GB210559A - Machines for applying labels to bottles - Google Patents

Abstract

210,559. Flower, A. L. Nov. 14,1922. Labelling; sheet separators.-In apparatus for labelling bottles &c. in which labels are taken from a holder by a pneumatic device mounted on a reciprocating carrier and arranged to rotate therein, so as to present the label first to a gumming-device and then to the article to be labelled, the suction device is rotated by means of a Geneva-cross device mounted on the carrier and engaging with fixed pins; arrangements of wipers or pressers for affixing the label are also described. The labels are held in a holder 3 and the lowermost is removed by the suction device 16, which consists of a tube connected to a cylinder 12 moving over a fixed piston 13. The labels are retained by a weighted plate y, and as the suction device comes in contact with the lowest label a stop 24 attached to the carrier 11 carrying the suction device strikes against a spring-controlled rod 25 and causes it to grip a stem attached to the plate y. As the carrier 11 descends, a Geneva-cross 18 attached to the tube 16 strikes against fixed pins 20, so as to turn through two right angles in succession and present the label, first to a gumming-roller 28 and then to the article to be labelled. If the later is a bottle or the like the label may be affixed by wipers 23 carried on oppositely-rotating shafts 21. Fig. 5 shows a modification in which wipers 40 are carried on arms 41 carried on a reciprocating rod 43. The arms 41 are drawn together by a spring 44 and connected by toggle-levers 42 which strike against stops 46, 47 so as to allow the wipers to separate and pass the bottle as they rise and approach each other and come into action as they descend. For affixing labels to flat articles the suctionpipe slides under the action of a spring 33, Fig. 3, in an arm 30 attached to the Geneva-cross 18, which also carries a flat presser plate 34.