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;
- and
- 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.
A method of changing a suction area of a bottling label switching assembly, the method comprising:
- providing a switching housing, the switching housing including a plurality of rolls with each of the rolls having a sheet of labels;
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- providing a vacuum station corresponding to one of the plurality of rolls;
- providing the vacuum station with 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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- providing a plurality of removable plates, each of the removable plates having a plurality of suction holes therethrough;
- removably positioning via magnets a first one of the removable plates within the recess in the front face of the main housing;
- removing the first one of the removable plates from the recess and replacing the first one of the removable plates with a second one of the removable plates within the recess by removably positioning via magnets a second one of the removable plates within the recess in the front face of the main housing;
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- holding the sheet of labels to the first one of the removable plates and then the second one of the removable plates by a suction force through the air path in the main housing and the suction holes in the first one of the removable plates and then the second one of the removable plates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.