EP0365573B1 - Etikettiervorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP0365573B1
EP0365573B1 EP88905786A EP88905786A EP0365573B1 EP 0365573 B1 EP0365573 B1 EP 0365573B1 EP 88905786 A EP88905786 A EP 88905786A EP 88905786 A EP88905786 A EP 88905786A EP 0365573 B1 EP0365573 B1 EP 0365573B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/08—Label feeding
    • B65C9/18—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls
    • B65C9/1803—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels being cut from a strip
    • B65C9/1815—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels being cut from a strip and transferred by suction means
    • B65C9/1819—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels being cut from a strip and transferred by suction means the suction means being a vacuum drum
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/08—Label feeding
    • B65C9/12—Removing separate labels from stacks
    • B65C9/16—Removing separate labels from stacks by wetting devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/40—Controls; Safety devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/40—Controls; Safety devices
    • B65C2009/402—Controls; Safety devices for detecting properties or defects of labels
    • B65C2009/404—Controls; Safety devices for detecting properties or defects of labels prior to labelling
    • 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
    • Y10T156/12—Surface bonding means and/or assembly means with cutting, punching, piercing, severing or tearing
    • Y10T156/1317—Means feeding plural workpieces to be joined
    • Y10T156/1322—Severing before bonding or assembling of parts
    • Y10T156/1339—Delivering cut part in sequence to serially conveyed articles

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  • the invention relates to a labeling device for containers according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Labeling devices in which the label material is fed as a tape, are economically interesting since the costs for a single label are significantly lower than for pre-cut single labels.
  • a generic labeling device is known from DE-OS 2236835.
  • the label tape is first fed via deflection rollers to a knife roller, which cuts off individual labels.
  • the separated individual label reaches a pressure roller via further guide rollers, which presses the individual label onto the outer surface of a pallet of the pallet rotor.
  • the glued individual label is removed by means of a gripper cylinder and attached to the container.
  • the knife roller runs at the same speed as the tape drive, so that only one label of the same size can be cut with this one knife roller.
  • a further disadvantage of the known device is that if there are bottle or container gaps in the labeling machine, labels that are not required are applied to the pallet rotor, which can lead to contamination of the machine and to malfunctions.
  • a labeling device for labeling with stack labels has a pallet rotor, the glue pallets of which are each pivotable about their own shafts, which are arranged eccentrically to the rotor shaft, in a groove track.
  • This pallet rotor it is possible to disengage the individual glue pallets from the groove track by means of a coupling, so that the glue pallets can be pivoted away from the label magazine and that if a bottle gap arises, the associated glue pallet can be uncoupled and consequently does not accept a label.
  • the labels are in the operating position by rolling the previously glue-coated pallets on the outer surface of the vacuum cylinder are removed from the latter and then pulled off by a gripper cylinder with mechanically controlled gripper fingers from the pallets and transferred to the containers, for example, which are passed on a turntable.
  • the invention now proposes to bring about a change in distance between the vacuum cylinder feeding the individual labels and the glued pallets, so that the pallets have no contact with the vacuum cylinder in the idle position. whereby the separated single label remains on the vacuum cylinder and cannot be removed from a single pallet of the pallet rotor.
  • the change in distance can be brought about in various ways.
  • the axes of rotation of the vacuum cylinder are arranged so as to be radially variable in relation to the pallet rotor, a synchronous gear connecting the pallet rotor with the vacuum cylinder comprising a coupling which compensates for an axial offset.
  • Such clutches are commercially available, for example, under the name "Schmidt clutch".
  • the advantage of changing the distance via the axes of rotation of the pallet rotor and the vacuum cylinder is that regardless of the number of glue pallets attached to the pallet rotor, only one movement has to be carried out, regardless of the position of the pallet rotor.
  • the vacuum cylinder is arranged such that it can be moved radially away from the pallet rotor.
  • the mass of the vacuum cylinder is generally less than that of the pallet rotor, so that the vacuum cylinder can be reacted to bottle gaps more quickly by moving it away.
