Abstract: A device for contact bonding an article to a commodity which includes a vacuum transfer device and an adhering device. The vacuum transfer device includes a rotatable transfer drum, a plurality of suction pipes provided on the periphery of the transfer drum and a plurality of Venturi tubes for generating a vacuum when compressed air is passed therethrough. The adhering device is a pusher plate which operates in conjunction with the vacuum transfer device to adhere a package to a commodity and the pusher plate is moved such that it is in synchronism with the circular movement of a bucket wheel and moves in a direction tangential to the bucket wheel adhering device.