Patent GB-304626-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved machine for labelling bottles, canisters and the like
IPC: B65C3/14
Filed: 1927-10-22
Abstract: 304,626. Blaxter, A. P., Chaloner, G. W., and Blaxter, A. P. L., (trading as. Barnett & Foster). Oct. 22, 1927. Pile tables and supports for sheet feeds; separators. - A machine for labelling bottles and other containers comprises a labelling device provided with pickers and wipers, the pickers being adapted to be moved in one plane to receive adhesive, to apply it to the front label in a pack, and to pick off said label, and then to be reciprocated in another plane, together with the wipers, to apply the label to, and wipe it on, a bottle, the labelled bottle being then left free for removal from the labelling position. As illustrated, bottles are fed by a conveyer to a labelling position where they are held between upper and lower turret - like holders 75, 76, which are rotated intermittently by a Geneva stop mechanism also driven from the main shaft. The labelling device and the driving mechanism for its components are mounted adjustably on vertical rods 85 relatively to the holders 75, 76 to adapt the machine to deal with bottles of different heights. The labelling device, comprising pickers 1, wipers 10, which may be in the form shown or as rubber rollers, and a fixer 15, are carried on a carriage 7 which is reciprocated to and from the labelling position by a lever 29, pivoted at its lower end 30 to the machine frame 9 and connected at its upper end by a link 31 to the carriage 7 and oscillated by a cam 27 on a cam-shaft 22. The fixer 15 is carried by a rod 16 which may also carry a projecting forked arm to centralize the bottle in its holders 75, 76. The rod 16 is pushed rearwardly, by contact with the face of the bottle, if a bottle is in labelling position, in a holder, in which it is frictionally held, to move its rear end into such a position as to cause a rod 50 to move, by means of a crank connection 43, 44, a fork 42, which supports a cross bar 37 connecting two vertical bars 38 connected with the pickers 1, to the position shown in Fig. 1, where the cross-bar 37 is also supported by the hooked-end 36 of a cam-oscillated lever 34, to raise and lower the pickers 1 to receive adhesive, as it passes a roll 52, and to apply it to the front label in a holder 55, to remove the label, and return to its original position. If there is no bottle in position, the rod 50 is unmoved from the position in which it is placed by a cam 47 and lever 48, and the pickers are not moved upwards to take a label from the holder 55, thus saving labels. The pickers 1 carrying the labels, the wipers 10, and fixer 15 are then moved forwards towards the bottle, the pickers applying the label and the wipers wiping the label on the bottle while it is held by the fixer 15. Tho labels are pressed forwards towards the front of the opening holder, in which they are supported. bv a piston 57 carried by a rod 60 which is pulled forwards under constant tension by a rope 59 and weight 58. Pressure of the pickers 1 in applying adhesive to, and removing the front labels from, the holler is resisted by a camshaped lever 62, pivoted at 63, and normally held inoperative by a spring 64, but which, on being turned by slight rearward movement of the rod 60, turns to bear against a block 66 which slides in a groove 67 in the rod 60 and binds the block 66 in position.