Patent ID: 8794562

Claim:
A mandrel cupping assembly for releaseably engaging unsupported ends of a plurality of mandrels disposed on a web winding turret assembly, said turret assembly comprising a plurality of mandrels extending parallel to a turret assembly central axis and driven in a closed mandrel path about said turret assembly central axis, said mandrel cupping assembly comprising: a cupping arm cooperatively associated with each mandrel of said plurality of mandrels, said cupping arm being capable of releaseably engaging said unsupported end of said mandrel; a cupping spider having a hold-open cam track and a hold-closed cam track disposed radially and formed in a surface thereof, each cupping arm being cooperatively associated with a respective chucking lever, each chucking lever providing connective engagement of each respective cupping arm with either of said hold-open cam track or said hold-closed cam track, each of said cupping arms being carried in a radial path about said turret assembly central axis while said respective chucking lever cooperatively associated thereto is disposed in either of said hold-open cam track or said hold-closed cam track; and, a first actuator for disposing said cupping arm from said hold-open cam track to said hold-closed cam track.