| 摘要 |
<p>There is provided a label applicator capable of preventing a flexed portion of a label provided with an RFID tag from falling flat as much as possible, thereby ensuring reading and writing of data in a stable manner. The label applicator includes a suction-holding plate 21 configured to suction and hold a label L from a side of the front surface, and provided with a pair of divided bodies 21b and 21c that are relatively movable between two positions: a contact position S at which end surfaces of the divided bodies that face toward each other are brought into contact with each other, and a separated position V at which the divided bodies are spaced apart from each other. The label applicator applies the label L to the item W by folding a section 2 of the label L into a flexed portion M having curved portions 7 on a base end side taking a peak portion 6 as a border therebetween with the end surfaces of the divided bodies 21b and 21c that face toward each other by the movement of the divided body 21c. Noncontact portions 20 are provided, by eliminating corners, at edge portions of the divided bodies 21b and 21c that respectively correspond to the curved portions 7 of the flexed portion M on the base end side so as to prevent the noncontact portions 20 from being brought into contact with each other when the end surfaces of the divided bodies 21b and 21c are brought into contact with each other.</p> |
