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AssigneeJagenberg Werke AG
InventorsRainer Buchholz, Hans-Werner Mohn, Hermann Boms, Rudolf Zodrow
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In the affixing of strip label closures across the top and down the sides of a container wherein a strip label is coated with glue, held extended and at right angles to the axis of the container above its top whereby portions of the strip label overhang the top of the container, and the overhanging portions are pressed onto the opposed sides of the container, the improvement which comprises gripping the free ends of the strip label while the label is held extended over the top of the container, guiding the gripped ends over arcuate paths that are in the same plane as the axis of the container directly to the intended points of adhesion on the sides of the container, and thereafter effecting the pressing. A corresponding apparatus is described. Strip labels are thereby affixed more precisely and neatly.
An apparatus for affixing strip labels to container closures, comprising a transfer mechanism for strip labels, an applicator adapted to advance toward two opposite sides of a container to be labeled and to press the label onto the container, two gripping members for picking up a strip label from the transfer mechanism, said gripping members being adapted to grasp the ends of the strip label when said ends are held by the transfer mechanism over the container, and means for pivoting said gripping members while grasping said strip label ends to carry said gripping members from pickup positions over paths which are in the same plane as the axis of the container into a transfer position at the sides of the container.
An apparatus according to claim 16 or 20, wherein the drives for the rack comprises a fixed cam and a cam follower for the rack.
An apparatus according to claim 25, wherein the applicators of the transfer mechanism are guided in a guide track which accelerates or retards the applicators as they advance toward a container and the gripper blocks for the purpose of coordinating their rate of movement with that of the gripper blocks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.