AN IMPROVED METHOD OR APPARATUS FOR AFFIXING LABELS ON BOTTLES, CANISTERS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1863

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Andrew Pollock Henry and Richard
Threlfall Power at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 16th November 1863.
We, ANDREW POLLOCK HENRY and RICHARD THRELFALL POWER, both of
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Merchants, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OR APPARATUS FOR
AFFIXING LABELS ON BOTTLES, CANISTERS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," to be as
follows (that is to say):-
This Invention consists of simple apparatus for facilitating the affixing of
labels on the sides of bottles, canisters, and other like articles, and consists of
a table having one, two, or more openings formed therethrough to receive the
supply of labels, which are kept up flush to the upper surface of the
table by means of springs or other mechanical equivalent. One edge of
the table is fitted with a vertical guide rib, and above which is mounted a
guide rod running parallel with the surface of the table, and which is capable
of being elevated or depressed according to the size of the article to be labelled.
To this guide rod is jointed or otherwise suitably attached a horizontal
platten" or plate which is capable of sliding longitudinally backwards and
forwards over the surface of the table. This platten or pressing board is
fitted within recesses formed in its under surface with one or more porous pads
formed of sponge and woollen cloth or other suitable porous material or
combination of material, which are saturated and supplied from the upper side
with a solution of gum or other adhesive liquid. The upper surface of the
table and lower side of the horizontal sliding plate it is preferred to cover with

page_text: india-rubber cloth or other suitable elastic material, and the table fitted with a
transverse guage bar against which the bottle or other article to be labelled
is laid.
The operation of this machine is as follows:-The sliding platten or hori-
zontal plate which extends across the table containing the spongy pads
saturated with the gummy matter is drawn back on its guide bar in rear of
the transverse guage plate; it is then advanced forward by hand or otherwise
rolled upon the bottle, which has been previously laid sideways against the
transverse guage plate, a slight pressure being applied thereto during the time
it is rolling upon the bottle or other article which causes the bottle to advance
and roll over the opening containing the labels. The upper one of each lot
adheres to the surface of the bottle, which has previously received a coating
of gum or other sticky matter from the saturating pads in the sliding plate,
which completes the operating of labelling the bottle, and with one, two, or
anore labels as required. When the sliding plate is drawn backwards to repeat
the operation on another bottle or other article, and so on to any number of
bottles or other articles. The recesses or depòts in the stationary table may
be so arranged as to be brought nearer together or placed further apart, and
the sliding transverse guage plate may be so fitted as to be capable of being
advanced or withdrawn to suit the size of bottle or other article to be labelled.
The adhesive matter pads in the horizontal sliding plate in this case will also
require to be fitted in such a way that they may be moved and fixed in the
required position to correspond with the label depòts on the stationary
table.