Label holder with magnetic suction plate
AssigneeAmtig Engineering Solutions, LLC
InventorSteven Groholski
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Abstract
A vacuum station comprising a main housing and a pair of arms extending from the main housing. The arms are configured to hold a roller. The main housing has a front face and a rear face, with the front face having a recess therein. An air path extends from the front face to the rear face. The vacuum station also includes a removable plate having a plurality of suction holes therethrough located within the recess in the front face of the main housing. The removable plate is removably connected to the main housing by magnets. A sheet of labels can be held to the removable plate by a suction force through the air path in the main housing and the suction holes in the removable plate.
Claims21
A vacuum station comprising:
- a main housing;
- a pair of arms extending from the main housing, the arms configured to hold a roller;
- the main housing having a front face and a rear face, with the front face having a recess therein, and an air path extending from the front face to the rear face;
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- a removable plate having a plurality of suction holes therethrough located within the recess in the front face of the main housing, the removable plate being removably connected to the main housing by magnets;
- wherein a sheet of labels can be held to the removable plate by a suction force through the air path in the main housing and the suction holes in the removable plate.
A bottling label switching assembly comprising:
- a switching housing, the switching housing includes a plurality of rolls, each of the rolls having a sheet of labels;
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- a plurality of vacuum stations, each of the vacuum stations corresponding to one of the plurality of rolls;
- each of the vacuum stations comprises:
- a main housing and a pair of arms extending from the main housing, with the arms configured to hold a roller, the main housing having a front face and a rear face, with the front face having a recess therein, and an air path extending from the front face to the rear face;
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- a removable plate having a plurality of suction holes therethrough located within the recess in the front face of the main housing, the removable plate being removably connected to the main housing by magnets;
- wherein the sheet of labels can be held to the removable plate by a suction force through the air path in the main housing and the suction holes in the removable plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.