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- the transfer mechanism comprises a series of rotary label transfer shoes and a rotating shoe carrier on which the shoes orbit past the magazine and labeling cylinder to sequentially roll over the foremost label in the magazine to pick said foremost label out of the magazine and roll past the rotary labeling cylinder in the course of transferring the said label thereto.
- the disclosure improves on the prior art by varying the speed of rotation of said shoes to match shoe surface speed respectively to the label magazine and to the labeling cylinder surface speed as the shoe respectively coacts therewith.
- the improvement comprises variable speed gear transmission to each shoe.
- Each transmission has an adjustable gear carrier, the movement of which varies the speed of shoe rotation.
- a cam follower is connected to each gear carrier and follows a cam having a profile along the shoe carrier orbit to produce shoe speed variations as required to match shoe surface speed respectively to the label magazine and to the labeling cylinder.
- Machines of the character just mentioned typically have gluing belts by which glue is applied to the shoes.
- variable speed transmission to each shoe.
- This transmission includes an adjustable gear carrier having a cam follower which follows the profile of a cam along the shoe carrier orbit, thus to produce slight swinging movements of the shoe carrier with corresponding large speed variations in the shoe to respectively match its speed to the label magazine, the labeling cylinder, and to the gluing belt.
- the variable speed transmission comprises a sun and planetary gear arrangement where most of the parts are internally balanced.
- FIG. 1 is a plan view diagrammatically illustrating apparatus embodying the invention. Part of this view is cut away to expose details of construction.
- FIG. 2 is a view diagrammatically illustrating the profile of the control cam.
- FIG. 3 is a cross section taken along the line 33 of FIG. 1.
- FIG. 4 is a fragmentary view of a portion of FIG. 1, showing details of the roller which shapes the glue belt to the orbit of the shoes.
- FIG. 5 is a fragmentary view of modified embodiment and showing details of mechanism for transferring labels from an overwide label magazine to the rotating shoes.
- FIG. 6 is a fragmentary elevation showing the label roll-on mechanism of FIG. 3.
- a stationary label magazine 10 there is a stationary label magazine 10, a labeling cylinder 11, and a gluing mechanism 9 including the belt 12 clustered circumferentially about the circular orbit of a label transfer mechanism comprising a series of label transfer shoes or rollers 13 which are mounted on a rotating shoe carrier 14. Rotation of the carrier 14 will successively orbit the shoes 13 from the glue belt 12 to the label magazine 10 to the labeling cylinder 11.
- Labeling cylinder 11 Adjacent the labeling cylinder 11 there is a conveyor belt 15 on which containers 16 travel in the direction of arrow 17. Labels 18 withdrawn from magazine 10 are applied by cylinder 11 to the containers 16 in the course of machine operations. High speed container handling operations requires higher and higher speed travel of belt 17, and correspondingly higher speed operation of the label transfer mechanism.
- the labeling cylinder 11 is desirably of the construction shown in the copending application of Karl Dullinger, Ser. No. 663,289, filed Aug. 25, 1967.
- the shoes 13 may be provided with vacuum ports by which the labels are picked out of the magazine 10 by suction.
- the glue mechanism 12 would be omitted.
- the shoes 13 pick up a film of glue from the belt '12, and this glue is utilized to pick the foremost label 18 out of the magazine 10 and is also utilized to adhere the label to the container 16.
- the shoe carrier 14 has the cross section shown in FIG. 4 and is mounted on a shaft 21 which is rotatably supported in bearing 22 on a stationary table 23.
- Table 23 also carries a stationary cam disk 24 and a stationary sun gear 25.
- the lower end of shaft 21 carries a gear 26 which meshes with a pinion 27 on drive shaft 28. Rotation of drive shaft 28 will drive the shaft 21 and rotate the shoe carrier 14.
- Each shoe or roller 13 has a shaft 31 journaled for rotation in a bearing 32 in the carrier 14. At its lower end each shaft 31 carries a planet gear 33. Between sun gear and each of the planet gears 33 there is a variable speed transmission which includes planet gears 34, 35, 36, and 37. Gears 34, 35 have their respective shafts 38, 39 mounted on lower branch 42 of the shoe carrier 14. Gears 36, 37 are spaced axially and are mounted on a common shaft 43 which is rotatably mounted on a bearing 44 on a rocker 45 which constitutes an adjustable carrier for gears 36, 37 in the variable speed gear transmission 30. Rocker 45 is pivotally mounted on the hearing 46 on which it may swing about the axis of shaft 39.
