DE2632973A1 - DECORATIVE LABEL SLEEVE FOR A BOTTLE - Google Patents

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TELEGH. NEGEDAPATENT MUNICH

Toledo, Ohio 43666

_USA Hamburg. _July 14th

Decorative label sleeve for a bottle

The invention relates to a decorative label neck sleeve for a glass container, which is made of heat-shrinkable, foamed Plastic and has raised, decorative embossed patterns on the outer surface.

In an earlier pending U.S. application (File Number: 514,370, filed October 15, 1974) the neck label sleeve was made of pre-stretched oriented cellular organic plastic, in which several vertically extending folds were provided, wherein the sleeve was highly oriented in the circumferential direction. the vertical folds were arranged in a ring in the label to accommodate material folds that would otherwise occur with Shrinkage of the sleeve around the bottle would appear.

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It has now been found that from these columns a Patterns can be created in the material that extends at an angle to the direction of orientation of the material, so that after shrinking a raised pattern on the outer surface of the label sleeve as a decorative Embossing pattern appears. This embossing pattern can be combined with a decorative color printing that is attached in the flat state on the plate, so that a new decorative impression with the label is achieved on the bottle.

According to the invention, order the neck label tube from one pre-stretched oriented tape of a cellular organic plastic. The orientation of the plastic runs mainly in the longitudinal direction of the tape. The tape is made from a larger tape of this material, this, if desired, beforehand with a decorative color, lettering and the like in a flat form can be provided. The printed base material is cut to a width that corresponds to the height of the label tube on the bottle.

According to the invention it is preferred that the oriented tape is passed through a device to be repeatedly provided with bead-shaped impressions that extend along extend in a line (similar to a

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pleated fabric). When heat shrinking the the bottle surrounding label sleeve, the fluting of the sleeve shrinks differently and closes air during the Shrinkage under the embossing pattern. The result is a raised embossed pattern on the outer surface of the Label sleeve.

As disclosed in the earlier patent application, the starting material of the label tube can have a line of weakening have, which appears ring-shaped on the label sleeve and with the help of which it can be determined whether the Bottle has been opened beforehand. In this case, the label sleeve is on the circumferential edge of a closure cap and shrunk the neck of the bottle. The feature indicating the unauthorized opening of the bottle becomes as follows intended.

The tape is partially longitudinally along the desired Incised transverse point. With the partial incision it is meant that a knife edge in the Plastic penetrates in order to (weaken) it along a break line without cutting it. For example For a tape 0.254 mm thick, the depth of the cut would be 0.127 mm. This incision is made on the Back of the starting material, that is, on the side opposite the decorated surface.

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After the sleeve label on the bottle neck and the ümfangsrand a closure cap mounted thereon is fixedly shrunk _f surrounding the break line of the material takes a an approximately aligned position with the lower edge of the cap skirt. When the bottle is opened by unscrewing the cap, the label sleeve is separated into two parts along the break line, namely an upper part remaining on the edge of the cap and a part remaining on the bottle neck. This material separation of the label sleeve indicates that the closure cap has been released or the bottle has been opened had been. In this way, the bottle is provided with a feature which indicates that it has previously been opened, i.e. an indication to the buyer that the bottle had previously been opened.

In the manufacture of the label sleeves according to the invention becomes the band-shaped, oriented, printed starting material, the longitudinal incisions and the embossing pattern having, fed to a drum on which the prescribed lengths of material (blanks) successively cut off and placed on a mandrel. The blanks are individually wound on the mandrels and by overlapping the trailing edge end of the blank over the leading edge end by welding, gluing or the like connected to each other, so that a sleeve is formed

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that corresponds to the label. The preferred connection is made by welding the two overlapping ones Layers of the plastic. The label sleeve is then from the mandrel over the closure cap and the bottle neck pushed and brought into the prescribed position. In this position, the annular incision, the indicates that the bottle has previously been opened, adjacent to the lower annular edge of the cap peripheral wall brought into position. On the other hand, the label tube is in the desired position on the Bottle attached to then be shrunk on.

