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US 8,978,347 B2Granted
Device and method for attaching banderoles, security tags, label strips, and/or control strips to containers
AssigneeKHS GmbH
InventorsClaas Fritsche, Lutz Deckert
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Abstract
A container handling machine and method of handling containers, in which an attachment arrangement is used to attach an elongated strip, such as a banderole, a security strip, a label strip, or a tax strip, to the removable top of a closed container. Either or both of the container holder and the attachment arrangement which attaches the strips can be rotated in order to place the strip in a particular orientation with respect to the container.
Claims20
A container handling machine comprising:
- a container holding arrangement comprising a plurality of container holders configured to receive and hold containers that are not rotationally symmetrical;
- an attachment arrangement being configured to attach an elongated strip comprising one of:
- a banderole, a security strip, a label strip, and a tax strip, to a closed container by attaching a portion of the strip to a removable container top and at least one other portion of the strip to the container neck area;
- at least one of (A) and (B):
- (A) each of said container holders being configured to rotate a container held thereby about a vertical container axis to orient the container in a desired orientation with respect to an elongated strip to be attached to the container;
- and
- (B) said attachment arrangement being configured to rotate about its axis to orient an elongated strip to be attached to a container in a desired orientation with respect to the container.
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A method of operating a container handling machine comprising the steps of:
- holding containers with a container holding arrangement comprising a plurality of container holders configured to receive and hold containers that are not rotationally symmetrical;
- moving containers that are not rotationally symmetrical with said container holding arrangement to an attachment arrangement being configured to attach an elongated strip comprising one of:
- a banderole, a security label, a label strip, and a tax strip, to a closed container;
- at least one of (A) and (B):
- (A) rotating a container holder and thereby rotating a container held thereby about a vertical container axis, and thereby orienting said container in a desired orientation with respect to an elongated strip to be attached to said container;
- and
- (B) rotating said attachment arrangement about its axis and thereby orienting an elongated strip to be attached to a container in a desired orientation with respect to said container;
- attaching said strip to said container by attaching a portion of said strip to a removable container top.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.