US 3,938,698 A · Apparatus for dispensing adhesive labels

Abstract

A machine for transferring adhesive labels from both sides of a single carrier strip to two separate streams of product items on a continuous basis. A pair of spaced continuously rotating vacuum wheels come in contact with opposite sides of the carrier strip, the carrier strip passing around a loop-forming roller adjacent each vacuum wheel to bring the label in contact with the vacuum wheel. Each vacuum wheel has holes around the periphery thereof, a vacuum being applied through the openings in a stationary sector of the vacuum wheel. As each label comes in contact with the associated vacuum wheel, it is pulled off by the vacuum and transported through the sector angle to a release point, where it is transferred to the surface of a product item.

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Dependent claims

Apparatus for applying labels from a carrier strip having adhesive labels on both sides of the strip, comprising:

means feeding the carrier strip successively through first and second loops, the second loop being reversed from the first loop, first and second movable transfer means operatively associated respectively with the first and second loops, each transfer means having a surface moving tangential to the labels as they move through a respective one of the loops, means securing each label to the surface of the associated transfer means as it moves through the convex side of the loop, the transfer means pulling each label from the convex side of the carrier strip as it moves through the associated loop.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Apparatus for dispensing adhesive labels

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Apparatus for dispensing adhesive labels

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