Compliant drum and rider roll.

摘要

A winder for continuously winding a traveling web such as paper onto a large roll (10) with a support roll (12) in contact with the roll (10) being wound such as where the support roll (12) is one or both of a pair of parallel horizontally extending drums (11, 12) with the outer surface of the drum being of rubber with embedded nonextensible annular cords and the surface being supported by a plurality of inflatable chambers along the length of the drum (12) so that the outer surface of the drum (12) deforms with contact with the roll (10) being wound and accommodates irregularities along the length of the roll (10) being wound.