EP0000657B1 - Machines d'étiquetage. - Google Patents

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EP0000657B1
EP0000657B1 EP78300187A EP78300187A EP0000657B1 EP 0000657 B1 EP0000657 B1 EP 0000657B1 EP 78300187 A EP78300187 A EP 78300187A EP 78300187 A EP78300187 A EP 78300187A EP 0000657 B1 EP0000657 B1 EP 0000657B1
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Inc. Monarch Marking Systems
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/315—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material
    • B41J2/32—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C11/00—Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles
    • B65C11/02—Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles having printing equipment
    • B65C11/0289—Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles having printing equipment using electrical or electro-mechanical means
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K1/00—Methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion
    • G06K1/12—Methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion otherwise than by punching
    • G06K1/121—Methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion otherwise than by punching by printing code marks
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
    • G09F3/0286—Forms or constructions provided with adaptations for labelling machines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C2210/00—Details of manually controlled or manually operable label dispensers
    • B65C2210/0002—Data entry devices
    • B65C2210/0013—Keyboards; Touchscreens
    • B65C2210/0018—Keyboards; Touchscreens permanent
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1705—Lamina transferred to base from adhered flexible web or sheet type carrier
    • Y10T156/1707—Discrete spaced laminae on adhered carrier
    • Y10T156/171—Means serially presenting discrete base articles or separate portions of a single article

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  • the invention relates to hand-held labelling machines.
  • One kind of such machine comprises a housing having a manually engageable handle, the housing having means for holding a label supply roll composed of a composite web having labels releasably adhered to a backing strip, means for printing on a label at a printing position, means for peeling a printed label from the backing strip, label applying means disposed adjacent the peeling means, means for advancing the backing strip to peel a printed label from a backing at the peeling means and advance the printed label into label applying relationship with the label applying means and to advance another label to the printing position, the housing further having means for holding a source of electrical energy.
  • the invention is accordingly concerned with the provision of a labelling machine which is an improvement over these known machines at least in that it does not involve the use of inked printing bands and can be designed for great versatility as to what it can print.
  • the invention accordingly provides a labelling machine of the kind described characterised by means including a keyboard mounted on the housing for entering selected data to be printed, the printing means including an electrically selectable thermographic printing head powered by the soure of electrical energy for printing on a thermographic label at the printing position, means coupled to the keyboard for receiving and electrically processing data representative of the selected data entered by the keyboard, means electrically coupling the data receiving and processing means and the thermographic printing head, and means for causing the data receiving and processing means to operate the thermographic printing head to print the selected data on the label.
  • the advancing mechanism can comprise rollers drivable by an electric motor, preferably a stepping motor, powered by the same electric power source as the printing head and can be under the control of a signal derived from a microprocessor in response to operation of a switch.
  • the machine can be provided with display means coupled to the data receiving and processing means for displaying data entered by the keyboard.
  • the feeding means includes means for sensing the position of the composite web, and means responsive to the sensing means for controlling the data receiving and processing means to terminate operation of the stepping motor when a label is in label applying relationship with respect to the label applying means.
  • Optically or mechanically detectable spaced markings may be placed on the composite web for this purpose.
  • the data receiving and processing means includes a microprocessor.
  • Part of the information to be printed can be invariable or prearranged, in not being directly under the user's control, the selected part being selected by the user to relate to the particular articles being labelled.
  • the label can be printed with the name of the store as well as the article price.
  • the machine can also be arranged to print each label with a bar code or the like for mechanical reading if desired.
  • the machine of the invention can be arranged to print more than one line of alpha-numeric or other symbols.
  • the labelling machine illustrated comprises a housing 1 shaped with an opening to provide a handle portion 2 at its upper right hand side as shown in figure 1.
  • the housing interior provides space for reception of an electric energy source in the form of one or more batteries 3, with door means (not shown) permitting replacement thereof.
  • the energy source may instead be a rechargeable power pack in which event terminals are provided for recharging as by connection to the mains supply.
  • a magazine 4 Centrally of the housing 1, there is located a magazine 4 for labels to be printed and dispensed by the machine.
  • the labels are provided in the form of a rolled strip 5 of paper or other thermographic material which is led by a feed mechanism generally forwardly from the magazine to a thermographic printing head 6, and a dispensing position.
  • Door means (not shown) in the housing 1 permits ready replacement of the rolled label strip 5 when exhausted and convenient threading of the free end of the strip through the feed mechanism.
