Abstract: Apparatus for picking a garment having a front and a back and placing the garment over a pallet such that the front and the back of the garment are on the front and the back sides respectively of the pallet. The apparatus comprises a picking arm to approach the garment and then withdraw towards the pallet; and one or more adherence locations on the picking arm, the adherence location being smaller than the first side, the adherence location for contacting the garment using sticky material and causing adherence of the garment via the sticky material at the contact location, thereby causing the picking arm to pull the front of the garment over the front of the pallet, the back of the garment sliding under the first side onto the back of the pallet.

Abstract: A paper pickup mechanism is used with a pickup tape and includes a frame, a release roller, a receive roller and a sponge. The release roller and the receive roller are rotatably mounted in the frame and apart parallel to each other. The sponge is mounted at a bottom of the frame and parallel to the release roller and the receive roller. The sponge is located at a level position below that of the release roller and the receive roller. The pickup tape is mounted to the release roller. The free end of the pickup tape rounds the bottom face of the sponge and is mounted to the receive roller. The stick face of the pickup tape against the sponge is exposed outward and opposite to the sponge.

Abstract: A sheet feeder includes a loading member, an attraction separation unit, and a control device. The loading member carries sheet materials. The attraction separation unit includes an endless dielectric belt, holding rollers, and an adjustment device. The endless belt attracts and holds the uppermost one of the sheet materials. The holding rollers holding the endless belt include upstream and downstream holding rollers. The upstream holding roller is rotated around a shaft of the downstream holding roller as the rotation axis in accordance with rotation of the downstream holding roller. The adjustment device provided to the upstream holding roller adjusts the movement range of the upstream holding roller in the height direction. The control device controls, in accordance with the type of sheet materials, an operation of lifting and lowering the loading member, to thereby allow the adjustment device to adjust the movement range of the upstream holding roller.

Abstract: A printer includes a driving station configured to drive print media between a pair of pinch rollers. A printing station is configured to print upon the driven print media. An adhesive application station is configured to apply an adhesive to the print media. A collection station is configured to collect a stack of printed print media bearing adhesive. The collection station includes a binding press configured to bind the stack together.

Abstract: A wall mounted printer comprising a main chassis, a pivoting media tray disposed on a front upper portion of the main chassis, a removable collection tray disposed at the base of the main chassis for receiving printed and bound media exiting from the main chassis, a printhead unit disposed within the main chassis, and a binding assembly disposed within the main chassis downstream of a printing zone of the printhead unit, the binding assembly comprising a support chassis downstream of a printing zone of the printer, the support chassis defining a glue application and binding zone in which printed sheets of media are received in a feed direction; and an elongate glue applicator mounted on the chassis and positioned substantially at right angles to said feed direction, the applicator being displaceable towards and away from the sheets of media to apply a strip of glue to a transverse edge of each of said consecutive sheets of media.

Abstract: A printing arrangement includes a driving station configured to drive print media along a path. An adhesive application station is arranged to be in alignment with the path so as to apply adhesive to the print media. A printing station is arranged to be in alignment with the path so as to print upon the print media. The adhesive application station is located between the driving station and the printing station so that adhesive is applied to the print media prior to printing.

Abstract: A binding process includes the application of respective parts of a two-part binding adhesive as strips at either side of a page to be bound. Part A of a two-part adhesive is applied to one side of a page and Part B of the two-part adhesive is applied to the reverse side of the page. A stack of pages with the respective parts of the two-part adhesive applied to facing surfaces is then pressed by a binding press so as to combined the two parts of the adhesive which then set.

Abstract: A dispenser containing sheets, for example, dry sheets and premoistened sheets is provided. The dispenser is adapted to be releasably coupled to a conventional rolled product fixture, such as one that holds a roll of toilet tissue in a bathroom. The dispenser may include a cartridge which is positioned in the housing of the dispenser which holds sheets. The sheets dispense from the cartridge and the dispenser.