  • the vacuum cylinder is arranged to be pivotable about a pivot axis parallel to its axis of rotation. In this way, the vacuum cylinder can be simply pivoted away from the pallet rotor, while the drive connection between the pallet rotor and the vacuum cylinder can be maintained, since the gear unit can contain a coupling that enables an axis offset. It is advantageous if the pivot axis of the vacuum cylinder lies approximately in the longitudinal axis of the fixed knife. This means that the knife roller can cut labels even if it is pivoted away from the pallet rotor.
  • the arrangement of the pivot axis for the vacuum cylinder is advantageously varied in that the vacuum cylinder designed as a knife roller and the fixed knife are arranged on a common pivot lever. This always ensures the operational alignment between the fixed knife on the one hand and the knife roller on the other, regardless of whether the vacuum cylinder is in the idle position or the operating position. Since the tape speed can be controlled independently of the speed of the vacuum cylinder, labels of different sizes can be separated from the label tape depending on the speed difference. In order to convert the labeling device to other label sizes without a long set-up time, it is advantageous if the synchronous gear comprises a speed superposition gear. As a result, the pallet rotor can be rotated relative to the vacuum cylinder so that the individual labels are always positioned centrally on the individual pallets of the pallet rotor.
  • a label suction tube is arranged on the vacuum cylinder in the direction of rotation behind the pallet rotor.
  • the tape drive of the label tape is stopped in the case of larger bottle gaps, it can be advantageous for individual bottle gaps to keep the tape drive running. Since the separated individual label is not removed from a pallet of the pallet rotor, it can then advantageously be removed from the vacuum cylinder by means of the label extractor.
  • the change in distance between the outer surface of the vacuum cylinder and the pallet rotor is not brought about by pivoting the axes, as in the first embodiment, but by the fact that the outer surface of the vacuum cylinder has alternating wings and recesses with a smaller radius and that the vacuum cylinder is opposite to the Pallet rotor from its operating position, in which the adhesive surfaces roll on the wings or the labels adhering to them, can be transferred to the idle position, in which the adhesive surfaces pass the recesses at a distance.
  • the recesses of the vacuum cylinder can be assigned to the pallets by changing the rotational position assignment between the pallet rotor and the vacuum cylinder, thereby reliably avoiding contact between the pallet surface and the vacuum cylinder. This then forms the idle position.
  • the vacuum cylinder is driven by the pallet rotor via a synchronous gear and in a manner arranged in the drive train to the vacuum cylinder Speed superimposition gearbox, with the help of which the rotation position assignment between the pallet rotor and the vacuum cylinder can be changed.
  • the speed superposition gear is equipped with a controllable actuator, such as a stepper motor, which, based on control commands from an electronic control during operation, brings about the idle position by changing the rotational position assignment between the pallet rotor and the vacuum cylinder , in which the recesses of the vacuum cylinder are assigned to the pallets of the pallet rotor.
  • This offset position can be maintained as long as desired, depending on the length of the gap in the vascular supply, or can also be reversed after only a single vascular gap by moving the vacuum cylinder into its previous operating position.
  • a planetary gear for example, is suitable as a speed superposition gear, on whose adjustable ring gear the actuator acts.
  • a suitable command can be used to immediately issue a control command to the actuator, which, by adjusting the ring gear in the planetary gear, triggers a superimposition movement that, for example, counteracts a brief deceleration of the vacuum cylinder causes the pallet rotor, whereby the corresponding pallet, which should not remove a label, is opposite a recess of the vacuum cylinder and moves without contact with the vacuum cylinder.
  • the vacuum cylinder is accelerated immediately after passing through the pallet associated with the void by an opposite movement of the actuator such that the The leading edge of the pallet meets the leading edge of the label on the next following wing of the vacuum cylinder.
  • the aforementioned offset intermediate position in which the recesses of the vacuum cylinder are assigned to the pallets of the pallet rotor, can be maintained until the end of the gap is indicated to the control by the sensor on the rotary table of the labeling machine. It is advisable to temporarily stop the label tape drive for the duration of the interruption in order to avoid unnecessary label waste.
  • the labels that have not been removed can be removed from the vacuum cylinder by a combined blow-off and suction device.
