Device and method for labelling individual packages from the underside of the package

US10053254B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Espera-Werke GmbH · DE

Inventor

• Peter Wolff · Heimerzheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 29, 2013
• Grant date: Aug 21, 2018
• Expiry date: Mar 31, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65C9/36
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for labelling packages comprising a feed unit for transporting a package, a printing device for printing a label detachably affixed to a carrier strip and an application unit for applying the printed label to the underside of the package. The printing device is arranged laterally outside the feed unit which comprises a label dispensing unit for dispensing the printed label with a directional component in a direction contrary to the package transport direction. The application unit comprises a manipulator means for the label, which moves along an axis extending transversely to the transport direction. The label, detached from the carrier strip, can be transferred onto the feed unit laterally outside the same in a first axial position of the manipulator means and can be brought close to the package, and can be applied onto the underside of the package in a second axial position of the manipulator means.