Patent ID: 7073744

Claim:
An apparatus for winding a material web, the apparatus comprising: one of a spool and a reel; a carrier drum forming a winding nip with the spool or the reel, wherein the material web is guided over the carrier drum; primary arms guiding the spool or the reel when the spool or the reel is in a primary winding phase; pressing levers pivotally mounted to the primary arms, wherein the pressing levers are structured and arranged to press the spool or the reel onto the carrier drum; and secondary arms structured and arranged to press the spool or the reel onto the carrier drum when the spool or the reel is in a secondary winding phase, wherein the carrier drum is mounted axially between the primary arms, wherein the carrier drum is mounted to mountings which are different than and seperate from mountings of the primary arms, and wherein the primary arms are independent of the carrier drum.