IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR PASTING LABELS AND PUTTING THEM ON TINS, BOTTLES, OR OTHER ARTICLES.
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Ernest Loman at the Office of tho
Commissioners of Patents on the 13th March 1877.
ERNEST LEMAN, of Trowse Nowton, in the County of Norfolk. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINES FOR PASTING LABELS AND PUTTING THEM ON TINS, BOTTLES, OR OTHER
ARTICLES.
My Invention is intended to provide the means of pasting an increased number
of labels and fixing the same on the outer surface of tins or other articles requiring
to be labelled. For this purpose my Invention consists in the use of the mechanism
hereinafter described, by means of which any convenient number of labels can be
pasted, and afterwards carried and applied to such tins or other articlos, supported
on wheels or rollers covered with india-rubber or other suitablo material, which
press and smooth the labels on the tins, such wheels or rollers being mounted so ns
to work in slots formed in the spokes of a wheel fixed on a shaft driven by cog
wheels in order to carry the tins or other articles in succession round a part cylinder,
lined inside with india-rubber or other suitable inaterial adapted, to produce by
friction the revolution of the tins or other articles as required.
The supporting rollers are driven by friction wheels or rollers receiving their
motion by coming in contact with the inside surface of the part cylinder. In this
part cylinder is formed an aperture through which the label is allowed to pass and
come in contact with the tin. On the said shaft is also placed a spoke wheel
capable of being moved horizontally by means of a screw in order to increase or
diminish the space required for the length of the tin or other article; also on the
same shaft is fitted a spoke wheel which by its inoverment is capable of adjusting
the positions of the said supporting rollers to the requisite diameter of the tins to
be labelled, such wheel being fastened as required to the first-mentioned wheel
which carries the said wheels or rollers; at the other end of the said shaft aro
fitted duplicates of the wheels for supporting and adjusting the other ends of the
said rollers. The said part cylinder is capable of adjustment by means of a screw or
otherwise in order to vary the tension on the tins and rollers as required. On a
separate shaft is fixed the labelling roller supplied with paste from a pasting roller
revolving in a paste trough. The said labelling roller is driven by suitable gearing
simultaneously with the first-mentioned wheel, and has in it slots fitted with rods
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page_text: adapted to withdraw portions of the circumference of the said roller from the
periphery of the pasting roller. On this shaft is also fitted a wheel having slots
suitably formed to act on the said rods, and having also cast on it a cog-wheel
gearing with other cog wheels, to which are fixed wheels to support the parts of
the circumference of the labelling roller as required. In the circumference of the
labelling roller are formed spaces at regulated distances apart to facilitate the
putting on of the labels at the right place.
The label is carried from the labelling roller by means of a continuous tape or
other suitable carrier to a roller mounted over the aperture in the part cylinder, a
guide roller being employed to complete the circuit of the tape.