IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR LABELLING BOTTLES, TINS. AND PACKAGES.
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Collas, of Bridge Vale, in the Island of Guernsey,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR LABELLING BOTTLES,
TINS. AND PACKAGES.".
Sealed the 27th February 1880, and dated the 1st September 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Collas at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st September 1879.
PETER COLLAS, of Bridge Vale, in the Island of Guernsey. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINES FOR LABELLING BOTTLES, TINS, AND PACKAGES."
The objects of this Invention, which relates to improvements in apparatus for
labelling bottles, tins, and packages, boxes, or enclosures of various kinds, are, to
provide a means by which such articles can be expeditiously labelled, and to effect
an economy in the labor and time as hitherto required to effect this operation.
The improved apparatus is constructed, according to one modification, with a
wheel which is centred in a suitable framing, and the edges of the periphery of
which are provided with flanges, suitably united or bridged over by cross strips of
wood, centrally around which is stretched an india rubber or other pliable band.
At suitable distances apart dependent upon the size of the labels to be used the
periphery of the wheel is provided with a series of levers which are centred on
inner projections and extend sideways beyond the wheel, and at the extremities of
such extensions are fitted with small wheels or runners, and at their inner or
shorter ends are fitted with wire staples which pass through the said cross-strips
and across the encircling rubber band in contact therewith, being kept in this as
their normal position by rubber or steel springs.
Two long levers are set upon the spindle of the wheel, and their shorter arms
are slotted so that they can be set or fixed in various positions in relation to each
other. The longer arms of these levers are telescopic, and the outer extremities
thereof are bifurcated and fitted with segmental plates of about the same radius as
the wheel, and as the latter is caused to revolve the small runners of the said levers
are caught and depressed as they pass under these segmental plates so as to cause
the staples of the said levers to be raised from the said encircling rubber band and

page_text: allow of the labels being inserted under and removed from under the same, as and
at the times hereinafter described.
The above described label holding wheel is slowly rotated by means of a suitable
train of gearing, which is actuated by a treadle, connecting-rod, and crank; the
wheel may however be driven by a steam-engine or other source of motive power.
The label-holding wheel works in connection with a pasting-trough of the
following construction, and which forms a very important feature of my Invention :-
The pasting-trough is balanced or otherwise supported by the same framing
which supports the label-holding wheel close under the latter. The trough itself
may be of any suitable shape and made of any suitable material, but it is provided
with two rollers, one of which has a fixed position in relation to the trough and
revolves in bearings on the sides thereof, and is immersed in the gum, paste, or
other adhesive cement or composition with which it is desired to coat the backs of
the labels as they are carried round by the said wheel, and the other of which is
mounted within the forked extremity of a bifurcated lever centred upon the spindle
of the first roller, and by means of a shifting weight at the other end of the lever is
rendered capable of being raised or lowered in relation to the trough or to the first
roller. The movable roller is formed with grooves in its surface, and into these
grooves are placed rubber or other washers, the edges of which revolve against the
smooth face of the roller immersed in the paste and take the same evenly there-
from without clogging, the rollers being rotated at equal speeds by suitable con-
necting gearing. An excess of paste is prevented from being taken to the second
roller by the first by means of a scraper or "doctor," formed preferably of a suitable
flexible material, which by means of a thumb screw or otherwise can be easily
adjusted from or towards the first roller.
When the pasting trough is in its proper position with respect to the label
holding wheel the grooved roller is adjusted by shifting its counterweight so as to
riso and bear against the periphery of the said wheel, and on this being rotated by
the means above described the friction between the two causes the grooved roller to
revolve, and this by its connecting gearing causes the roller immersed in the paste
to revolve, and thus the paste is transferred from the trough onto the labels, which
are continuously being carried round by the wheel being placed in and removed
from position, as I will now describe.
