Patent ID: 8800908

Claim:
A winder for winding a continuous web material or interleaved web segments having a machine direction and a cross-machine direction coplanar and orthogonal thereto into rolls, said winder comprising: a first surface contact roll having a longitudinal axis parallel to said cross-machine direction associated thereto, said web material contacting at least a portion of said first surface contact roll; a winding spindle arranged to be rotatably driven at a surface speed about an axis generally parallel to said longitudinal axis of said first surface contact roll, said winding spindle being capable of receiving said web material when said winding spindle is proximate said web material contacting said first surface contact roll; a controller cooperatively associated with said first surface contact roll, said controller being capable of adjusting a surface speed of said first surface contact roll; each of said winding spindle and said first surface contact roll being capable of cooperative engagement when said web material is disposed therebetween; and, wherein said longitudinal axis of said first surface contact roll is adjustable relative to said axis of said winding spindle when said web material is received by said winding spindle, and said first surface contact roll maintains contact with said web material as said web material is received by said winding spindle, and said adjustment of said longitudinal axis of said first surface contact roll provides a desired pressure upon said web material as said web material is disposed upon said winding spindle and the surface speed of the first surface contact roll is different from the surface speed of the winding spindle for an entire wind cycle.