Label dispenser for self-adhesive labels arranged on separate sheets

A label dispenser for self-adhesive labels arranged on separate sheets, with a stack holder for the sheets, characterized by

• a sheet feed device (8) for the sheets, which draws them from the stack holder (7) and advances them sequentially, with the labels upwardly, over a support (9) in a feed direction toward a bending edge (1);
• a deflector device which, as viewed in the feed direction of the sheet, is movable immediately beyond the bending edge (1) downwardly from a position above the labels, taking with it a part of the sheet located beyond the bending edge, into contact with a draw-off device;
• a drive for the draw-off device, which pulls the sheet in contact with it at an angle to said feed direction;
• and a control for the sheet feed device (8), the deflector device (2) and the draw-off device (5) such that each sheet lying on the support (9) is firstly advanced with its leading edge so far beyond the bending edge (1) that the leading edge of the first label or of the first row of labels is located in the vicinity of the bending edge (1), that the deflector device (2) is then actuated and subsequently the draw-off device (5) feeds the sheet transferred to it to release and advance the first label or the first row of labels beyond the bending edge until the trailing label edge is located substantially in the vicinity of the bending edge (1), then interrupts the further withdrawal until the removal of the label or all of the labels of the first row and continues the feeding and the withdrawal of each sheet in steps, corresponding to the first label or the first row of labels, as far as the last label or the last row of labels on each sheet.