Abstract: The label applicator disclosed herein is adapted for use with labels which are provided in a plurality of rows extending longitudinally on the backing strip. The label applicator comprises a label dispenser for peeling the labels from the backing strip with the labels moving in a first direction off of the backing strip to provide at least first and second labels at a label dispensing station. A label separator receives the first and second labels and separates them in a direction generally transverse to the first direction to increase the distance between the first and second labels. The separated labels are then transferred to at least one article.

Abstract: A filamentary seal for multiple pane window is formed of a plastic material having a viscosity greater than 115.degree. Mooney as defined. Particular compositions are given. A filament is applied to a transparent or translucent sheet by an extrusion nozzle at an angle between 15.degree. and 45.degree., preferably between 25.degree. and 35.degree.. A vertically adjustable extrusion device with a rotatably adjustable nozzle head is described.

Abstract: A package labeling system for applying an adhesively backed label, which is received from a label transport, preferably to the bottom of a package through a label application opening in the package support, includes an applicator body and a suction tube extending through the applicator body and defining a suction opening above the body. A label supporting plate is positioned above the applicator body and pivotally mounted thereon. The plate defines a suction tube aperture and is pivotable from a horizontal position in which the suction opening is positioned within the aperture to inclined positions in which the aperture is raised above the suction opening. A spring urges the plate into its horizontal position and a partial vacuum is applied to the suction tube. A means for moving the applicator between a first position, adjacent the label transport, and a second position, is provided.

Abstract: A system for processing and finishing stained glass slides includes a staining rack for receiving stained slides and including a device for discharging the stained slides therefrom, a conveyor for receiving the discharged stained slides from the staining rack, and for transporting the stained slides in a direction away from the staining rack; and a slide finishing station cooperating with the conveyor. The slide finishing station includes a device for depositing glue onto the stained slide; the stained slide carries the glue, and a device is provided for applying a cover glass to the glue-carrying slide.

Abstract: An apparatus for piling veneer sheets for plywood sheets at a predetermined position comprising at least one stage of conveyer means having two horizontal, parallel and spaced conveyer belts to support a veneer sheet, stopping means to stop the veneer sheet when one edge of the veneer sheet reaches a predetermined position, detecting means to detect the veneer sheet when the veneer sheet is fed to or adjacent to the predetermined position, and pressing means for pressing the veneer sheet downwards in response to a signal from the detecting means to a predetermined piling position. When the veneer sheet is stopped, one terminal edge is at said predetermined position. Thus, when veneer sheets are piled, the edges of the sheets maintain their position so that piled sheets can be readily used in plywood manufacturing process, and productivity of plywood sheets is improved.

Abstract: A labelling device, particularly for applying a label to cigarette packets, and in which a shaft having at one end a label retaining member is mounted in a rotatable and axially slidable manner through a casing, which is supported by a support member so as to be oscillable relative thereto through an angle about an axis at right angles to said shaft; said support member being adjustable in position, and said casing enclosing first transmission means cyclically displacing said shaft axially relative to said casing to bring said label retaining member into a label application position, and second transmission means which are adjustable to a position in which they connect said casing and said shaft to one another so as to transform the oscillations of the casing into rotations of the shaft about its axis and relative to the casing.

Abstract: A labelling apparatus comprises a label applying means for applying a label to an article, conveyor means, label magazine, means for transferring a label from the magazine to the label applying means. The label applying means has a support structure on which a label carrier means is pivotally mounted about a horizontal axis and pivot control means for controlling the position of the label carrier means. The pivot control means is timed to pivot the label carrier means about the horizontal axis in a direction towards and away from a position at which the label carrier means contacts and applies a label to an article as the article is conveyed past the label applying means.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously securing thermoplastic material to the surface of individual blocks includes a conveyor having a plurality of receptacles, one for each block, a supply of heated thermoplastic material located to cover the surface of the blocks extending from the receptacles on the conveyor and a vacuum source for exposing the interior of each of the receptacles, when covered with the thermoplastic sheet material to subatmospheric pressure.

Abstract: A hydraulic board-laminating press comprises a series of laterally aligned hydraulic clamps supported in an inclined plane, each clamp having one fixed and one movable clamping jaw defining an upwardly opening mouth for receiving boards. The positions of the fixed jaws are adjustable along the inclined plane for providing camber in the beam produced. A series of infeed conveyor arms spaced along the lower side of the press deliver boards, adhesive-coated on one face, edgewise and one at a time into the mouths of the clamping jaws. An outer section of each conveyor arm can be extended and retracted toward and away from the clamps and can be raised and lowered so that the outer ends of the arms deliver boards into various positions within the space between jaw pairs to stack boards within the jaws along the inclined plane of the clamps.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for the display packaging of articles upon a card. The apparatus includes a conveyor assembly for moving display cards through the apparatus so that various operations for forming the display package can be performed, a card feeding assembly which supplies single display cards to the conveyor assembly, article feeding means for supplying the article to be packaged to the conveyor assembly, labelling means and affixing means for securing a label to the article and the display card. The apparatus may additionally include a second labelling means and affixing means for application of a second label to the display package.

