EP0839725A1 - Procédé et dispositif de centrage d'étiquettes lors d'application sur des petites surfaces - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de centrage d'étiquettes lors d'application sur des petites surfaces Download PDF

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EP0839725A1
EP0839725A1 EP97118858A EP97118858A EP0839725A1 EP 0839725 A1 EP0839725 A1 EP 0839725A1 EP 97118858 A EP97118858 A EP 97118858A EP 97118858 A EP97118858 A EP 97118858A EP 0839725 A1 EP0839725 A1 EP 0839725A1
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Paolo Labardi
Giacomo Gucci
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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
    • B65C9/1865—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip
    • B65C9/1876—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip and being transferred by suction means
    • B65C9/1884—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip and being transferred by suction means the suction means being a movable vacuum arm or pad
    • 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
    • B65C9/0015—Preparing the labels or articles, e.g. smoothing, removing air bubbles
    • 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
    • B65C9/0015—Preparing the labels or articles, e.g. smoothing, removing air bubbles
    • B65C2009/0018—Preparing the labels
    • B65C2009/0021—Preparing the labels for temporary attachment to transfer means or to the article

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  • the present invention relates to application of labels to containers having sides of small surfaces and the like.
  • such a label of a circular shape, is usually applied on the bottom of lip-stick casings.
  • the labels are applied to the containers automatically during a packaging cycle by machines that take over the labels from a feeding line and transfer them to the corresponding container surfaces.
  • the label can protrude from the surface edge.
  • the object of the present invention is to propose a method that allows to automatically apply labels onto small surfaces, in particular of circular or similar shape, with precise centring of the labels on the surfaces.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a device that carries out the above mentioned method by structurally simple and practical means.
  • Yet another object of the invention is to provide a versatile centring device for application of labels of different shapes and sizes to correspondingly different surfaces.
  • the above drawings show the device 1 for centring labels 2 while they are applied to relative surfaces, in particular to the bottom or the cover of cylindrical or similar containers 3.
  • the containers 3 are carried inside respective housings made radially in a carrousel 4, which rotates stepwise.
  • the device 1 is supported by a turret 5 mounted rotatably beside a feeding line 6 of the labels 2 to be applied and driven in an alternate oscillatory movement in a suitable phase relation with the carrousel 4 stepwise movement.
  • the labels 2 are arranged, regularly spaced apart, on a band 8, which, near the label delivering area, follows the contour of an angled piece 9 so as to facilitate the labels 2 detachment.
  • the turret 5 operates the device 1 rotation between a position in which the labels 2 are taken over from the feeding line 6 and in which the device 1 is perpendicular to this feeding line 6, and a position in which the labels 2 already detached from the band are applied to the containers 3 and in which the same device 1 is lined up with a relative container 3 carried by the carrousel 4.
  • the second position is substantially orthogonal with respect to the first one.
  • the device 1 is equipped with a tubular body 10, rigidly fastened to a slide member 11 carried by the turret 5.
  • a suitable reciprocating actuator only a stem 7 of which is visible, drives the slide member 11 in a linear way with respect to the turret 5.
  • a broken line indicates the position of the slide member 11 at the end of the label 2 application stroke, as will be better explained later.
  • a suitable coupling 12 connects the rear end of the tubular body 10 with known, not shown, suction means which create depression in the channel 100 defined by the same tubular body 10.
  • the above mentioned channel 100 of the tubular body 10 defines a receiving housing for a label picking up head, indicated with 13.
  • the tubular body 10 is introduced into a sleeve 14, in coaxial relation thereto.
  • the sleeve 14 features, screwed thereto, a correspondingly tubular terminal part 15, acting as centring means.
  • the terminal part 15 At its end turned outside, the terminal part 15 features a conical mouth 16, aimed at centring the container 3; a broken line indicates the position assumed by the terminal part 15 during the centring of the container 3.
  • a sized-apertured bushing 17 for centring a relative label 2 is joint to the terminal part 15.
  • This sized-apertured bushing 17 is cylindrical and the internal rim of one of its extremities is bevelled so as to define a conical surface that is a continuation of the conical mouth 16.
  • the sleeve 14 supports a pair of rollers 18, diametrically opposite and rotating, designed to engage respective sections of a stationary cam 19.
  • This cam 19 causes relative sliding of the sleeve 14 with respect to the tubular body 10, in contrast to elastic action performed by a helical spring 20 mounted on the same tubular body 10 near an axial cavity of the sleeve 14.
  • the sleeve 14 is equipped with a transversal pin 21 that engages a groove 22 made longitudinally with respect to the tubular body 10, so as to prevent reciprocal rotation of the sleeve 14 and the tubular body 10.
  • the picking up head 13 includes a tubular stem 23 guided tightly through a tube 24, screwed to the end of the tubular body 10.
  • the tubular stem 23 is axially pushed by a spring 25 acting on a shoulder 26, which acts as a stop for the tube 24.
  • the tubular stem 23 carries a head 27, equipped with an axial hole, for taking over the label 2 to be applied.
  • the tubular body 10 Upstream of the area of the picking up head 13 receiving seat, the tubular body 10 features a first pair of holes 28 and a second pair of holes 29, suitably spaced apart.
  • the holes 28 and 29 are made along crossing diametrical lines of the tubular body 10, on two planes transversal to the tubular body 10 axis, so as to open into the tubular body axial channel 100 (see figs 7 and 8).
  • the holes 28, 29 communicate with a corresponding series of holes 30 made along crossing lines of the sleeve 14 lying on a plane transversal to the sleeve axis, near the tang 14a.
  • the holes 30 communicate with respective longitudinal grooves 31, made on the external surface of the tang 14a of the sleeve 14 and open at the front end of this latter (see also fig. 9).
  • a label to be applied is taken over from the feeding line 6, operated stepwise in the direction indicated with arrow A (fig. 1).
  • the device is brought to the picking up position, with the axis perpendicular to the feeding line 6, in the region of the outlet of the same line 6.
  • the picking up head 13 is set in depression by the channel 100 of the same tubular body 10, so as to grip a label 2.
  • the carrousel 4 is rotated stepwise in direction indicated by arrow B, so as to prepare a container 3 in the label application station.
  • the picking up head 13 is brought to a retracted position inside the terminal part 15 of the sleeve, until the label 2 is introduced into the sized-apertured bushing 17.
  • the device 1 When the rotation is completed, the device 1 is axially aligned with the container 3 held by the carrousel 4 in the label application position.
  • the label is inserted into the sized-apertured bushing 17.
  • the depression acting through the picking up head 13 is suitably limited, so as to allow a controlled movement of the label 2 in order to centre it with respect to the picking up head 13.
  • a bearing 32 is suitably inserted between the tubular body 10 and the tag 14a of the sleeve.
  • the depression in the region of the picking up head 13 is suitably reduced.
  • the label 2 can move slightly, taking a perfectly centred position with respect to the picking up head 13 due to the sized-apertured bushing 17, which reproduces the shape and dimensions of the same label.
  • the slide member 11 is moved with respect to the turret 5, so as to bring the device 1 until it strikes against the container 3, as seen in fig. 4.
  • Operation of the slide member 11 determines movement of the tubular body 10, integral thereto and carrying the sleeve 14.
  • the terminal part 15 of this sleeve 14 is brought to engage frontally, by the conical mouth 16, the container 3, so as to obtain a centred position of the same container with respect to the axis of the sized-apertured bushing 17, as shown in detail in fig. 11.
  • the illustrated method and device allow best application of labels onto containers, assuring that the labels are set perfectly centred on the surfaces.
  • An important feature of the subject device is that it allows an easy change of size of containers and relative labels, i.e. application of labels of different shapes and sizes to correspondingly different surfaces.