- Rocker 45 is caused to swing about the axis of the shaft 39 by a cam follower roller 47 which depends at the end of rocker 45 on shaft 48. Roller 47 is engaged in a cam groove 51 in the stationary cam disk or plate 24. Cam groove 51 has the profile shown in FIG. 3.
- Shoe carrier 14 is rotated at a constant speed.
- the planet gears of the variable speed transmission 30 between shoe gear 33 and sun gear 25 will cause the shoe 13 to rotate on the axis of its own shaft 31 as it is orbited by the rotating carrier 14 past the label magazine 10, labeling cylinder 11 and glue belt 12.
- the rocker 45 will swing about shaft 39 to accelerate the speed of rotation of the shoe 13 in the direction of arrow 54.
- This increases shoe surface speed in accordance with the slope of cam surface 52. In the illustrated instance, shoe speed is increased to match the speed of the rotating labeling cylinder 11.
- the cam groove is sloped inwardly, for example, at in FIG. 2, the rocker is swung in the opposite direction to decelerate the speed of rotation of shoe 13.
- the cam roller 47 is in the circular part of the cam groove 51, as shown at 53 in FIG. 2.
- the shoe 13 will rotate at a constant speed in the direction of arrow 54.
- the counter-rotating outer surface of the shoe exactly cancels out the orbit speed of the carrier 14 so that the outer periphery of the shoe 13 is traveling at zero speed relative to the foremost label 18 in the magazine 10.
- the shoe 13 simply rolls across the foremost label to pick it out, as shown in FIG.-l.
- Glue belt or tape 12 is mounted on power driven end rollers 57 which rotate counterclockwise in the direction of arrows 58. Glue is fed to the belt 12 by apparatus not shown. Belt tension is maintained by an idler roller 61 pressed against the belt 12 by spring 62.
- the cam groove 51 is provided adjacent the belt 12 with a shoe speed accelerating profile portion 63, as shown in FIG. 3, thus to increase shoe speed to match the speed of the inside run of the belt 12 so that there will be no relative sliding of the shoe roller on the belt.
- a film of glue will be smoothly rolled onto the surface of the shoe.
- Doctor blade 64 is desirably employed to doctor off excess glue from the belt 12.
- the glue belt 12 may be shaped to the shoe carrier orbit by means including a series of retractable pressure rollers 65 which are mounted between successive shoes 13.
- the belt 12 is elongated to insure application of glue to the entire periphery of the shoes 13.
- Each roller 65 is mounted on a lever 66 which pivots about pintle 69 and which has a cam follower roller 67 which follows a fixed cam surface 68 which is stationary on the machine. The cam 67 will pivot the roller 65 outwardly against the pressure of spring 70, thus to contour or shape the belt on a curved path generally corresponding to the orbit of the shoes.
- Carrier 14 is provided with a slot 71 through which the shaft of the roller 65 extend into its connection with the lever 66, to permit swinging the roller 65 in and out.
- Roller 65 desirably consists of a series of disks 72 stacked in axially spaced relation on shaft 73, as shown in FIG. 3. This construction limits the area of contact of the roller 65 with the belt 12, for minimum disturbance of the glue pattern on the belt and shoe surface.
- FIG. 5 shows an over size label magazine 74, the width B of which is much greater than the width of the normal label magazine 10, as shown in the other figures.
- Magazine 74 is intended for wide labels for larger containers, or for containers having larger labels.
- the orbit of the shoes 13 will disengage the pressure of the label magazine after only about one-half S of the width B of the magazine has been traversed by the shoe 13. Accordingly, as the shoe moves over the remaining one-half S of the magazine 74, the magazine will not exert pressure on the foremost label 75 against the shoe as the shoe passes out of range of the magazine.
- an auxiliary label pressure roller 76 is provided.
- This roller desirably consists of a series of spaced, freely rotating disks 77 mounted on a common spindle 78. The lower end of the spindle is mounted on a lever 79 which may be pivotally mounted on shaft 73 of roller 65.
- Lever 79 has a cam 80 for pressing rollers 77 against the label 75 and against the shoe 13 to insure complete transfer of the label to the shoe.
- shoe rollers 13 may have grooves 81 to transfer a stripe pattern of glue onto the label backs.
