Machine for applying labels to thermo-formed plastic containers - has label store from which pivoting device draws labels by vacuum on to punches with shaped ends and inserts them into mould cavities

摘要

A machine applies a printed label to at least the sides of a thermoformed plastic container having a base and sides. A number of labels, according to the number of cavities in the thermoforming tool, are taken from a magazine by vacuum and are fed by a pivoting unit into the cavities; the allocating tool has dies with an inner shape facing the labels in the magazine, their shape being the negative of the mould cavity of label punches on the mould feeding unit. ADVANTAGE - The thermoforming equipment, and its label-loading function in particular, are efficient