Patent ID: 6712109
Filing Date: 2004-03-30
Classification: B65C,Y10T

Abstract:
A labeler for applying labels on a carrier to articles comprising:a label feed mechanism for feeding labels; a rotatable bellows wheel having individual bellows spaced around the periphery thereof; a vacuum source and a pressure source that may be selectively connected to each individual bellows such that each of the individual bellows is subjected to pressure when adjacent a label application position and subjected to vacuum for picking up a label from the label feed mechanism and retaining a label on one of the individual bellows; a sensor for detecting an article and providing an indication of such detection; and an electronically-controlled drive mechanism substantially contained within the labeler to drive said label feed mechanism and to rotate said bellows wheel to permit it to effect the depositing of a label retained on one of the individual bellows on an article positioned at the label application position upon receipt of an indication from said sensor, wherein said electronically-controlled drive mechanism operates intermittently to advance the label feed mechanism and the bellows wheel in response to the detection of an article.