The bottle is also used to shrink the label sleeve the cap attached thereon and the label sleeve near a heating device, such as one Infrared heat source, placed in position, which is sufficient provides localized heat to secure the sleeve material around the bottle and the cap rim shrink. The embossed pattern made in the plastic, consisting of beads or similar impressions (compression of the cellular material), reacts differently during the warmth hulling than the rest of the adjoining it Sleeve material. The line-shaped impressions of the material are on the back of the cell-shaped Plastic tape and form small air pockets with the bottle surface. When the main body

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of the label sleeve material shrinks during heating, it grips firmly on the glass surface and seals this raised surface Channel zones. At about the same time as the heat increases, the pressure causes it in the small ducts trapped air a reinforcement of the embossing pattern that was created by the linear impressions while the material was cold. The material of the raised embossing pattern hardens more or less, so that the decorative effect of the bottle provided with the label sleeve is achieved, if at all, over the printed Decoration of the tape material goes beyond the embossing. Artistic designs can be made with the embossing patterns can be generated in the surface of the label tube together with printing of colors or images.

It should be noted that when the label barrel has the tamper-evident feature, the lower barrel portion is preferably glued to the bottle neck, so that the lower sleeve portion when unscrewing the closure cap held and the label sleeve in a lower and an upper section cut along the incision line at the neck or the edge of the cap. This is done in the most simple way achieved that the glass surface of the bottle neck is provided with an adhesive before the label sleeve is attached to it. After the label sleeve is tight

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shrinks around the neck of the bottle, the lower section of the same is firmly connected to the glass for the separating effect, which "constitutes the characteristic that the bottle was previously opened has been.

It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a decorative shrinkable. To create label sleeves for bottles, which has an embossed pattern that, when shrunk, enhances the look and feel.

Another object of the invention is to provide such a decorative label tube that fits the neck and surrounds the cap rim of the bottle and indicating that the bottle has previously been opened.

Another object of the invention is to provide a method of such a label tube with a raised decorative embossing pattern that is easy and economical can be attached to bottles.

Other important features, objects, and advantages of the invention are apparent to those skilled in the art from the following description in conjunction with the drawings. Show it:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a bottle with a label sleeve that is tight around the cap rim

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and the neck of the bottle has shrunk;

2 is a plan view of a label tube blank before it is wound and connected to form a tube; showing the indentations and the cut line;

3 shows a section along line 3-3 of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 shows a partial section of the impression produced with the device according to FIG. 7, after the band is sectioned by means of the device shown in Figure 8;

5 shows a section of a device for making the incision to a partial depth in the starting material, which extends in the longitudinal direction of a belt;

6 shows a partial section along line 6-6 of FIG. 5;

7 shows a section of an embossing device for producing spaced apart transverse bead pairs in the strip-shaped starting material which is an embodiment of the invention;

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8 shows a section of a device for cutting off a label blank from the strip-shaped starting material and for feeding the blank onto a mandrel;

9 is a schematic view showing the steps for manufacturing the label tube from one of a Tape cut off the blank and the transfer of the label tube from the mandrel, taking it over the Bottle neck and cap is pushed into position and shrunk onto it;

FIG. 10 shows a partial section along line 10-10 of FIG. 9 of an embodiment of the invention showing the bead made in the starting material from which the blank is cut;

Fig. 11 is a partially broken away plan view of the device for producing the weld seam of the overlapping ends of the one produced in FIG Sleeve blank for forming the label sleeves according to the invention;

FIG. 12 shows a device which can be used in connection with FIG to apply a little pressure

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onto the heated, overlapping end portions of the label tube produced in FIG. 11;

Figure 13 is a partial top plan view of a bottle with a shrunk on Label sleeve as it was attached before the invention;

14 shows a partial top view of a bottle with a shrinkable label sleeve before it is shrink-fitted; the beads being shown in the label tube according to the invention;

15 is a partial plan view of the bottle and the label sleeve shown in FIG Bottle and the cap is firmly connected by shrinking;

Figure 16 is a partial plan view of another embodiment a label sleeve which is shrunk around the bottle neck and the closure cap according to the invention is;

17 is a side view of one labeled in accordance with the invention Bottle that is opened by unscrewing the cap, with the label sleeve into an upper and a lower section

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is separating;

18 is a perspective view of an embossing roller for producing the label sleeves according to FIG Invention;

19 shows a section of the embossing roller shown in FIG. 18 with a support roller for embossing the strip oriented, cellular plastic;

19A shows a partial longitudinal section of the plastic tape, with the compacted line-shaped embossing pattern impressed by the device according to FIG. 19, shown in section;

20 is a top plan view of a rectangular blank of the oriented cellular plastic which is passed through the device of Figure 19 is processed;

