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US 4,314,869 AGranted
Wine bottle labeler
AssigneeLabel-Aire Inc.
InventorMichael Crankshaw
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Abstract
A method of applying multiple labels to a label receiving surface of an article comprising conveying articles to be labeled to a label applying station, dispensing first and second labels onto a vacuum belt transport, transporting the first and second labels to the label applying station utilizing the vacuum belt transport and wrapping the first and second labels onto different locations on the label-receiving surface of a first of the articles.
Claims7
A method of applying a plurality of labels to a label-receiving surface of an article, said method comprising:
- conveying articles to be labeled through a label applying station with each of the articles having a label-receiving surface;
- providing labels with each of the labels having an adhesive face and an information-carrying face adapted to have information thereon;
- dispensing first and second of the labels onto a vacuum belt transport means with the adhesive faces of the first and second labels facing outwardly;
- transporting the first and second labels to the label applying station with the vacuum belt transport means;
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- contacting a first of the articles at the labeling station with the adhesive face of the first label on the vacuum belt transport means to adhere the first label to a first location on the label-receiving face of the first article, rotating the first article and contacting the label-receiving surface of the first article with the adhesive face of the second label on the vacuum belt transport means to adhere the second label to a second location on the label-receiving surface of the first article whereby the first and second labels are applied to different locations on the label-receiving surface of the first article.
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