Label attaching apparatus which attaches a label to external peripheral surface of a test tube

A label attaching apparatus having an attaching position in which a label is attached to an external peripheral surface of a test tube, comprising:

• supplying means including a holding mechanism which holds the test tube in a standing attitude, and an elevating mechanism which moves up and down the holding mechanism between the attaching position and a waiting position in which the holding mechanism is receded above from the attaching position;
• attaching means for rotating the test tube having been moved down to the attaching position by the supplying means in a circumferential direction of the test tube, and attaching the label to the external peripheral surface of the test tube by winding the label around the external peripheral surface;
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• a label supplying mechanism which supplies the label to the attaching means.