US1113855A - Labeling-machine. - Google Patents

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- F. 0. WOODLAND.

LABELING MACHINE."

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 13, 1918.

Patented 001.13, 1914.

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' ply mechanism. Fig. 12 represents a plan detail view of-the picker devices, glue d1s- .tributing' rollers, andpicker-carr'ler stop UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. FRANK O. WOODLAND, OF WORCFlEER, MASSACHUSETTfi ASSIGNOR TO ECONOMIC- MACHINERY COMPANY, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

LABELING-MACH NE.

Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

Application filed January 13, 1913. Serial No. 741,624.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, FRANK O. WOODLAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Labeling-Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being made therein to the accom anying drawings.

y present invention relates to certain features of improvement in the construction and organization of the mechanism for delivering, gluing and presenting labels for afiixment to bottles or the like, and more especially applicable to that class of machines in whichthere is employed arotatable work-supporting table or carrier.

It also relates to the peculiar manner of constructing, combining and operating the label-gripping or clamping means in connection with the bottle-supporting carrier and label applying devices; the objects being to provide a practical, desirable labeling machine that will be convenient for operation, and Will perform its work with despatch and economic efliciencyf Minor objects and features of the invention are fully set forth and explained in the following detailed description, with reference to the drawings, wherein Figure 1 represents a bottle labeling machine embodying the features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the same looking toward the end of the picker-slide; the end of the picker guide being shown in section; the discharger being omitted from this figure. Fig. 3 represents a top plan view. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the rotary carrier table and adjacent parts. Fig. 5 is a detached elevation view showing the bottlerest, the label-gripping device and a bottle as embraced between said parts. Figs. 6 and 7 represent the side and face views of the grip-member. Fig. 8 represents a top view, and Fig. 9 a side view of one of the swinging grip-carrier arms. Fig. 10 represents a cross-section at line X X, Fig. 6, of the grip member drawn to a larger scale. Fig. 11 is a detail elevation view showing the improved organization of the pickers and glue-supmechanisin, andi-Figflfl shows a separate sectional iriew of the larger scale.

Referring to the drawings, the part marked picker-stop means on '10 represents the frame, preferably consisting'of'an upright colpmn having a broad base for standing upon a floor; and fixed in its upper end is a vertical shaft 1 (see dotted lines Fig. 2) upon which is mounted the rotatable table or carrier 12, having anupwardly extended hub provided at its top end with a dish-shaped bevel gear 2, or means for its rotation, with'which engages a pinion 3.fixed upon a horizontal shaft 5 that is ary ranged across said gear-slightly above its rim, and mounted in bearings 4. supported upon suitable arms of the upper frame; said upper frame being in the present instance supported by a main arm 11 fixed to and branching outward and upward from the side of the standard or column 10.

The shaft 5 is the operating. shaft, and is provided with a normally loose pulley or drive-wheel P, and an automatic stop-clutch Gkeyed to the shaft and adapted for o eratively connectin and disconnecting sai pulley or drive-wiieel with said shaft. The clutch is arranged for-control by a treadle T and connections t, substantially as is usual in machines of this class. The action. imparted to the machine may be intermittent or continuous, accordingly as the clutch is allowed to automatically throw off, or is prevented from throwing off, by keeping the treadle depressed.

The revoluble carrier 12 is provided with a series of upright rests or means 13 for supporting the bottles B, or the like, in upright position, to be advanced or carried in a circular' path of movement as the table 12 is .rotated, carrying the bottles in successive order to positions for receiving their labels,

passing thewipers, and. thence to the place of discharge, as will readily be understood.

The rest 13 is preferably made narrow at its lower partand wider above, and with a simple rearwardly offset foot or car that has a hole therein for boltingit to the carrier table. a seat for the bottle, while the narrower lower portion avoids interference with the wipers as the rest passes between them. The rest gives support at about mid-height on the bottle.

In accordance with my present invention,

The wider portion of the rest forms there is arranged a guide bar or way 14 disposed parallel with the plane of the carrier 12, and in alinement with a plane approxieter of the body and neck portion of the bottles. The picker faces are toward the label-supply holder 15, and for reciprocating the picker-slide 16 along the guide 14 there is provided means which, in the present instance, consists of a rocker or angle lever 17 supported in a suitable fulcrum bearing 7 upon the frame, and having one arm connected by a suitable link 18 with the slide 16 and a second arm provided with a studroller 8 that runs upon or follows the surface of a cam 9 fixed upon the operating shaft 5. A suitable spring S is connected with the rocker lever 17 for moving the parts to carry the pickers toward the label-holder and normally pressing the stud-roller toward the cam 9.