  • the paper strip 5 is led upwardly from the periphery of the roll by guide means 7 and is then turned through 180° to travel past an optical sensing means 8 the nature and function of which will be described. below.
  • the paper strip is then engaged between a drive roller 9 and an idler roller 10 of the feed mechanism and emerges from the nip of these rollers to advance forwardly to between the printing head 6 and a print support 11.
  • the print support 11 may include a support roller. In either event, the print support is shaped to bring the strip in engagement with heatable elements of the thermographic print head.
  • the strip After printing at the printing head 6, the strip continues forwardly out of the housing 1 to beneath a dispensing roller 12, by which it can be wiped on to an article to be labelled.
  • the paper strip is preferably self-adhesive, that is, it carries an adhesive layer on the surface opposite that which is printed, and this adhesive layer is initially covered by a backing strip 14 which must be separated from the label strip 5 itself before this can be applied to an article.
  • the print support 11 is provided with a relatively sharp edge around which the backing strip 14 is turned rearwardly back into the machine to be received between the drive roller 9 and a second idler roller 15. From these rollers, the backing strip 14 is fed rearwardly and downwardly outwardly of the machine through an aperture in the housing 1.
  • the drive roller 9 is driven by electric motor 16, which can be a stepping motor, accommodated at the front of the housing above the dispensing roller 12.
  • the machine operates under control of electronic circuitry, shown schematically in figure 2, located at the top of the housing 1 beneath a keyboard 19 provided with push-buttons 18 by which data can be entered into the circuitry.
  • the machine is actuated by means of a push button operated main control switch 20 positioned rearwardly of the keyboard so that it can be pressed by the thumb of an operator holding the machine with his fingers around the handle portion 2.
  • the machine of the invention can incorporate a solenoid operated escapement drive for the label strip.
  • the illustrated labelling machine operates under the control of the electronic circuit arrangement shown in schematic block diagram form in figure 2.
  • a microprocessor 21 Central to the circuit is a microprocessor 21 which is preferably a single silicon chip including within its monolithic structure a read only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), instruction registers, address registers, a central control logic section, and data input and output means.
  • the microprocessor 21 receives inputs from the keyboard 19, the push-button switch 20, and from the sensor 8. It provides outputs to a step motor drive control unit 22 which effects operation of the step motor 16, and to the printing head 6.
  • the circuit includes a clock 24 arranged to provide a pulse train for co-ordinating the operations carried out within the microprocessor.
  • the printing head 6 is a solid state thermographic printing head, but a hot needle or a thick or thin film thermographic printing head could be employed.
  • the printing head 6 comprises a plate mounting a matrix or array of protruberant printing elements, together with connections to line driver circuit elements 25, 26 and dot driver element 27, connected to receive signals from the microprocessor 21.
  • the microprocessor 21 is arranged to supply to the driver elements 25, 26 and 27 signals such that certain heating element of the printing head, selected in dependence on a programme established by operation of the keyboard 19, receive currents sufficient to heat these elements to a temperature at which colour is developed or changed on the label strip 5 over the small area in contact with the heating elements.
  • the printing head may carry twelve groups each comprising seven rows each of five heating elements, so that a twelve character line can be printed at the time.
  • the stepping motor 16 advances the label strip by such an amount that the area of the paper on which the next line of characters is to be printed is in engagement with the printing element matrix.
  • the printing head can comprise any appropriate number of heating elements, the numbers of connections to the head 6 shown in figure 2 being merely illustrative.
  • the printing head can be arranged to print characters composed of a dot matrix in any desired combination and to print any number of characters sequentially or simultaneously in a line or column as desired.
  • the label strip 5 comprises a length of paper or plastics material 28 having coated on one surface a suitable heat sensitive coating 29 which changes or develops colour in response to the application of the heat.
  • the strip material 28 is coated on the opposite side with a layer 30 of adhesive material to provide a self adhesive or pressure sensitive coating.
  • Laminated on to the adhesive layer 30 is a paper or plastics backing strip 31 coated with an adhesive resistant surface in engagement with the adhesive layer, so that the backing strip can be readily peeled away.
  • the laminated label and backing strips are separated off into label portions all of equal length, by lines of weakness or complete or partial transverse cuts 32 made in the label strip only.
  • an ink strip or other mark preferably in exact coincidence with each cut 32 is printed either on the label or on the backing strip.
  • the ink strip is such that it can be read by the optical sensor 8 in the machine.
