Patent ID: 7060143

Claim:
A process for attaching a label jacket to objects, such as bottles or similar items, comprising: seizing a label jacket by a separating jaw unit by its forward margin for pulling in an axial direction over an object, holding the object with a holding device, prior to the pull-over application by the area of its mantle surface, by positive or friction lock, initiating the pull-over process, temporarily releasing the holding device on the mantle surface as soon as the separating jaw unit at least partially surrounds the object over its mantle surface, seizing the latter object by the area of its mantle surface, which is now covered with the label, at the latest when the desired adhesion height of the label jacket on the object has been reached, and thereby affixing the label in a manner so it cannot slip, pulling off the separating jaw unit, and causing the hold of the object to occur at two places of its mantle surface with separation intervals in the axial direction, and alternately controlling the two axially displaced holding devices to rise, during the pull-over application of the label jacket, in such a manner that the object is at all times subject to or guided by at least one holding device.