US1873967A

US1873967A - Means for applying labels or the like upon two or more sides of boxes, particularly match boxes

Info

Publication number: US1873967A
Application number: US426870A
Authority: US
Inventors: Klute Georg Martin
Original assignee: Siefvert and Fornander AB
Current assignee: Siefvert and Fornander AB
Priority date: 1929-02-05
Filing date: 1930-02-08
Publication date: 1932-08-30
Anticipated expiration: 1949-08-30

Description

Aug. 30, 1932. KLUTE 1,873,967

MEANS FOR APPLYING LABELS OR THE LIKE UPON TWO OR MORE SIDES OF BOXES, PARTICULARLY MATCH BOXES Filed Feb. 8, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet l Aug. 30, 1932.

MEANS FOR APPLYING LABELS OR THE LIK MORE SIDES OF BOXES, PAR

Filed- Feb.

2 Sheets-Sheet Patented AW. 3c, 1932 enone MARTIN KL'UTE, or os'rnn AKER, nonwAY, nssrenon T0 AKTIEIBOLAGET ems,

, vnnr a ronnannnn, or KALHIAR, swnnnn res PATENT .OFFIE I MEANS ron APPLYING LABELS 0R THE U901; ij wb, OR MORE SIDES BOXES [PARTICULARLY MATCH B0 7 Application filed February 8,1930, Serial No. 426,870, and in Sweden February 5 1929.

The machines hitherto used forapplying labels to boxes, particularly match boxes, are usually constructed so as to feed the boxes in a string one behind the other through the machine to have the boxes first coated with a paste and then provided with labels which are thereafter caused to stick fast by pressing and further smoothed by a separate pressing mechanism, the boxes being then collected in rows into a frame for further conveyance. In order to attach labels to more than one side of the boxes it has been necessary according to the methods hitherto used .to repeat the same procedure in another machine with the result that, for double labelling, twice as much work and twice as much space as in single labelling were required.

The present invention has for its object to enable the attaching of labels, banderoles, rubbing strips, or thelike to two or more sides of boxes in a simple way by combining a number of singlelabelling machinescorresponding to the number ofjsides .to be labelled to operate in series and providing a turning mechanism between each two, adj acent machines to receive the boxes discharged from one machine and deliver'them to the next machine after having brought them to a suitable position for labelling therein. V

In the accompanying drawings some embodiments of the invention are illustrated in a diagrammatic manner. I

Fig. 1 is a side elevation and, I I

Fig. 2 is a plan View of an embodimentin which the boxes are fed in a straight line through two single machines arranged" in series and preferably combined'to form a unitary structure.

' Fig.3 is a section on the line A B and,

Fig. 4: isa section. on theline (3-D in Fig. 1. v

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a detail. .Fig..-6 is a plan view "of a modified form of turning mechanism and, j

Fig.7? is a section of this mechanism on the line E-F in Fig. 6. p r

Fig. 8 isa plan View of a modified embodiment of a structure comprising two single machines. r v

- Fig. 9 is a special cross-section of the turning mechanism of the 7 structure shown in Fig.8.-

p In the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the boxes are supplied, as from a box machine or a machine for introducing drawers into shells, to the labelling machine, where they are engaged by a reciprocating piston 2 operating to move the boxes in well known way to a .pastecontainer 3, a label container 4 and a pressing device 5 to have labels attached to the upper sideof the boxes. The boxes are then fed into the turning mechanism underthe pressure of the succeeding boxes,

said mechanism being formed with athroughextending aperture 6 (Figs. 3 to 5) to receive the boxes. The turning mechanism shown comprises a rotatable disk 7 mounted in a stationary'ring 8 and provided with a toothed wheel 9 and a Geneva-stop disk 10. The toothed wheel 9 is driven by a toothed wheel 11 ofthe same diameter and pitch as the wheel 9, said wheel 11, however, having no teeth on half of its periphery.v During a complete revolution of the respective driving quently, perform half a revolutiononly. In

order to hold the turningmechanism against rotation duringthe period of time in which the

toothed wheels

9 and 11 are out of mesh cam disk 13 secured to the shaft 12 is provided which cooperates with the stop disk 10in a way that will readily appear from -.Fig. 4; In order to reduce the stresses on the teeth during the acceleration of the turnmg mechanism the toothed wheel 11 may be formed with an auxiliary tooth 1i and the toothed wheel 9 with a corresponding stop dent that the toothed wheels should be so adjusted relatively-t0 each other as to beout of mesh and the turning mechanism consequently held against operation during that period of time in which the piston effects the feedingof the row of boxes andthe conshaft 12 the turning mechanism will, consechine. Tothis end the middle portion of said the boxes, that the boxes will not take up the correct position right below the label container 17 In order to adjust this position the Geneva-stop disk 10 may be provided'with screwshaped shoulders 19, as shown in Fig. 5, whereby the box last discharged from the turning mechanism will always be brought to the exact positioin'relatively to which the positions of the paste container 16' and the label container 17 may be adjusted.

