Abstract: Disclosed is a winder having: a drum about which a web passes in use; a cutter which severs the web as it passes around the drum into segments; a suction facility which draws air through a suction portion of the drum such that, when severed, the trailing web segment is carried by the suction portion to a release position; a loader which, for each segment, receives a core at a starting position whereat the core is rotated by contact with said drum and whereat the core receives the leading edge of said trailing segment, without fold-over, from said drum when the trailing segment reaches the take-up position; a guide which receives the core after the segment has started to wind thereupon; and a transfer mechanism which receives the core from the guide and supports same in driven contact with the drum as the segment is wound the Disclosed is a winder having: a drum about which a web passes in use; a cutter which severs the web as it passes around the drum into segments; a suction facility which draws air through

Abstract: A sheet slitter winder that uses a sheet slitter to slit a wide sheet into a plurality of sheets of predetermined width, and winders to wind the slit sheets onto winding cores. Touch rollers contact the winding rolls. Temporary sheet-holding means have a sheet-retaining plate that can be contacted with and separated from the touch rollers and can temporarily hold a slit sheet against an outside peripheral surface of a touch roller at a point upstream of a point of contact between a touch roller and a roll. Cutting means are used to cut widthwise across the slit sheets thus held in place.