As the wheel revolves in front of a man or boy with a packet of labels in his
hand the segmental plate nearest him depresses the projecting ends of the series of
levers across, the wheel's periphery as they successively present themselves, and
consequently raises their staples from the said encircling rubber band, as above
described. At each such motion the man slips a label under the raised staple (back
outwards), and the lever of which then immediately escaping from under the said
segmental plate is caused by its steel or other spring to resume its said normal
position, by which its staple is closed down on to the label, keeping it in place
against the under rubber band. In continuing its motion the labels held thus are
successively brought into contact with the said grooved pasting roller and are
evenly, pasted thereby; and just before completing its revolution the projecting
ends of the series of levers, across the wheel's periphery are in turn depressed by the
second of the segmental plates so as again to raise their staples from the now pasted
labels, against which another man then presses the bottles, tins, or packages, giving
each as he does so a slight turn so as to remove the label from off the said band
and firmly affix it to the bottle or other article.
According to another modification I reverse the above described operations, that
is, instead of having the pasting trough as a fixture and the labels carried round by
a wheel, as above described, I cause the labels to be held in the desired position in
or upon a fixed platform or frame and cause the pasting trough to traverse there-
over and paste all the labels as it does so.
The frame of the said platform is fitted with one or a series of labelling boards,
on which the labels are placed, and are held in position and prevented from
adhering to the pasting-roller by a series of wires which are stretched across a

page_text: hinged frame, and are lowered thereonto. The pasting trough is then traversed
over, being provided with small wheels or runners so as to facilitate its travelling,
the gearing of the pasting-roller engaging with a line of rack-teeth along one side
of the said frame, and thus causing both rollers to revolve and transfer the paste
from the trough onto the labels; the hinged wire frame is then raised and the
bottles or other articles are pressed onto the now pasted labels so as to cause them
to adhere thereto, as will be well understood. The pasting roller in this case
projects beyond or works outside or in advance of the trough, and not above it as
in the preceding modification. The pasting trough, is returned to the other end of
the frame without rotating the rollers by depressing the free end of its bifurcated
lever (which in this case is not provided with a shifting counterweight) so as to
raise its gearing from the line of rack teeth.
The labelling boards above referred to (when intended for packages) are formed
with side and end flaps or shutters, across the upper surface of which and an inter-
vening board are or may be stretched strips of india rubber, cut at the various
joints to admit of being more readily turned up, and on which the labels are placed
before being pasted.. Some of the said flaps or shutters are provided with down-
wardly projecting slotted levers, which are operated by under sliding rack bars
carried by the underside of the framing, and actuated in reverse directions by a
double acting toothed wheel, suitably supported under the framing, and rotated by
a hand wheel and toothed pinion on a spindle suitably supported, and by these
means after the labels are pasted by the traversing arrangement just described, and
the wire frame is raised up to free the labels and the packages are deposited
thereon, tho flaps are turned up to cause the labels to adhere to the packages, and
the outermost flaps or shutters may be simply pressed down by hand to secure the
end of the labels to the backs of the packages. To release the packages the motion
of the hand wheel is reversed, when the flaps are withdrawn.
According to another modification the label holding wheel is constructed_as
follows:-Around its periphery it is fitted at equal distances apart with wedge
shaped blocks, centrally around which the said encircling band is stretched. Each
of such blocks is fitted with a lever, as above described, the holding end of which
passes through the encircling band centrally of its width, and is formed as a
broadened out catch in lieu of the staple as previously described, but is raised and
lowered as and by the means above described. This arrangement is of more
advantage than that previously described, in that the space between any adjacent
wedge-shaped blocks is open and merely bridged over by the said encircling rubber
band, so that after the labels are fixed and pasted as above described the bottles or
other articles can be pressed against the pasted side of the labels between the
adjacent wedge-shaped blocks, and cause the same to be easily affixed thereto,
the rubber band giving way and readily taking the form of the article pressed
against it.
According to another modification the pasting roller may be fitted with a series
of squares or pieces of india-rubber, which may be of any shape and size to suit the
shape of label to be pasted, and so that the surface covered by the labels only
would be pasted. The labels may be pasted by means of rollers with plain washers,
as above described, or by rollers fitted as just described, or by means of a plain
roller, either covered with india rubber or not.
According to another modification the said labelling board has a series of hinged
shutters to which a series of slotted levers are secured, the levers being actuated, as
above described, by means of a sliding bar, or by a lever, or otherwise, so as to
cause the shutters to raise the ends of the pasted labels about the packages, so that
the labeller can easily take hold of them, thereby dispensing with the dirty and
troublesome process of raising the labels when they are pasted flat on a board.