  • the control can also react to missing labels on the vacuum cylinder, for example as a result of a tape break or when the end of the tape is reached, with the aid of a sensor installed in the area of a vacuum cylinder.
  • the described second embodiment of the device according to the invention is particularly suitable for labeling machines with higher outputs. Because of the use of a vacuum cylinder, it is possible to select its peripheral speed higher than the tape speed and to set the required label length by controlling the existing slip between the supplied label tape and the vacuum cylinder. In this way, different label sizes can be produced relatively easily by regulating the tape feed speed. If the label length is changed, however, it is also necessary to realign the vacuum cylinder in relation to the new pallets in order to ensure that the new pallets are rolled onto the label cylinder in the center, which can also be conveniently accomplished with the already existing speed superposition gear.
  • a particularly simple embodiment in that the vacuum cylinder driven by the pallet rotor via a synchronous gear is equipped with a releasable coupling in its drive train, as a result of which a controllable locking device acting on the vacuum cylinder is used this can be stopped in a targeted position in which one of its recesses points towards the pallet rotor. Simultaneously with the activation of the locking device, the drive of the vacuum cylinder is interrupted by the releasable coupling. For example, an electromagnetically actuated tooth coupling is suitable for this task.
  • the controllable locking device can expediently be formed by a locking bolt which is fixedly mounted on the machine frame and which interacts with depressions on the vacuum cylinder, for example on one of its two end faces.
  • a double-acting pneumatic cylinder is particularly suitable for actuating the locking pin. If the end of a vessel gap is indicated by a sensor attached in the area of the turntable, the vacuum cylinder is started by engaging the clutch immediately after the locking device is opened. In this embodiment, the extremely low control engineering effort to achieve the idle position is particularly advantageous.
  • the described embodiments can also be implemented without a synchronous gear and speed superposition gear, if instead the vacuum cylinder has its own electromotive motor controlled by an electronic control Drive, such as a servo motor, is equipped, which drives the vacuum cylinder depending on the current machine output and, if necessary, can also move it into an idle position by changing the rotational position assignment described above.
  • an electronic control Drive such as a servo motor
  • Figure 1 shows a first embodiment of the labeling device 1 for upright containers.
  • the device 1 comprises a controllable label tape drive, an adjoining one, rotatable about an upright axis Knife roller 3 for separating individual labels 4 from a label tape 5, a pallet rotor 6, a gripper cylinder 7 and a glue roller 8.
  • the labeling device comprises two label tape drives 2, which feed the respective label tape 5 over a plurality of deflection rollers 9 past optical reading sensors 10 of the knife roller 3.
  • the knife roller 3 is designed as a vacuum cylinder. In the operating position, the pallet rotor 6 connects tangentially to the lateral surface 11 of the vacuum cylinder 3.
  • the outer surface 11 of the vacuum cylinder 3 and the outer surface of the pallet rotor which in this case is formed by the surface 12 of the individual glue pallets, or by the envelope thereof, are arranged radially variable from one another.
  • the outer surfaces 11 and 12 can be moved from the operating position shown in solid lines in FIG. 1 to a position (dashed line) from the outer surface 11 in which the outer surface 11 of the vacuum cylinder 3 and the outer surface 12 of the pallet rotor 6 are radially spaced apart are arranged.
  • the axes of rotation 14 and 15 of the pallet rotor 6 and the vacuum cylinder 3 are designed to be radially variable in distance, the synchronous gear 16, which connects the axis of rotation 14 of the pallet rotor 6 with the axis of rotation 15 of the vacuum cylinder 3, one Axial offset compensating clutch 17.
  • the vacuum cylinder 3 is designed to be pivotable about a pivot axis which is arranged parallel to the axis of rotation 15.
  • the knife roller 3 designed as a vacuum cylinder comprises, as can be seen in FIG. 1, a knife 19 which is fixed in relation to the vacuum cylinder 3. As can be seen in FIG. 2, the pivot axis 18 runs approximately in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the fixed knife 19.