Abstract: A binding assembly for a printer includes a support chassis that is mountable to a printer, downstream of a printing zone of the printer. The support chassis defines a glue application and binding zone in which printed sheets of media are received in a feed direction. An elongate glue applicator is mounted on the chassis and is positioned substantially at right angles to the feed direction. The applicator is displaceable towards and away from the sheets of media to apply a strip of glue to a transverse edge of each of said consecutive sheets of media.

Abstract: In a method for conveying sheets in a sheet-printing machine, the sheets are held securely in position on a circumferential surface of sheet-guiding cylinders with the aid of an adhesive, which can be detached again a number of times and does not transfer itself onto the sheets, and are conveyed through the printing stations of the printing machine. For transport without using grippers, the sheets are held in an area of their front and rear edges only by the adhesive, and are lifted off the circumferential surface of the impression cylinders with the aid of a sheet-lifting device in order for the front edge to be transferred to a downstream sheet-guiding cylinder. Lifting the sheets off the circumferential surface of the cylinders results in a peel-off effect, by which the adhesive bond can be readily released again.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying labels to bottles or the like comprises at least one moveable gluing palette 7 which coacts with a rotary gluing roller 1 so as to be coated with glue, and which thereafter transfers the glue to a label 17 which is transported by the palette from a label magazine 11 to a gripper 12 which grips the glue-coated label and presses it onto a bottle 15. The outer cylindrical surface of the gluing roller is provided with helical grooves 2 which are kept filled with glue, and the outer layer 10 of each gluing palette is slightly elastic so that when the palette is urged into contact with the ridges 3 extending between the grooves on the gluing roller, parts of the outer layer will be pressed partially into the grooves so as to come into contact with the glue present in the grooves.

Abstract: The device for removing flat articles from a stack comprises at least one roller which contacts the uppermost article of a stack and is rotatable about a shaft and whose circumferential surface is covered by a layer consisting of a resilient material. The resilient layer positioned on the circumferential surface of the roller includes a number of suction cups. The roller is designed as a hollow roller which includes a mechanical device by which the suction cups in the resilient layer on the circumferential surface of the roller can be operated by partial deformation of said resilient layer. The suction cups are formed by depressions in the resilient layer on the circumferential surface of the roller, said depressions cooperating with one bore each in the wall of the roller.

Abstract: A labelling apparatus is provided wherein labels (21) are transported from a label magazine (9) to a labelling station by means of a conveyor belt (1). Adhesive is applied to the conveyor belt (1) by means of a pasting station (5) at the portions which are to receive a label (21). The pasted portion of the conveyor belt is brought into contact with the label to be received such that the label is taken over and transferred by the sticking effect exerted by the adhesive. The conveyor belt (1) passes around a delivery edge (3) where the label is lifted off from the conveyor belt and applied to the object to be labelled.

Abstract: In an apparatus for removing protective films, a groove is formed in a roller having an adhesive surface sufficient to peel off a protective film from a printed wiring board. The exposed printed wiring board, on which a dry film provided with a protective film is applied, is passed between the rollers. Thus, the protective film is peeled off from the surface of the dry film resist of the printed wiring board and adhered to the roller so as to be removed. As a result, the protective film can be removed at a high speed, and automated removal of protective films can be achieved.

Abstract: Pressure-sensitive adhesive-backed labels are carried adhesive back side down on a backing strip. The present method and apparatus completely removes each label from its backing material and then may relocate, manipulate, or hold the label by its adhesive back side before it is attached to a passing article. The apparatus may be arranged to dispense the labels along an axis parallel to the path of travel of the moving article or along an axis that crosses the path of travel of the moving article.

