Abstract: A power-driven, wheeled vehicle which interacts semiautomatically with winders in a spinning area to doff completed yarn packages, automatically delivers the packages to an unload station to unload the packages from the vehicle and then moves to another winder to repeat the operation. The wheeled vehicle and the winders are located on opposite sides of a service aisle. A frame extendable and retractable across the aisle is mounted to the vehicle. The means for extending and retracting the frame includes two four-bar linkages coupled to the vehicle and the frame and to each other.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for taking up label stock slack as it is advanced out of a printer or other source of labels and locating the label stock properly with respect to the vacuum platen of an applicator for receiving the label then applying it. When the label has been advanced to a location adjacent said vacuum platen, a separate drive pulls the label backing through a stripping device leaving the label in a position released from its backing so that it can be propelled to and acquired by the vacuum platen of the label applicator simultaneously with its release from the backing.