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A label imprinting and applying machine and method for sequentially imprinting die-cut pressure-sensitive labels carried on a backing tape drawn from a roll thereof and for synchronously applying the so imprinted labels to articles or packages of merchandise to be labeled thereby, such machine including a tape-carried label supply, a tape bed, a printer disposed above the plane of the tape bed, including a vertically reciprocable plunger and a type-bearing printer head carried thereby and an impression pad therebeneath in the plane of the tape bed, and a type inker disposed above the tape bed, an angularly adjustable label peeler immediately adjacent the impression pad of the printer, around which peeler the tape extends, a tape take-up rearwardly of the label peeler for intermittently transporting the labels through the printer and past the peeler, a pneumatic label applicator having a suction head disposed in operative juxtaposition to the peeled label, for vacuum-engaging the payed-out label and applying it to an article or package of merchandise, a label sensor disposed above the tape bed in operative juxtaposition to the labels thereon for starting and stopping the tape take-up, and mechanical, electrical, magnetic and pneumatic means for cycling the label applicator in timed relation to the label payed-out from the peeler and electromechanical means for cycling the printer and the inker in timed relation to the label transport cycle, and means for adjusting the location of the label sensor longitudinally of the tape bed and means for adjusting the label peeler and the label applicator in a direction longitudinally of the tape bed, whereby the machine can be adjusted for label lengths ranging from a length substantially less than either of the two adjustments to a length more than twice the length of either of the two adjustments.
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