Method for aligning a strip of labels

US10061292B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Armin Püschner · Regensburg, DE
• Markus Weiss · Aalen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 16, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 28, 2018
• Expiry date: Sep 18, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/49372
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for aligning a strip of labels, which contains a plurality of labels, relative to a cutting device, wherein the strip of labels is cut into labels by the cutting device that are subsequently applied to containers. In a learning mode, the strip of labels is automatically transported by a transport device and the position of the strip of labels relative to the cutting device is detected by a position sensor disposed as a first camera, and, in an aligning mode, an operator can then enter a desired cutting parameter in a machine control unit of an input unit. Information indicated of the desired cutting parameter relative to the strip of labels is then displayed to the operator on a screen, and the machine control unit controls the cutting device on the basis of the desired cutting parameter.