21 is a perspective view of a glass bottle with a label sleeve having an embossing is provided, which is made from the blank of Fig. 20 and around the neck and the closure cap the bottle has shrunk;

Fig _a 22 is a perspective view of another embossing

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roller different from that shown in Fig. 18;

23 is a plan view of the rectangular blank of oriented, cellular plastic, according to FIG it is processed by the embossing roller shown in Fig. 22;

24 shows a perspective view of a glass bottle with the embossed label sleeve which has been removed from the blank made according to Fig. 23 and shrunk around the neck and cap of the bottle is;

25 is a perspective view of a further embodiment the embossing roller;

26 is a top plan view of the rectangular blank of oriented cellular plastic after it has been processed by the embossing roller of Fig. 25;

27 is a perspective view of a glass bottle _? with the embossed label sleeve which is made from the blank according to FIG. 26 and is shrunk tightly around the neck and the closure cap of the bottle;

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Fig. 28 is a perspective view of yet another embossing roller;

29 is a top plan view of the rectangular blank of oriented cellular plastic after it has been processed by the roller shown in Fig. 28;

30 is a perspective view of a glass bottle with the embossed label sleeve emerging from the blank 29 and shrunk around the neck and cap of the bottle is.

Fig. 1 shows a glass bottle 10 with a neck 11, the is closed by a primary closure, such as a screw cap 12, for example. The cap 12 (Fig. 9) has an end face 13 and an edge section 14 formed in one piece therewith, which is connected to a lower annular, the edge 15 surrounding the neck 11 ends.

A shrunk-on secondary closure 16 in the form of an opening of the bottle indicating the bottle neck and the closure encompassing label sleeve, which consists of a shrinkable, cell-shaped, polymeric material, surrounds the bottle neck 11 and the edge 14 of the cap 12

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and bridges the junction between the bottle neck and the marginal edge 15 of the cap 12. The shrinkable polymeric material can be any shrinkable organic foamed plastic that is strong in the circumferential direction the bottle shown in Fig. 1 is oriented. An example of such a material is a cellular one polymeric plastic, which is highly oriented in the form of a wall and which is previously in a flat form with a label decoration or an image, as shown at 17, can be printed. Preferably the polymeric material has, such as foamed polystyrene, polyethylene or polypropylene a thickness of about 0.127 to 0.508 mm and a density from about 0.095 to 0.640 kg / dcm (6 to 40 Ib. per cubic foot).

The label sleeve 16 is made from a rectangular blank 16a of the material shown in FIG. the The inner surface of the label tube is shown in Figure 2, i.e. the surface which abuts the bottle neck surface. Of the Sleeve blank 16a is made from a tape 16p of material that corresponds to the desired height of the label sleeve has the appropriate width. The side 16c of the blank has this dimension. The length of the sleeve blank 16a falls coincides with the longitudinal direction of the band 16p, i.e. it is slightly longer than the circumference of the bottle neck or that of the closure cap, which of the two is larger.

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The sleeve blank 16a is wound into a sleeve shape with the leading edge end 16c being the trailing edge end 16d overlaps. The overlapped ends are joined together along an axially extending seam 18. The label sleeve formed according to the invention can either have only the decorative embossing pattern or the same in combination with the feature indicating that the bottle is open. If the latter feature is used, is the label tube 16 with a -sich in the longitudinal direction of the band 16p extending partial depth incision 19, which is shown in the sleeve blank of FIG. This The incision runs in the direction of the main orientation of the plastic tape and should be deep enough to allow a To form a break line of material extending around the perimeter of the label tube 16 and near the lower edge 15 of the cap edge 14 is arranged. The incision 19 is shown in Fig. 3 in cross section, its Depth corresponds to about half the tape thickness, i.e. half the thickness of the sleeve blank 16a.

The sleeve blank 16a also has several spaced apart arranged beads 16f and 16g, which are shown in FIG. The beads 16f and 16g are at a distance from one another arranged around the circumference of the bottle neck and the closure cap. The beads 16f and 16g form vertically raised patterns on the label sleeve and take away folds of the

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Sleeve that can form when the same around the bottle neck and the closure shrink. Through the Locating the folds in the beading will make the label tube look better along with an overall decorative look The appearance of the pack is achieved by the chosen embossing pattern, several examples of which are given below treated is achieved.

