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Abstract

Apparatus for gluing the final tail of rolls or logs of wound sheet material includes a glue distributor device located below an opening in a roll down table. The tail of the roll is separated from the roll by a tail separating unit upstream of the opening. The gluing distributor device includes a tank containing glue, a rotatable pick up roll located inside of the tank and partially immersed in the glue, and a glue distributor roll positioned externally above the tank and provided with at least one paddle. The pick up roll picks up glue as it rotates, and the rotating paddle contacts the pick up roll and picks up glue as the glue distributor roll rotates. The paddle rotates into the opening in the roll down table, and glue is transferred from the paddle to a roll as the roll rolls over the opening. A cull roll can be culled without applying glue to the roll by mounting a cull roll support projection on the glue distributor roll which is not long enough to contact the pick up roll. The cull roll support projection is positioned in the opening in the roll down table when the cull log rolls over the opening.

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