Abstract: The method of aligning successive stacks of sheets each having a lower portion and an upper portion off-set comprises horizontally feeding each stack with the offset edge of the upper portion leading towards a horizontally disposed sheet separating blade to a position at which the offset edge overhangs the blade. Relative vertical movement between the blade and the stack is effected until the blade has partly lifted the offset edge of the upper portion. Relative horizontal movement between the blade and the lower portion of the stack is next effected by pushers to cause penetration of the blade between the upper and lower portions followed by abutment with the offset edge to bring the upper portion into alignment with the lower portion.

Abstract: A method for lowering roll wound with a web on a winding machine wherein the roll is supported eccentrically on the upper portion of the circumference of a support roll, the roll being formed by winding the web onto a core tube carrying end insets, the method comprising lifting the web roll from below so as to disengage it from the support roll, withdrawing the end insets from the core tube, and then lowering the web roll to a removal level out of contact with the support roll. A suitable apparatus is provided comprising a trough 4 for holding the wound wed roll, and drive means 9 for raising and lowering the trough along an arcuate path corresponding to the circumference of the support roll 1. The trough comprises a pair of plates 5 and 6 pivotally connected to one another about a horizontal shaft, plate 5 picking up the web roll 2 by its underside and being laterally guided by a cam follower 13 guided along a cam 14.

Abstract: In a shaftless machine for winding a web (4) on a roll (3), the machine having a pair of carrier rollers (1,2) of which at least one is driven, means (16) for introducing a roll into the gap between said carrier rollers, an assembly (5) comprising an ejection beam (6) and cutting (8) and fastening means (7), and means (9-14) for pivoting the assembly about the axis of one of the carrier rollers so as to eject a wound roll and, after a new roll (18) is introduced, to cut the web and to fasten it to the new roll, the improvement which comprises means (11-13) for displacing the assembly transverse to the axes of the carrier rollers thereby to adjust the position of the ejecting, cutting and fastening means so as to accommodate rolls of different diameters.

Abstract: In the changing of the dimensions of sheets of paper to be stacked by a paper stacking apparatus including a conveying station, adjustable upper tapes moving about reflection rollers, separating shoes, ejector rolls, separating plates and stopper boards, the improvement which comprises displacing the upper tapes along with their deflection rollers, the separating shoes, the ejector rolls, and the separating plates all together transversely to the paper path. This is effected by providing a rod which connects the upper-tape deflection rollers, a separating shoe, ejector rolls, and a separating plate whereby they will all be transversely displaced together.

Abstract: In a machine for the centerless winding of webs (2), including support cylinders (3), a holder (4) for a core on which the web is to be wound, a motor-driven spindle (11) for the axial displacement of the core holder rotatably mounted on a shaft (5) displaceable in a guide (8), (9), and means for limiting the axial length of travel of the core holder, the improvement wherein said travel limiting means includes a control shaft (15) coupled with the drive motor (12) through a step-down gearing (14), (16), a slip coupling (18), (19), (20), trippers (23), (24), for limit switches (25), (26), associated with the drive motor, and a cam (21) in whose path an abutment (22) is disposed, the step-down gearing (14), (16), having such a ratio that no more than one full rotation of the control shaft (15) corresponds to the predetermined length of travel.

Abstract: Apparatus for the dispensing of very small amounts of liquid includes a measuring vessel which can be filled with an amount of liquid, and to whose outlet there is connected an ejector of a partial quantity. A sensor responds to the liquid level in the measuring vessel, to control a filling system which receives therefrom a signal for the filling of the measuring vessel when the minimum permissible lower liquid level is reached and a signal for the ending of the filling process when the maximum permissible upper liquid level is reached. The sensor is a capacitor which extends at least over the entire range of the variable liquid level in the measuring vessel and whose dielectric is the liquid situated in the measuring vessel. A capacitance meter is provided for measuring the capacitance of the capacitor.

Abstract: In a processing machine for objects, such as a labeling or filling machine for bottles, comprising a turntable having at least two arcuate transport path sections each for one string of objects and stationary or co-moving processing structure, such as labeling stations or filler spouts, associated with these transport path sections, transfer structure disposed at the points of entrance and exit of the transport path sections, and infeed and outfeed conveyors, the improvement which comprises disposing the infeed conveyor (12) leading to the transfer structure (23, 24) of one transport path section and the outfeed conveyor (20) adjoining the transfer structure (19, 18) of the other transport path section alongside one another and approximately over the center of the turntable (1). The machine can be adapted to perform multiple operations on each path section, such as filling and labeling, and the operations can be different on the two sections.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the shaftless winding of a web on two support rolls of different diameters, the smaller-diameter support roll having its axis in a horizontal plane above or below the horizontal plane in which the larger-diameter support roll has its axis. Specific pivot angles of the small-diameter support roll relative to the large-diameter support roll are employed in order to make the web-roll density more uniform over the diameter of the web roll and to decrease or increase said density as required.

Abstract: An apparatus for the separate winding of slit webs onto at least two web rolls, comprising a pair of parallel driven rolls, a web roll bearing on each support roll at or in proximity to its uppermost generatrix, and an unloading means of adjustable force engaging the shaft of each web roll, whereby the winding force on each web can be varied as the diameter of its web roll increases.

Abstract: In a bottle handling machine, a turret for transport of bottles comprising a plurality of turntables arranged in a circle and controlled by cam followers, a plane fixed cam operatively connected to the turret so that as the turret revolves the cam is contacted by the cam followers of the turntables, each follower having a lever arm guided in said cam, movement of said lever arm rotating the associated turntable back and forth, and a gear meshing therewith and joined to said lever arm, the gear joined to each lever arm being disposed between the gears of two adjacent turntables and meshing with said gears. As a result the turret can accommodate more turntables so the machine output is higher.

Abstract: In a labeling machine comprising a machine frame (1), a turret (2) in said frame, a concentrically disposed gear (12) carried by said turret for rotation of said turret, a plurality of turntables (3) carried by said turret, a drive (8,9) mounted in the machine frame, a pinion (10) driven by said drive and driving said concentrically disposed gear and turret, an infeed starwheel (4) and an outfeed starwheel (7) each meshing (13,14) with the concentrically disposed gear, and a labeling station (6) driven by a pinion (15) meshing with the turret gear, the improvement which comprises providing each gear (13,14) of the infeed and outfeed starwheels (4,7), of each pinion (10,15) of the drive (8,9) and of the labeling station (6), and any further pinions (18,20) meshing with the gear (12) of the turret (2) and driving, in synchronism with the turret (2), other mechanisms mounted in the machine frame, with a hub (42) a toothed ring (43) and a damping element (41,47-52) between each hub and toothed ring so as to isola

Abstract: In a labeling station that is intended for articles like bottles, that has at least one revolving or pivoting label grasper-applicator with a capture-and-release surface for taking a label from a stack and applying it to an article to be labeled, and that has holders that hold the edge of the stack of labels, the improvement which comprises controls for the holders (41, 42) or supplementary holders (45, 46) that hold the edge of the stack so that the retentive force the holders exert on the labels can be adjusted to be made greater than the attractive force exerted by the capture-and-release surface of the grasper-applicator (2, 3, 4) and, when the stack is held in a moving magazine, than the inertia exerted by the stack of labels on the stack holders as the magazine (6) moves backwards, the controls having a detector that scans the series of articles to be labeled and actuates the controls and the holders (41, 42 or 45, 46) when it senses a condition calling for a label not to be applied, e.g.