Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor – With bending – folding – winding – or wrapping means
Patent
1995-05-17
1998-01-20
Simmons, David A.
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor
With bending, folding, winding, or wrapping means
156449, 156458, 156456, 156542, 156DIG11, 156DIG12, 156DIG13, 156DIG18, 156DIG21, 156DIG25, 156DIG26, 156DIG33, 156DIG51, 101 36, 101 37, 101 381, 101 39, 101 40, B65C 918, B65C 924, B65C 930, B41F 1718
Patent
active
057097704
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for decorating containers and the like and more particularly to a method and apparatus for decorating containers with heat-transfer labels transferred from a web.
BACKGROUND ART
Many types of methods and apparatuses are well known for decorating containers and the like, with heat-transfer labels disposed on a web. With virtually all such methods and apparatuses, a primary consideration has been to maximize the throughput of the containers being decorated in the apparatus. Other considerations have been to minimize the cost of equipment, to minimize maintenance difficulties with equipment and to maximize the quality of the decorating operation.
In commonly-assigned U.S. Pat. No. 4,735,664 to Asghar et al., there is disclosed a decorator controlled by a signal processor for applying heat transfer labels and the like to articles. Servo circuits accept processor commands and direct operation of label feed and transfer elements. A transfer roller moves in a continuously variable manner to follow the contour of the article surface. A position roller precisely matches web movement to article movement, or enables controlled stretching or shrinking of the labels as they are applied to articles. A turret loads, indexes, and unloads articles for label application at two decorating sites. Indexing of the articles takes place as the turret is rotated.
The throughput of the aforementioned decorator is limited by the fact that movement of the turret must be stopped at the two decorating sites so that labels can be applied to the articles transported thereto.
In commonly-assigned U.S. Pat. No. 4,253,904 to Jodrey et al., there are disclosed a method and an apparatus for the decoration of bottles and the like at high speeds. Bottles are delivered by an input conveyor to a star wheel, which deposits them sequentially into a continuously rotating turret. The turret carries the bottles past a labelling site, where a label carrier strip is pressed into contact with a bottle surface and a label thereby transferred. The shape of the bottle is maintained during labelling by means of inflation of the bottles through an inserted nozzle. The raising and lowering of the inflating nozzle and the flow of inflating air is controlled by special valving apparatus. The motion of the label carrier strip past the labelling site is regulated by the use of rolls on a shuttle slide, which in turn is reciprocated by a second slide driven by a conjugate cam. This results in an increase of the local velocity of the carrier strip during most of the cycle, and a slowing of the strip during the balance. After labelling, the inflating nozzle is retracted from the bottle and the bottle is removed by a second star wheel for further processing.
The throughput of the aforementioned apparatus is limited by the fact that it includes only one roller for transferring a label onto an article. Consequently, only one article can be decorated with a label at any given time.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,239,569 to Harvey, there are disclosed an apparatus for and a method of applying heat transferable labels from a web onto a hollow article. The articles to be decorated pass through the apparatus continuously with the label being applied without any stoppage or other intermittent motion imparted to the article being decorated. The articles are conveyed to a receptacle holding means which receives and holds the article while passing through the decorating station. The label carrying web, which is driven through the decorating station, is heated both at and prior to the decorating station to facilitate transfer without the necessity of interrupting either the movement of the label carrying web or article to be decorated.
The throughput of the aforementioned apparatus is limited by the fact that it includes only enough rollers to transfer one or more labels onto a single article at any given time.
In commonly-assigned U.S. Pat. No. 3,861,986 to Wochner, there are disclosed a method and an appa
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Asghar Syed A.
Callinan Joseph F.
Avery Dennison Corporation
Lorengo J. A.
Simmons David A.
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