate sheets of punched material, typically used for grouping and packaging beverage containers, includes a reciprocating shuttle which evenly distributes the material as it is wound on a reel. The shuttle includes a plurality of adjacent sheet receiving slots which permit simultaneous reciprocation and even winding of a like plurality of sheets and a moveable elongate guide member which is moveable between a raised loading position and a lowered, retaining position. Mechanism is also included which permits adjustment of the reciprocatory stroke of the shuttle as well as of the center about which such reciprocation occurs.