Double ply web transfer device

Claim 1

IN A PAPER WINDING MACHINE HAVING A BEDROLL ABOUT WHICH A MULTIPLE PLY WEB OF PAPER PASSES AND A PLURALITY OF MANDRELS ADAPTED TO SUCCESSIVELY AND CONTINOUSLY RECEIVE AND WIND PREDETERMINED LENGTHS OF PAPER UPON CORES, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING: (A) ADHESIVE APPLICATING MEANS FOR APPLYING ADHESIVE TO A MULTIPLICITY OF CONTINUOUS RING-SHAPED AREAS ON THE PERIPHERY OF A CORE PRIOR TO WINDING, (B) INTERMITTENTLY ACTUATED PIERCING MEANS FOR PRODUCING APERTURES IN SAID WEB AT A MULTIPLICITY OF POINTS SPACED TRANSVERSELY ACROSS SAID WEB, SAID PIERCING MEANS COMPRISING A MULTIPLICITY OF PUNCHES EACH ALIGNED WITH ONE OF THE RING-SHAPED ADHESIVE AREAS OF SAID CORE, SAID PUNCHES BEING POSITIONED TO PENETRATE THE WEB FROM THE SIDE THEREOF WHICH IS TO BE OUTERMOST WHEN THE WEB IS WOUND ON A CORE, TO THEREBY CAUSE FIBERS FROM THE OUTERMOST PLY OF THE WEB TO BE EXPOSED ON THE INNERMOST SIDE OF SAID WEB, SAID PUNCHES BEING ACTUATED ONLY ONCE DURING THE WINDING OF EACH CORE, (C) SEVERING MEANS FOR CUTTING SAID WEB IN TIMED RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OPERATION OF SAID PIERCING MEANS AND AT A POSITION ON THE WEB SLIGHTLY IN ADVANCE OF SAID APERTURES, AND (D) TRANSFER MEANS FOR CAUSING THE APERTURED AND SEVERED END OF SAID WEB TO BE PRESSED AGAINST SAID CORE WITH SAID APERTURES DIRECTLY CONTACTING THE ALIGNED RINGS OF ADHESIVE ON SAID CORE, WHEREBY FIBERS FROM THE OUTERMOST PLY OF SAID WEB BECOME ADHERED TO SAID CORE SO AS TO PREVENT SEPARATION OF SAID PLIES DURING THE INITIAL STAGES OF THE WINDING OPERATION.