Method of and apparatus for printing and feeding labels in a continuous web, and for verifying and cutting individual labels therefrom for application to articles
USRE28732E · kind E · reissue
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 19, 1974 |
| Grant date | Mar 9, 1976 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 19, 1994 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
A labeling machine including means for feeding a continuous web having thereon a series of labels of a given length but with certain of the adjacent labels thereon spaced differently than other adjacent labels, and having thereon control elements related to such differences in the label spacing, the machine further including label severing means operable to cut off the terminal labels in the web at their given lengths regardless of the different spacings therebetween, and means controlled by the control elements on the web and operating the severing means to cut from the web the labels in uniform length and without having attached thereto any web portions providing spacings between adjacent labels. .Iadd.
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