For a very rapidly running press, in which webs are attached together by application of a series of linear transverse portions of glue instead of clipping them together, the known adhesive applicator technology when a different spacing is desired between the portions of glue or adhesive applied to the sheet, require changeover of the entire apparatus. With the present invention there is a division of the adhesive application operation between two different groups of components of which one group is a part of an operating machine while the second group is mutually interchangeable with other members of the group having a different size. The first group of components includes a shaft for the applicator cylinder with its drive, its bearing, a control means and a central body nonrotatably attached to the shaft. The second group of components comprises at least one cylinder body forming the outer circumference of the applicator cylinder which is rigidly attached to either the shaft or the central body mounted on the shaft. An insert containing a series of outlet holes for the adhesive material and an adhesive material feed duct is mounted in at least one guide in the cylinder body or bodies and can be used in a plurality of different sized interchangeable cylinder bodies and hence applicator cylinders.
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