  • a magnetic strip or other mark can be provided for detection by a magnetic sensor in the machine. Either arrangement permits the sensor to provide a signal to the microprocessor so that the feed of the label strip can be adjusted to correct for any departure from registration of the printed information with the longitudinal edges of the label portions.
  • the illustrated labelling machine is primarly intended for the labelling of articles in stores and supermarkets, and the information to appear on labels dispensed by the machine comprises at a minimum the price of the article.
  • the user Before printing and applying a batch of labels, the user operates the keyboard 19 to set up in the microprocessor a programme for printing the desired price information on each label of the label strip 5.
  • the price selected is stored within the microprocessor 21, and each time the operator actuates the main push-button switch 20 a printing and dispensing cycle is performed, by which a label printed with the selected price appears below the dispensing roller, 12.
  • the microprocessor 21 supplies to the driver elements 25, 26 and 27 signals for energising selected heating elements in accordance with the stored printing programme determined by the user. Printing of the desired price information on the label is thus effected.
  • the microprocessor then supplies a signal to the motor control unit 22 to energize the motor 16 to advance the strip 5 until such time as the next ink strip on the strip is detected by the sensor 8.
  • the resultant signal to the microprocessor 21 causes this to stop energisation of the motor so that advance of the strip ceases.
  • the positions of the sensor 8, the printing head 6, the support 11 and the roller 12 along the path of the strip 5 are such that the printed label is now beneath the roller 12 with the backing strip 31 peeled away over about 95% of the length of the label and the cut 32 separating the printed label from the next following label of the strip is at the position of the leading edge of the now printed label before the cycle began.
  • the printed label can be applied to an article and the push button switch 20 pressed again to start another cycle.
  • the labelling machine of the invention can be provided with many advantageous facilities beyond the capacity to print a single line of price information.
  • the labelling machine so far described can readily be adapted to print information additional to the readily adjustable price information put into the machine by operation of the keyboard 19.
  • the price information will of course normally contain one or more fixed elements, in the form of symbols identifying at least the major unit of the currency in which the price is expressed.
  • additional information can comprise further variable or selected information preset by the user by means of the keyboard 19 or by other means less readily accessible than the keyboard, for example the machine can be provided with an input means 23 not normally available to the operator which can be reached or rendered operative only by opening the housing 1 or by use of a key.
  • fixed information to be printed may be determined on manufacture of the machine.
  • the fixed or invariable additional information can comprise for example the name of the vendor or a sales slogan.
  • the additional variable or preset information can include for example unit price data, information as to the nature of the article (for example, its weight or volume or the number of items packed within it), and calendar information (for example, the date of packaging, the date by which the article should be sold or used, or the date by which a warranty on the article expires).
  • the label can be printed with alpha numeric data identifying the article in some suitable code, for stock control purposes.
  • the label may also be printed with data relating to the article coded in a bar code, for reading electrically or optically, as at a check-out counter, the information being fed into a automatic cash register and/or into a computer for stock control purposes.
  • the labelling machine of the invention and the label strip it uses can also be readily modified to obtain a label printed in two colours.
  • the single dye coating 29 of the surface of the label strip 28 is replaced by three layers of coating material.
  • the heating elements of the printing head 6 are arranged to be heated selectively either to a higher or to a lower temperature. If a heating element receives current such that it is heated only to the lower temperature, the heat transferred to the label strip is sufficient to develop the colour of the outermost layer only. If the current supplied is sufficient to raise the temperature to the higher level, not only is the colour in the outer layer developed, but so is the colour in the innermost layer.
  • the intermediate layer is also responsive to this level of temperature to permit flow of the activated dye from innermost to the outermost layer, so that a second colour different from that of the outermost layer on its own appears at the coated surface of the strip.
  • the microprocessor 21 can be readily adapted to effect printing of a label with a plurality of lines of information in different colours, or even to print in different colours on a single line.
  • the circuit illustrated in figure 2 can if required include additional data register means 34 as shown, for totalling the number of labels printed with a particular item of selected data.
  • the additional data register 34 may have the capacity for accumulating a plurity of totals each representing the number of times for which the machine has been used to print labels bearing respective different items of information.
  • Information thus stored can be displayed at command on the machine by means of a digital display 35 provided on the keyboard for stock control and/or accounting purposes, and/or conveyed from the machine to a computer interface by means of a suitable plug and socket connection 36, for the stored data to be used in a computerised stock control and accounting system.
  • the digital display on the machine can be constituted by liquid crystal or light emitting diodes, or a gas discharge display.