Such a simple example of the invention is shown in FIGS. The label sleeve 16 has Beads 16f and 16g, which are distributed in the sleeve blank 16a so that they are approximately diametrically in the sleeve shape 16 appear opposite (Fig. 14). After shrinking, the beads will remain on the opposite sides of the Bottle and the cap (Fig. 15).

Reference is now made to FIGS. 5 to 7. The tape of foamed thermoplastic material 16p is drawn from a supply (not shown) of the previously decorated label sleeve material fed via a roll 20, which is mounted on a vertical shaft 21 · is. The partial depth incision 19, which has already been described above is created in the case stock on the rear surface by means of a knife 22, which is shown in a stationary holder 23 is arranged. The knife 22 is one in a longitudinally extending groove

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Guide part 24 attached, which between the sides 25 and 26 of the holder 23 and normally urged outwardly by springs 27 and 28 in the support plate 29 will. The knife 22 is in the longitudinal direction of the guide part 24 by the opposing adjusting screws 30 and 31, which are screwed into sides 25 and 26, each by a lock nut 32 is held in place. This adjustment serves to compensate for the wear on the knife 22.

The knife 22 is arranged opposite an annular groove 33 of the roller 20 (FIG. 6), so that the incision 19 into the belt 16p running over the roller 20 continuously in the longitudinal direction of the tube starting material in FIG prescribed height of the same, which corresponds to the plane of the sleeve label when it is opposite or near the lower edge 15 of the closure cap.

After processing on the roll 20, the belt 16p runs between the rollers 34 and 35, which are also on vertical shafts are rotatably mounted. The embossing roller 34 is provided with the embossing tool 36, which is axially on the roll spanning the width of the tape. That in the exemplary embodiments of FIGS. 2, 4 and 16 embossing tool 36 used is relative with two

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closely spaced beads provided that form projections 37 and 38, which are parallel to the axis of the embossing roller 34 extend. The embossing tool 36 is fastened in a recess of the embossing roller 34 by means of screws 39. The surface 40 of the roller 35 is made of a relatively compliant material such as rubber or the like, the breaks of the more or less squeezed band along the point line of the projections 37 and 38 prevented. There is a slight deflection of the plastic along the plane of the material on the opposite surface by engagement with the projections 37, 38 when the rubber-coated one

is support roller 35 is used. This / shown in Fig. 4. However, there is little squeezing of the cellular Materials instead.

The embossing roller 34 can, as shown in FIGS. 18, 22, and FIG. 28 may have different shapes, as will be apparent to those skilled in the art, including different ones Combinations "of embossing rollers, such as 34, 35 or 34a, 35a, etc., can be operated synchronously one behind the other to successively create beads in tape 16p, if desired, a more complex embossing pattern to make as decoration.

Fig. 18 shows an embossing roller 34a, the several at a distance

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mutually arranged beads in the band 16p forms to to produce a sleeve blank 160 (FIG. 20). The embossing roller 34a is as it is with all forms of in the 18, 22, 25 and 28 is the case, operated in combination with a support roller 35a, which consists of a relatively hard material such as steel or aluminum. At this Shape of the device (see the device shown in Fig. 7) there is no material deflection on the Surface of the plastic on the support roller 35a. The line pattern is created by squeezing the material into the Pressed shape, which is provided on the embossing roller 34a. The embossing roller 34a and the support roller 35a rotate around their waves in the direction of movement of the belt 16p. The bead-forming projections 37a, which are axially parallel Extending along the embossing roller 34a emboss the tape 16p with a series of spaced apart Crimps 160a (Fig. 20) extending perpendicular to the direction of travel of the belt 16p.

The blanks 160 are cut from the tape of this form of the invention in a manner to be described below, which are wrapped around cylindrical mandrels on which the overlapping ends of the blank 160 are connected to each other. The label tube produced from the blank 160 is shown in FIG

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Bottle neck shown shrunk on mid a closure cap and has vertical beads 160a of the embossed pattern which are arranged at a distance ″ in the circumferential direction.

Similar embossing tools are shown in Fig. 22, in which the tool 34b with several spaced apart, helically extending, the beads

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forming projections 37b This embossing tool produces in connection with an embossing roller 35 or 35a * similar to the illustration in FIG. 19, pure embossed pattern 161a, as shown on the sleeve blank 161 from the strip processed by the roller 34b is made (Fig. 23). When the one produced from the blank 161 Label sleeve is shrunk around the bottle neck and the closure cap of the bottle 10, an embossed pattern is created from helically extending beads 161a.

