Abstract: A winder is proposed for continuously winding a paper, while forming a wound reel on a spool, having a contact pressure drum, which forms a winding nip with the wound reel and is rotatably arranged on a lifting table, which can be displaced vertically or substantially vertically, and having a guide for the spool, which comprises guide rails arranged parallel or substantially parallel to an imaginary horizontal. On the lifting table is a transport device, on which the contact pressure drum is rotatably arranged, and that the transport device can be displaced horizontally by means of a thrust device. The contact pressure drum moves vertically to establish one nip at a time with each spool in sequence, and to move out of the way of horizontal motion of a spool moving toward its winding position.