Abstract: Disclosed is a screen printing apparatus for filling minute through-holes in a board with conductive paste or the like by screen printing. When screen printing is performed with this screen printing apparatus, the board is placed on a stage through the intermediation of a film which is supplied to the stage by means of adhesive pads. The adhesive pads are brought into contact with the uppermost one of a plurality of stacked films to catch it by adhesion and then transfer the film to a position above the stage. Films are caught one after another by adhesion.

Abstract: Printing machine with rotating belt for textile products and the like, including a supporting structure which extends vertically, a plurality of motorized and mutually synchronized traction rollers arranged in superimposed pairs, and a belt which is closed in a loop, is guided on the rollers of each pair without tension in the axial direction and which has such an extension as to form, between the pairs of rollers, at least one wide loop essentially shaped like a U which has a horizontal axis and extends in depth so as to create, between the lower pair of rollers and the upper adjacent one, a portion of horizontal belt in order to allow printing by at least one printing head.

Abstract: A printer apparatus including a print head assembly and a transport belt for transporting a workpiece such as a plastic card through the printer apparatus. The transport belt includes a surface self-adhering to a surface of the plastic card. In a preferred embodiment, the printer apparatus includes a print head which is moved across a surface of the card while printing on the card. The printer apparatus includes a print head controller for interfacing between at least one microprocessor and at least one continuous tone print head, the number of print intensities either fixed or selected by the microprocessor.

Abstract: An applicator system and method for automatically applying and securing an adhesive backed (or gummed) label onto a corner surface of a typically three-dimensional, right-angle polygonal object such that the body of the label is applied and adhered to one surface (usually one major surface) of the object and one flap (or usually two) continuous with the body of the label is applied and adhered to a side of the object adjacent the one surface. The applicator system includes an applicator head to receive the adhesive backed label, mechanically secured to an applicator arm which serves to move the applicator head relative to the object.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for extracting the contents of envelopes, each of which has been opened along at least one edge and has an opposite edge which is unopened. The envelopes are successively projected with their unopened edges leading, against an adhesive surface of a travelling belt. The belt is subsequently oriented so that the envelopes are suspended therefrom and the belt is simultaneously vibrated to cause the contents of the envelopes to migrate downwardly and leave the envelopes. The contents are conveyed in an orderly fashion on a belt conveyor and formed into a stack. The empty envelopes are stripped from the belt. The adhesive surface on the belt is formed by renewable adhesive strips.

Abstract: A labelling machine is for bottles, or the like, and includes a rotatable drive shaft. The drive shaft has an axis of rotation and includes at least one radially extending surface which is disposed at a predetermined location axially on the drive shaft. The labelling machine includes at least one glue segment having a curved glue take-up surface. The glue segment includes a hole for receipt of the drive shaft within the hole. The glue segment is for being disposed within the hole receiving the drive shaft and for rotation with the drive shaft. The glue segment includes an axial bore having a longitudinal axis. The hole includes a longitudinal axis. The longitudinal axis of the bore is substantially parallel with the longitudinal axis of the hole and with the axis of the drive shaft when the drive shaft is disposed within the hole. A bushing includes a bases element and a spacing element. The base element of the bushing is for being disposed in the bore of the glue segment.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device for picking up one piece of cloth (1) from a stack (2) of cloth pieces.

Abstract: According to the method of the invention, photographic media are transported from one treatment station to another by means of a conveyor belt (1) on which they are held by temporary adhesion by using adhesive means, said media (10) being then removed from the belt by means of an extractor (9). The adhesive means have, with respect to the belt (1), an adhesive power different from the adhesive power they have with respect to the medium (10), so that, during the extraction phase, they remain either on the belt (1) or on the medium (10), according to the desired aim. The invention allows to improve the performances and to extend the application fields of apparatuses using the transfer principle by conveyor belt with temporary adhesion.

