Method and device for applying wrap-around labels to objects

A process for attaching a label jacket to objects, such as bottles or similar items, comprising:

• seizing a label jacket by a separating jaw unit by its forward margin for pulling in an axial direction over an object, holding the object with a holding device prior to the pull-over application, by the area of its mantle surface, by positive or friction lock,
• continuously transporting the object along a path at a constant level, at least during the pull-over application of the label jacket,
• initiating the pull-over process,
• controlling the holding device of the object during the pull-over application of the label jacket as a function of the transport movement of the object along the path,
• temporarily releasing the holding device on the mantle surface as soon as the separating jaw unit at least partially surrounds the object over its mantle surface,
• seizing the latter object by the area of its mantle surface, which is now covered with the label, at the latest when the desired adhesion height of the label jacket on the object has been reached and thereby affixing the label in a manner so it cannot slip, and
• pulling off the separating jaw unit.