  • the label material is advantageously made self adhesive, in this way so that it can be attached by the adhesive to the article to be price labelled, it is also within the invention to provide labelling material which can be subsequently attached to an article by means of a thread or string or metal or plastics staple.

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1. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main, comprenant: un boîtier (1) ayant une poignée (2) pouvant être saisie à la main, le boîtier (1) ayant des moyens servant à maintenir un rouleau d'alimentation d'étiquettes (5) composé d'une bande composite ayant des étiquettes collées de façon amovible sur une bande arrière (14), des moyens (6) servant à imprimer sur une étiquette se trouvant dans une position d'impression, des moyens servant à détacher une étiquette imprimée de la bande arrière (14), des moyens d'application d'étiquette (12) disposés adjacents aux moyens de détachage, des moyens (9, 10, 15) servant à faire avancer la bande arrière pour détacher une étiquette imprimée de la bande arrière (14) au niveau des moyens de détachage et pour faire avancer l'étiquette imprimée jusqu'à une position relative d'application de la'étiquette par rapport aux moyens d'application d'étiquette, et pour faire avancer une autre étiquette jusque dans la position d'impression, le boîtier ayant en outre des moyens servant à maintenir une source d'énergie électrique (3), caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend des moyens comprenant un clavier (19) monté sur le boîtier et servant à introduire des données sélectionnées à imprimer, les moyens imprimants comprenant une tête imprimante thermographique (6) électriquement sélectionnable, alimentée par la source d'énergie électrique (3) et servant à imprimer sur une étiquette thermographique qui se trouve dans la position d'impression, des moyens (21) couplés au clavier (19) et servant à recevoir et à traiter électriquement des données représentatives des données sélectionnées introduites par le clavier (19), des moyens (25, 26, 27) qui accouplent électriquement les moyens de réception et de traitement des données et la tête d'impression thermographique, et des moyens (20) servant à obliger les moyens de réception et de traitement des données à actionner la tête d'impression thermographique (6) pour imprimer les données sélectionnées sur l'étiquette.
2. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main suivant la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que les moyens d'avance comprennent un moteur pas à pas (6).
3. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main suivant la revendication 2, caractérisée en ce que les moyens d'avance comprennant des moyens (8) servant à détecter la position de la bande composite, et des moyens (21) répondant aux moyens de détection et servant à commander les moyens de réception et de traitement des données pour interrompre le fonctionnement du moteur pas à pas lorsqu'une étiquette est en position relative d'application des étiquettes par rapport aux moyens d'application d'étiquette.
4. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main suivant la revendication 3, caractérisée en ce que la bande composite possède des moyens adaptés pour être détectés par les moyens détection.
5. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main suivant l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisée en ce que les moyens de réception et de traitement des données comprennent un microprocesseur (21).
6. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main suivant la revendication 5, caractérisée en ce que le microprocesseur (21) comprend une mémoire à lecture seule.
7. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main suivant l'une des revendications 5 et 6, caractérisée en ce que le microprocesseur (21) comprend une mémoire à accès aléatoire.
8. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main suivant l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que la tête imprimante thermographique (6) comprend une série d'éléments imprimants couplés aux moyens de réception et de traitement des données.
9. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main suivant l'une quelconques des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisée en ce la tête imprimante thermographique comprend une série d'éléments imprimants et des éléments de circuit d'excitation de lignes (25, 26) et des éléments de circuits d'excitation de points (27) qui accouplent les moyens de réception et de traitement des données (21) aux éléments imprimants.
10. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main suivant l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que les moyens servant à obliger les moyens de réception et de traitement des données (21) à actionner la tête imprimante comprennent des moyens interrupteurs (20).
11. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main suivant l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisée en ce que les moyens servant à obliger les moyens de réception et de traitement des données (21) à actionner la tête imprimante thermographique déterminent également la manoeuvre des moyens d'avance et comprennent des moyens interrupteurs (20) et des moyens (8, 22) couplés au microprocesseur pour provoquer l'interruption du fonctionnement des moyens d'avance lorsqu'une étiquette imprimée a été avancée jusqu'en position relative d'application de l'étiquette par rapport aux moyens d'application d'étiquette.
12. Machine à étiqueter tenue à la main suivant l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend des moyens d'affichage (35) couplés aux moyens de réception et de traitement des données (21) et servant à afficher les données introduites par le clavier (19).
EP78300187A 1977-07-28 1978-07-21 Machines d'étiquetage. Expired EP0000657B2 (fr)

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