According to another modification, wherein the methods of holding and pasting
the labels as described with reference to the third next preceding modification is
reversed in the same respect that they were reversed in the first and second modifi-
cations the labels are placed upon a stationary frame formed, as described in such

page_text: third preceding modification with raised parts and intervening spaces bridged over
by rubber bands, on which the labels are placed and held by a hinged wire frame, as
previously described, the pasting trough being traversed thereover, as also previously
described, and the bottles being subsequently pressed upon the band over the.spaces
between the said raised parts or supports.
According to another process of labelling, and which is especially applicable to
round tins, a board covered with india rubber is placed in the framing, over which
the traversing pasting trough passes, and on it (preferably in suitably marked
positions) the labels are placed backs upwards, the wire frame is then dropped
thereupon to hold them all in position, the pasting trough is then traversed there-
over, the wire frame is then again lifted and another light hinged partitioned frame
lowered onto the now pasted labels. Between the partitions of this frame the tins
are then placed resting on the pasted labels, and they are rolled thereover and
encircled thereby by means of a light frame composed of bars covered underneath
with india rubber so that each and all of the tins are thus encircled by the labels as
desired, and with a great saving as regards economy of time and expenditure of labor.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Peter Collas in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st March
1880.
PETER COLLAS, of Bridge Vale, in the Island of Guernsey.
MACHINES FOR LABELLING BOTTLES, TINS, AND PACKAGES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
The objects of this Invention, which relates to improvements in apparatus for
labelling bottles, tins, boxes, packages, or other enclosures, are to provide a means
by which such articles can be expeditiously labelled and to effect an economy in
the labor and time as hitherto required to effect this operation.
One modification of the Invention is illustrated on the accompanying Sheets of
Drawings in Figures 1 to 4, which respectively represent a side elevation, a front
view, an enlarged sectional detail view, and a detail plan view.
According to this modification the apparatus is constructed with a label holding
wheel wheel 1, which is centred in a suitable framing 2, the edges of its rim being
provided with flanges 3 which are united or bridged across by cross strips 4 of wood
or metal forming an outer circumference, centrally around which is stretched an.
india-rubber or other pliable band 5.
At suitable distances apart, depending upon the size of the labels to be used, the
periphery of the wheel is provided with a series of levers 6, which are centred on
inner projections 7 and extend sideways beyond the wheel, and at the extremities
of such extensions are fitted with small wheels or runners 8, their inner ends being
fitted with wire staples 9 which pass through the cross-strips 4 and across the
encircling rubber band 5 in contact therewith, being kept in this as their normal
position by rubber, steel, or other springs 10.
Upon the shaft 11 of the wheel 1 are centred two levers 12, 13, and their
shorter arms are slotted or equivalently formed so that they can be set or fixed
in various positions in relation to each other. The longer arms of these levers are
telescopic or equivalently formed, and the outer extremities thereof are bifurcated
and fitted with segmental plates 14, 15, of about the same radius as the wheel 1,
and as the latter is caused to revolve the rollers 8 of the levers 6 are caught and
depressed as they pass under the plates 14, 15, so as to cause the staples 9 of the
levers to be raised from the rubber band 5, and allow of the labels being inserted
under and removed from under the same as and at the times hereinafter described.
The wheel 1 is slowly rotated by means of a suitable train of gearing 15 which
is actuated by a treadle 17, connecting-rod 18, and crank 19; it may, however, be
driven by a steam engine or other source of motive power, and by other suitable
means.
The wheel 1 works in connection with a pasting arrangement, which is con-
structed with a trough 20, which may be simply slid under the wheel 1, or may
be balanced or otherwise supported by the framing 2 immediately thereunder.
The trough itself may be of any suitable shape and can be made of any suitable
material, but according to the modification I will first describe, and which is
illustrated in Figures 1 and 4, it is provided with two rollers 21, 22, the former of
which has a fixed position in relation to the trough, and revolves in bearings carried
by the sides thereof, and is immersed in the gum, paste, or other adhesive cement
or composition with which it is desired to coat the backs of the labels as they are
carried round by the wheel 1, and the latter of which is mounted within the forked
extremity of a bifurcated lever 23 centred upon the spindle 24 of the roller 21, and
by means of an adjustable weight 25 at the other end of the lever is rendered
capable of being raised or lowered in relation to the trough or to the wheel 1..
