Apparatus for label transfer

Details Apparatus for label transfer Apparatus for label transfer

1988-09-12

1990-01-23

Simmons, David

Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture

Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor

With work feeding or handling means

156571, 156566, 156DIG31, 156DIG45, 156DIG47, 271 95, 271107, B65C 908

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active

048956147

ABSTRACT:
A label transfer arm having a central axis and comprising a socket body with a transfer nozzle rotatably mounted therein engages labels delivered to a label pickup station and transfers them to a label delivery station. An applicator head strips the labels from the transfer arm and moves them along a fixed path from the label delivery station to a package labeling station to apply the labels to packages. Transfer arm guiding rails are positioned on either side of the label transfer arm for engaging an eccentric collar attached to the transfer nozzle to thereby orient the transfer nozzle into a fixed angular orientation about the central axis of the transfer arm when the transfer arm is at the label delivery station. An operator-controllable selector ring is rotatably mounted to the socket body of the arm and is freely rotatable between selected locations defined by detents. The selector ring is coupled to the transfer nozzle by a torsion spring such that an operator can select one of at least two different angular orientations of the transfer nozzle about the central axis of the transfer arm when the arm is located at the label pickup station. By selecting the angular orientation of the arm at the label pickup station and forcing the arm into a fixed angular orientation at the label delivery station, a label held by the transfer arm is rotated about the central axis of the arm by an angle equal to the difference between the selected angular orientation and the fixed angular orientation.

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"Constellation 621-Fully Automatic Price and Weight Labeler for Economical Continuous Output", by Saxer Construction A.G.

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