Patent ID: 8298361
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: G07B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A postage label dispensing system for dispensing adhesive-backed postage labels, the label dispensing system receiving a supply of label material including an adhesive-backed face material and a liner material disposed over and carrying the adhesive backing of the face material, comprising: a means for stripping the adhesive-backed face material from the liner material, the face material having a postage indicia printed thereon, the stripping means further including a peeler bar for effecting an abrupt directional change in the label material such that each the adhesive backed face material separates from the underlying lining material; a first cutting apparatus, downstream of the stripping means, for cutting the face material to a desired length and producing adhesive backed face material; a re-lining means for re-attaching a lining material to the adhesive backed face material; a second cutting apparatus, downstream of the re-lining means, for cutting the re-lined adhesive backed face material to dispense at least one lined postage label; and a deflector guide cooperating with the stripping and re-lining means, the deflector guide being re-positionable from an engaged position to a disengaged position, such that, in the engaged position, the deflector guide is operative to re-direct the adhesive-backed face material from the stripping means to the re-lining means, and in the disengaged position, the deflector guide is inoperative such that the adhesive backed face material is dispensed as an application-ready label; and a processor for controlling the operation of the first and second cutting apparatus, the stripping and re-lining means, and the deflector guide.