Labeling station with glueing means for bottles or the like

In a labeling station for bottles or the like having at least one glue segment which is rotatably mounted on a revolving carrier and having a pickup surface, a label magazine, a rotating glue roll which coats the pickup surface with glue such that labels can be picked up thereby from the label magazine, a rotating gripper cylinder which picks up labels from the segments and then affixes the label by its glue-coated side to a bottle moving past it and applicator means for applying a layer of glue to the surface of the glue roll including a doctor blade for determining the thickness of the layer by its spacing from the glue-roll surface, the improvement wherein the applicator means further comprises means defining a glue nozzle for producing a glue jet, a glue scraper and means mounting the glue nozzle means and the glue scraper for swinging movement about an axis parallel to that of the glue roll from a first position where the glue jet is directed at the surface of the glue roll and the scraper is spaced apart from the glue roll surface to a second position where the glue jet is directed away from the glue roll surface and the scraper is ahead of the doctor blade in the direction of rotation of the glue roll and is closer to the surface of glue roll than the doctor blade to remove any glue thereon.