US3553049A - Method of and apparatus for applying labels to bottles - Google Patents

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US3553049A
US3553049A US643183A US3553049DA US3553049A US 3553049 A US3553049 A US 3553049A US 643183 A US643183 A US 643183A US 3553049D A US3553049D A US 3553049DA US 3553049 A US3553049 A US 3553049A
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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
    • B65C3/00—Labelling other than flat surfaces
    • B65C3/06—Affixing labels to short rigid containers
    • B65C3/08—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to container bodies
    • B65C3/14—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to container bodies the container being positioned for labelling with its centre-line vertical
    • B65C3/16—Affixing labels to short rigid containers to container bodies the container being positioned for labelling with its centre-line vertical by rolling the labels onto cylindrical containers, e.g. bottles
    • 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
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    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/10—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
    • Y10T156/1052—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor with cutting, punching, tearing or severing
    • 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
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    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/10—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
    • Y10T156/1052—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor with cutting, punching, tearing or severing
    • Y10T156/1062—Prior to assembly
    • Y10T156/1075—Prior to assembly of plural laminae from single stock and assembling to each other or to additional lamina
    • 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
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/12—Surface bonding means and/or assembly means with cutting, punching, piercing, severing or tearing
    • Y10T156/1317—Means feeding plural workpieces to be joined
    • Y10T156/1322—Severing before bonding or assembling of parts

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  • FIG. 4 METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LABELS TO BOTTLES Jan. 5, 1971 Filed June 1967 FIG. 4
  • This invention relates to an improved method of labelling articles, such as bottles, and is particularly concerned with the application of labels from a continuous Web of the same.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a bottle-labeling apparatus embodying the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a side view on an enlarged scale of the registering, adhesive applying and trimming rollers embodied in the apparatus of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG. 1 showing a modified form of labeling apparatus
  • FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 1 showing a further modification of the invention
  • FIG. 5 is a view similar to FIG. 1 showing a still further modified form of the invention
  • FIG. 6 is a detailed plan view on an enlarged scale of the label separating device provided in the apparatus of FIG. 5;
  • FIG. 7 is an elevational view of the device shown in FIG. 6.
  • the reference numeral 10 designates a conveyor belt which is driven at a constant velocity V and on which are positioned the articles to be labeled, namely, the series of bottles designated 11.
  • the bottles 11 are spaced on the conveyor belt 10 at a given distance by a feed screw 12 so that they are in properly spaced relation for the labeling operation.
  • a support 13 for a supply roll 14 of label material which may be ice a continuous paper web 15 that may have successive labels already provided thereon in any suitable manner, or upon which labels may be printed as such web travels through the label machine.
  • label material may be ice a continuous paper web 15 that may have successive labels already provided thereon in any suitable manner, or upon which labels may be printed as such web travels through the label machine.
  • the web 15 may include a longitudinally extending body strip 16 upon which the labels are provided and a longitudinally extending strip 18 provided with a longitudinally extending series of spaced registering holes or perforations 19 adapted to receive the registering pins 20 on a driving or metering roll 21.
  • a cutting device 22 which precuts the strip 16 transversely to form transverse lines of perforations 23 between the labels so that such labels are connected along weakened lines of the web material.
  • the perforated web passes from the cutting device 22 and around a guide roll 29 to the metering roll 21, the register pins 20 of which enter into the holes 19 in strip 18 of the web to enable the metering roll 21 to draw the web from the supply roll 14 and to make the labels on the strip 16 come into proper registry with the 'bottles 11 at the label applying station which is designated 30.
  • an adhesive depositing device 31 of any suitable construction, such as, a glue container and roller for applying adhesive to the strip 16 only of the web 15 as indicated in FIGS. 1 and 2 of the drawings, or suitable heating means 'known to the art for activating a layer of thermoplastic material provided on such strip 16 as an adhesive coating.
  • a trimming device 32 of suitable construction known to the art and capable of severing the web 15 along the broken line 33 shown in FIG. 2 to separate the web strips 16 and 18. As illustrated the separated web strip 16 continues on to the label applying station 30, while the separated web strip 18 containing the holes 19 passes from the roll 21 to a trim rewinder 34.