In Figs. 6 and 7 a modified embodiment of the turning mechanism is illustrated.

Said turning mechanism comprises a disk 21 mounted at 20 which is formed with a num ber of apertures 22 situated at equal distance apart from the axis of the disk. The disk 21 may be driven by a device similar to that shown in Figs. 1 to a or. simply by apawl and ratchet gear rotating the disk through an an 1e corres ondin to the an ular distance between two adjacent apertures for each box supplied. The boxes will thus be moved half a revolution and then ejected by means of a piston 23 to be labelled in the second single machine. As an advantage of this construction it may be mentioned that, provided a sufficient number of apertures is formed in the disk, the label first applied will have time to get dry sufliciently so as not tobe displaced in the feeding ofthe box then to follow.

,A' third embodiment of the invention is illustrated in Fig. 8 in which the boxes supplied. to the labelling machine A are first passed below a paste container 3 'Then they-are engaged by a reciprocating piston 24 operating to move the boxes to a labelcontainer 4 and a pressing device 5 By thus passing the boxes directly to the label container the piston 24: will secure a high accuracy as regards the exact position of the boxes during the labelling operation. Detachably mounted to the labelling machine A is a turning apparatusB the turning mechanism of which comprises a rotatable cylinder 27 mounted in a stationary ring 9 and adapted to receive the boxesdischarged from the macylinder bounded by two planesparallel to the axis of the cylinder has been removed, and into the space 28 thus obtained, see Fig. 9, the box is fed under the pressure of the succeeding boxes. The driving device for the cylinder may be similar to that shown in Figures 14 thus efiecting a rotation of the cylinder through half a revolution between those periods of time in which the piston 24 effects the feeding of the row of boxes and the introduction of a box into the turning mechanism. The box thus turned with its labelled side downis fed out of the cylinder by means'of a reciprocating piston 25 entering the space 28, and under the pressure of the succeeding boxes it is delivered to the secondlabelling machine G detachably mounted to the turning apparatus B and operating in thesa-me manner as labelling machine A. Thus, after passing below a paste container 16 the boxes are engaged by a reciprocating piston 26 operating to move the boxes: to a label container 17 and a pressing device 18 whereupon the boxes now labelled upon two of their sides are collected in any appropriate Way.

For applying labels, banderoles,*or rubbing stripsto two adjacent sides of a box the turning mechanism shown in Figs. 6 and 7 may be used, in which case the number of apertures of the turning mechanism should be a multiple of 4. The boxes may in such case be ejected by means of apiston after a rotation of 90 or 270, the said last mentioned angle being the most favorable one as far as the drying of the label is concerned. i

What I claim is p 1. A device for attaching labelsto two sides at least of boxes, particularly match boxes, comprising a. number of machines for single labelling corresponding to the number of sides to be labelled, which are combinedto operate inseries, and means to receive the boxes discharged from one machine, turn them to the position required for labelling in the-next machine, and deliver them to said next machine, each of said machines for single labeling being complete and detachable in order to be temporarily used when one label only is tobe attached to each 'box.

2. A device for attaching labels to two sides; at least of. boxes, particularly match boxes, comprisingin combination a number of machines for single'labelling corresponding to the number of sides to be labelled, which are arranged to operate in series, and rotatable means provided between each two successive machines to receive the boxes discharged from one. machine, turn them to the position required for labelling in the next machine, and deliver them to said next ma.- chine, each'of said machines for single labeling being complete and detachable in order to be temporarily used when one label only arranged to operate in series, and a rotatable disk provided between each two successive machines and apertured to receive the boxes discharged from onemachine, turn them to 1 5 the position required for labelling in the next machine, and deliver them to said next machine, each of said machines for single labeling being complete and detachable in order to be temporarily used when one label only is to be attached to each box. 7 4. A device for attaching labels to two sides at least of boxes, particularly match boxes, comprising in combination a number of machines for single labelling corresponding to the number of sides to be labelled, which are arranged to operate in series, and a rotatable disk provided between each two successive machines and formed with apertures adapted each to receive a box discharged from one machine and deliver it to the next machine after a certain rotation of the disk.

5. A device for attaching labels to two sides at least of boxes, particularly match boxes, comprising in combination a number of single labelling machines arranged to operate in series, a turning mechanism between each two successive machines to receive the boxes discharged from one machine, turn them to the position required for labelling in the next machine, and deliver them after turning to said next machine, and means on said turning mechanism to bring every box when discharged from the turning mechanism to a predetermined position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name.

GEORG MARTIN KLUTE.