Device for fixing foils on bottles standing upright

A machine for applying foils to bottles including:

• a generally circular table for rotating about a vertical axis in a horizontal plane,
• a plurality of bottle supporting turntables arranged in circumferential spaced relationship around said table and rotating about vertical axes,
• means along the rotational path of said table for loading bottles having closures onto successive turntables,
• plunger means advanceable to engage the closure of bottles for stabilizing them on said turntable and retractable to release said bottles at a transfer area which is angularly displaced from where said bottles are loaded,
• foil depositing means displaced in the rotational direction of said table from said loading means for depositing a foil piece on the neck portion of a bottle on a passing turntable, said foil piece having corner points, said depositing means being operative to deposit respective foils with one corner point projecting above the bottle closure, an opposite corner point projecting down along the neck of the bottle and other corner points projecting in laterally opposite directions,
• pressing means displaced along the circumferential path of said table for pressing said laterally extending corner points against the bottle before the bottle reaches said transfer area,
• star wheel means rotating about a vertical axis adjacent said transfer area, said star wheel means having circumferentially spaced pocket means for engaging successive bottles and transferring them from said rotating table,
• rotation of said turntables causing the fronts of said bottles and the upwardly projecting corner point of said foil piece to be presented in the direction of bottle motion when the bottle is in said transfer area, and
• deflector means in said transfer area in the path of bottle motion operative when said plunger means has retracted to fold said upwardly projecting corner point of said foil piece over said closure.