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US2148155A
US2148155A US190916A US19091638A US2148155A US 2148155 A US2148155 A US 2148155A US 190916 A US190916 A US 190916A US 19091638 A US19091638 A US 19091638A US 2148155 A US2148155 A US 2148155A
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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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41L—APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES
    • B41L45/00—Kinds or types of addressing machines or of like series-printing machines
    • 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
    • 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
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S493/00—Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web
    • Y10S493/961—Tag, marker, or label

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  • This invention relates to a method of providing a multitude of articles, such as e. g., letters, postcards, printed matter, magazines and packages with labels of substantially equal size and con- 5 figuration, but presenting dilferent contents, such as diierent addresses.
  • labels to be pasted or otherwise fastened onto articles have been made mostly by means of plates on which the different addresses had to be impressed and the impression inked, wherefrom prints have been made which differed as to sharpness and legibility. If the addresses changed, entirely new plates were to be made.
  • the present invention eliminates such plates and other relatively high expenses.
  • the number of labels in particular addresses to be made in a time unit, according to known processes, is relatively small. With the present invention, a multiple of the number of labels being equally legible can be made within the same time unit as it was possible heretofore.
  • Still a further object of the invention is to increase the efficiency and to reduce the cost of attaching the finished labels to the individual articles.
  • Fig. 1 shows, on a smaller scale, an article provided with a label in accordance with the present invention, whereby it is assumed by way of example, that a letter is to be provided with an address.
  • Fig. 2 shows a prepared sheet and Fig. 3 a section therethrough along the lines III-III in Fig. 2, Fig. 4 a print plate, Fig. 5 a sheet according to Fig. 2, but provided with prints, Fig. 6 a modied sheet, provided with a particular type of weakened lines of perforations, Fig. 'l shows perspectively, e. g., the connection of two cut strips;
  • Fig. 8 shows another sheet to be used with the present invention,
  • Fig. 10 shows perspectively the connections of a plurality of printed sheets into a longer combined sheet; Fig. 11 shows such combined sheets bent in zigzag to form a stack ready for cutting, and Fig. 12 shows schematically the principle of an apparatus adapt- 5 ed to detach an individual label from a combined strip and to aflix it to an article.
  • FIG. 1 an article I0 of any type, in particular the one referred to above, is shown diagrammati- ⁇ cally onto which a label I I of rectangular size has to be fastened, in particular pasted. That label is supposed to contain the residence of the addressee, that address being schematically shown by a number of lines I2.
  • a sheet of paper I3, Fig. 2, of rectangular size 20 is taken which is provided with a cement or glue I4 on its lower side (Fig. 3).
  • This sheet is weakened, in particular perforated, along equi-distant lines I5, running parallel to one side I 6 of the sheet I3.
  • the distances between the lines I5 25 inter se and of the upper ⁇ line I5 from the edge I6 are equal, whereas the distance between the lower line I5 and the edge I'I of the sheet is shorter. These equal distances correspond to one dimension of the rectangular label to be made, viz. to the shorter side thereof.
  • a type of printing is prepared as shown in Fig. 4.
  • the different contents shown are arranged in juxtaposed rows running 35 vertically in parallel to the longer side of the rectangularly shaped plate, such rows being represented in Fig. 4 at I8, I9, 20 and 2I respectively.
  • 'Ihe number of label contents I8 etc. arranged in juxtaposition in each vertical row correspond to the spaces of equal breadth left between the edge I 6 and the weakened line I5, and between the latter lines respectively. It is understood that the label contents I8 will be different inter 45 se and so will be the label contents I9 etc.
  • the horizontal columns formed by the label contents I8, I9, etc. are of a height corresponding to the one of the horizontal columns formed on the sheet I3 by the weakened lines I5. Consequently, when printing the sheet I3 by means of the plate 24 of Fig. 4, the former will obtain the appearance of Fig. 5 in which the sheet I3 with weakened lines I5 etc. is unchanged but shows, between those lines, the printed contents I8 to2 I in four vertical rows ⁇ and fteen horizontal columns, the juxtaposed columns being separated from each other by the weakened lines I5. Obviously, in this example, a longer side of the rectangular label runs parallel to the horizontal edge I6 of the sheet I3, whereas the smaller side of the rectangular label runs parallel to the vertical edge of the sheet.
  • the labels could be arranged turned by 90, so that their smaller sides lie parallel to the horizontal edge of the sheet and their longer sides parallel to the vertical side of the sheet.
  • the sheet I3 is now cut into strips parallel to the longer or vertical side of the sheet I3 between the juxtaposed rows I8, I9, etc. of label contents along the lines 2l in a direction vertical to that of the weakened lines I5, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
  • strips are obtained, each strip comprising a number of printed contents I 8 or I9, or 20, etc., in juxtaposition, the different contents I8 on the upper strip being separated from each other by a portion of the perforated lines I5, and so the different juxtaposed contents I9 of the next strip are separated from each other by other portions of the weakened lines I5, etc.
  • Each such strip retained a part of the portion 26, Fig. 2, the portion forming a protruding end .rm not showing any print.
  • the strip 30 can be connected with a following one at the right side by means of the protruding end 28 to be pasted again to the lower side of the following strip.
  • any desired number of strips cut from the same or different sheets can be connected together into one single longer combined strip.
  • a sheet as shown in Fig. 2 provided with weakened lines I 5, and then printing the label contents upon the sheet into the columns formed by these lines
  • the sheet SI, Fig. 8 may be blank on its lower side as it is shown in the cross-section of Fig. 9, and the adhesive applied later on when the combined strip is subdivided into the individual labels. Then, the adhesive may be applied to the lower side of the combined strip when it is fed to the separating and labeling apparatus, or the labels may even be provided with the adhesive after they are individually detached from that strip in a way to be described later on.
