摘要 |
<p>A neck booklet machine is described which places an elastic band having a booklet connected to the band (14) around a neck (76) of a container (44). The booklets (14) are vertically stacked in a curved magazine and pulled by a vacuum cup (24') from the curved magazine. The neck booklet is picked up by a carrier pad and held against and transported along a slide plate (102). A low vacuum nozzle (56') pulls the loose elastic band downwardly to enable a loop (36a) of the elastic band to be picked up by a needle point and held precisely below the booklet on the slide plate. The elastic band is pulled down and around an opening horn (120). The opening horn feeds application fingers (72', 74') which index feed the elastic band onto the neck (76) of the container (44) and release the neck booklet at the end of the slide plate.</p> |