LABELLING CONTAINERS; METHOD AND MACHINE FOR LABELLING FILLED BOTTLES, SLEEVE LABELLING, DETAILS REGARDING CONVEYORS USED TO TRANSPORT BOTTLES; CONVEYOR SYSTEM

摘要

An apparatus and method are shown and described for labeling bottles in a stream. An input conveyor is provided for supplying bottles to a presenting station. Bottles are restrained at the presenting station until the appropriate time by an entrance gate. Bottles are conveyed from the presenting station to a work station by an advancing conveyor. Bottles entering the work station drive the predecessor bottle out of the work station to a slowing conveyor. Slowed bottles are abutted by subsequent relatively faster moving bottles to be labeled. Abutment with a slowed labeled bottle serves to register each bottle to be labeled at the labeling station.