Patent ID: 7717149
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: A01F,B65C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A device for attaching labels to a lineal object, comprising: a supply roller to hold and dispense a continuous roll of backing web with separate adhesive-backed labels disposed thereon; a take-up roller, powered by a driving mechanism, to pull and receive said continuous roll of backing web; a guide roller disposed in a path between said supply roller and said take-up roller, so that said continuous roll of backing web bends sharply around the guide roller at a peeling location, causing an adhesive-backed label to peel apart from the backing web; two compression rollers disposed below the guide roller; and one or more lifting members for raising a lineal object between a first position below the compression rollers and a second position which is above the compression rollers and adjacent to the peeling location; wherein at the second position the lineal object receives an adhesive-backed label from the backing web, and wherein the lineal object having the label thereon is returned to the first position, passing between the two compression rollers and causing the label to adhere to itself, enveloping the lineal object.