  • the web strip 16 passes between a bottle moving through such station at the same rate of speed V as that given the label web by the metering roll 21, and a pressure roller 35 which preferably has a label engaging periphery made of resilient material such as rubber.
  • the roller 35 forms part of the label applicator device at the label applying station 30 and coacts with a roll 36 that is driven at a speed giving it the same peripheral velocity V
  • roll 36 functions as a back-up roll for the roll 35 and coacts with the latter to adhere the web strip 16 to the bottle. Because the periphery of the roll 36, and the bottle and web strip 16 are all moving at the same velocity, the periphery of roll 36 will always be in rolling contact with an advancing bottle and the label web will be applied to the bottle without being wrinkled.
  • the portion of the web strip 16 which is being applied to a bottle constitutes the leading terminal portion of the label 17 which is adjacent and connected to the leading or terminal label on such strip and may be termed the second label, the first or terminal label 17 having advanced at that time with a preceding bottle 11' to a label separating station 40 as shown in FIG. 1.
  • the remainder of such second label will follow, being guided in such following movement by the roll 35 so that the leading edge of the next succeeding or third label 17" (note FIG. 2) will come into proper position for attachment to a succeeding bottle 11" when both pass between such roll 35 and the associated roll 36.
  • the leading end of the terminal or first label 17 and the bottle 11 to which the leading end of such first label has been applied will pass between and be gripped by two rolls 41, 42 at the label separating station.
  • roll 41 is positively driven in a counterclockwise direction to provide it with a peripheral speed V that is equal to the belt velocity V minus a given increment of such velocity V while roll 42 is driven in a clockwise direction to provide it with a peripheral velocity V that is equal to the belt velocity V plus a given increment of such velocity V
  • the bottle 11 will be rotated in a counterclockwise direction to cause a bursting force to be applied to the first label 17 while label 17 is gripped and moving at a velocity V such force being sufliciently great to break the line 23 of weakened web material between the labels 17, 17' and separate the latter from the former and the web strip .16.
  • the separated label and the bottle to which it is attached moves forwardly on the belt to a finishing station 50 where they pass between two belts 43 and 44 which roll the bottle so that the label becomes completely adhered thereto.
  • Belt 43 is driven in a counterclockwise direction at a velocity V that is equal to the belt velocity V minus a given increment of such velocity V while belt 44 is driven in a clockwise direction at a velocity V that is equal to the belt velocity V plus a given increment of such velocity V
  • the bottles between such belts are caused to rotate counterclockwise about their axes to roll the labels thereon.
  • the difference in the driving speeds of the two belts 43 and 44 are so chosen so that the rotational movement of the bottles is at a relatively low rate and only suflicient to effect a complete application of the labels thereto without causing the bottles to become unstable on the belt 10.
  • the difference in the driving speeds of the rolls 41, 42 is likewise selected to accomplish the bursting operation without rendering the bottles unstable.
  • FIG. 3 of the drawings differs from that shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 of the drawings only in the respect that roll 36 has been eliminated and the label applicator roll instead coacts with the discharge end of the feed screw 12 to apply the leading or terminal ends of the second labels 17 to the bottles.
  • the feed screw in this embodiment therefore performs a dual function. It feeds the bottles in properly separated relation to the label applying station 30, and its discharge end forms part of the means at such station for applying the labels to the bottles passing through such station.
  • the parts of and the operation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 3 are similar to those described with respect to the embodiment of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 has been further modified to attain the embodiment of FIG. 4 by eliminating the label separating rolls 41, 42 of FIGS. 1 and 2 and utilizing the entry ends of the bottle rolling means at the label finishing station 50 as the label applicator means of the label separating station 40 and by substituting an adjustable pressure pad 43 for the belt 43 at such finishing station 50.
  • the labels will be initially adhered to the bottles in the manner described with respect to FIG. 3, and such initially adhered labels will then pass directly into the entry ends of the pressure pad 43' and belt 44.