The reciprocation of the slidecarries the pickers 6 from the osition of the labelholder 15 to the positlon indicated by a dot and-dash line f (see Fig. 1) where the label is presented to the advancing bottle as the latter moves forward with the rotary action of the carrier. The label-holder 15 is positioned at the end of the range to which the pickers reciprocate; the label compartments being disposed edgewise upright or slightly inclined, to conform to the face of the pickers. The compartment for neck labels I is located above that for body labels L. The

label holder is arranged to have the packs of labels charged into it from the rear and to deliver the labels from that part of the packs toward the pickers. A follower device is provided for'the several packs, which preferably consists of a movable rest or inverted Y-shaped frame 19 arranged to slide upon a guide, orguides, 20 parallel with the direction of the feed, and having, retained in said frame, thefollower rods 21 that abut against the respective packs, as indicated on Figs. 1 and 3. A spring 22,

arranged on the follower rod, serves to give.

a slight yielding efi'eet when pressure of the pickers is brought against the label-pack,

and a weight 23, suitably attached to the sliding frame 19, serves for moving the follower devices forward along the guide pins 20 as the packs. are diminished by the feed. To facilitate charging the packsiof labels into the rear'of the compartments, the frame 19 is simply drawn back along the guide pins 20 to a suflicient extent to permit access to the compartments.

The label holder is best arranged to be bodily removable from its supporting seat or bracket, and may be connected therewith by suitable pins or interlocking members such as heretofore employed for similar purpose- The label-gripping devices, which co-act with the pickers in transferring the label from the pickers to the bottle, according to my present invention are constructed and combined with the rotary bottle-carrier in peculiar manner and to swing laterally into and from the path of the bottles, each on a pivotal axis parallel with the axis of said carrier. The gripping devices correspond in number with the bottle stations or rests 13 upon the carrier-table. Each grip device comprises a horizontally swinging arm or lever 24: ivotally connected to and located beneath t e rotary carrier or table 12, by an axis pin or' stud 26 disposed parallel with the main axis 1 of the carrier; and an upwardly extended bar or linger member 25 attached to the outer end of said swinging arm and projecting up through an opening or arc-shaped slot 27 in the carrier-table, to a sufiicient height to correspond with the height at which the labels are placed its projecting portion standing approximately upright, and furnished with suitable contact surfaces orpads'28 and 29, (see Figs. 6, 7 and 10) to give proper hold upon the labels, surface 28 upon the neck labels and surface 29 upon the body labels. The end of the arm 24 is best made with a socket or recessed upright slot, and a screw bolt 30 arranged therein, while the lower end 31 of the grip-bar 25 is slotted or furcated and fitted to said slot so as to be readily attached and detached, and to afford a firm and rigid connection. This construction permits of the bars or gripping fingers being readily exchanged for others of varied form, to accommodate longer or shorter bottles, or articles requiring different forms of grip faces.

Each of the swinging grip-carrier levers 24 has a projecting member provided with a stud-roller 32, and a suitably shaped stationary cam 33 is centrally supported upon the frame or standard 10 for guiding said rollers and controlling the swinging action of the gripping devices. Springs 34 are connected with the res ective arms 24, that act in opposition to t e cam surface, for

swinging the gripping devices in the direction" for contact with the labels or bottle; the camacting to swing the gripping devices back to primary'position. The upper part of the bar 24, with the contact faces, is the only portion of the gripping devices that appear above the level of the carrier table as they move in a circular. are into the path of the bottles, and then out of said path and back to their retracted position near the central hub of said rotary carrier with which they also revolve.

A wiper mechanism is arranged for acting against the advancing bottle and label at a convenient position, in successive relation to the pickers. Said wipers may be of any approved construction, being arranged so that the bottle, grip-member and bottlesustaining rest pass between the opposite wiping members by the rotative movement of the carrier.

