Apparatus for printing or applying self-adhesive labels

US4308797A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Esselte Pendaflex Corporation · US

Inventors

• Werner Becker · Hirschhorn, DE
• Gunter Holland-Letz · Hirschhorn, DE
• Heinrich Volk · Beerfelden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 1979
• Grant date: Jan 5, 1982
• Expiry date: Feb 12, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65C2210/0067
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A hand-held labeller for printing and/or applying self-adhesive labels which adhere as a strip or separately at equal distances on a carrier strip, the apparatus comprising a frame; a supply member mounted with respect to the frame for mounting the carrier strip and labels; a label separation member mounted with respect to the frame; a feed wheel or winding drum mounted with respect to the frame; means for guiding the carrier strip from the supply member by the label separation member and then to the feed wheel; a hand lever so pivotally mounted with respect to the frame that the lever may be pivoted by an operator's hand as the labeller is being held in the hand of an operator; coupling means for coupling the hand lever to the feed wheel to operate the feed wheel each time the hand lever is pivoted and thus advance the carrier strip from the supply member so that the labels are successively separated from the carrier strip at the label separation member and the carrier strip is incrementally wound upon the feed wheel; sensing means for sensing the advancement of the carrier strip a predetermined distance; de-coupling means for de-actuating the coupling means so that the hand lever…