APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING ADHESIVE LABELS

摘要

Apparatus for producing a continuous web of adhesive labels is placed in nearby proximity to a computer printer having a sheetfeeding tractor mechanism. A spool of base tape material comprises superposed, continuous webs of a print-receiving layer and a carrier layer with the wider carrier layer including longitudinally spaced perforations extending in two laterally spaced rows outwardly of each side of the label layer. Spools of base tape and transparent overlay tape materials are rotatably mounted upon spindles on the apparatus with the base tape web being directed from its spool to and through the sheet-feeding mechanism of the printer. The perforations in the carrier layer are registered with the pins of the sheet-feeding mechanism and the printer performs a printing operation upon the label layer of the base tape web. The printed base tape web is directed back to the apparatus where the perforations in the carrier label are again placed in registry with pins of a web guide on the apparatus. The web of base tape is guided from the printer and the web of overlay tape is guided from its spool to the entry of a pair of tangent pressure rollers, one of which has a handle for manual advance of the superposed webs. As the webs pass through the rollers, the overlay tape is superposed with an adhered to the printed label layer.