Patent ID: 6939428

Claim:
A continuous method of applying individual, stacked, plastic labels to containers including the sequential steps of: maintaining a stack of individual, stacked, plastic labels in a dispensing magazine; applying a UV curable adhesive having a viscosity in the range of about 500 to about 10,000 centipoise to a transfer member; causing said transfer member with the adhesive thereon to engage an exposed, lower surface of a lowermost label in the stack to apply said UV curable adhesive to said lower surface and to remove the lowermost label from the stack and releasably secure said lowermost label to said transfer member for subsequent transport of the lowermost label through a radiation cure station; directing the label with the UV curable adhesive thereon through a UV cure station for radiating the adhesive with UV radiation to increase the tackiness of the adhesive, and thereafter; applying the label through the tacky adhesive component thereof to the outer surface of a container.