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EP97118858A 1996-10-31 1997-10-30 Procédé et dispositif de centrage d'étiquettes lors d'application sur des petites surfaces Expired - Lifetime EP0839725B1 (fr)

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ITBO960551 1996-10-31
IT96BO000551A IT1286738B1 (it) 1996-10-31 1996-10-31 Metodo e dispositivo per il centraggio di etichette su superfici di piccole dimensioni

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US6595259B2 (en) * 2001-01-09 2003-07-22 Premark Fef L.L.C. Vacuum actuated label applying wand
WO2005105584A1 (fr) * 2004-04-30 2005-11-10 Suhling Technik Niederlassung Der Heino Ilsemann Gmbh Dispositif pour delivrer une etiquette en un emplacement defini, et dispositif d'insertion d'une telle etiquette
DE102014119391B3 (de) * 2014-12-22 2015-12-17 Espera-Werke Gmbh Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Etikettieren von einzelnen Packungen
DE102015117533A1 (de) * 2015-10-15 2017-04-20 Espera-Werke Gmbh Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Etikettieren von einzelnen Packungen
JP2020114743A (ja) * 2019-01-17 2020-07-30 株式会社デンソー シール剥し装置及びシール剥し方法
IT202100008675A1 (it) * 2021-04-07 2022-10-07 M C Automations S R L Metodo e apparecchiatura per l'etichettatura di prodotti dolciari

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GB1437463A (en) * 1973-10-30 1976-05-26 Schaefer H H Labelling apparatus
DE3623366A1 (de) * 1986-07-11 1988-02-04 Schaefer Etiketten Etikettiergeraet

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GB1437463A (en) * 1973-10-30 1976-05-26 Schaefer H H Labelling apparatus
DE3623366A1 (de) * 1986-07-11 1988-02-04 Schaefer Etiketten Etikettiergeraet

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US6595259B2 (en) * 2001-01-09 2003-07-22 Premark Fef L.L.C. Vacuum actuated label applying wand
WO2005105584A1 (fr) * 2004-04-30 2005-11-10 Suhling Technik Niederlassung Der Heino Ilsemann Gmbh Dispositif pour delivrer une etiquette en un emplacement defini, et dispositif d'insertion d'une telle etiquette
DE102014119391B3 (de) * 2014-12-22 2015-12-17 Espera-Werke Gmbh Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Etikettieren von einzelnen Packungen
DE102014119391B8 (de) * 2014-12-22 2016-03-03 Espera-Werke Gmbh Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Etikettieren von einzelnen Packungen
US10179669B2 (en) 2014-12-22 2019-01-15 Espera-Werke Gmbh Apparatus and method for labelling individual packs
DE102014119391C5 (de) * 2014-12-22 2019-02-28 Espera-Werke Gmbh Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Etikettieren von einzelnen Packungen
DE102015117533A1 (de) * 2015-10-15 2017-04-20 Espera-Werke Gmbh Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Etikettieren von einzelnen Packungen
JP2020114743A (ja) * 2019-01-17 2020-07-30 株式会社デンソー シール剥し装置及びシール剥し方法
IT202100008675A1 (it) * 2021-04-07 2022-10-07 M C Automations S R L Metodo e apparecchiatura per l'etichettatura di prodotti dolciari
WO2022215098A1 (fr) * 2021-04-07 2022-10-13 M.C. Automations S.R.L. Procédé et appareil pour étiqueter des produits de confiserie

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ITBO960551A0 (it) 1996-10-31

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