Abstract: A labelling machine for bottles or the like includes several stations located behind one another along a track. The stations include an adhesive application station, a label feed station and a label transfer station. There are three extracting elements which are each mounted to rotate on a rotating support to be moved past the stations during each rotation of the support. Each extracting element has an outwardly-curved receptacle surface for the label which rolls along the stations. The drive for each extracting element is a cam drive, which comprises common, stationary double cam discs for all the extracting elements with two cams located on one side in two planes with one above and at some distance from the other. Two sets of followers are mounted on a bearing shaft which is coupled with the rotating support. By means of a form-fit with the two cams, the followers provide positive movement of each extracting element over its entire revolution when the support rotates.

Abstract: Flat work pieces can be rationally and carefully removed from a substrate to which they adhere with an apparatus which comprises a pickup table, a receiving table spaced from the pickup table, and a vertically adjustable tool carrier movable between the tables. The tool carrier carries a pickup device comprising a pressure platen configurated to conform to the flat work piece and having opposite ends, an adhesive strip extending over the pressure platen between the ends thereof, two guide rollers respectively recessed from the opposite ends of the pressure platen, the guide rollers being arranged to guide the adhesive strip under tension over the pressure platen, and two reeling drums receiving respective ends of the adhesive strip beyond the guide rollers and rotatable to displace the adhesive strip in an operating direction by reeling the adhesive strip on one of the drums and unreeling the same from the other drum.

Abstract: This invention relates to a labelling machine for objects, in particular bottles, with several stations located one behind another along a track, namely an adhesive application station, a label feed station and a label transfer station. At least one extracting element is mounted so that it can rotate on a rotating support. The extracting element has an outwardly curved receptacle surface for the label which rolls past the individual stations when the support rotates. The drive mechanisms of each extracting element comprises a cam transmission mechanism. The cam transmission mechanism comprises two cams located one above the other. The cams have the basic shape of ovals indented on both long sides and are oriented crossways to one another. A plurality of followers engage with the outside curves of the cams. The followers are offset from one another by an angle not equal to 90 degrees and have lever arms of different lengths.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for separating, delivering, and depositing material blanks, for use in the textile industry or the like which improves heat transfer to the gripping surface in a device in which the heating device is arranged in such a way that it is protected from external forces. The device comprises a heatable gripping plate, which has a gripping surface and an expansion chamber adjacent thereto, in which a refrigerant is able to expand and thus cool the gripping plate to below the freezing point so that a material blank will freeze onto said gripping surface.

Abstract: A paper dispensing device having a one-piece unitary main body with an upper and lower portion having a depression in the upper portion for receiving the operator's finger therein. The body is resilient and, upon downward pressure of the upper portion, the upper portion moves downwardly, then, upon release, returns to its initial position. The depression results in a concave portion on the underside of the upper portion, the concave portion having a paper adhering material adapted to adhere to a piece of paper and pick up the same. A plurality of individual sheets of paper can be disposed on the upper surface of the lower portion, thereby being in a position contactable by the paper adhering material.

Abstract: In order to individually pick up and temporarily hold hosiery permeable articles, especially tubular articles like panty-hoses and stockings, and instantaneously stretch apart their elastic edges their automatic transfer, a holding device with adhesive and an air jet is utilized. The device includes a tape motorized to advance with intermittence between two elements provided for driving and tensioning the tape, and with a block for the support of the holding zone of the tape and an underlying support for more articles in overlapping relationship to form a stack.Nozzles for supplying jets for compressed air are located adjacent and perpendicularly oriented to the holding zone of the article, and in such a way as to act in a direction opposite to that of the retention force of the adhesive tape, thereby to pass through the article stretching out the elastic edge of the article as soon as this has moved away from the relevant support.

Abstract: A system for applying folded outserts to conveyed products utilizing a pressure sensitive tape for transportation from the magazine type hopper to the products. The tape with a pressure sensitive adhesive is routed in front of the outfeed of the outsert hopper. A reciprocating tape tamping device and vacuum manifold mounted on an air cylinder are used to first bump the adhesive-coated tape in contact with the outsert and then withdraw the outsert from the hopper. The withdrawal occurs after the initial precise placement of the outsert to the tape. The method of withdrawal requires further forward movement of a pair of bellow style cups which contact the outsert after adhesion. The initiation of vacuum on contact and termination on withdrawal permit the outsert to be retained individually on the tape. The outsert is then indexed forward where it is transferred to a conveyed product.