  • the vacuum cylinder 3 and the fixed knife 19 are arranged on a common pivot lever 20 which is movable about the pivot axis 18. This means that with a pivoting movement of the vacuum cylinder 3, the fixed knife 19 pivots about the pivot axis 18, so that the knife roller remains functional regardless of the position assumed.
  • the synchronous gear 16 comprises a speed superposition gear 21.
  • the speed superposition gear 21 is arranged below the Schmidt clutch 17 and consists essentially of a planetary gear, the internally toothed Ring gear 22 can be rotated via a worm engaging on the outer circumference of ring gear 22, so that the drive shaft 15 of the vacuum cylinder 3 connected to the sun gear 24 rotates by a corresponding amount, without thereby changing the transmission ratio between the pallet rotor 6 and the vacuum cylinder 3 .
  • a label suction tube 25 is arranged on the vacuum cylinder 3 in its direction of rotation behind the pallet rotor 6.
  • the label suction tube 25 is provided with a blower connection (not shown) and is used to remove labels which have not been removed from the vacuum cylinder 3 by the glue pallets 13.
  • a blow-off device could also be provided instead of a suction pipe.
  • the label is fed either by one of the two label tape drives 2, with the aid of which it is possible to label without interruption even when one of the two rolls is being replaced.
  • the exact alignment of the printed label tape 5 is carried out via a print mark control to which the optical reading sensors 10 are assigned.
  • the exact cut of the individual labels 4 is carried out from the label tape 5 via a slip control.
  • the length of the cut individual labels 4 can be determined. If, for example, shorter labels are to be processed with the same throughput, then only the tape feed speed has to be reduced, as a result of which the slip between the vacuum cylinder 3 and the label tape 5 increases.
  • the individual labels 4 separated between the knife roller 3 and the fixed knife 19 are transported about a quarter turn from the vacuum cylinder 3 and then removed from the glued surfaces 12 of the glue pallets 13 by the vacuum cylinder 3 and fed to the gripper cylinder 7, from where the individual labels 4 get to the containers not shown here to be labeled.
  • the empty pallets 13 are then glued again by the glue roller 8 and can again take up labels on the vacuum cylinder 3.
  • This control signal causes the vacuum cylinder 3 to be pivoted away from the pallet rotor 6 about the pivot axis 18 about the pivot axis 18, so that an increase in distance occurs between the lateral surface 11 of the vacuum cylinder 3 and the surfaces 12 of the glue pallets 13 of the pallet rotor 6.
  • the glued pallet 13 assigned to the bottle gap cannot remove a label from the vacuum cylinder 3 due to the increased distance. It does not come into contact with the vacuum cylinder 3 at all and consequently cannot glue its outer surface 11 either.
  • the individual labels 4 which have not been removed from the vacuum cylinder 3 can be removed by means of the label suction tube 25. It should be emphasized that the label cutting device consisting of the knife roller 3 and the fixed knife 19 is still effective, although the label feed to the pallet rotor 6 is interrupted.
  • the Schmidt coupling 17 used enables the vacuum cylinder 3 to be pivoted even under load without the phase position changing.
  • the pivoting of the vacuum cylinder 3 can take place by means of a pneumatic cylinder, not shown here, which acts on the pivoting lever 20.
  • the rotational position assignment of the knife roller 3 to the pallet rotor 6 can be corrected by rotating the worm gear 21 by rotating the screw 23. As is evident from FIG. 1, this is necessary so that the knife edges of the knife roller 3 do not strike the surface of the glue pallets 13.
  • the rotational position assignment between the pallet rotor 6 and the knife roller 3 must always be carried out so that the rear edge of the glue pallet 13 lies in the direction of rotation in front of the associated knife of the knife roller 3.
  • the increase in the distance between the lateral surfaces of the vacuum cylinder and the pallet rotor can also be achieved by moving the glue pallets individually radially to the axis of rotation of the pallet rotor.
  • FIG. 3 A second exemplary embodiment is now described below with reference to FIG. 3, a first embodiment of this modified exemplary embodiment being shown in FIG. 4 and a second embodiment for this modified exemplary embodiment being shown in FIG.
  • the labeling device is designated as a whole by reference number 100.