  • FIGS. 5-7 illustrate how the label separation may be accomplished by suddenly increasing the space between the bottles to which the first and second labels of the web strip 16 have been applied. While such a means may be incorporated in the apparatus in any suitable manner, as for example, in the entry ends of the devices for completing the adhesion of the labels to the bottles as taught by the embodiment of FIG. 4, such means have been illustrated by way of example in an embodiment of the type shown in FIG. 1 for the sake of clearness.
  • the embodiment of FIG. 5 is similar to that of FIG. 1 except that the label separating rolls 41, 42 of the latter have been replaced in the embodiment of FIG. 5 by two star wheels generally designated 45 and 46. As is shown more clearly in FIGS.
  • each of the star wheels 45, 46 is composed of two star wheel plates 47, 47' made of any suitable material such as metal, rubber, and the like, and mounted in spaced relation on a driven vertical shaft 48.
  • the plates 47, 47' are provided with registered recesses 48, 49', respectively, in the peripheries thereof for the reception of bottles.
  • a circular bottle gripper 52 which may be made of resilient material such as rubber.
  • the star wheels 45, 46 are turned so that as a bottle 11 with a first label 17' attached enters into the label separating station 40 a pair of registered recesses 49, 49' on the plates 47, 47 of each will move to receive the advancing bottle and the grippers 52 of each will come into gripping relation with the bottle.
  • the leading end of the label 17 applied thereto will also be gripped between the bottle and one or both of the plates 47, 47 of the star wheel 46, or by the gripper 52 thereof, or by any combination of such parts, or all of them as is illustrated in FIGS. 6 and 7 of the drawings.
  • the means turning the shafts 48 of such star wheels imparts to such shafts a quick increase in the turning movement thereof so that the bottle 11' is impelled forwardly on the belt 10 by the star wheels so as to cause the label 17' to be separated from the second label 17 on the web strip 16.
  • the label 17' will then be completely adhered to the bottle 11' by the belts 43, 44 in the manner described with respect to FIG. 1.
  • Apparatus for labeling articles comprising means for feeding a series of articles along a path toward and past a place for label application, means for supporting a roll of web having a series of labels thereon, means for feeding the web from said supporting means and successively apply to the articles arriving at such place of application those labels adjacent to and connected to terminal labels which have been previously applied to articles and moved past such place of application, means for successively gripping these applied labels which are ad jacent to the applied terminal labels and the articles to which such adjacent labels are applied, and means spaced beyond said gripping means for successively imparting to the applied terminal labels still connected to the web a forward component of velocity sufficient to create a force capable of separating said terminal labels from said gripped adjacent labels so that the latter successively become the applied terminal labels.
  • said gripping means comprises an article engaging member located along one side edge of said path, and a pressing member located along the other side edge of said path and cooperable with said article engaging member to clamp an article and a label applied thereto.
  • said force exerting means engages said articles and includes a movable member operable to modify the movement imparted to an article by said feeding means in a manner to apply said force to a terminal label.
  • said force exerting means comprises a pair of members located in spaced relation on opposite sides of said article path and engaging an article with a label applied thereto fed therebetween by said feeding means in pressing relation so as to fix the label relative to the article, said members being constructed and arranged to modify the movement imparted to said article by said feeding means in a manner to apply said separating force to the label fixed thereby to the article.
  • Apparatus as defined in claim 8 in which one of said members is movable relative to the other during their engagement with an article so as to rotate said article in a direction to apply such force to the article without disturbing the forward feed of such article by said feeding means.
  • the method of labeling articles comprising conveying a series of articles along a path toward and past a first place for label application, pressing successive intermediate portions of a continuous strip of adhesive labeling material successively into adhesive contact with successive articles as they move past said place for label application, and at a second place spaced beyond said place for label application successively imparting to the applied portions of the strip which have moved beyond said place for label application while said pressing action is being successively applied to successive such intermediate strip portions at said first place for label application, a forward component of velocity sufficient to create a force capable of successively separating lengths of the strip between said places.

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US4693774A (en) * 1984-10-05 1987-09-15 Labelette Company Method of labeling using a semi-automatic labeling machine
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