US3212669A - Label dispenser - Google Patents

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US3212669A
US3212669A US300484A US30048463A US3212669A US 3212669 A US3212669 A US 3212669A US 300484 A US300484 A US 300484A US 30048463 A US30048463 A US 30048463A US 3212669 A US3212669 A US 3212669A
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Herbert A Kruger
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C63/00—Lining or sheathing, i.e. applying preformed layers or sheathings of plastics; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C63/0004—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C63/0013—Removing old coatings
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65C9/0006—Removing backing sheets
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H37/00—Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations
    • B65H37/002—Web delivery apparatus, the web serving as support for articles, material or another web

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  • the present invention pertains to devices for dispensing gumrned labels or the like.
  • Gummed labels are conventionally commercially available detachably mounted on a supporting sheet or strip. For use, the gumrned label material must be removed from the supporting sheet.
  • the present invention also makes use of this principle but does so by means of novel structure which results in a device easy to use and which can be manufactured much more economically than previously known devices.
  • It is a further object to provide such a label dispenser structure including means for holding a supply of the composite label material-supporting sheet strip, which can be readily fabricated as one integral unit.
  • a novel feature of the invention resides in including as part of the label material dispense-r a panel like portion in which is provided a series of slots defining therebetween arms or bars, preferably free ended, around which the composite strip is interlaced.
  • the label material automatically separates from the backing sheet.
  • the slotted panel-like member forms the base of the dispenser.
  • FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a blank from which the novel dispenser of the invention can be formed;
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the dispenser
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken on line III-III of FIG. 2.
  • the conventional label material strip for which the present invention is designed to be used comprises a composite strip, usually made up in the form of a roll 1.
  • I he strip consists of a substantial length of a backing sheet 2 on which are positioned individual labels 3 having on their back surface a coating of pressure sensitive adhesive.
  • Sheet 2 may be of any suitable materials such as cellophane, paper, or the like.
  • the adhesiveness between the pressure sensitive adhesive and the label is much greater than the cohesiveness between the adhesive and the backing strip so that the labels may be easily removed from the backing sheet Without the adhesive remaining on the backing sheet.
  • the labels are caused to separate from the backing sheet for use by constraining the composite sheet to pass over a sharp peeling edge.
  • the novel dispenser of the invention comprises a base member in the form of a flat plate or panel 10 of substantially uniform thickness.
  • Plate or panel 10 can be of sheet steel approximately thick.
  • the entire dispenser can conveniently be fabricated from a single stamped blank of said plate material. The blank can then be formed by bending to provide all the requisite functional parts as one integral unit.
  • Such holding means includes a horizontal arm portion 11w on which the roll is adapted to be supported.
  • the roll is held between an upstanding arm 11b integral with the right hand end of arm 11a, and a rearward extension 11d of a vertical mounting arm which rises from base member 10.
  • the left end of supporting arm 11a integrally joins extension 11d.
  • the label separating station 12 is formed by three adjacent substantially parallel slots 13, 14, and 15 which extend transversely to the path of movement of the label strip and which open through the righthand side edge 16 of base member 10. These slots define three adjacent spaced free-ended arms or bar-like members in the form of flat tines or teeth 20, 21, and 22. As clearly seen in the drawing, the composite strip is trained under the leading tine 20, over the middle time 21, and then under the trailing tine 22.
  • Each of the tines includes at its inner end an upwardly sloping portion (20a, 21a, 220, respectively) integrally connecting the tine to the base member 10.
  • the major body portions of the tines which are substantially parallel to base member 1, are therefore raised or offset somewhat above the base member 10.
  • the elevation of the middle title 21 is somewhat higher than the other two tines to provide an abrupt change in the path of the composite strip as it moves over the leading side edge of this tine.
  • the leading tine 20 includes at its outer free end a downwardly bent portion 20b.
  • the oppositely sloping end portions 20:: and 20b of tine 20 serve as guide means toconstrain the composite label strip against inadvertent lateral movement toward either side of the intended strip path shown in FIG. 2.
  • the outer sloping portion 20b in particular tends to prevent the strip from inadvertently moving completely off the tines.
  • an intermediate holddown tine 23 substantially identical with the above" described tine 20.
  • the device of the preesnt invention is used as follows.
  • a roll 1 of the composite label material 2, 3 is mounted at the supply station 11 by being held horizontally and passed downwardly over arm 11b.
  • the roll is then rotated to the vertical position shown in FIG. 2 with the interior of its core resting on the horizontal arm 11a, the entire roll being held between arms 11c, 11d, and 11b.
  • the free end portion of the strip is passed under the intermediate tine 23, under tine 20, over tine 21, and under the last tine 22.
  • the fact that the slots defining the respective tines open through the side edge 16 of the base member facilitates threading the strips over and under the respective tines.
  • desired indicia may be written or printed thereon while.
  • the labels are in the intermediate portion of the base member between the separating station 12 and the holddown tine 23.
  • the underlying portion of the base member serves as a convenient back-up surface for this purpose.
  • the free end portion of the strip is merely pulled in a direction generally parallel to the plane of base member 10, as shown by the arrow P.
  • the strip passes under tension against the underside of leading tine 20 and then diagonally up over the upper surface of middle tine 21.
  • the upper right-hand side edge of tine 21, over which edge the strip is forced to sharply change its direction of movement, functions as the peeling edge.
  • This edge Will cause the overlying label 3 to separate from the backing strip 2 as the latter sheet continues its movement overthe edge and along the upper surface of the tine. From the upper surface of the tine 21, the backing sheet 2 continues diagonally downwardly to pass beneath the trailing tine 22 and thence off the device.
  • the trailing end of the label 3 remains attached to the sheet.
  • the label is therefore carried along with the backing strip until it comes to rest on the upper surface of tine 22 in the position shown in FIG. 3. From this final rest position, the label can readily be removed manually for use.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a single stampling or blank 30 from which the label dispenser of FIG. 2 can readily be formed.
  • the blank comprises a substantially rectangular sheet steel stamping of the desired thickness which, as indicated above, can be in the order of It includes slots 31, 32 respectively extending inwardly from the opposite side edges of the rear portion of the blank. It also includes the slots 13, 14, 15, 33, and 34 defining the respective aforedescribed tines 20-23.
  • the broken lines indicate the fold lines along which the related portions of the blank are to be bent to form the various components, which are indicated in FIG. 1 by the same reference numerals used in FIGS. 2 and 3.
  • the roll-supporting structure 11 is formed by making upward right-angle bends along fold lines 35, 36, and 37.
  • the various tines are similarly formed by bending upwardly at an angle about lines 40, downwardly about lines 41 and then downwardly again along lines 42 for tines 23 and 21.
  • the dispenser can be made from any suitable synthetic resin material as by molding, and it need not be formed as one integral unit. Numerous other changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, it is intended that the disclosure herein of a specific embodiment of the invention be illustrative only and in no way limitative of the following claims.
  • a device for dispensing label material or the like from a composite strip comprising said label material detachably adhesively attached to an elongated supporting sheet, said device comprising:
  • said device including a continuous panel forming the construction thereof as a unitary member
  • a label separating means formed at a station in said panel for automatically separating said label material from said supporting sheet in response to said from a composite strip comprising said label material 5 detachably adhesively attached to an elongated supporting sheet, said device comprising:
  • said device forming a unitary member including a panel
  • a label separating means formed at a station in said panel for automatically separating said label material from said supporting sheet in response to said withdrawn portion of said composite strip being drawn through said station;
  • said label separating station including adjacent side-byside slots provided in said panel and extending across said path of strip movement;
  • said slots defining at least two adjacent spaced bar-like members having free end portions respectively under and over which said strip passes.
  • said slots being closed at one end thereof, and extending through an edge of said panel at the other end thereof.
  • a device for dispensing label material or the like from a composite strip comprising said label material detachably adhesively attached to an elongated supporting sheet, said device comprising:
  • said device forming a unitary member including a panel
  • a label separating means formed at a station in said panel for automatically separating said label material from said supporting sheet in response to said withdrawn portion of said composite strip being drawn through said station;
  • said label separating station comprising adjacent side-byside open end slots provided in said panel and extending across said path of strip movement and being respecively spaced along said path thereby providing leading, middle, and trailing cantilever bar-like members with respect to the direction of strip movement;
  • said strip being trained sinuously around said members.
  • said open end slots extending through an edge of said panel, whereby said cantilever bar-like members comprise tines whose outer free ends are substantially coterminous with said edge of said panel.
  • said middle tine being transversely offset relative to said leading and trailing tines.
  • the inner ends of said tines comprising transversely bent portions integrally connecting said tines to said panel.