In Fig. 25 still another form of an embossing roller 34c is shown, which several spaced apart, has helically extending, bead-forming projections 37c and 37d, of which the projections 37c rising to the right and the projections 37d rising to the left extend so that the projections 37c and 37d cross each other. This embossing roller, in combination with a support roller 35 or 35a, forms a crisscrossing embossing pattern of beads 162a in plastic, as shown on the sleeve blank 162

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(Fig. 26) is shown. The label sleeve produced from the blank 162 is around the bottle neck and the Closure cap of the bottle, as shown in Fig. 27, shrunk, with the label sleeve having a raised decoration having intersecting helical beads 162a.

Yet another embodiment of an embossing roller 34d is shown in FIG. The embossing roller 34d has a pattern of embossing protrusions resulting from an array of spaced apart there are mutually arranged circular projections 37e, which are connected to each other by straight projections 37f extending in the radial direction from the centers of the circles. When this embossing roller 34d is used with a rubber-coated support roller 35 or a steel roller 35a, it presses, as previously described, the material of the sleeve blank 163 (Fig. 29) into the circular beads 163a, the circumference of which by the straight Beads 163b are connected at an angle to the longitudinal direction of the blank 163. The one produced from the blank 163 Sleeve is shrunk around the neck and cap of a bottle as shown in Fig. 30, with the label sleeve form a handsome, raised decoration of the circles 183a and the lines 163b of the raised embossing pattern.

Numerous other designs are possible according to the invention,

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in which the raised embossing pattern extends at an angle to the dimension of the material, the corresponds to the circumference of the sleeve, i.e. the dimension of the high degree of orientation of the material, which is in the machine direction of the ribbon made of foamed plastic. The more pronounced embossing effect is achieved by the area in which the line indentations are made lie on the bottle outer surface, i.e. on the inner surface the sleeve.

After the initial band 16p has been embossed with a pattern, the band 16p runs over a feed drum 41 and is retained by a front vacuum port 42 connected to a stationary vacuum control channel 43 supported over the top of the drum. The drum 41 rotates around a vertical one Shaft 44 with a greater peripheral speed than the feed speed of the tape 16b up to this point. This creates tension in the belt 16p on the drum and causes little slippage between the two. A rotating knife 45, which is tuned to the linear speed of the belt 16p, has a vertical cutting edge 46, which cuts the tape transversely on the drum 41 and blanks 16a with a prescribed length, as shown in Fig. 2, forms. The tape is guided over the feed drum 41 in such a way that the raised and decorated surface

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the same rests on the drum circumferential surface. The cut, in other words _/ is carried out from the back side of the tape opposite to the front 16p decorated side. Immediately in front of the knife edge 46 is a second vacuum opening 47 which holds the tape in position by vacuum and which is connected via the channel 48 so that it is just ready to interrupt the connection with the vacuum control channel. 43.

The blank 16a that has been cut off and is located on the feed drum 41 behind the knife edge 46, is with its leading edge 16c around a mandrel 49 a turntable that takes the blank from the feed drum withdraws and winds after the mandrel has removed it from the drum surface.

The several mandrels 49 are parts of a machine shown schematically in FIGS. 11 and 12, “The blank 16a is held near the leading edge 16c by negative pressure on the mandrel 49, which is clockwise (Fig, 11) rotates as it moves on an arcuate path along a guide rail 50 which does the wrapping of the trailing part of the blank 16a. The winding mandrel device has air nozzles 51, which over pass through a manifold 52 of the engine and receive hot air therefrom. The manifold

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Connection 52 attached stationary to the machine, while the air nozzles 51 on a circular path on it move past and contact to deliver hot air to the nozzle tips every time the The blank is almost wrapped around the mandrel and the ends overlap as shown in FIG. The hot one Air is passed through the nozzles 51 into the space between blown overlapping ends 16c and 16d of the blank. If there is enough heat through the nozzles is fed, the mandrels continue to rotate and complete the overlapped connection of the ends of the blank for forming a sleeve. The ends will finally open on a subsequent movement of the dome connected to its path, the overlapped ends of the blank being engaged by a wheel 53 (Fig. 12) be compressed. The wheel 53 is arranged on a vertical shaft 54 and a bracket 55, which is a part a spring housing 56 shown schematically. While the mandrel with the label sleeve moves past the wheel 53 moves, the resistance of the wheel surface to the overlapped, vertical seam of the sleeve causes compression the heated sections of the plastic into a tight bond.

