Patent ID: 6551439
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: B65C

Abstract:
A continuous method of applying individual stacked, plastic labels to containers including the sequential steps of:maintaining a stack of individual, stacked plastic labels in a dispensing magazine; applying a UV curable adhesive to a transfer member; causing said transfer member with the adhesive theron to engage an exposed, lower surface of a lowermost label in the stack to apply said UV curable adhesive to said lower surface and to remove the lowermost label from the stack and releasably secure said lowermost label to said transfer member for subsequent transport of the lowermost label throught a radiation cure station; directing the label with the UV curable adhesive theron through a UV cure station for radiating the adhesive with UV radiation to increase the tackiness of the adhesive, and thereafter; applying the label through the tacky adhesive component thereof to the outer surface of a container.