Beverage bottling plant with heated information-adding equipment and information-adding equipment
AssigneeKHS GmbH
InventorKlaus Krämer
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Abstract
A gluing arrangement for applying glue to labels in a labeling machine, which gluing arrangement has a heated roller element and one or more temperature sensors which sense the temperature of a portion of the roller element. The temperature sensors are protectively sealed against contamination and mechanical damage, such as by being sealed inside the body of the roller element. The gluing arrangement also has a heating arrangement which includes one or more induction coils for heating the roller element. The heating arrangement and/or induction coils are positioned within the roller element such that they are surrounded by either an inner or outer surface of the roller element.
Claims13
A gluing arrangement for applying glue to labels in a labeling machine, said gluing arrangement comprising:
- a glue supply containing glue;
- a roller element being cylindrically-shaped and disposed to receive glue from said glue supply, and to provide said glue to be transferred to labels;
- a machine frame;
- said roller element being rotatably mounted on said machine frame to rotate about a rotational axis oriented vertically;
- an induction heating arrangement being disposed within said roller element to heat said roller element;
- a temperature sensor arrangement being disposed and configured to sense the temperature of at least a portion of said roller element;
- said temperature sensor arrangement being protectively sealed against contamination and mechanical damage;
- said machine frame comprising a stationary support;
- said induction heating arrangement being suspended from above on said stationary support;
- said roller element comprising an annular body disposed around said induction heating arrangement, and a drive shaft disposed beneath said induction heating arrangement;
- said drive shaft being connected to a bottom portion of said annular body;
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- said machine frame comprising a drive unit connected to said drive shaft to rotate said drive shaft and thus said annular body about said induction heating arrangement and said vertical rotational axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.