The roller 22 is formed with peripheral grooves with rubber ribs, the edges of
which revolve against the smooth face of the roller immersed in the paste, and take
the same evenly therefrom without clogging, the rollers being rotated at equal
speeds by suitable connecting gearing 27.

page_text: An excess of paste is prevented from being taken to the roller 22 by the roller 21
by means of a scraper or "doctor" 28, formed preferably of india rubber or other
suitable flexible material, and which, by means of a thumbscrew 29, or otherwise,
can be easily adjusted from or towards the roller 21:
When the pasting trough 20 is in its proper position with respect to the label
holding wheel 1 the roller 22 is adjusted by shifting its counterweight 25 so as to
cause the roller to rise and bear against the periphery of the wheel 1 when the
friction of the two causes the roller 22 to revolve, and thus by its connecting
gearing 27 causes the roller 21 to revolve, and thus the paste is transferred from
the trough onto the labels, which are continuously being carried round by the
"wheel being placed in and removed from position, as I will now describe.
As the wheel 1 revolves in the direction of the arrow A in front of an attendant
standing at B with a packet of labels in his hand, the segmental plate 15 nearest
him depresses the projecting ends 8 of the levers 6 as they successively present
- themselves and pass thereunder, and 'consequently raise their staples 9 from the
band 5, as hereinbefore described. At each such motion the attendant at B slips a
label under the raised staple (back outwards) and the lever of which then
immediately escaping from under the segmental plate 15 is caused by its spring 10
to resume its said normal position, by which its staple is closed down onto the
label keeping it in place against the under rubber band. In continuing its motion
the labels held thus are successively brought into contact with the pasting roller 22
and are evenly pasted thereby, and just before completing its revolution the pro-
jecting ends 8 of its series of levers 6 are in turn depressed by the other segmental
plate 14, so as again to raise their staples 9 from the now pasted labels, against
which another attendant standing at C then presses the bottles, tins, or packages,
giving each of which as he does so a slight turn so as to remove the label from off
the band 5 and firmly affix it to the bottle or other article.
According to another modification, which is illustrated in Figures 5 to 7, which
respectively represent a partial side view, a partial plan view, and a sectional
detail view, the wheel 1 is fitted at equal distances apart around its periphery with
wedge or other shaped blocks or raised parts 30, centrally around which the
encircling band 5 is stretched, bridging over the intervening spaces.
Each block 30 is fitted with a lever 6, as above described, the holding end 9 of
which passes through the band 5 centrally of its width, and is formed as a broadened
out catch in lieu of the staple, as previously described, and is raised and lowered as
and by the means herein before described.
This arrangement I consider of more advantage than that previously described, in
that the spaces intervening between the adjacent blocks 30 are open and merely
bridged over by the band 5, so that after the labels are fixed and pasted, as herein-
before described, the bottles or other articles can be pressed against the pasted side
thereof between the adjacent blocks 30 and cause the same to be easily affixed
thereto, the rubber band giving way readily, and taking the form of the articlo
pressed against it, as shown at D.
According to another modification, which is illustrated in Figures 8 to .10, which
respectively represent a side elevation, a front elevation, and a sectional detail
view, the wheel 1 is constructed mainly as described with reference to the next
preceding modification, but in lieu of causing the segmental plates 14, 15, to depress
side extensions 8 of the label holding devices 9 they are caused to push out inner
radiating extensions 8 thereof and raise the holding parts 9, which are here shown
as being double at the times required, the latter being kept against the baud 5
when the extensions S are free from the control of the plates 14, 15, by means of
the springs 10.
This modification also shows the plates 14, 15, as held by rigid arin's 12, 13, and
not adjustable as previously described.
In these Figures is also shown another modification of the pasting arrangement,
according to which the lever 23 carries a third roller 31 intervening between and
in contact with both the rollers 21, 22, this additional roller being used to transfer

page_text: the paste from the former to the latter, and also in lieu of the scraper or "doctor" 28,
hereinbefore described. The axis 24 of the roller 21 also carries a cam 32 which
is acted upon at intervals by side projections 33 of the wheel which catch the
projecting arms thereof. The rollers 21, 22, are connected by bevil gearing 27 or
otherwise, the latter one being driven from the former, and not frictionally by the
rotation of the wheel 1, as in the modification previously described. The label
pasting roller 22 is also shewn as provided with washers or ribs or equivalent raised
parts 26 only at parts thereof, about equal in area to the size of the labels to be
used, in order that the paste may not get carried beyond the margin or edge of the
label and onto the rubber band.
