Delabeling method
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsVictor Deonarine, Gerard Bernard Doyle
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Abstract
A method of removing labels utilizing an associated delabeling apparatus has a spaced pair of label removal stations for alternatively receiving inline objects from a supply conveyor. Each station includes a carrier carrying a set of spaced fluid jet cutters each at a cutting location for registration with a labeled object. An actuator is connected to the carriers for alternatively moving them from respective start to stop positions and return to traverse each cutter from a bottom to a top end of a registered label to cut it end to end. Each location has a fluid nozzle positioned to emit a stream of fluid against a label being removed and a friction finger element to assist in label removal.
Claims9
A method of removing tubular labels from a set of aligned bottles comprising:
- a) aligning each of a set of fluid jet emitting cutters with a lower end of a label on an associated upright bottle;
- b) cutting the labels by relatively moving each bottle and the associated cutter generally vertically while directing a differential fluid cutting jet of liquid against the label of the associated bottle along a transverse path from a lower to an upper end of the label to cut the label from its lower to its upper end thereby assuring a complete cut of the label from its lower to its top end;
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- c) removing the cut labels from the bottles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.