Improvements in Apparatus for Use in connection with Attaching Labels to Bottles.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Use in connection with Attaching
Labels to Bottles.
I, FREDERICK BARTON PYE, of Flowery Dale, Longton, near Preston, in the
County of Lancaster, Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for use in connection with
attaching labels to bottles. The said apparatus consists of a combined mallet and
holder to contain a quantity of labels which are caused to leave the apparatus one
after another upon being pressed upon previously gummed or pasted bottles by
the tapping or hammering of the mallet. The apparatus consists of a flat piece of
wood hollowed out longitudinally at one end to suit the curvature of the bottle the
hollowed out part being preferably lined with felting. On each side of the
hollowed out part are arranged elastic wings or holders roughened or grooved upon
their inner faces and between these elastic or spring wings the layer of labels to
be attached to the bottles is inserted and grasped. The other end of the mallet is
in the form of a handle. In use a number of bottles having been laid in a row
and having had paste or gum rubbed or smeared over them the apparatus is
applied by means of a gentle blow to each bottle and leaves a label adhering
upon each.
Dated this 10th day of June 1906
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
Improvements in Apparatus for Use in connection with Attaching
Labels to Bottles.
1, FREDERICK BARTON PYE, of Flowery Dale, Longton, near Preston, in the
County of Lancaster, Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for use in connection with
attaching labels to bottles. The said apparatus consists of a combined mallet and
holder to contain a quantity of labels which are caused to leave the apparatus one
after another upon being pressed upon previously gummed or pasted bottles by the
tapping or hammering of the mallet. The apparatus consists of a flat piece of
wood hollowed out longitudinally at one end to suit the curvature of the bottle the
hollowed out part being preferably lined with felting. On each side of the
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page_text: hollowed out part are arranged elastic wings or holders roughened or grooved upon
their inner faces and between these elastic or spring wings the layer of labels to be
attached to the bottles is inserted and grasped. The other end of the mallet is
in the form of a handle. In use a number of bottles having been laid down in
a row and having had paste or gum rubbed or smeared over them the apparatus
is applied by means of a gentle blow to each bottle and leaves a label adhering
upon each.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a plan view and
Fig. 2 a cross sectional view of apparatus constructed as above described.
a and a' are of wood and constitute the mallet portion of the apparatus. b bare
the elastic or spring side wings or holders roughened or finely grooved on their
inner faces so as the better to grasp and retain a number of labels represented by
the dark curved lines c c.
The succeeding figures illustrate a development of the main idea of my invention.
In practice I find the apparatus handier to work if the handle al is dispensel with
and the labels pressed rather than tapped or hammered on to the bottles and by a
simple arrangement I combine with my improved label attaching apparatus a
gumming pad in such manner that the gumming of a bottle may form part of the
same operation as the attaching of the label.
Fig. 3 is an end view.
Fig. 4 a longitudinal section and
Fig. 5 a plan of the said combined apparatus and
Fig. 6 illustrates the method of its use or application.
In the said figures a is the wooden part of the label holder and 6 6 the elastic or
spring wings c c representing the labels. d represents a layer or gumming pad of
soft porous felting carried on a curved sheet metal holder e which is formed with
vertical guides ff capable of sliding up and down in the side bearings gg.
h is a
flat cushioning spring against which the gumming pad holder e presses and
i represents a stop-preferably of stout india-rubber-which in practice is brought
up to or against the shoulders of the successive bottles and causes the labels to be
placed at one uniform position on the bottles and also prevents the labels from
slipping out at the back. In use the gumming pad of the apparatus (see Fig. 6)
is first placed on the bottle in the position indicated by the solid lines the whole
apparatus being then pushed forward to the position indicated by the broken lines
the gumming pad having in the meantime smeared the bottle with gum
whereupon the label holder is pressed down on the gummed face of the bottle
leaving the bottom label of the layer attached thereto. Although I have only
referred to wood as the material for the body part of the apparatus metal or other
material may obviously be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
claim is :-
Apparatus for use in connection with attaching labels to bottles in which the
labels to be attached are grasped between a pair of elastic or spring wings in
manner substantially as herein described and shewn in the drawings..
Dated this 10th of March 1997
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,.
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
W. LLOYD WISE,.
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.