Labeling system
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorsErich Eder, Roland Ederer, Dieter Hafner
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Abstract
A labeling system may include a labeling device which applies labels to objects, for example, containers, and a loading device which is arranged upstream of this labeling device and which supplies the labeling device with labels. The loading device may comprise a transport device which transports a second label strip and comprises at least two carriers for first label strips wound onto label rolls. The carriers may be arranged next to one another on holding devices. A joining unit may be provided which can be displaced between the carriers in a first movement direction and which joins sections of the first label strips, which are arranged on the carriers, to sections of the second label strips, which are guided in the transport device.
Claims21
1-15. (canceled)
Labeling system comprising:
- a labeling device for applying labels to objects;
- and
- a loading device upstream of the labeling device, the loading device supplying labels to the labeling device, the loading device comprising
- a transport device configured to transport a second label strip,
- at least two carriers for a first label strip wound onto label rolls, said carriers being arranged next to one another on holding devices, and
- a joining unit movable between the carriers in a first movement direction, the joining unit being configured to join a section of the first label strip to a section of the second label strip.
Loading device for a labeling system, the loading device comprising:
- a transport device configured to transport a label strip;
- at least two carriers for first label strips wound onto label rolls, said carriers being arranged on holding devices next to one another;
- and
- a joining unit configured to join sections of the first label strips, which are arranged on the carriers, to sections of second label strips, which are guided in a transport device, the transport device being configured to transport the second label strips in a second movement direction relative to the joining unit, the joining unit being movable in a first movement direction, the first movement direction being substantially perpendicular to the second movement direction.
Method for joining end sections of label strips to one another by means of a loading device, the method comprising:
- joining a first end section of a first label strip to a second end section of a second label strip being transported in a transport device, wherein the joining taking place by means of a joining unit;
- unwinding the first label strip from a first label roll and guiding the first label strip through the transport device;
- and
- joining a second end section of the first label strip to a first end section of a further first label strip, wherein the joining takes place by means of the joining unit, the joining unit being moved between the first label roll and a second label roll in a first movement direction, and the label strip being moved in a second movement direction relative to the joining unit,
- wherein, during the process of joining the two end sections, one end section is fixed relative to the joining unit, and the joining unit is moved exclusively in a direction perpendicular to the first movement direction and also the second movement direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.