According to another modification, which is illustrated in Figure 11, which repre-
sents a side elevation, the [periphery of the wheel 1 is fitted with rubber or other
yielding pads 5 and with small label holding levers 6, which are acted upon, as
previously described, by segmental plates 14, 15, and are fitted with springs 10
which cause them to retain their normal position against the pads 5.
In this Figure the pasting arrangement is shown as surmounting the wheel 1,
being supported by brackets 36 rising from the frame 2.
In lieu of a band encircling a wheel, as above described, the band may be
stretched between two pullies and carry nipping, devices, released at the proper
times by fixed parts carried by the framing.
According to another modification, which is illustrated in Figures 12 to 16, which
respectively represent a plan view, a side elevation, and enlarged detail views, I
reverse the above described operations, that is, instead of having the pasting-trough
as a fixture and the labels carried round by a wheel, as hereinbefore described, I
cause the labels to be held in the desired position in or upon a fixed platform or
frame 37 and cause the pasting trough 20 to traverse thereover and paste all the
labels as it does so.
The frame 37 is fitted with one or a series of labelling boards 38, hereinafter
described, on which the labels are placed, and are held in position and prevented
from adhering to the roller 22 by a series of wires 39 which are stretched across a
hinged frame 40 and are lowered thereonto; the trough 20 is then traversed over
them, being provided with small wheels or runners 41 so as to facilitate its
travelling, the gearing 27 of the rollers 22 engaging with a line of rack-teeth 42
along one side of the frame 37 and thus causing both rollers 21, 22, or the three
rollers 21, 22, and 31, if the three be used as hereinbefore described, to revolve and
transfer the paste from the trough onto the labels; the hinged frame 40 is
then raised and the bottles or other articles are pressed onto the now pasted labels
so as to cause them to adhere thereto, as will be well understood.
The roller 22 in this, as in the modification illustrated in Figure 11, projects beyond
or works outside or in advance of the trough 20 and not above it, as in the other
modification hereinbefore described.
The trough is returned to the other end of the frame 37 without rotating the
rollers 21, 22, or 31, by depressing the free end of its bifurcated lever 23 (which in
this case is not provided with a shifting counterweight) so as to raise its gearing 27
from the line of rack teeth 42.
The labelling-boards 38, herein before referred to, when intended for packages are
formed with side or end flaps or shutters 43, 44, across the upper surface of which
and the intervening board 38 are stretched strips 5 of india rubber, cut at the
various joints 45 to admit of being more readily turned up, and on which the
labels are placed before being pasted.
The inner flaps or shutters 43 are provided with downwardly projecting slotted
levers 46 which are actuated by under sliding rack-bars 47 carried by the under-
side of the framing 37, and actuated in reverse.directions by a double acting toothed
wheel 48 suitably supported by a bracket 49 bolted under and to the framing 37,
and rotated by a hand wheel 50 and toothed pinion 51 on a spindle 52 supported
by brackets 49, 53, and by these means after the labels are pasted by the
traversing pasting arrangement just described, and the wire frame 40 is raised up

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to free the labels, and the packages are deposited thereon, the flaps 43 are turned
up to cause the labels to adhere to the packages, and the outermost flaps or
shutters 44 may be simply pressed over by hand to secure the ends of the labels to
the backs of the packages. The motion of the hand wheel 50 is reversed when the
flaps 43, 44, are withdrawn.
According to the modification illustrated in the side elevation, Figure 17, the
labelling board 38 has a series of hinged shutters 43 to which a series of slotted
levers 46 are secured, these levers being actuated, as herein before described by
means of a sliding-bar 47 (working in brackets 54 carried by the framing 37), or
by a lever, or otherwise, so as to cause the shutters to raise the ends of the pasted
labels about the packages so that the operative can easily take hold of them,
thereby dispensing with the dirty and troublesome process of raising the labels by
hand when they are pasted flat on a board.