In Fig. 9, the attachment of the label sleeve on the bottle is shown schematically. How close to the top

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As shown in the figure, a blank 16a is wrapped around a mandrel 49 and, as previously described, connected, which then is removed downwardly from the mandrel in the vertical direction. The bottle 10, which is provided with a primary closure 12, is first past an adhesive application nozzle 57 emotional. A patch 58 of hot melt adhesive is emitted from the nozzle 57 onto the surface of the bottle neck 11 applied at a point where the sleeve 16, 160, 161, 162 or 163 is to be attached.

Next is on the bottle neck 11 and the cap 12 the decorative label sleeve made of cellular, shrinkable plastic is applied, which is in a position is lowered, in which the annular incision 19 in the inner surface of the sleeve 16 at or immediately below the lower edge 15 of the cap rim 14 is arranged. if the label sleeve is in this position on the bottle neck and the closure cap, the bottle is turned on a schematically illustrated heating device 60, preferably an electric infrared heating device, past guided. While moving past the heater 60, the bottles 10 can be rotated by the Side wall is gripped by a moving belt 61, which is opposite to the direction of movement of the bottles 10 moves. Other heating devices usually consist of a tunnel through which the bottles with the labels

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Move chain sleeves, where they are heated by circulating warm air or the like. Regardless of the shape the heater, the sleeve material is heated sufficiently on the outside to a firm around the neck and the closure cap To form a shrink fit, as shown on the right-hand side of FIG.

During this shrinking process, according to the invention previously embossed material of the sleeve to a satisfactory, surrounding the neck and the cap of the bottle, Shaped label sleeve. The heat supplied from the outside of the shrinkable material, that is, heat from only one

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Side / material, causes a differential in the shrinkage speed of the material over its thickness. Since the material is cellular, it also serves as thermal insulation and delays heat transfer to the inner surface. Definitely exists under these conditions the tendency for wrinkles to form in the shrunk material. The invention is not just one new embossed decorative label tube created, but also an economical and practical way for attaching heat-shrinkable label sleeves applying cellular plastic to a cold bottle, without wrinkles and undesirable surface deformations of this kind.

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The decorative feature of the label sleeve can be combined with the feature of recognizing a previously opened bottle be. In Fig. 17 this is the latter feature of the label tube shown. When the closure cap 12 is rotated, the label sleeve 16 becomes annular along the incision line 19 sheared off and the label sleeve disassembled into two parts, that is, an upper part on the edge of the closure cap 12 and a lower part which is glued to the neck of the bottle. The cap can be reattached so that the decoration of the label tube is retained, but the dividing line indicates that the bottle has been opened prematurely. If the product has not been tampered with at the dealer, the label tube appears 16 intact.

In connection with the invention, expressions such as "beads" or the like denote indented lines by tools into the material, whereby the support surface of the blank may or may not be deflected out of the plane thereof. In any case, however, the embossing tool crushes the cells of the cellular material and changes them Thickness and density in this area.

The weakest structure of the cellular material is in these squeezed zones, the are shaped. If the cutting material is

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is limited, such as in the case of an endless belt of a sleeve or a cylinder, as they are shown, become the lines of weakness during the heat shrinking process of the material and increase outwards from the surface as an embossed pattern. The uneven cell size and density of the material along the compressed beads, i.e. the embossing pattern, creates the protruding effect of the shrunk label tube.

After preferred embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, further changes are possible made by those skilled in the art without departing from the inventive concept as expressed in the claims is to deviate.

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Claims (18)

