摘要 |
An apparatus for labelling objects, such as bottles, jars, etc., the apparatus including a conveyor belt serving to supply and carry away the objects, a label store, from which the labels are passed onto a constantly revolving label distributor arranged adjoining the conveyor belt and on to which the forwardly moved bottles are brought. The label distributor cooperates with a counter-support arrangement for the bottles which faces the label distributor parallel and adjacent to the conveyor belt. The label distributor is constructed as an endless, yieldable, internally toothed belt normal to and having a bottle engaging stretch which is parallel to the conveyor belt. The distributor belt is maintained on rotary guide members, such as toothed cylinders or rolls, rotatable about shafts perpendicular to the supporting surface of the conveyor belt being driven by at least one of the guide members with the speed of travel of the conveyor belt. Openings for gripping the labels are disposed on the label distributor and a subatmospheric air pressure is adapted to be admitted to the openings by means of a suction air source through a rotary guide member via a fixed rotary slide valve.
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