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US3389832A (en) * 1967-07-10 1968-06-25 York Tape & Label Corp Tail-tab dispensers
US3494505A (en) * 1968-07-09 1970-02-10 Minnesota Mining & Mfg Fragrance sampling means and method
US3514016A (en) * 1968-03-08 1970-05-26 E W Hackney Ind Inc Label dispensing machine
US3743086A (en) * 1971-02-05 1973-07-03 Brady Co W H Adhesive tape dispenser package
US3889845A (en) * 1974-02-11 1975-06-17 Thomas & Betts Corp Marker strip dispenser
US4660739A (en) * 1985-03-07 1987-04-28 Batts, Inc. Label dispenser
US5312015A (en) * 1992-04-03 1994-05-17 Gpax International, Inc. Gated-loop packaging system and manipulating apparatus

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US3389832A (en) * 1967-07-10 1968-06-25 York Tape & Label Corp Tail-tab dispensers
US3514016A (en) * 1968-03-08 1970-05-26 E W Hackney Ind Inc Label dispensing machine
US3494505A (en) * 1968-07-09 1970-02-10 Minnesota Mining & Mfg Fragrance sampling means and method
US3743086A (en) * 1971-02-05 1973-07-03 Brady Co W H Adhesive tape dispenser package
US3889845A (en) * 1974-02-11 1975-06-17 Thomas & Betts Corp Marker strip dispenser
US4660739A (en) * 1985-03-07 1987-04-28 Batts, Inc. Label dispenser
US5312015A (en) * 1992-04-03 1994-05-17 Gpax International, Inc. Gated-loop packaging system and manipulating apparatus

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