Abstract: A sheet feed mechanism for feeding single sheets from a stack of sheets in a feed tray is adapted to feed such sheets, even though the sheets may be bowed, curved, or wavy in a direction transverse to the process or feed direction. The mechanism includes a pad support body. A plurality of individual sheet-engaging pressure pads are mounted on a lower surface of the body by connecting webs. The connecting webs have a fore and aft axis in the process direction and bend to permit the individual pads to move in the transverse direction so that the lower friction surface of the pad will conform to the non-planar or curved surface of the sheet to be fed from the stack of sheets.

Abstract: A sheet feeder is disclosed having a cartridge mounted adjacent the stack of paper providing an exposed line of adhesive strip. The adhesive should be a temporary adhesive which when removed leaves no residue or damage on the sheet to which it was temporarily bonded. The cartridge is landed on the top sheet of paper adjacent the leading edge of the sheet, and the cartridge is then rotated away from the direction in which the sheet is to be fed while maintaining a minimum amount of pressure on the top of the stack. This effectively bonds the gummed strip on the cartridge to the edge of the top sheet of paper; and the motion away from the feeding direction lifts the top edge of the sheet from the edge of the sheet below, which now forms the top of the stack.

Abstract: An apparatus for clamping workpieces made from varied materials and complicated shapes comprises a body and clamping member, which are formed by adhesive films which can be used a number of times. These adhesive films can be moved from a position above the clamping surface of the body into a position below the clamping surface. In the first position, the workpiece is e.g. reliably fixed by pressing down. The adhesive film is then lowered into the plane of the clamping surface, so that the workpiece rests thereon and is reliably and firmly supported there for machining purposes. The adhesive film simultaneously secures the workpiece in the machining position. When machining is ended, the adhesive film is lowered beneath the plane of the clamping surface, so that the adhesive connection can be broken and the workpiece removed. The adhesive film can be moved mechanically, e.g. by an eccentric drive, or alternatively by a hydraulic or pneumatic mechanism.

Abstract: A pick-and-place glue applicator is disclosed having a drive shaft mounted on a frame member for rotation about a primary axis of rotation. A support shaft is mounted on the frame member for rotation about a secondary axis of rotation which is parallel to and spaced from the primary axis. Planetary gearing causes the support shaft to orbit the primary axis and rotate about the secondary axis in a direction opposite the direction of the orbit. A suction cup is secured to the support shaft and extends radially therefrom to a suction end. The suction cup moves in a generally hypotrochoidal path. The hypotrochoidal path includes three positions where the suction cup is facing outwardly away from the primary axis. The three outwardly projecting positions are connected by connecting paths where the suction cups face inwardly toward the axis.

Abstract: An apparatus for picking up, transporting and exactly depositing planar work pieces, particularly cloth parts, comprises lifting devices which can be moved over work piece deposition points. The lifting devices comprise a pressure plate having a plurality of adhesive-tape pickups removably fixed thereon, e.g., by adhesion magnets. The adhesive-tape pick ups can be easily moved to any number of selectable points on the pressure plate in order to conform to the work piece to be picked up. The adhesive-tape pickups comprise a tubular housing having disposed therein a longitudinally movable adhesive-tape winding device with associated table deflection rolls. The tubular member has a baffle plate located at the bottom thereof. The baffle plate is provided with apertures. The tape deflection rollers protrude slightly through these apertures presenting adhesive tape for picking up a work piece when the apparatus is positioned at a pickup point.

