US3634175A - Label-feeding device for bottle-labelling installation - Google Patents

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US3634175A
US3634175A US21709A US3634175DA US3634175A US 3634175 A US3634175 A US 3634175A US 21709 A US21709 A US 21709A US 3634175D A US3634175D A US 3634175DA US 3634175 A US3634175 A US 3634175A
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Romuald Rene Delle Vite
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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
    • 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
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y10T156/1768—Means simultaneously conveying plural articles from a single source and serially presenting them to an assembly station
    • Y10T156/1771—Turret or rotary drum-type conveyor
    • Y10T156/1773—For flexible sheets
    • 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
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y10T156/1776—Means separating articles from bulk source
    • Y10T156/1778—Stacked sheet source
    • Y10T156/178—Rotary or pivoted picker

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  • this turret The function of this turret is to apply a label to each passing bottle, this label being temporarily retained on the pointed side against the outer surface of the turret, usually by a vacuum effect, the other side to be applied to the bottle surface being coated with glue.
  • Flexible labels can be coated with glue only on one portion of their surface; but if the labels are relatively stiff and if consequently a relatively thick glue is applied thereto, the gummed face must be coated completely in order to ensure a continuous, bubble-free adherence to the bottle surface.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the device with the members interconnected thereby
  • FIG. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of a typical form of embodiment of complementary means for stiffening the gummed labels and assisting in transferring them regularly to the turret.
  • the reference numeral numeral 10 designates the so-called transfer cylinder consisting essentially of a rotary cylinder adapted to retain on its outer surface, notably by vacuum or suction effect, a gum-free label, with the printed side adhering to the cylinder surface.
  • These labels are delivered from a dispensing magazine (not shown) where the labels are picked up one by one by reciprocating rotary means also not shown but of a well-known type, so as to be subsequently delivered to the transfer cylinder 10.
  • the reference numeral 11 designates the gumming or glueapplying roller coated with glue by means of an intermediate roller 12 revolving in a glue-filled box (not shown).
  • This gumming station may consist for example of the arrangement shown and described in the French Pat. application filed on Sept. 26, 1969, N 69.32.884.
  • the reference numeral 13 designates the rotary turret for delivering the labels gummed completely on the proper side to bottles (not shown) travelling past this turret on a belt conveyor.
  • the device according to the present invention comprises a rotary cylinder 14 engaging both the transfer cylinder 10 and the gumming roller 11; this rotary cylinder 14 comprises a number of circular, preferably regularly spaced grooves 15; these are three in number in the example illustrated, but it is obvious that a greater number of grooves 15 may be provided; somewhat spaced from this cylinder 14 and adjacent the turret 13 is a cylindrical rod 16 of relatively small diameter, adapted to revolve freely about its axis.
  • the cylinder 14 and rod 16 are interconnected through a number of small endless belts 17, such as nylon belts, engaging each a groove 15. These belts are so shaped and dimensioned as to fit completely into the grooves 15 without projecting from the surface of cylinder 14; thus, this surface is continuous and substantially plain throughout its height in front of the companion cylinders 10 and 11.
  • both the gumming roller 11 and the transfer cylinder 10 revolve with a very small clearance in front of the portions of grooves 15 which are engaged completely by the belts 17.
  • rollers 11 and 12 Assuming the rollers 11 and 12 to ro rotate in the direction of the arrows, the surface of roller 11 is coated with glue; the transfer cylinder 10, rotary cylinder 14 and turret 13 are also started for rotation in the direction shown by the arrows; the surface of cylinder 14 and also the outer surface of belts 17 are coated in turn with glue.
  • this label subsequently pass over the small-diameter cylindrical rod 16, but since the stiffness of the label exceeds the retaining force due to the stickiness of the glue, this label continues its travel at 18b along a nearly rectilinear path. Thus, it leaves the belts and is picked up by the vacuum or suction produced at this point in the turret 13 so as to be snappily pressed thereagainst, with the fully coated or gummed surface directed outwards. Thus, this label moves to position 18c and later on, at 18d, it is applied uniformly to the surface ofa bottle (not shown), the suction effect being discontinued at this time.
  • the label stiffness may be reinforced at the level of rod 16 by using the means illustrated in FIG. 2 and described hereinafter.
  • This system comprises a pivotally mounted rod 19 somewhat spaced upstream from and thinner than rod 16 and parallel thereto; this rod 19 is disposed outside the belts l7 and carries a number of teeth 20 parallel to, and disposed between, the belts 17, so as to constitute a kind of comb the teeth of which are urged by a weak torsion spring (not shown) so as to exert a reduced pressure on the printed side of any passing label; preferably the number of teeth 20 will be in excess of one unit to that of the belts 17 and each belt will travel between a pair of adjacent teeth. Under these conditions it is clear that the labels will assume a somewhat corrugated or like configuration, as shown in FIG. 2; thus, the label stiffness is reinforced and the removal thereof from the belts is further facilitated.
  • this device is not strictly limited to a teethlike embodiment illustrated for the teeth may be replaced if desired by small rollers producing the same stiffening effect on the label by more or less corrugating same.
  • the device according to this invention is applicable essentially to bottle handling lines as used in the food industry. However, it is also applicable whenever it is required to apply labels to packings or other objects or articles travelling past a turret adapted to deliver labels glued or gummed completely on one face.
  • Apparatus for removing successive labels from a rotating transfer cylinder, applying glue to one side of the removed label and transferring said label with glue applied thereto to a rotary turret comprising a glue-receiving cylinder mounted for rotation about an axis parallel with the axis of a transfer cylinder, the peripheral surface of the glue-receiving cylinder being positioned to receive glue from an adjacent gumming roller, a cylindrical rod having a diameter considerably less than that of the glue receiving cylinder mounted spaced from the glue-receiving cylinder for rotation adjacent the surface of a rotary turret and about an axis parallel with the axis of rotation of said turret, said glue-receiving cylinder being provided with a plurality of annular axially spaced grooves in the peripheral surface thereof, and a plurality of endless belts connected between said glue receiving cylinder and said rod, said belts being received within said annular grooves and having a cross-sectional configuration such that the outer surfaces of the belts when
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said gumming roller is arranged to apply glue to the peripheral surface of the glue-receiving cylinder and the outer surfaces of the belts disposed in the grooves, and the transfer cylinder is arranged to transfer labels to the glue-receiving cylinder and the outer surfaces of the belts after the glue is applied.
  • Apparatus according to claim 3 wherein said apparatus includes means for increasing the stiffness of a label with respect to its direction of movement prior to the approach of a label to said cylindrical rod.
  • Apparatus according to claim 4 wherein said means for increasing the stiffness of a label comprises a set of elements disposed between said belts to engage a label to impart a slightly corrugated cross-sectional configuration to each label.