The glue-box 37 is located below the path. of the pickers, and near. the label-holder 15,

and is provided with a glue-delivery roller 38 which may be rotated by any suitable means, as the chain and sprockets 39. The

glue distributing roller 40 is mounted upon an axis-stud fixed to an upwardly and downwardly reciprocating carrier 42 that works in a suitable guide 43 attached to the frame.- Said carrier and roller move in a direction of alinement approximately parallel with the upright or slightly Inclined plane of .the picker faces.

The range of movement. of the distributing roller is from a position in contact with the glue-box roll 38, (see Figs. 1 and 11) to a position above the level .of the top end .of the picker faces, as indicated by dotted circles on Fig. 11; this movement being direct from .of labels.

Combined with the reciprocating picker-- its upper to its lower position andvice versa.

Movement is imparted to the roller-carrier 42 by a rocker-lever 45 and linlrfsaid rocker being-actuatedby a-cam 46 fixed on the operating shaft 5, which cam runs against a stud-roll 44 mounted on one arm of the rocker. The weight of the roller and its carrier tends to keep the stud-roll in contact with the face of the cam; or a spring may be employed in connection therewith, if desired.

The mechanism orcam 9, which actuates thereciprocating picker-slide, is arranged to give a dwell in the picker movement when the picker faces are at the position indicated in Fig. 11, and for an instant sufficient to permit the glue-distributing roller to pass down from its upper to its lower position along the faces of the pickers, applying the film of glue thereto just before the pickers come into contact with the pack, or packs,

slide 16 I provide means for automatically arresting its movement before the pickers reach the label-holder or position of contact with the pack oflabels. This'stop mechanism comprises a bolt or dog 48 mounted in' a guide or supporter fixed to astati'onary part of the frame, and provided with a spring 49 or means for throwing said dog into engagement with a suitable lug or shoulder 50 on the picker-slide 16, thereby preventing movement of said slide beyond a predetermined position; excepting when the engagement,

dog is retracted. Said dog is connected with the swinging bottle feeler 55 by an angle lever 53, rod 52 and arm 54 at the top of the feeler-shaft 56. When a bottle or the like is in position for receiving its label the feeler the dwell in the movement of the pickerslide, so that the stop-dog comes into action without shock or violent contact in the operation of the reciprocating action and without undue friction in' moving the dog into and out ofengagement. l/Vhen the movement of the picker-slide is arrested any strain on the mechanism is relieved by the roller 8 lifting from the face of the cam 9.

. Combined with the rotary carrier 12 and its bottle-supporting rests 13, I employ a means for automatically. discharging the bottles, which consists of'a plain stationary fender or deflector-sheet 60 that extends over the t'opsurfacef of the carrier obliquely across the patter the bottles, at a predetermined position in the circuit, and serves for shuntingthe bottle from the rest and deflecting it table 61. or other receiver'therefor. Said deflector is simply formed from a plain sheet of material and provided with an opening .or pass-way space 62 at'its lower edge, of suflicient size-t0 permit the passage therethrough of the bottle-rest 13, which is made narrow at its foot and wider above, as indicated. The deflector acts upon the bottle to shunt it from the rest and does not interfere with the upright bottle-sustaining rest. This form of discharger is simple, convenient and eflicient for use in a rotary labeling mechanism.

In the operation, the bottles or articles to be labeled are placed upon the carrier 12 at the front'of the respective rests 13, and are thcrebyadvanced in a circular path in successive order. slide brings the pickers, with a label or ing bottle at about the line f, Fig. 1'; where, at the same time, the grip-bar o ger 25, 'swingin along its arc slot, comes .utocontact wit the central part of thelabel and holds it to the bottle while the pickers move back at accelerated speed, causing the glued ends of the label to peel from the pickerfaces. The bottle, moving with the carrier, then passes between the wipers 35 which The reciprocating picke-rlabels adhering thereto, to meet the advanc- 100 from the carrier table onto asupplemental wipe or smooth the glued edges of the table to the surface upon which it is afixed; and thence to the discharge. In the meantime the reciprocating picker-slide brings the pickers to the position of the glue-distributing roll and then dwells for a moment of time while the said roll, which has been previously elevated, rolls down along the pickerfaces; the pickers are then advanced against the packs of'labels on the label-holder, taking single labels adhesively therefrom, and

the operation is then repeated. This general operation, in its order of feeding and affixing labels is, in some respects, similar to that of a previously devised labeling machine; but the construction and combined organization of the elements for performing the several essential functions is of diverse nature from that heretofore employed, and constitutes the gist of my present invention.

