Patent ID: 7699594
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: B29C

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for supplying a label to a pseudo-core used for label insert molding wherein a label wound around an outer peripheral surface of the pseudo-core is mounted in a metal mold and a molded product in which the label is integrated is molded by injecting synthetic resin into the metal mold, the apparatus comprising: a holding member including a sucking/holding member that sucks and holds a label from a group of labels at least at a longitudinally central part of the label when the label is in a plane state; and a pseudo metal mold having a hollow section with an inner surface having a profile substantially corresponding to an outer profile of the pseudo-core and an aperture communicating with the hollow section arranged at a part thereof, wherein the label is held by the sucking/holding member at least at a longitudinally central part of the label and introduced while being held into the hollow section through the aperture, and wherein the label is then held in the pseudo metal mold along an inner surface of the hollow section while being elastically deformed; wherein the holding member holds the label in a horizontal state at least at the longitudinally central part of the label by sucking and holding the label while the holding member is controlled to move to a pseudo-core side, the held label is inserted into the hollow section through the aperture so as to hold the label in a state in which the label is tightly adhered to the inner surface of the hollow section, and then the pseudo core is controlled to move to enter the hollow section of the pseudo metal mold in which the label is held on the inner surface, and the label is then transferred to the outer peripheral surface of the pseudo-core and thereby supplied to the pseudo-core.