Claims t 1.! Decorative label sleeve for attachment to a bottle, consisting of an embossed endless ring-shaped plastic sleeve that surrounds part of the bottle, thereby characterized in that the label sleeve (16, 160) is made of a shrinkable, cellular, polymeric material there is a high orientation in the circumferential direction and a density on the order of 0.095 to 0.640 kg / dm (6, to 40 lb. per cu. ft.) and one Has a thickness of at least 0.127 mm that the label sleeve with a decorative embossing pattern (164, 16g, 161a, 162a, 163a, 163b), which is essentially angled with respect to the highly oriented dimension of the Etxkettmaterials is arranged and when shrinking onto the neck (11) of the bottle (10) as a raised decorative Pattern appears on the outside of the label tube. 2. Label tube according to claim 1, characterized in that the decorative embossing pattern consists of several vertically extending, circumferentially spaced from one another around the enclosed part of the bottle (10) arranged beads (16g, 16f) exists. - 30 - 709820/0635 3. Label tube according to claim 1, characterized in that the decorative Prague pattern consists of several helical lines extending spacing from one another having beads (161a), which surround the enclosed Extend part of the bottle (10). 4. label tube according to claim 1, characterized in that that the pattern consists of several helically spaced beads (162a), which have opposite slopes that form a crisscrossing bead pattern on the enclosed Form part of the bottle (10). 5. label tube according to claim 1, characterized in that the decorative Prague pattern has a circular indentation having. 6. label tube according to claim 5, characterized in that the decorative Prague pattern several circular Has impressions (163a) which are distributed around the circumference of the label. 7. label tube according to claim 6, characterized in that the decorative Prague pattern circular impressions (163a), which is essentially rectilinear and angled to the highly oriented dimension - 31 709820/0635 of the label material extending beads (163b) are connected. 8. Labeled bottle, the neck portion of which at the axially outer end has an opening through a closure is closed which has an annular rim, characterized in that the label (16) is sleeve-shaped with a seam and made of heat-scrubable, organically foamed, thermoplastic Material is made which has a thickness of at least 0.127 mm and is highly oriented in the circumferential direction is and a density of 0.095 to 0.64 kg / dm that the label has the neck portion (11) and the Surrounds the edge (14) of the closure (12) and is provided with an embossed pattern (16f, 16g, 161a, 162a, 163a, 163b) is, which is arranged substantially at an angle with respect to the highly oriented dimension of the label material is that the label has an axially extending seam (18) through the overlapping ends a tape (16p) is formed that the label with (11) snug fit on the bottle neck / and the closure edge (14) has shrunk, and that the embossing pattern is raised the outer surface of the label sleeve appears in an annular arrangement on the labeled bottle (10). 9. method of decorative labeling of a bottle, 709820/0635 -32- characterized by the following steps: Production of lenticular impressions in the Surface of a plate made of cellular, highly oriented, organic polymeric material along one dimension, by pressing in the material along the line perpendicular to the plane of the plate, with the line-shaped indentations in the plate form embossing patterns, which are angled in relation to the highly oriented Extend dimension; Forming a sleeve from the plate by overlapping the opposite ends of the same, which are spaced in the circumferential direction of the highly oriented dimension, wherein the indented line pattern lies on the inner surface of the sleeve; . Securing the overlapped ends together; Sliding the sleeve over a bottle; and Sufficient heating of the sleeve attached to the bottle to make it ring-shaped in surface adaptation to the Shrink the bottle surface tightly, with the embossed pattern appearing raised on the outside surface of the label. 10. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that the sleeve telescopically over the neck and the closure edge a bottle closed by a cap and pushed firmly in adaptation to the neck and the neck - 33 709820/0635 Final edge is shrunk. 11. The method according to claim 10, characterized in that before the formation of the sleeve from oriented, cell-shaped, polymeric material an annular weakening incision partially deep, along a line, at one Surface of the sleeve is made and that the sleeve is placed on the bottle neck in position that the Weakening incision near the lower edge of the closure edge lies. 12. The method according to claim 11, characterized in that the shrunk sleeve by gluing on the surface of the Bottle neck is attached to the lower part of the shrunk sleeve against turning on the bottle neck to secure. 13. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that the embossing pattern in the plate has indentation lines which are helically spaced from one another extend axially on the label sleeve. 14. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that the embossing pattern in the plate has indentation lines, which extend helically in the axial direction at a distance from one another on the label sleeve. - 34 70 9 820/0635 15. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that the embossing pattern in the plate has indentation lines which extend diagonally in the axial direction and cross each other. 16. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that the embossing pattern in the plate has indentation lines, at least one of which is circular. 17. The method according to claim 16, characterized in that the embossing pattern has a plurality of spaced-apart circular indentations, which are represented by im essential straight indentations are connected. 18. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that those made of cellular, organic polymeric material existing plate is opaque and printed in the plate shape with a decoration that is on the outer surface of the Label sleeve appears and that the printing before the embossing of the pattern is carried out in the surface of the plate, with the pattern in that of the printed Surface opposite surface is pressed in. 709820/0635