I am aware that in practising this invention, some changes and modifications may be made, by those. skilled in the art, without departure from the spirit and scope of my invention as expressed in the claims; I do not, therefore, desire to be limited to the special forms and details as shownherein:

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a labeling machine, in combination with label-delivering and labelafiixing means, a horizontally rotatable carrier hav- 7 ing means at intervals thereon for supporting bottles in upright position and carrying the same in a circular path, means for actu ating said rotatable carrier, a picker-guide disposed above said path at one side'of the circle, a reciprocating picker-carrier-slide mounted upon said guide, a pair of glue-applying pickers firmly secured to said slide in a relatively depending position and traveling between said guide and the plane of the bottle-carrier, and means for imparting reciprocative movement to said pickerslide.

2. In a labeling machine,-in combination,

' a rotary bottle-carrier provided with means for supporting bottles in upright position thereon, and carrying the same in a circular path, a reciprocating pieker-carrier-shde, a guide therefor arranged over one edge of said bottle-carrier approximately tangential to the path of the bottles, depending pickers mounted on said picker-carrying-slide, a rear-charged forward-delivery label-holder adapted for sustaining packs of labels in edgewise upright order and disposed in alinement with the path of said pickers, a carrier-operating shaft, a cam mounted on said shaft, and connections for actuating said picker-carrier-slide, said cam formed to produce a dwell in the picker movement when. near the label-holder.

3. In combination, a horizontally rotatable carrier, provided with means for sustaining bottles or the like in upright position thereon and moving the same in a circular path; a reciprocating picker-carrier-slide, depending glue-applying pickers mounted upon said slide, a guide for said picker-carrier-slide. arranged substantially tangential to the circular path of the bottles and approximately parallel with the plane of the rotatable carrier, a label-supply holder adapted. for holding a pack of labels'in approximately edgewise upright position, at the end of the reciprocating picker movement, an upwardly and downwardly moving ,glue-distributin roller, means for reciprocating said pic :er-carrier-slide, and means for operating said glue-distributing roller; a grip mechanism, and wiper appliances for aflixing the label to the bottle or the like.

4. In a labeling machine, a rotatable carrier table, having devices thereon for supporting a succession of bottles in upright order and carrying the same in a circular path, and label-gripping devices moving with said carrier; a reciprocating pickercarrying-slide, a pair of glue-applying picker-plates attached to said slide approximately in transverse dependent relation, a guide-way upon which said picker'slide is mounted to move parallel to the plane of said bottle-carrier and introvenient with the circular path of the bottles thereon, a labelsupply holder in alinement with the path of said pickers, a glue-distributing roller, an upward and downwardly moving carrier for said roller, a guide therefor, means for reciprocating said roller-carrier and said picker-carrying-slide, a wiping-on means, and a grip-controlling mechanism acting beneath the carrier-table.

5. In a labeling machine, in combination, a rotary bottle-carrier provided with means for supporting bottles in upright position thereon, and carrying the same in a circular path, a reciprocating picker-carrying-slide, a guide therefor arranged above one edge of said bottle-carrier in approximately tangential relation to, the path of the bottles, depending pickers mounted on said pickercarrying slide, a rear-charged forward-deliverylabel-holder adapted for sustaining packs of labels in edgewise upright order, and in deliverable alinement with the path of said pickers, a carrier-operating shaft, a cam fixed on said shaft, and connections for actuating said picker-carrier slide, said cam formed to produce a dwell in the picker movement when near the label-holder, a glue-supply reservoir, a glue-distributing roll, an upwardly and downwardly reciproeating carrier having said roll mounted thereon, an upright guide for said roll-carrier, a cam on said operating-shaft, with connections for elevating and depressing said roll-carrier, the downward reciprocative movement of' said roll-carrier being on the labels, and a rotatablebottle-carrier table; a movable label-gripping member above said carrier-table and traversing within a slotform'ed therethrough, means actin r below the carrier-table for supporting and controlling said gripping member, a spring connected for moving said gripping member toward the bottle to impart a yielding-pressure grip upon the label, and means for rotbating said carrier-table and gripping. memer. r

7. In a machine of the classdescribed, in

' combination with the rotary carrier, upright bottle-supporters thereon, glue-applying pickers, and means for afiix'lng labels; a label-gripping means consisting of an upstanding member, the upper part having a pad or surface for contact with the bottle and label above the carrier, its lower end rigidly attached to a swinging arm, said swinging arm pivotally supported upon the under side of the rotary carrier to revolve therewith and to oscillate in a plane parallel with the plane of the carrier, for swinging saidupstanding member into and from the path of the bottle, means for actuating said carrier, and means including a cam and spring for oscillating said grip-actuating 'arm..

