Patent ID: 6652687
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: B65C,Y10T

Abstract:
A single drum heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler comprising:(a) a label sheet; (b) a printer for printing indicia on a surface opposite to an adhesive surface of the label sheet; (c) a feed roll that feeds a label piece and is provided in front of the printer; (d) a label sheet cutter disposed in front of the feed roll at a position where at least a tip of the label piece cut from the label sheet by the label sheet cutter is brought into contact with the suction hole of the adhering drum; (e) a label adhering drum disposed in front of the label sheet cutter, having a plurality of groups of label suction holes disposed at equal intervals in an odd number of places around a peripheral surface of the label adhering drum, and a ventilation hole having an open hole at one end opened to a top surface of the label adhering drum and another end connected to a pressure reducing device, the ventilation hole and the groups of label suction holes being in communication with each other, and a closing rod freely detachably inserted from the opening of the ventilation hole at the top surface to close at least one unnecessary label suction hole; (f) a feeder that feeds an article, to which the label piece is adhered, in synchronization with the label piece sucked to a label suction hole of the every other position; (g) a pressing device provided at a position opposite to the label adhering drum in front of the cutter to press the article fed to the adhering drum and adhere the label piece according to rotation of the drum; and (h) a heat-sensitive adhesive activation device to adhere the label piece onto the article, disposed along the peripheral surface of the label adhering drum except locations where the label adhering drum initially sucks the label piece onto the label adhering drum and where the article is pressed onto the label adhering drum wherein the feed roller feeds the label piece to a selected suction hole being at every other interval.