Abstract: Elements are supplied to a work station with the elements being arranged in a row. The elements are releasably retained at the work station. The articles to which the elements are to be transferred are moved through the work station with the row of elements at the work station extending in the same direction as the direction of article movement. Each of the elements is transferred to an associated article as the articles are moved through the work station. The elements are sequentially transferred with the most downstream element always being the next element to be transferred.

Abstract: Apparatus for handling glass jars with lids as they move toward a labeling machine to receive labels thereon. The jars are initially disposed in a crate which holds a number of layers of the jars and, after being unloaded from the crate, one layer at a time, the jars are moved by a conveyor along a generally horizontal path and are subjected to a hot water spray for a predetermined time. In this way, the jars are preheated so that the labels will more positively adhere thereto. Also, the spray removes dust and water spots from the lids of the jars. After passing through the spray, the jars are directed, one by one, through the labeling machine.

Abstract: Labeling apparatus wherein a rotor rotatable about a vertical axis is provided with peripherally spaced suction pads for taking labels presented thereto in vertical positions, moving them by adhesive-applying rolls for application of adhesive thereto and then pressing them into engagement with the side surfaces of containers supported in vertical positions. The adhesive-applying rolls are supported in substantially vertical positions in tangential relation to the rotor and there are adjustably mounted doctor rolls supported in tangential engagement with the adhesive rolls. The surfaces of the adhesive-applying and doctor rolls have mutually interengaged ribs and grooves and adhesive is supplied to the upper ends of the doctor rolls in free flowing streams so as to flow downwardly over the lateral surfaces of the rolls to their lower ends. A tray at the lower ends provides for collecting the adhesive and returning it to a reservoir for reuse.

Abstract: A movable conveyor belt having first and second belt surfaces and an opening extending between the belt surfaces, a mechanism for depositing a label on the first belt surface at a first station, and a pressure source for blowing air under pressure through the opening to transfer the label from the belt at a second station to at least one object.

Abstract: A labeling machine particularly adapted for use in applying address labels to envelopes and similar mailing pieces which is characterized by a magazine for accommodating an upright stack of envelopes, with a bottom shuttle plate for feeding successive bottommost envelopes to pinch rolls which deliver the envelopes to a transport system which includes a horizontally disposed, lug-type transport conveyor which advances the envelopes to a label applying head, the latter being operable to feed address labels from a supply source and to apply the same to the desired spot on each successive envelope, with provision for quickly converting the machine for handling envelopes of different length by varying the spacing between the lugs on the conveyor and changing the speed of operation of the shuttle plate and the label applying head.

Abstract: A stamp and legend applicating machine including a stamp-applying wheel having a groove in its circumferential surface in which a printer member is mounted adjacent the stamp dispensing slot of the wheel to apply any desired legend upon the envelope immediately adjacent the applied stamps.

Abstract: A simplified, low-cost method and apparatus for transferring inked design images from preprinted, design bearing waxed sheets to elongated, cylindrical, solid wax candle bodies or the like which permits gravure or lithographically applied halftone and shaded design images to be used as candle decorations, eliminates costly and tedious manual operations characteristic of decal applications and other prior methods and devices, and produces a finished candle having perfectly aligned decorative images thereon which are not susceptible to undesirable torching as the candle burns. The method comprises applying a design-bearing, waxed sheet to the candle body in closely conforming relationship thereto while the latter rotates in pressurized, bridging engagement between a pair of spaced, adjacent, rotating transfer rollers.

Abstract: Labels are supplied in groups to a labelling station with the labels of each group being arranged in a row. The labels are releasably retained at the labelling station. The articles to be labelled are moved through the labelling station with the row of labels at the labelling station extending in the same direction as the direction of article movement. Each of the labels is transferred to an associated article as the articles are moved through the labelling station. The labels are sequentially transferred with the most downstream label always being the next label to be transferred.

Abstract: A device for forming lengths of adhesive tape into tubes including a mandrel having an axis and a multiplicity of radially outwardly projecting resilient bristles having tips defining at least the major portion of a periphery around the axis in the shape of a tube to be formed. The tape is wrapped around the periphery of the mandrel and the ends of the tape overlapped to form a tube having an axially extending seam. A ring is then pressed against one end of the formed tube to slide it axially off of the bristles and mandrel.

