Patent ID: 7017853

Claim:
A take-up roller system for winding a continuous web of material having elongated beads of inert adhesive thereon, said system comprising in combination: a support frame; a take-up roller rotatably mounted on said support frame; a web supply system for continuously delivering said web of material to said take-up roller; and a diverter system operatively engageable with said web material for reciprocally moving said material laterally of said roller as said material is wound onto said roller whereby beads of adhesive on adjacent layers of material on said roller are offset relative to each other, said material having lateral edges and said diverter system including a traverse comb having fingers for engaging said lateral edges of the material, and a drive mechanism operatively connected to the traverse comb for reciprocally moving the traverse comb laterally of said roller to cause said material to move reciprocally and laterally as it is wound onto said roller, said diverter system further including an eccentric and a traverse rod, said eccentric being operably engageable with said traverse rod to reciprocally move said traverse rod laterally of said roller and wherein said traverse rod is operable to move said traverse comb laterally of said roller, and a pair of traverse arms supporting said traverse comb, said traverse rod having a pair of spaced cam collars engageable with said eccentric whereby rotation of said eccentric causes said traverse rod and said traverse comb to move reciprocally and laterally of said take-up roller.