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

Abstract: A method and apparatus for isolating, separating, and removing a single ply of material from a stack of plies including pickup fingers for lifting a peripheral edge of the topmost ply in the stack with adhesive tape, a spin off assembly for removing clinging plies from the lifted edge of the topmost ply, grasping fingers for engaging and hold the isolated ply, and a separator assembly for positively separating the topmost ply by indexing a separator rod into the gap between the uplifted peripheral edge of the topmost ply and the remaining plies and along the stack. The isolated topmost ply is removed by withdrawing the grasping fingers away from the stack. There is also disclosed an alignment apparatus including a plurality of alignment fingers which define a relatively wide ply-receiving portion and an edge stop which prevents climbing of the edge of the ply.

Abstract: Device for individually separating sheets from a stack thereof by means of a band-shaped adhesive carrier extending from a supply roller over guide rollers to a wind-up roller, action of the adhesive carrier being adaptable to characteristics of the sheet surface by selection of various guide-roller profiles, including an adhesive head and a drum mounted on a disk so as to afford both angular displacement as well as rotation of the adhesive head, the disk forming an inner bearing ring of the drum for feeding the sheets, the adhesive head having a side mounting plate, one of the guide rollers projecting in use beyond the side mounting plate of the adhesive head and beyond the drum, at a location of adhesion between the adhesive carrier and a sheet to be individually separated from a stack thereof.

Abstract: A pick-up and transfer mechanism for labels or the like, preferably for transferring labels in a labeling machine from a label magazine to a greater cylinder. The mechanism has at least one pick-up element on a carrying element rotating around a vertical axis. In order to obtain the required way of movement of the pick-up element relative to the rotating carrying element, the pick-up element is rotatably mounted on an intermediate carrier which in turn is rotatably mounted on the carrying element, with the axis of rotation of the pick-up element on the intermediate carrier being eccentrically arranged to the axis of rotation of the intermediate carrier on the carrying element and with the axis of rotation of the intermediate carrier on the carrying element being eccentrically arranged to the axis of rotation of the carrying element.

Abstract: A labeling machine has a rotor on which several oscillatingly driven pallet shafts are supported. Each shaft has a carriage shiftable transversely to the shaft axis. Glue pallets having partly cylindrical surfaces for being coated with glue are mounted to the carriage and are thereby movable from a radially outward position to a radially inward or neutral position for, respectively, contacting a glue roller and a label in a stack successively and for being retracted to neutral position out of the path of the roller and stack. The shafts have an enlarged central section which is rectangular in cross section and a complementarily shaped channel on a sleeve that carries the curved pallets is supported for sliding transversely to the pallet shaft axis.

Abstract: A rotary, self contained, unitary, modular detack mechanism for cantilever pivotal mounting wherein an epicyclic gear assembly operably connected to a continuously rotating source of motion is caused to advance a portion of adhesive material from a supply to a take-up receptacle over a peripheral projection on the mechanism in timed synchronism with a solenoid actuated cam follower effective to rotate the mechanism concurrently raising and lowering the same into momentary contact with and being detacked, stripper members straddling the mechanism strip the item from the adhesive.

Abstract: An improvement in a labeling station for bottles having pivoting extractors 2, 3, 4 with convex pickup surfaces, means for applying adhesive to the extractors and means for rolling the extractors over a stack of labels so as to pick up the front-most label which is thereafter supplied to a gripping cylinder, all in conventional manner. In accordance with the invention the labels are present as stacks in a magazine which can be moved from operative to inoperative position by holders which are activated only in the intervals between label removals so that the magazine can be moved to inoperative position when there is a gap in the supply of bottles going through the station.

