Patent ID: 8215365

Claim:
An appliance for applying labels to receptacles, which comprises a transport device that transports the receptacles to be labelled along a predefined transport path (T), and comprises a first pressing-on unit that presses the labels onto an outer wall of the receptacles, the first pressing-on unit having at least one brush device having a multiplicity of bristles that extend in the direction of the receptacles, wherein the first pressing-on unit, a first partial region of the first pressing-on unit, is shorter, in a longitudinal direction (L) of the receptacles, than the label to be applied, wherein the first partial region extends in direction of transport of the receptacles such that a region of the label is not pressed-on by the first pressing unit wherein a first partial region of the first pressing-on unit comprises a plurality of bristles tightly packed together in a generally rectangular shape wherein in a second partial region of the pressing-on unit covers at least the full length of the label wherein a first partial region of the first pressing-on unit comprises a plurality of bristles tightly packed together in a generally rectangular shape wherein between the first partial region and the second partial region the pressing-on unit widens in a transition region.