Abstract: A device for grasping and transferring the labels from the store to the applicator drum of a labelling machine with stationary store, for bottles and the like, which comprises a single transfer member, having at least two curved plates rigidly connected to one another, and situated in a space comprised between the store, the applicator drum and a glueing roller; the transfer member is rotatably mounted on a crank support and is connected, in rigid rotational relationship, to a crown of rollers engaging a stationary cam with concave lobes, having a number of lobes higher than the number of rollers; the distances between the parts, their rotation speed and the profile of the cam are chosen in such a manner that each plate of the transfer member, in successive phases of its displacement, slides in contact relationship with the glueing roller, thus becoming covered with glue, and then abuts by one of its ends against the first label in the store, rolls thereon without substantial slip, while removing the label fr