  • This device is in the area of a vessel transporter, not shown, e.g. arranged on a turntable of a labeling machine and consists essentially of a gripper cylinder 70, only indicated schematically, a pallet rotor 60 with an axis 140, a glue roller 80 and a vacuum cylinder 30 equipped with three rotating knives 41, which with a fixed knife 190 in the area of its circumference for Separation of individual labels 40 cooperates from the label tape 50, which is optionally conveyed by one of the two duplicate tape feeders.
  • Both tape feed devices each consist of a plurality of deflection rollers 90 with their own label tape drive 29 and in each case a reading sensor 101 for the print mark control. Due to the double design of the label tape feed, a largely uninterrupted operation of the labeling device 100 is ensured when the tape end is reached by switching over to the second tape drive, while the supply rolls are being exchanged.
  • the beginning of the tape of the available label tape 50 is tightened by vacuum bores on the vacuum cylinder 30 on its outer surface with slip.
  • the periphery of the vacuum cylinder 30 is in the area immediately after the fixed knife 190 attached optical sensor 42, which controls the presence of individual labels 40 on the vacuum cylinder 30 and indicates missing labels immediately.
  • the jacket of the vacuum cylinder 30 has alternating projecting wings 110 and, at a short distance from the fixed axis of rotation 150, recesses 260, the wings 110, viewed in the direction of rotation of the vacuum cylinder 30, in each case in the area in front of one of the rotating ones Knives 41 are arranged.
  • the rotation position assignment between the oscillating driven pallets 130 with glued adhesive surfaces 120 carrying pallet rotor 60 and the vacuum cylinder 30 is selected such that the Adhesive surfaces 120 of the pallets 130 are each assigned to a support surface 110 of the vacuum cylinder and roll on it, so that the labels adhering to them are removed by the pallets 130 and transferred to the gripper cylinder 70, which in turn transfers the labels to the vessels passed by.
  • the idle position in which no label 40 is to be removed from the support surface 110 by means of an adhesive surface 120, can be achieved in that, immediately after the previous pallet 130 has been lifted off the support surface 110, the rotational position assignment between the vacuum cylinder 30 and the pallet rotor 60 still occurs the subsequent pallet 130 is changed such that it is assigned to a recess 260 of the vacuum cylinder 30 and consequently moves without contact to the surface of the vacuum cylinder 30.
  • the mentioned idle position may be required in various operating situations, such as, for example, in the case of tube gaps on the tube transporter, missing labels, for example as a result of a tape break or tape end on the vacuum cylinder 30 or when the labeling device is started up, in which the pallets 130 with their adhesive surfaces 120 usually have to be glued on for a while without the label being fed.
  • the desired idle position in which an adhesive surface 120 faces a recess 260, can be set in various ways.
  • FIG. 4 shows, using a first example, how the idle position can be brought about in this second exemplary embodiment.
  • the pallet rotor 60 rotating about the axis 140 drives the vacuum cylinder 30, which is rotatable about the fixed axis 150, via a synchronous gear 160 consisting of gear wheels.
  • a speed superposition gear 210 is arranged, which essentially consists of a planetary gear, the internally toothed ring gear 220 is rotatable via a worm engaging on the outer circumference of the ring gear 220, so that the drive shaft connected to the sun gear 240 150 of the vacuum cylinder 30 can be rotated by a corresponding amount without thereby changing the original transmission ratio between the pallet rotor 60 and the vacuum cylinder 30.
  • a controllable actuator 230 acts on the worm for adjusting the ring gear 220.
  • a sensor placed on the turntable of the labeling machine not shown in the figures, reports a vessel gap to the machine control
  • the latter can issue a control command to the actuator 230 immediately after lifting off the rear edge of the pallet 130 with the last label 40 to be removed, so that this by a corresponding rotation of the ring gear 220 a Superposition movement in the planetary gear 210 generates a delay in the peripheral speed of the vacuum cylinder 30 compared to.
  • Pallet rotor 60 causes.
  • the recess 260 following the previous wing 110 lies approximately centrally on the imaginary connecting line between the two axes of rotation 140 and 150 of the pallet rotor 60 and the vacuum cylinder 30.
