Label sheet and label sheet manufacturing device

A label sheet manufacturing device for manufacturing a label with a fold and wherein the label is detachably attachable to a backing sheet, the label sheet manufacturing device comprising:

• a label supply unit configured to supply a planar label along a direction of supply;
• a label holding unit configured to attract and hold, at an attract and hold position, the label supplied from the label supply unit, the label holding unit including a holding board comprised of a pair of divided bodies divided at a line and oriented parallel to the direction of supply, and further including end portions, each end portion residing at an end of a respective divided body facing the other end portion, and having an end surface that extends from its associated divided body to a position above its associated divided body;
• a label folding unit configured and operable to fold the label to define a protruding portion of the label which protrudes from a back surface side of the label to a front surface side of the label in a general chevron shape defining both one side surface and the other side surface of the label with an apex defining a border between the one and the other side surfaces, and to fold the label to also define a respective outer end portion projecting from a base portion of each side surface of the label, and each end portion is joined to the respective side surface by a bent portion of the label;
• a backing sheet conveyance unit configured to move a backing sheet to an attaching position where a folded label may be temporarily attached to the backing sheet;
• a temporary attaching unit at the backing sheet at the attaching position of the conveyance unit and at the folding unit, the temporary attaching unit configured and operable for temporarily attaching the folded label to the backing sheet in a detachable manner, the folded label including an RFID tag;
• a support board that supports the backing sheet as it is moved;
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• a cutting mechanism downstream of the conveyance mechanism and of the temporary attaching unit, the cutting mechanism being configured and operable to cut the strip form backing sheet with temporarily attached labels to respective predetermined length label carrying sections;
• wherein the backing sheet conveyance unit is configured to move the backing sheet relative to and between the temporary attaching unit and the support board;
• wherein the backing sheet conveyance unit moves the backing sheet from a location upstream of the temporary attaching unit to a location down stream of the temporary attaching unit toward the cutting mechanism;
• and wherein the folded label will include an extended portion that extends away from the backing sheet after it has been detachably attached to the backing sheet, the folded label is conveyed by the conveyance unit with the extended portion extending away from the backing sheet, and the extended portion remains extending away from a carrying section to which it is detachably attached after cutting by the cutting mechanism, wherein the attract and hold position and the attaching position are vertically spaced from one another, and wherein the air cylinder unit is oriented to transfer the label holding unit from the attract and hold position to the attaching position in an oblique direction to reliably avoid interference with the label supply unit.