- an automatic labeling machine having a label magazine, a rotary labeling cylinder for applying labels to containers and a label transfer mechanism for transferring labels from the magazine to the rotary labeling cylinder, said transfer mechanism comprising a series of rotary label transfer shoes and a rotating shoe carrier on which the shoes orbit past the magazine and labeling cylinder to sequentially roll over the foremost label in the magazine to pick said foremost label out of the magazine and roll past the rotary labeling cylinder in the course of transferring the said label thereto, the improvement for varying the speed of rotation of said shoes to match shoe surface speed respectively to the label magazine and to the labeling cylinder surface speed as the shoe respectively coacts therewith and comprising a variable speed gear transmission to each shoe, said transmission having an adjustable gear carrier the movement of which varies the speed of shoe rotation, a cam follower connected to said carrier and a cam having a profile along the shoe carrier orbit and with which the cam follower cooperates to produce shoe speed variations as required to match shoe surface speed respectively to the label magazine and to the labeling cylinder as the shoe respectively cooperate
- variable speed gear transmission has a stationary sun gear and a planet gear train, said adjustable gear carrier comprising a planet gear support.
- variable speed gear transmission has a stationary sun gear, a planet gear on each shoe, a planet gear train meshing between the sun gear and the shoe gear, said train comprising a pair of gears mounted on the same shaft, said adjustable gear carrier comprising a rocker support for said shaft.
- the gluing mech anism comprises a belt with a run along the shoe carrier orbit, said shoe carrier being provided with a belt shaping roller between adajacent shoes and means for pressing the roller against the belt as the carrier orbits, thus to shape the belt to the shoe orbit.
- said means comprises a lever support for said belt shaping roller, a cam mounted adjacent said belt and a cam follower on the lever to project the roller radially outwardly against the inner run of the belt.
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Dec. 8, 1970 K. DULLINGER 3,546,047
I I 7 HIGH SPEED LABELING DEVICE Filed March 4, 1969 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVINT'Q n KRRL DUAAINGJIE United States Patent Oflice US. Cl. 156-571 7 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE This disclosure relates to an automatic labeling machine having a label magazine, a rotary labeling cylinder for applying labels to containers and a label transfer mechanism for tranferring labels from the magazine to the rotary labeling cylinder. The transfer mechanism comprises a series of rotary label transfer shoes and a rotating shoe carrier on which the shoes orbit past the magazine and labeling cylinder to sequentially roll over the foremost label in the magazine to pick said foremost label out of the magazine and roll past the rotary labeling cylinder in the course of transferring the said label thereto. The disclosure improves on the prior art by varying the speed of rotation of said shoes to match shoe surface speed respectively to the label magazine and to the labeling cylinder surface speed as the shoe respectively coacts therewith. The improvement comprises variable speed gear transmission to each shoe. Each transmission has an adjustable gear carrier, the movement of which varies the speed of shoe rotation. A cam follower is connected to each gear carrier and follows a cam having a profile along the shoe carrier orbit to produce shoe speed variations as required to match shoe surface speed respectively to the label magazine and to the labeling cylinder.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In high speed labeling machines having a stationary label magazine and rotating label applying cylinder, both adjacent the orbit of rotating label transfer shoes, it is desirable to vary the speed of shoe rotation in order to match the shoe surface speed to the relative speed of the label magazine and the labeling cylinder at the time of transfer of labels therebetween. The stationary label magazine has zero speed and the cylinder has a relatively high speed, in order to match the speed of containers conveyed thereby. The prior art has developed various types of mechanism for changing the speed of rotation of the shoes at various places around their orbits for speed matching purposes, as above mentioned. These prior art mechanisms include lever systems, free rotating shoes, etc., but have limited application, because they are not adapted to high speed labeling machines. The lever systems unbalance the machine and the mass and momentum of the various parts restrict rapid changes in shoe speed within the time span available for required speed changes.
Machines of the character just mentioned, moreover, typically have gluing belts by which glue is applied to the shoes. Here again, it is desirable to match the speed of rotation of the shoes to the surface speed of the belt so that the glue layer is rolled onto the shoe surface, without skidding of the shoe across the surfaces of the belt. At this point in the orbit of the shoes it is also necessary to vary the speed for speed matching purposes, and this introduces further complications into the machine structure, and particularly the moving parts thereof.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In accordance with the present invention, shoe speed is varied at appropriate places about the shoe orbit in a 3,546,047 Patented Dec. 8, 1970 mechanism having minimum problems of static and dynamic unbalance. There is a variable speed transmission to each shoe. This transmission includes an adjustable gear carrier having a cam follower which follows the profile of a cam along the shoe carrier orbit, thus to produce slight swinging movements of the shoe carrier with corresponding large speed variations in the shoe to respectively match its speed to the label magazine, the labeling cylinder, and to the gluing belt. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the variable speed transmission comprises a sun and planetary gear arrangement where most of the parts are internally balanced.
Other objects, features, and advantages of the invention will appear from the following disclosure.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a plan view diagrammatically illustrating apparatus embodying the invention. Part of this view is cut away to expose details of construction.