Abstract: A device for labelling objects, notably cassettes, on two sides. The device is provided with two magazines for labels and a device co-operating therewith for removing and transporting the labels to stations in the device which are adapted to receive the objects to be labelled. At least one feeding device for the objects to be labelled is provided to feed the objects to a track along which they can be moved to the said stations. At the area of the said stations the track is provided with positioning means for the objects. Between these two stations a turnover device is provided which comprises a completely or partly closed window which is arranged to transverse to the track. This window has an inner circumference which at least substantially corresponds to the outer circumference of the objects in a direction transverse to the track, and is situated in the track such that the objects can slide through the window during their movement over the track.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for receiving bags from a source thereof and applying them, in an imbricated manner, to two lines of pressure sensitive adhesive coated tape. The source normally being a bag making machine of the intermittant type wherein the delivery motion is provided by a crank arm providing, during 180.degree. of its cycle, a feeding or drive motion and during the remaining 180.degree. of its cycle, a dwell time. The apparatus in general comprises a transport system carried by a frame which system is driven in periodic synchronization with such a machine supplying the bags. An individual bag is transported from the source to a taping mechanism located at the end of the system. The taping mechanism secures the individual bags to the tapes during the dwell period of movement of the transport system to form a package. The package of imbricated bags can be festooned in a carton or wound on a roll.

Abstract: A microfiche mounter is fully automatic and uses preprogrammed instructions from either a computer or a filmstrip in placing the image frames of the filmstrip in predetermined destination regions of a transparent base to make or update a microfiche. The mounter receives instructions and displays information enabling an operator to select the proper base for placement on the machine. The mounter then advances a filmstrip into a transfer device, cuts off a proper length of the filmstrip, pivots the transfer device over the base, moves the base in X and Y coordinates to register the destination region of the base under the transfer device, insures accurate registry between the base and the transfer device, and presses the filmstrip from the transfer device into engagement with the base for adhesively securing the filmstrip to the base. All this is done fully automatically, and the machine also has the capacity for manual operation of each step or keyboard entry of mounting instructions.

Abstract: A transparency slide unit for use in projectors and viewers comprising a film diapositive mounted and positively retained in a frame composed of two separate and substantially uniform frame halves permanently interlocked in mutually offset positions by rivetting, and an apparatus for mounting film transparencies in such frames.

Abstract: Automatic label applying apparatus comprises a conveyor for moving packages to a weigh scale and from thence to a label application station where a reciprocably movable vacuum type heated label applicator receives an appropriately printed label from a label issuing means and applies it to the appropriate package. A vacuum system connected to the label applicator holds the label thereon and also operates a pneumatic cylinder for a lock-out arm to prevent the heated label applicator from making contact with and burning a package when the vacuum system senses that no label is present. An electronic control system, including a photocell for sensing if a package is at the station and also including a limit switch actuated by the lock-out arm (and therefore indicative of the presence or absence of a label), operates to stop the conveyor after a predetermined interval of time in the event that a package is present at the station but no label is available to the label applicator.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying a label to the bottom of a product, the label having a universal product code thereon. The apparatus includes a first labeling assembly, a first scanning assembly, a second labeling assembly, a second scanning assembly and means for feeding a product past these assemblies along a feeding path. The first scanning assembly detects whether or not the first labeling assembly has applied a label to the bottom of the product and if none was applied then activates the second labeling assembly to apply a label and if the second scanning assembly determines that no label has yet been applied to the product, that product is diverted from the feeding path. Additionally, a character recognition assembly is provided to determine if the correct label has been applied to the product and to divert a mislabeled product from the feeding path.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for applying and securing mirror mounts to the inboard surfaces of windshields. The apparatus includes means for optically scanning the surface of the windshield and detecting the presence of antenna wires or other markings therein to be used as reference points for the placement of a mirror mount on the windshield. The apparatus also includes means responsive to such detecting means for placing and affixing a mirror mount on the windshield in a desired region thereon.

Abstract: A machine for automatically applying stamps onto successive envelopes at a precise location and without distorting or marring the stamps or envelopes comprises vacuum devices for picking off the stamps and envelopes from respective magazines, feeding each envelope into an exact position below a backing pad, and concurrently feeding a respective stamp past a moistening device into an exact position below the envelope, then pressing the envelope against the backing pad and concurrently pressing the stamp upwardly against the envelope, and thereupon releasing the vacuum devices and knocking out the stamped envelope into a receptacle as the machine is returned to a start position for another application cycle.

Abstract: A machine for transferring adhesive labels from both sides of a single carrier strip to two separate streams of product items on a continuous basis. A pair of spaced continuously rotating vacuum wheels come in contact with opposite sides of the carrier strip, the carrier strip passing around a loop-forming roller adjacent each vacuum wheel to bring the label in contact with the vacuum wheel. Each vacuum wheel has holes around the periphery thereof, a vacuum being applied through the openings in a stationary sector of the vacuum wheel. As each label comes in contact with the associated vacuum wheel, it is pulled off by the vacuum and transported through the sector angle to a release point, where it is transferred to the surface of a product item.

Abstract: Elements are supplied to a work station with the elements being arranged in a row. The elements are releasably retained at the work station. The articles to which the elements are to be transferred are moved through the work station with the row of elements at the work station extending in the same direction as the direction of article movement. Each of the elements is transferred to an associated article as the articles are moved through the work station. The elements are sequentially transferred with the most downstream element always being the next element to be transferred.