8,. In a labeling machine, a rotary carrier provided with rests for the upright support and advancementof a succession of bottles or the like in a circular path, a label gripping means consisting of an upstanding bai or grip-member havin contact surfaces, and

a swinging support t erefor to which the lower end of-said grip-member is detachably firmly secured, said support pivotally con- 1 picker-carrier, glue-applyin nected with the rotary carrier, and said grip-member projecting up through an arc slot in the carrier, in combination with a pickers there on, means for gluing the picIxers, and means for affixing the labels.

9. In a labeling machine, in combination with a label supply,'*means for delivering labels at a predetermined position for trans-' ferto a bottle, and means for'wi ing on said labels at a second redetei mine position, a horizontally rotatab with means for supporting a bottleor the like in upright relation thereon, and ad-- vancing the same, an upright laterally moving grip-device traversing in a curved slot in the carrier-table, its lower end below the table, a horizontally swinginglever having said ip-device mounted thereon, a fulcrum V stud xed in the under side of the, carrier for supporting said. lever, a spring attached for normally swinging said lever outward, a

le carrier table provided traversing roll mounted on said lever, a nd a I non-rotatable guiding means about which said roll travels for actuating and controlling the' movement of said grip-device.

10. In a labeling machine, a label supply, means for delivering labels for aflixment to an advancing bottle, and retreating therefrom by retroactive movement at greater velocity than the bottlemovement, a separately stationed wipenmeans for aflixing said labels, a rotary-bottle-carrier provided with a series of upright bottle-rests, and a corresponding series of laterally moving'upright label-gripping devices that traverse to a position in front of the bottle and against the presented label, maintaining such relation while passing said wiper-means, then back to a position nearer the axis of the carrier, for the urpose set forth.

11. In a la eling machine of the class described, arotary bottle-carrier rovided with bottle-rests, said rests being a apted to contact with the bottles at a mid-length position thereon, and upright oppositely acting labelgripping devices havin faces that contact withthe labels and bott e respectively above and belowthe level-of the contact position of said rests and means for wiping-on the respective labels.

12. In a labeling machine of the class described, a rotatable carrier provided with a plurality of rests for bottles or the like, and a plurality of grip-devices each consisting of an uprlghtly disposed bar having a contact face for pressing upon the label, said bar projecting up throughan opening or are slot in the carrier, to move therein laterally into and from the path of said rests, and a plurality of swinging supporters acting beneath the carrier table and supporting the respective rip-bars, means for actuating and control ing the movement of said supporters and grip-bars and means for afiixingthe labels upon the advancing bottles.

13. In a labeling machine of the class described, in combination with means for gluing, presentin and affixing. labels, a horizontally rotating carrierrtable having a series of arc slots therethrough, and provided with a series of upright rests for susta ning bottles or the like thereon while labeling the same; a series of swingin arms pivoted to and located beneath sai table concentric with the respective, arc slots and carrying at their outer ends upright grip-bars or fingers that project upward through said are slots,

said grip-bars being movable within their movement to said grip-carrying arm s a s the carrier, is. rotated. I

14. In combination with lue ;'applying ickers, a label-holder and la elwiping d vices; a horizontally rotatable carrier hav-' ing means'thereon formaintaining in successive order a series of bottles or the like while affixing labels thereto, a plurality of piv ote d support-arms fulcrumed to the under side of said rotatable carrier, each provided at its end with a grip-device that projects upward through an arc-shaped slot in the carrier, the opposite ends of said support arms being provided with contact rollers, a stationary central cam against which said rollers run for controlling the movement of said grip-devices, and each arm being provided with a spring for pressing the grip device into contact with the label and bottles.-

15. In a labeling machine for bottles or the like, in combination with abottle-carrier and means for 'aflixing labels, a label-holder vguides therefor approximately parallel with the direction of the label-packs, followerrods movably supported within said member and respectively abutting against the label packs, a forwardly pressing spring for each of said follower-rods, and a weight and connection adapted for exerting forward draft upon said supporting rest.