FIG. 2 is a view diagrammatically illustrating the profile of the control cam.
FIG. 3 is a cross section taken along the line 33 of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a fragmentary view of a portion of FIG. 1, showing details of the roller which shapes the glue belt to the orbit of the shoes.
FIG. 5 is a fragmentary view of modified embodiment and showing details of mechanism for transferring labels from an overwide label magazine to the rotating shoes.
FIG. 6 is a fragmentary elevation showing the label roll-on mechanism of FIG. 3.
DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Although the disclosure hereof is detailed and exact to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention, the physical embodiments herein disclosed merely exemplify the invention which may be embodied in other specific structure. The scope of the invention is defined in the claims appended hereto.
As is typical in labeling machines of this type, there is a stationary label magazine 10, a labeling cylinder 11, and a gluing mechanism 9 including the belt 12 clustered circumferentially about the circular orbit of a label transfer mechanism comprising a series of label transfer shoes or rollers 13 which are mounted on a rotating shoe carrier 14. Rotation of the carrier 14 will successively orbit the shoes 13 from the glue belt 12 to the label magazine 10 to the labeling cylinder 11.
Adjacent the labeling cylinder 11 there is a conveyor belt 15 on which containers 16 travel in the direction of arrow 17. Labels 18 withdrawn from magazine 10 are applied by cylinder 11 to the containers 16 in the course of machine operations. High speed container handling operations requires higher and higher speed travel of belt 17, and correspondingly higher speed operation of the label transfer mechanism. The labeling cylinder 11 is desirably of the construction shown in the copending application of Karl Dullinger, Ser. No. 663,289, filed Aug. 25, 1967.
In other embodiments of the invention, the shoes 13 may be provided with vacuum ports by which the labels are picked out of the magazine 10 by suction. In such embodiments, the glue mechanism 12 would be omitted. Ordinarily, however, the shoes 13 pick up a film of glue from the belt '12, and this glue is utilized to pick the foremost label 18 out of the magazine 10 and is also utilized to adhere the label to the container 16.
The shoe carrier 14 has the cross section shown in FIG. 4 and is mounted on a shaft 21 which is rotatably supported in bearing 22 on a stationary table 23. Table 23 also carries a stationary cam disk 24 and a stationary sun gear 25.
The lower end of shaft 21 carries a gear 26 which meshes with a pinion 27 on drive shaft 28. Rotation of drive shaft 28 will drive the shaft 21 and rotate the shoe carrier 14.
Each shoe or roller 13 has a shaft 31 journaled for rotation in a bearing 32 in the carrier 14. At its lower end each shaft 31 carries a planet gear 33. Between sun gear and each of the planet gears 33 there is a variable speed transmission which includes planet gears 34, 35, 36, and 37. Gears 34, 35 have their respective shafts 38, 39 mounted on lower branch 42 of the shoe carrier 14. Gears 36, 37 are spaced axially and are mounted on a common shaft 43 which is rotatably mounted on a bearing 44 on a rocker 45 which constitutes an adjustable carrier for gears 36, 37 in the variable speed gear transmission 30. Rocker 45 is pivotally mounted on the hearing 46 on which it may swing about the axis of shaft 39.
Where the shoe 13 cooperates with the label cylinder 10 to remove the foremost label therefrom, the cam roller 47 is in the circular part of the cam groove 51, as shown at 53 in FIG. 2. At this point the shoe 13 will rotate at a constant speed in the direction of arrow 54. Inasmuch as the shoes 13 rotate clockwise in the direction of arrow 54 and the shoe carrier 14 rotates counterclockwise in the direction of arrow 55, the counter-rotating outer surface of the shoe exactly cancels out the orbit speed of the carrier 14 so that the outer periphery of the shoe 13 is traveling at zero speed relative to the foremost label 18 in the magazine 10. Thus the shoe 13 simply rolls across the foremost label to pick it out, as shown in FIG.-l.
The increase in shoe rotating speed caused by the cam profile 52 (FIG. 2) brings the shoe surface speed up to the rotating speed of the labeling cylinder 11 which turns counterclockwise in the direction of arrow 56 for smooth transfer of the label to the cylinder 11.
Glue belt or tape 12 is mounted on power driven end rollers 57 which rotate counterclockwise in the direction of arrows 58. Glue is fed to the belt 12 by apparatus not shown. Belt tension is maintained by an idler roller 61 pressed against the belt 12 by spring 62.