  • the actuator 230 is stopped, so that the vacuum cylinder 30 rotates again at the original circumferential speed, whereby the assignment of pallets 130 to the recesses of the vacuum cylinder 30, which has occurred due to the change in rotational position, is maintained, during which no label removal can take place through the adhesive surfaces 120 until the sensor on the rotary table the labeling machine signals the end of the void.
  • the machine control issues a command to the actuator 230, which causes the vacuum cylinder 30 to accelerate briefly, with the result that the first pallet 130, which is again intended to remove a label 40, has its pallet leading edge placed on a support surface 110 single label 40 on top.
  • the vacuum cylinder 30 then continues to run in the original rotational position order with the corresponding peripheral speed.
  • the label tape drive 29 can be stopped in the case of longer gaps, whereas the labels are removed by the blow-off and suction device 250 in the case of shorter gaps.
  • the same process can analogously take place if, for example, the sensor 42 indicates the absence of a label on the vacuum cylinder 30.
  • the sensor 42 indicates the absence of a label on the vacuum cylinder 30.
  • there is contact between the glued adhesive surfaces 120 and those with vacuum bores equipped wings 110 are not desired, because on the one hand the vacuum holes are blocked and on the other hand the subsequent labels would stick to the wings 110.
  • the situation is similar when the labeling device is warmed up before the start of operation, since for this purpose the label tape drive is usually switched off while the pallets 130 are being glued on.
  • FIG. 5 shows a variant of the second exemplary embodiment of the subject of the invention according to FIG. 3 in a sectional view corresponding to FIG.
  • This variant is especially suitable for labeling machines with lower output, up to approx. 8,000 tubes per hour.
  • the fundamental difference compared to the solution according to FIG. 4 is that the vacuum cylinder 300 does not continue to run together with the pallet rotor 600 in the idle position, but is stopped in a certain position in which a recess 261 is located approximately in the middle on the imaginary connecting line between the two axes of rotation 141 and 151 of the pallet rotor 600 or vacuum cylinder 300.
  • a controllable locking device 350 is provided, which can stop the vacuum cylinder 300 in one of its three possible idle positions, while at the same time actuating a releasable clutch 171 arranged in the drive train between the synchronous gear 161 and the vacuum cylinder 300 to interrupt the drive.
  • a specifically controllable, electromagnetically actuated tooth coupling is particularly suitable for this purpose, which interrupts the drive at the moment in which a pneumatically actuated locking pin 360 brings the locking device 350 into its locking position.
  • the locking pin 360 is mounted on an upper cross member fixed to the frame, which is the column supporting the fixed knife 180 connects to the drive shaft 150 of the vacuum cylinder 300.
  • the cross member 200 is not shown in Figure 3 because of the better overview.
  • three recesses 370 are made at the appropriate pitch, into which the locking pin 360 engages in a positive manner in its locking position.
  • These depressions 370 can be formed, for example, by cylindrical bores. The bores are arranged in such a way that in the respective blocking position a recess 261 is assigned to the pallet rotor 600 in the idling position described above.
  • the coupling of the vacuum cylinder 300 by means of the coupling 171 takes into account the position of the next pallet 131, so that it can roll over onto the individual label 400 in the correct position.
  • Reference numeral 211 designates a speed superposition gear corresponding to that of FIG. 4, while reference numerals 221 and 241 indicate a ring gear and a sun gear with the function described with reference to FIG. 4.
  • the slippage between the surface of the vacuum cylinder 300 and the label tape 500 changing, when changing from one label size to another the knives producing the rear label edge must be changed 401 on the vacuum cylinder 300 are aligned to the rear edge of the new pallets 131 to be congruent To ensure the rolling movement of the pallets 131 on the individual labels 400.
  • the above-mentioned speed superposition gear 211 is also suitable for this purpose, although adjustment of the ring gear 221 by a manually operated worm is sufficient.
  • the device according to the invention in accordance with the variant explained with reference to FIG. 5 is particularly characterized by a relatively low control engineering effort to achieve the idle position.

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