Bottle labeling machine with turntable having resiliently urged clamping jaws

US4168773A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Jagenberg Werke AG · DE

Inventors

• Dieter Thiel · Basel, CH
• Peter Weber · Kreuzlingen, CH
• Jurgen Winsberg · Düsseldorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 30, 1978
• Grant date: Sep 25, 1979
• Expiry date: Mar 30, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65C9/04
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bottle labeling apparatus is provided in known manner with a turntable for picking up bottles at one location and delivering them elsewhere. The turntable has a plurality of rotary heads at its perimeter, the heads rotating regularly during a part of their cycle but being accelerated or retarded during the pickup and delivery operations by means of a cam and follower. Each rotary head carries a clamp comprising a pair of resiliently urged jaws for picking up and releasing a bottle when the axis of the bottle at the pickup and discharge stations, respectively, lies within the plane of symmetry of the clamp jaws.