AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR LABELLING TINS BOXES AND OTHER RECEPTACLES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George John Hutchings at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd March 1882.
GEORGE HUTCHINGS of New Cross in the county of Kent, "AN IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR LABELLING TINS BOXES AND OTHER RECEPTACLES
"
This Invention relates to a machine for automatically affixing labels around tins
and boxes of cylindrical form such as are used for containing preserved food and
the like.
The machine consists in the combination with an inclined bed of apparatus for
performing in succession during the rolling of the tin down this incline, the several
operations of gumming the circumference of the tin or box, applying the label to
the gummed surface, gumming down the overlapping edge of the label and
smoothing the label so applied around the tin or box.
The inclined bed is pivoted to the main frame of the apparatus to enable its
inclination to be adjusted if necessary and give access to the devices beneath it,
and is provided with guides between which the tin or box rolls, and with apertures
through which such of the apparatus as may be beneath the bed come into contact
with said tin or box.
The gumming or pasting apparatus consists of an endless band or bands running
on rollers which may be mounted beneath the bed and provided with tension
devices, the band or bands running in an aperture in the bed in such position that
the circumference of the tin or box in rolling down will come in contact with it
and receive therefrom the adhesive matter with which it is charged by a roller
pressed against it by a spring and turning in a trough containing a supply of the
gum or other adhesive matter, the endless band being moved in a direction contrary
to that of the tin so as to apply the gum or other matter evenly thereto.
The device for applying the labels to the gummed tin may also be situated
beneath the bed, a little lower down the incline than the gumming device. It
consists of a holder for a packet of labels pressed upwards by a spring so that the
gummed tin as it rolls down the incline shall pick up the uppermost label of the
packet and lap it around its circumference by its rolling motion down the incline.
The label holder is provided with a plate having an overlapping lip against which
the label is pressed near that end which, when the label is wrapped round the box,
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page_text: will overlap the other end of the label, and beneath this overhanging lip there is
a small gumming roller which is divided into lengths or sections by metal rings,
and revolves in contact with that end of the label, and is charged with gum or
other adhesive material by a series of rollers geared together and supplied from a
trough.
The device for smoothing the label after it has been lapped around the gummed
tin or box, consists of an endless band running on rollers provided with suitable
tension devices and mounted above the incline in such position that the endless
band will come in contact with the box as it rolls down beneath it just after
leaving the labelling device, the band being driven in a direction opposite to the
rolling motion of the box and by its frictional contact, smoothing out the label
and applying it evenly around the box.
The gumming and smoothing devices are driven from a main shaft operated by
hand or power.
I would have it understood that I do not limit myself to the precise arrangement
of the parts as the gumming and labelling devices might if preferred be mounted
above the inclined bed instead of below.