Abstract: A bottle labeling machine has a turret rotating on a fixed axle. The turret has circumferentially spaced apart curved glue pallets mounted on individual pallet shafts supported in oscillatable drive members, respectively, which drive the shafts. The pallets orbit and oscillate to pick up glue from a roller, pick up a label next and deposit the label on a cylinder from which it is transferred eventually to a bottle. The drive members are externally splined axially and are each surrounded by an internally axially splined clutch member. The drive member has a smooth bore to permit it to rotate on a shaft that is driven in oscillating fashion as the turret rotates. The oscillating shaft has a transversely extending element on which there are axially projecting teeth that engage in corresponding recesses in the clutch member to effect oscillation of the pallet shaft.

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.

Abstract: In the labeling of articles such as bottles by feeding the articles to a labelling machine having label pickup means, picking up labels from a label box, successively applying such labels to the articles, and periodically replacing the label box when empty with a full label box, the improvement which comprises replacing the empty label box during the time interval between successive label pickups without stopping the machine. An apparatus therefor includes two label boxes disposed alongside one another, guide means for the boxes so as to permit them to move together transversely to the direction in which labels are stacked in the boxes, and means permitting retracting and advancing in label stacking direction of that label box which is in active position.

Abstract: In a labelling machine including label pickup means, for delivering to the machine articles to be labelled and for removing from the machine labelled articles, at least two boxes for labels disposed alongside one another, one of said boxes being in active position, means permitting retracting and advancing in label stacking direction of that label box which is in active position, and guide means for the boxes to permit them to move transversely to the direction in which labels are stacked in the boxes so as to take said one box out of active position and to put another box in active position, the improvement wherein said guide means comprises a common support for said boxes, and means mounting said support for rotation about an axis so that said support can be rotated to place any of said boxes or none of said boxes into active labelling position. The support preferably comprises a circular disk rotatable about its center, the label boxes being arranged radially thereon.

Abstract: In the cleaning and keeping ready for use the labeling station of a labeling machine comprising a label box, a glue roll and a gripper cylinder as well as label pickup members rolling along the glue roll, wherein the glue is removed from the surface of the glue roll after the supply of glue to the glue roll has been shut off and with the machine idling, the improvement which comprises moisturizing the glue roll after the supply of glue has been shut off.An apparatus thereof is provided comprising a spray head associated with the glue roll or a pickup member. It may be used in conjunction with a bottle filling machine provided with sensors to actuate the spray head in response to the absence or backup of bottles to be filled.

Abstract: Labeling machine comprising a turret carrying plural pallets for periodically picking up glue, picking up a label on the glue, and transferring the glued label to a bottle or other workpiece by rotating the turret and oscillating the pallets radially inward and outward. Each pallet has a double-acting dog clutch for engaging or disengaging the drive which oscillates it; the clutch can be shifted only when the turret is at a particular angular position at which the pallet is sufficiently radially retracted to be clear of the sources of glue and labels and the mechanism for transferring labels. When a bottle is presented for receiving a label from a particular pallet the clutch is shifted to or maintained at its position for engaging the oscillating drive so the pallet transfers a glued label for application to the bottle.

Abstract: In a labeling machine having a labeling station including a support means for revolving the support about its axis successively past a gluing roller, a label pickup station and a label gripping cylinder, at least one gluing segment on the support axis, the gluing segment having a cylindrically curved pickup surface with a radius smaller than the distance between the support axis and the gripping cylinder, the gripper cylinder and each gluing segment being coupled to one another through a nonuniformity gearing such that they have the same sense of rotation and each gluing segment performing a rotatory movement in the opposite direction which is accelerated or retarded such that its pickup surface rolls against the glue roller, the labels and the gripper cylinder, the labeling station being designed for optional operation with one or more gluing segments and the nonuniformity gearing being replaceable such that the transmission ratio of the gearing from the support to the gripper cylinder is reciprocal to the n

Abstract: This invention relates to dispensers, primarily the dispensing of permanent wave tissue sheets and other flexible sheet members.It is the object of this invention to provide an improved and simple automatic sheet dispenser capable of dispensing individual flat sheets from a stack. The principal advavtageous feature of the invention is the unique automatic combination driving roll and sheet stop construction.