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US4082599A (en) * 1976-03-11 1978-04-04 Nihon Electronic Industry Co., Ltd. Splicing roller device for automatic paper splicing apparatus
US5417783A (en) * 1992-11-30 1995-05-23 Moore Business Forms, Inc. Linerless label dispenser
US20030171199A1 (en) * 2002-03-05 2003-09-11 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag Non-trapped stripper belt
US20040172915A1 (en) * 2001-08-10 2004-09-09 Baldwin Brian Eugene Method, system, and apparatus for labeling syringes
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US1778433A (en) * 1926-07-24 1930-10-14 Walter A Saatman Adjustable apron feed for glue machines
US2410611A (en) * 1945-05-15 1946-11-05 Verneur E Pratt Feeding apparatus
US2561097A (en) * 1946-11-08 1951-07-17 Samuel M Langston Co Sheet delivery control for cutoff mechanisms

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US4082599A (en) * 1976-03-11 1978-04-04 Nihon Electronic Industry Co., Ltd. Splicing roller device for automatic paper splicing apparatus
DE2616916A1 (de) * 1976-04-15 1977-10-27 Jagenberg Werke Ag Beleimungsvorrichtung einer etikettierstation
US5417783A (en) * 1992-11-30 1995-05-23 Moore Business Forms, Inc. Linerless label dispenser
AU665874B2 (en) * 1992-11-30 1996-01-18 Moore North America, Inc. Linerless label dispenser
US7207152B2 (en) 2000-08-10 2007-04-24 Baxa Corporation Method for handling, labeling and filling syringes
US20060260275A1 (en) * 2000-08-10 2006-11-23 Baldwin Brian E Method For Handling And Labeling Syringes
US7631475B2 (en) 2000-08-10 2009-12-15 Baxa Corporation Method for filling and capping syringes
US7478513B2 (en) 2000-08-10 2009-01-20 Baxa Corporation Method for handling and labeling syringes
US20060219317A1 (en) * 2000-08-10 2006-10-05 Baldwin Brian E Method, system, and apparatus for handling, labeling, filling, and capping syringes with improved cap
US20060225381A1 (en) * 2000-08-10 2006-10-12 Baldwin Brian E Method, system, and apparatus for handling, labeling, filling and capping syringes
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US7469518B2 (en) 2000-08-10 2008-12-30 Baxa Corporation Method for handling and labeling syringes
US7392638B2 (en) 2000-08-10 2008-07-01 Baxa Corporation Method, system, and apparatus for handling, labeling, filling, and capping syringes with improved cap
US20040172915A1 (en) * 2001-08-10 2004-09-09 Baldwin Brian Eugene Method, system, and apparatus for labeling syringes
US6957522B2 (en) * 2001-08-10 2005-10-25 Baxa Corporation Method and system for labeling syringe bodies
US20030171199A1 (en) * 2002-03-05 2003-09-11 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag Non-trapped stripper belt
US6843764B2 (en) * 2002-03-05 2005-01-18 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag Non-trapped stripper belt
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