Application of indicia to articles - has decorator transferring labels by heat and pressure to articles such as bottles

摘要

The decorator has infeed and outfeed conveyors and a turret for holding articles during labelling and maintaining their shape by inflation. A deck bearing a transport for the carrier web has a device for impressing labels from the strip onto the articles, and a control module. The deck may be adjusted in height and angular orientation w.r.t. the turret to permit decoration of a wide variety of article faces. The carrier web transport includes a capstan web drive for pulling the web, a double gate, and a dance roll, which provides label-by-label advance of the web controlled by signals from a photoelectric web monitor and a container detector.