  • the long combined sheet thus obtained may then be cut along the lines 32 in a direction vertical to the weakened lines I5 and parallel to the long side of the combined sheet thus Vformed, so that a number of coherent strips are obtained corresponding to the number of horizontal rows of label contents, and these combined strips are now connected in a still longer strip in the way as described above for the connection of single strips with reference to Fig. '7. It is obvious that by the method just described the manipulation for forming the desired long combined strip is simplified. Taking ten sheets and each comprising four vertical rows of label contents, with the method first described there are connected forty strips, and thirty-nine manipulations are necessary, whereas according to the last described method ten sheets are to be connected and thereafter four strips which necessitates only twelve manipulations.
  • the long combined strip thus prepared is now inserted in an apparatus which is capable of detaching successively the individual labels from the long strip along the weakened, in particular
  • Well known apparatuses may be used which are developed for detaching postal stamps from rolls and aiiixing. them, ewg., toflletters.
  • the long strip provided in any of the ways described above ⁇ is coiled and then inserteddn such ani'apparatus ⁇ which has to be adapted'o'nlyto the dimensions of the labels and the coil.
  • One may also adjust thesize of the labels and thedistance of the weakened lines from each other' so thatstandard stamp aiiixers can be used.
  • Fig. ⁇ 12 shows schematically-such an apparatus.
  • a combined strip'35is positioned' onI an axis 36 andthe rst label31 positioned..byvhand under the aiiixing head 38.
  • Theglue I4 on the lower side of the strip 31 is passed along a moistening pad 39, whereby the label -is prepared for ⁇ being pasted onto an article vl positioned under the aixer.
  • the head'i ⁇ is'moved down in the direction of the arrow 4l)V bylmeansl of a handle 4l; the coil 35 and the ⁇ strip to ⁇ which the label ⁇ 31 still adheres are simultaneously moved inthe direction of the arrow 42, but only for a distance shorter than that tobe passed by the head 38 before depositing thealabel 31 ⁇ on the article I0, so that ultimately the label 31 is detached along'the weakened, preferably perforated line fromf the strip of the coil 35 and then pressed upon the article I0.
  • the glue on the lower side of the label 31 has beenrmoistened ⁇ just before by the pad 39, so that the label 31.is firmly afxed to the article l0.
  • the type plates or equivalent parts of a printing machine can be set to print a single sheet as well as a large number of them. If the labels are intended for weekly magazines, there will be printed at least fty-two or more sheets from a type plate. If the labels are intended for a daily paper, there will be printed three-hundred-and-seventy or more sheets from thel same plate. Nevertheless, one label will equal the other as to clearness of its content and appearance, which could never be obtained by the usual multiplying methods.
  • each content such as address
  • each address can be conveniently provided with a surrounding border or other decoration, viz., each address may be enclosed in a rectangle.
  • the formation of strips and coils to be inserted in a stamp aiiixer is easy and simple and can eliciently be performed.
  • the individual labels can be quickly and safely detached from the strip and aflixed to the article, and mistakes, e. g., in the postal delivery, are excluded by the clearness, permanence and extraordinary legibility of the addresses.
  • a method of producing a supply of a multitude of labels for labeling articles, such as letters, printed matter and packages, said labels being substantially of equal size but presenting different contents, such as addresses, comprising the steps of providing a substantially rectangular sheet being weakened in one direction along equidistant lines, with a plurality of said label contents arranged in several juxtaposed rows running across said direction, each row comprising several such label contents in juxtaposition and separated by a weakened line portion of said sheet, dividing said sheet provided with said label contents between said rows into strips, and
  • diierent contents such as addresses
  • each row lying substantially flush with an edge of one of said sheets and the other end being spaced from the adjacent edge of said sheet, thus leaving free an end of the latter to form a projection, dividing, as exemplified by cutting, each thus printed sheet between said rows into strips each comprising a portion of said projection, connecting said strips resulting from several sheets in series by cementing said portion of a strip to the lower side at the beginning of another strip, thereby forming a long combined strip containing the desired multitude of said label contents in juxtaposition between equi-distant perforated lines ready for individual detaching and cementing upon said article.
  • a method of producing a supply of a multitude of labels for labeling articles, such as letters, printed matter and packages, said labels being substantially of equal and rectangular size but presenting diiTerent contents, such as addresses, comprising the steps of providing by printing in juxtaposed rows a plurality of said label contents on a considerably larger substantially rectangular sheet, thereby leaving free a projection at one end of said sheet, weakening said thus printed sheet across said rows along lines running between said printed label contents, dividing said printed sheet between juxtaposed rows along lines crossing said weakening lines into strips, connecting in series such strips by means of said projections, thereby forming a longer combined strip containing said printed label contents between equi-distant weakened lines ready for individual detaching along a weakened line.
  • Method of producing a. supply of a multitude of labels, for labeling articles, such as letters, printed matter and packages, said labels being substantially of equal size but presenting different contents, such as addresses, comprising the steps of providing by printing in juxtaposed rows a plurality of said label contents on considerably larger sheets, thereby leaving free a projection at one end of each sheet, 'said sheet provided with weakening lines, as exemplied by perforations, across said rows between the juxtaposed label contents and between the outermost label content and said projection, combining said sheets into a larger combined sheet by attaching one of said projections to another sheet, folding the combined sheet thus obtained l into a stack, cutting said stack between said juxtaposed rows, thereby obtaining strips composed of a row each of all said combined sheets and provided at one end with a portion of said projection, and connecting the strips thus obtained into a larger strip by attaching one of said portions to a following strip, thereby obtaining the desired supply of a multitude of label contents in a continuous row separated by said weakened lines and ready for

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