Set-down box
AssigneeConvenience Food Systems Wallau GmbH & Co. KG
InventorRainer Simon
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a set-down box of a labelling machine, including: a conveyor means used to place the labels over the articles to be labelled; a vertically displaceable pressing means used to press the labels on the articles to be labelled; a means used to vertically displace the pressing means; a motor with clockwise and anti-clockwise rotation; and a driving means transmitting the driving power of the motor to the conveyor means and to the means used to vertically displace the pressing means; wherein the means used to vertically displace the pressing means has a free-wheel in one direction of rotation of the motor.
Claims11
A set-down box of a labeling machine for use with labels and with respect to articles to be labeled, including:
- a conveyor means used to place the labels over the articles to be labeled;
- a vertically displaceable pressing means used to press the labels on the articles to be labeled;
- a displacing means used to vertically displace the pressing means;
- a motor with clockwise and anti-clockwise rotation;
- and
- a driving means transmitting the driving power of the motor to the conveyor means and to the displacing means;
- wherein the displacing means has a free-wheel in one direction of rotation of the motor.
A method of attaching labels on articles to be labeled using a set-down box of a labeling machine, including:
- a conveyor means used to place the labels over the articles to be labeled;
- a vertically displaceable pressing means used to press the labels on the articles to be labeled;
- a displacing means used to vertically displace the pressing means;
- a motor with clockwise and anti-clockwise rotation;
- and
- a driving means transmitting the driving power of the motor to the conveyor means and to the displacing means;
- wherein the displacing means has a free-wheel in one direction of rotation of the motor, characterized in that said method consists of a succession of the following steps:
- positioning the labels over the articles to be labeled using the conveyor means driven by motor;
- reversing the moving direction of the driving means until the displacing means has displaced the pressing means from its upper starting position to its lower end position, with simultaneous pressing of the labels on the articles to be labeled;
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- re-reversing the moving direction of the driving means to return the displacing means and thus, the pressing means to its starting position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.