According to another modification, which is illustrated in Figures 18 and 19, which
respectively represent a side elevation and plan view, and wherein the methods of
holding and pasting the labels, as described with reference to the modification
illustrated in Figure 5, are reversed, in the same respect as is herein before mentioned,
a stationary frame 55 is formed with raised parts 30 with intervening spaces
bridged over by rubber bands 5, on which the labels are placed and held by a
hinged wire frame, as previously described, the bottles being subsequently pressed
upon the bands, as at D, over the spaces between the raised parts or supports 30.
According to another modification, which is illustrated in Figures 20 to 23, and
which represent plan views with the exception of Figure 22, which represents a side
elevation, and which method is especially applicable to round tins, a board 56
covered with india rubber is placed in the frame 37, herein before described, and
over which the traversing pasting trough passes, and on it (preferably in suitably
marked positions) the labels are placed backs upwards; the said. wire-frame is then
dropped thereupon to hold them all in position, the pasting trough is then traversed
thereover, the wire frame is then again lifted, and another light hinged and
partitioned frame 57 lowered onto the now pasted labels, and between the partitions
of which the tins D are then placed, resting on the pasted labels, and they are
rolled thereover and encircled thereby by means of a light frame 58 composed of
cross bars covered underneath with india rubber, so that each and all of the tins
are thus encircled by the labels as desired, and with a great saving as regards
economy of time and expenditure of labour. On a side or. end portion of the
board 56 are also placed the desired number of round or end labels, upon which,
after being pasted, the ends of the tins are pressed by hand.
According to another modification, which is illustrated in Figures 24 to 26, which
respectively represent a plan view and end elevations, the pasting roller 22 is fitted
with a series of squares or other shaped pieces 5 of india rubber, which may be of
any shape and size to suit the shape of labels to be pasted and so that the surface
covered by the labels only would be pasted. This is of advantage in pasting a
number of labels at a time, and in preventing any part getting carried onto the
supporting rubber. This modification is applicable to any of the pasting arrange-
ments herein before described. The labels however .niay be pasted by means of
rollers with plain washers, as herein before described, or by means of a plain roller,
as shown in Figure 26, either covered with india rubber or not, but not so
advantageously.
:
Similarly the label carrying wheel 1, hereinbefore described is only illustrated on
the accompanying Drawings as sufficiently wide to take one label, but it may of
course be made of greater width to carry any required number of labels side by
side.
When using an ordinary pasting trough which can be merely slid under the
wheel, as herein before mentioned, I prefer to support all the pasting gear indepen-
dently thereof and by means of suitable standards or brackets carried by the
framing.
:
The above described apparatus may be used equally advantageously in damping

page_text: labels which have been previously gummed, hot or cold water being used instead of
the paste in causing them to adhere to the bottles or other articles.
Having now described the nature and objects of my said Invention, together
with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that I claim as my Invention,―
1. The application and use in labelling apparatus of a rotating label holding
wheel or its equivalent provided with a yielding periphery and with a series of
nipping or holding contrivances which are acted upon by suitable adjustable or
fixed cams or segmental plates, and the use in combination there with of a balanced
or supported pasting trough with a series of geared or otherwise connected and
adjustable paste and pasting rollers, such rollers either being driven frictionally or
through the intervention of direct acting details.
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2. The application and use in such apparatus of a stationary label holding frame
provided with a yielding surface, and with suitable label holding attachments, and
with labelling boards with hinged parts or flaps to assist in wrapping the pasted
labels about the packages, and the use in combination therewith of a traversing
pasting arrangement, using rollers as the transferring medium.
3. The use in combination in such apparatus of a stationary label holding frame
provided with a yielding surface with a partitioned frame and a rolling frame, and
with a traversing pasting arrangement or vice versa, such an arrangement being
specially applicable to round tins.
4. The application and use in such apparatus of a rotating label holding wheel
or its equivalent, of a sufficient width to carry two or more labels side by side, and
any suitable number round its periphery.
5. And the use in combination in such apparatus of a rotating label holding
wheel or its equivalent with a pasting arrangement, the transferring rollers of
which with their actuating attachments are supported independently of the pasting
trough, which may be separately removable.
Each and all being substantially as hereinbefore described and for the purposes
set forth, and as illustrated on the accompanying Sheets of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Collas, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.