16. In a machine for labeling bottles or the like, the combination substantially as described, of a label-holder adapted for supporting a pack of labels in ap roximately edge-wise upright positionfor orward delivery of labels'therefrom, an overhead horizontal guide, a reciprocating picker-slide mounted thereon, pickers supported by said slide in a depending. relation with their faces parallel with the label pack, an up-. wardly and downwardly moving gluing dis-l tributing roller, a carrier andcarrier-guide for directing said roller parallel with the face of the pickers, a horizontally rotatable bottle-carrier, means thereon for sustaining bottles in upright position and advancin the same in a circular path introvenient wit the line of thepicker movement, a horizontally swinging grip device, a rip-support ing arm pivotally mounted on t e under sidel of said rotary carrier, means for controlling and moving said supporting arm, label wipers between which the bottle is passed; by its carrier, means for actuating said reciprocating parts, and means for operating said rotatable carrier.

17 In a labeling machine, in combination as described, a rotary bottle-carrier table having rests thereon for maintaining bottles or the like in upright position, means for ing movement of said picker-carrying-slideat a position preceding the normal limit of its range, and means for actuating said stopdevice controlled by the presence or absence of a bottle at the labeling position.

18. In a labeling machine, including a label-supply holder, means for advancing bottles in successive order, and a picker-carrier and pickers having reciprocating movement between said label-holder and the advancing bottle, and meeting the bottle at a predertermined position for presentin labels thereto; an automatically controlled means for arresting the movement of the picker-carrier and pickers while approaching the label-holder, and actuating means therefor operating when a bottle is absent from its advancing station.

19;- In a labeling machine, in combination with means for supplying labels, and means for affixing the labels; a movable bottle-carrier provided with rests for sustaining bottles upright thereon and carrying forward the same in successive order, a air of glue-applying pickers movable to an from the advancing bottle and traveling in a path convergent to the path of the bottles and carrier for presentlng or delivering labels thereto approximatel at t e point of convergence of said pat s; gr p-devices traversing in curved slots in the carrier and severally ada ted to retain the label against the bottle an strip it from the glued faces of the pickers while said grip-device, bottle, and pickers are all moving away from the position where the label is primarily presented tothe advancing bottle, and means for operating said grip-devices severally synchronous with the presentation of labels.

20. In a labeling machine, a movable bottle-carrier having means for carrying forward or advancing a succession of approximately upright bottles, and a reci roeating picker-carrier provided with ic ers in approximately transverse relation t ereto, directing ides upon which said pickercarrier sli es, and means for operating said picker-carrier for moving the pickers into meeting conjunction with the advancing bottles and retreating in the direction of the bottle movement, at accelerated speed, in combination with means for supplying and affixing the labels.

21. In a labeling machine, a rotary bottlecarrier, an upright laterally moving labelgrip-member that travels in a circular are, said member having means for contact with neck labels and body labels, and a member supporter located beneath and fulcrumed on said bottle-carrier, and means for operating the same. a

22. In a labeling machine, in combination with means for sup ortingand successively carrying forward bottles, and means for wiping the labels of a labelsupply-holder, a movable picker-carrier havmg pickers thereon that take labels from said labelholder, means for automatically arresting the movement of said icker-carrier before the pickers contact with the label-supply, and a controlling finger with connections that prevent action of said arresting means when a bottle is in proper position for receiving its label.

23. -In a labeling machine, a rotary table carrier having slots therein, means for sustaining bottlesor the like-upon said table in suitable-relation to said slots, grip-devices above the table traversing in the respective slots, and means below the table for operating said grip-devices.

24. In a labeling machine, in combination a forwardly movin bottlercarrier provide with a plurality o bottle-carr ing devices positioned thereon, a backwar ly and for-v wardly moving label-presenting means that presentslabels to the bottles at a/predetermined position on said carrier, anda laterally moving grip device thattravels with said carrier and acts for withdrawing the,

labels from the presenting means at its junction with the bottles, said l abel-presenting means being retracted at a velocit greater than the advance motion of the b0 e carrier, mechanism for respectively operatin said carrier, label-presenting means and gr1pping-device.

W1tness'myhand this 10th day of January, 1913. I

' FRANK ,O. WOODLAND.

Witnesses:

Cruse. H. Bnmmen, ELLA P. Bumns.

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