The cam groove 51 is provided adjacent the belt 12 with a shoe speed accelerating profile portion 63, as shown in FIG. 3, thus to increase shoe speed to match the speed of the inside run of the belt 12 so that there will be no relative sliding of the shoe roller on the belt. By matching shoe speed to belt speed a film of glue will be smoothly rolled onto the surface of the shoe.
As best shown in FIG. 4, the glue belt 12 may be shaped to the shoe carrier orbit by means including a series of retractable pressure rollers 65 which are mounted between successive shoes 13. The belt 12 is elongated to insure application of glue to the entire periphery of the shoes 13. Each roller 65 is mounted on a lever 66 which pivots about pintle 69 and which has a cam follower roller 67 which follows a fixed cam surface 68 which is stationary on the machine. The cam 67 will pivot the roller 65 outwardly against the pressure of spring 70, thus to contour or shape the belt on a curved path generally corresponding to the orbit of the shoes. Carrier 14 is provided with a slot 71 through which the shaft of the roller 65 extend into its connection with the lever 66, to permit swinging the roller 65 in and out.
FIG. 5 shows an over size label magazine 74, the width B of which is much greater than the width of the normal label magazine 10, as shown in the other figures. Magazine 74 is intended for wide labels for larger containers, or for containers having larger labels. The orbit of the shoes 13 will disengage the pressure of the label magazine after only about one-half S of the width B of the magazine has been traversed by the shoe 13. Accordingly, as the shoe moves over the remaining one-half S of the magazine 74, the magazine will not exert pressure on the foremost label 75 against the shoe as the shoe passes out of range of the magazine.
To insure smooth transfer and proper gluing of the label, notwithstanding this loss of contact, an auxiliary label pressure roller 76 is provided. This roller desirably consists of a series of spaced, freely rotating disks 77 mounted on a common spindle 78. The lower end of the spindle is mounted on a lever 79 which may be pivotally mounted on shaft 73 of roller 65. Lever 79 has a cam 80 for pressing rollers 77 against the label 75 and against the shoe 13 to insure complete transfer of the label to the shoe.
If desired, shoe rollers 13 may have grooves 81 to transfer a stripe pattern of glue onto the label backs.
I claim:
1. In an automatic labeling machine having a label magazine, a rotary labeling cylinder for applying labels to containers and a label transfer mechanism for transferring labels from the magazine to the rotary labeling cylinder, said transfer mechanism comprising a series of rotary label transfer shoes and a rotating shoe carrier on which the shoes orbit past the magazine and labeling cylinder to sequentially roll over the foremost label in the magazine to pick said foremost label out of the magazine and roll past the rotary labeling cylinder in the course of transferring the said label thereto, the improvement for varying the speed of rotation of said shoes to match shoe surface speed respectively to the label magazine and to the labeling cylinder surface speed as the shoe respectively coacts therewith and comprising a variable speed gear transmission to each shoe, said transmission having an adjustable gear carrier the movement of which varies the speed of shoe rotation, a cam follower connected to said carrier and a cam having a profile along the shoe carrier orbit and with which the cam follower cooperates to produce shoe speed variations as required to match shoe surface speed respectively to the label magazine and to the labeling cylinder as the shoe respectively cooperates therewith.
2. The invention of claim 1 in which said machine also has a gluing mechanism past which the shoe carrier orbits the shoes, said gluing mechanism having a moving gluing surface, said cam having a profile which varies the speed of shoe rotation to match shoe surface speed to gluing surface speed as the shoe cooperates with the gluing mechanism.
3. The invention of claim 1 in which the variable speed gear transmission has a stationary sun gear and a planet gear train, said adjustable gear carrier comprising a planet gear support.
4. The invention of claim 1 in which the variable speed gear transmission has a stationary sun gear, a planet gear on each shoe, a planet gear train meshing between the sun gear and the shoe gear, said train comprising a pair of gears mounted on the same shaft, said adjustable gear carrier comprising a rocker support for said shaft.
5. The invention of claim 2 in which the gluing mech anism comprises a belt with a run along the shoe carrier orbit, said shoe carrier being provided with a belt shaping roller between adajacent shoes and means for pressing the roller against the belt as the carrier orbits, thus to shape the belt to the shoe orbit.
6. The invention of claim 5 in which said means comprises a lever support for said belt shaping roller, a cam mounted adjacent said belt and a cam follower on the lever to project the roller radially outwardly against the inner run of the belt.
References Cited FOREIGN PATENTS 5/1964 Germany "156-571 3/1967 Germany l56568 BENJAMIN A. BORCHELT, Primary Examiner J. M. HANLEY, Assistant Examiner US. Cl. X.R. l56568; 27141
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