A labeling machine for handling upright containers, such as bottles or cans, and having a bottle input conveyor, a bottle output conveyor, a label-applying mechanism, variable speed drive, sensors at the input and output conveyors, a container stop at the input conveyor and control mechanism subject to the sensors to actuate said stop and said variable speed drive to stop containers coming into the machine and reduce machine speed when the sensors respectively sense a deficiency of containers at...

A labeling apparatus is presented. The apparatus has a pair of stationary rollers. There is a gap between the rollers. An idler wheel is positioned opposite the stationary rollers to engage the object and hold it against the rollers. A floating pin is positioned between the rollers and the object. The pin diameter is larger than the roller gap. A continuous web of labels is threaded through the gap and around the pin. When the web is advanced, the tension forces the web and pin against the rolle...

A label continuum (R) in which a number of printed labels (L) are temporarily stacked on a mounting sheet (S) is made to travel from a label holder (31), and the mounting sheet (S), after being turned by a turn pin (32), is wound while pulled by a motor (21). In keeping with this, each of the labels (L) is peeled off and its non-adhesive face is brought to the sticking section of a rotator. By a mounting sheet slack detecting circuit (50), the motor (21) is driven when the mounting sheet is slac...

An improved labeling machine and method in which various articles such as magazines, brochures, catalogs, newspapers, or mailing pieces (hereinafter collectively referred to as "articles") are fed to a labeling head where individual labels with addresses or other information thereon are adhesively secured to the articles being fed through the machine. The labels may be, for example, computer printed forms from one to, usually six, addresses across. The addresses need not be spaced equally; for e...

A labeling machine for applying labels to successively presented objects has a label holder which includes a label supporting face on which the label is carried to the object and subsequently applied thereto. With the label holder there is connected an aligning mechanism which, by engaging the label edges that protrude beyond the outline of the supporting face, shifts the label in its plane on the supporting face to center the label with respect to the supporting face. The aligning mechanism is ...

A labeling system includes a conveyor for moving articles to be labeled in a first direction through a labeling station while allowing the article to be rotated, and a label transport for conveying labels in a generally opposite second direction from a label dispensing station to the labeling station. Label dispensing components are provided for dispensing a label onto the label transport whereby the label transport can convey the label to the labeling station where the label contacts the articl...

Pressure-sensitized labels on a carrying tape are brought stepwise to a label-affixing zone through which filled containers are moved, such containers having curved or flat surfaces for receiving the labels, means being provided for stripping the labels from the tape and simultaneously directing the labels to the container surfaces, thereupon affixing such labels by pressure means to such surfaces and means being provided for activating the label supply means by action of the containers in movin...

The labeling machine and method are for attaching brochures or similar materials to containers, such as bottles. The machine is provided with an improved container supporting member which automatically deposits a measured amount of glue or adhesive to an unlabeled portion of the container, so that a brochure or similar article may be placed in contact with said glue or adhesive and thereby attached to the container.

An apparatus and method for applying tubular labels to a product container at a labeling station including a reciprocally movable labeling assembly. The assembly is adjustably secured to carriage that is mounted for reciprocating movement at the labeling station. A drive system including a drive cam defining an asymetrical profile is operatively coupled to the carriage by a lever arrangement including a cam follower driven by the drive cam. The profile of the drive cam is configured to have a st...

A labeling machine, system, and method capable of accommodating offset printed label tapes or other label tapes having discontinuities between the individual labels of a repeat print pattern, with feeding and severing such in controlled fashion utilizing a printed indicia code and a two stage feeding and cutting cycle, while uniquely securing and advancing articles or containers to be labeled with novel equipment, both in a manner to allow extremely accurate and dependable label application and ...