Labelling Apparatus for Bottles and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 5th Jan., 1895
Labelling Apparatus for Bottles and the like.
I, EDUARD SCHWICKERT, Merchant, of 11 Grosse Pfingstweidstrasse, Frankfort
on the Main, Germany, 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:-
The present invention consists of an apparatus for facilitating the labelling of
wine, medicine and other bottles.
The said apparatus consists mainly of a base plate advantageously of wood, a.
suitable stock or bottle holder arranged thereon and having a clamp for retaining
the labels, a receptacle for water and paste or other adhesive, a packet of paper
sheets, one of which is placed under each packet of labels before it is put under
the clamp and a cushion and a sponge attached to the edges of said base plate for
the person labelling the bottles to clean his fingers on.
And in order to make the present invention more easily intelligible reference is
had to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which similar letters denote similar
parts throughout the several views:-Fig. 1 being a plan of the apparatus; Fig. 2
an end elevation; Fig. 3 a plan of a modified form of label clamp; Fig. 4 a side
elevation of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 a plan of a further modification of the clamp, and
Fig. 6 a perspective view of the whole apparatus.
Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 6-a is the base plate having fixed thereto the
stock b, having a straight, rectangular or more or less trapezium shaped slot o into
which the bottle to be labelled is laid, the throat of the said bottle being
advantageously supported on a sliding block e adjustable in a slot d of the base
plate a. The block may be adjusted to suit various shapes and sizes of bottles or
when labelling jugs having handles the same may he pushed to the top of the
slot d and the said slot may then serve to receive the handle of the said jug so that
the same may lie snugly in the stock b. The upper surface of the said stock is
provided with horizontal lines, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 etc., which serve to guide the
workman when labelling and enable him to arrange the label in the same position
on each bottle. A plate o is provided at the bottom of the stocks against which
the bottom of the bottle rests. Below this plate again is arranged a clamp f, the
forward end of which is held downward by a spring a (Fig. 4) and provided with
a wire or bow of such construction that the same only contacts with the packet
of labels i placed thereunder at two points. k is a receptacle for paste or other
adhesive and water the cover of said receptacle being slotted at to allow room for
the brush, and being shown open at Figs. 1 and 6. P indicates a packet of paper
sheets arranged on the base plate at R of which one is placed under each fresh
packet of labels placed under the clamp f to prevent a smearing of the base
plate a when gumming or pasting the last few labels of each packet. n is a sponge
arranged at the side of the base plate next the workman on which the latter may
wet his fingers to remove any adhesive which he may have on the same, and m is a
cushion on which the fingers may be dried.
Fig. 5 shows a modified form of pressure bow for the clamp f, in which the ends
of the same are open, Figs. 3 and 4 show a bow h having its ends turned upwards
so as to only touch the labels at the points ss.
The apparatus is manipulated in the following manner :-
The bottle is placed in the stock b, and a packet of labels under the clamp fa
sheet of paper P having been advantageously placed under the said packet of

page_text: labels. Said labels are placed under the clamp f face downwards, and the top
label is now pasted or gummed, before removal from the packet by passing the
brush over the same. The operator now takes hold of the top label and lays it on
the bottle at a line corresponding to the position of the said label on the bottle.
The bottle is then removed and another one placed in the stocks and so on.
When it is required to label very small bottles, such as medicine bottles a lining
piece may be slid into the slot c so as to render the same smaller.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) An apparatus for labelling bottles consisting of a base plate a having a
stock thereon in which the bottle is arranged a plate o at the end of said stock
and a clamp for retaining the labels, which are placed face downwards on the same,
a receptacle for water and adhesive substantially as described.
(2.) In combination with the device covered by Claim 1, the arrangement of
a block e for holding the bottle throat sliding in a slot d of the base plate said slot
serving also for the reception of the handle in labelling jugs substantially as
described.
(3.) In combination with the apparatus covered under Claim 1, the clamping
device as shown and described consisting of a spring pressed pivoted lever f having
a bow at its forward end adapted to press at two points on the label packet
substantially as described.
(4.) In combination with the apparatus covered in Claim 1, the arrangement of a
lining piece in the bottle stock substantially as described..
(5.) In combination with the apparatus covered by Claim 1 a clamping device
for the label packet consisting of a pivoted spring pressed lever f having an open
fork like extension adapted to press on the labels substantially as described.
(6.) In combination with the apparatus covered by Claim 1, a series of horizontal
lines on the upper surface of the stock drawn at right angles to the longitudinal
axis of the slot for the purpose substantially as described.
(7.) An apparatus for labelling bottles substantially as described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th dow of November 1841
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CASTLE SMITH,
Invention Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.