Patent ID: 7469736

Claim:
An apparatus for supplying and wrapping elongate articles with labels, and capable of handling elongate articles for wrapping a label thereabout, said labels having an adhesively coated side, said elongate articles each having a peripheral surface, said apparatus including: a label roller assembly for supplying labels to said apparatus; a rotatable puck mechanism, said puck mechanism having an interrupted circumferential wall at least partially surrounding a cavity, and at least one wing member coupled to said circumferential wall, said wing member extending into said cavity; means for rotating said puck mechanism; means for transporting at least one of said labels toward an interruption in said puck mechanism circumferential wall; and means for transporting said peripheral surface of said elongate article through said interruption in said puck mechanism circumferential wall, wherein said at least one wing member comprises: a first arm having a first arm first end coupled to said circumferential wall and a first arm second end opposite said first end; and a second arm having a second arm first end coupled to said first arm second end at an obtuse angle.