EP0015985A1 - Label applicators. - Google Patents
Label applicators.Info
- Publication number
- EP0015985A1 EP0015985A1 EP19790900498 EP79900498A EP0015985A1 EP 0015985 A1 EP0015985 A1 EP 0015985A1 EP 19790900498 EP19790900498 EP 19790900498 EP 79900498 A EP79900498 A EP 79900498A EP 0015985 A1 EP0015985 A1 EP 0015985A1
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- head
- linkage
- actuating means
- printing
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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Classifications
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41K—STAMPS; STAMPING OR NUMBERING APPARATUS OR DEVICES
- B41K5/00—Plier-like tools for stamping, or stamping and delivering, tickets or the like
- B41K5/003—Inking devices therefor
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41K—STAMPS; STAMPING OR NUMBERING APPARATUS OR DEVICES
- B41K5/00—Plier-like tools for stamping, or stamping and delivering, tickets or the like
- B41K5/02—Plier-like tools for stamping, or stamping and delivering, tickets or the like with means for varying the image stamped
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
- B65C11/00—Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles
- B65C11/02—Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles having printing equipment
- B65C11/0205—Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles having printing equipment modified for the application of labels to articles
- B65C11/021—Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles having printing equipment modified for the application of labels to articles label feeding from strips
- B65C11/0215—Labels being adhered to a web
- B65C11/0268—Advancing the web by winding it up
- B65C11/0278—Advancing the web by winding it up by actuating a handle manually
Definitions
- This invention relates to apparatus for printing and dispensing labels.
- labels may be of the kind coated with a pressure-sensitive adhesive, but may also be coated with a heat-sensitive or other adhesive and in the limit may even be in the form of a ticket having no adhesive coating.
- stamp impression print heads have the disadvantage that the intensity of the impression formed on the labels depends to some extent upon the force applied by the operator when actuating the apparatus unless the apparatus incorporates adequate mechanical safeguards. For this reason rotary print heads have been proposed but they tend to complexity of construction and the safeguards proposed or used for stamp impression print heads often require that a high actuating force should be applied by the operator as well as necessitating additional complexity. In the latter apparatus, despite the safeguards, improper inking may result from fatigue in the operator who fails to apply sufficient pressure to the actuating member to ensure the desired intensity of the print impression.
- hand-held apparatus for printing and dispensing labels comprising actuating means for initiating an operational cycle of the apparatus and print head means connected to the actuating means through linkage means, the arrangement being such that the co-operative relationship between the actuating means and the linkage means gives rise to a toggle action during the operational cycle thereby rendering the action of the print-head means to produce a print impression substantially independent of the force applied to the actuating means.
- FIG. 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus in a rest configuration
- Figure 2 is a side elevation of the apparatus of Figure 1 in an operative position.
- the hand-held apparatus comprises a body 10 arranged to carry a reel 12 of pressuresensitive adhesive labels mounted on a backing strip and during use the web is indexed through the apparatus by a feed mechanism, not shown in detail .
- a feed mechanism not shown in detail .
- the body 10 includes a handle 14 rigid therewith which carries at the end remote from the reel 12 a trigger or other actuating member 16 pivoted at 18 to the handle and this trigger member 16 has an upwards extension 20 to which a return spring 22 is attached at point 24.
- the trigger member 16 includes a surface which can be conveniently engaged by the fingers of one hand of an operator and includes a finger guard 26, a part of which in the position shown in Figure 1, is approximately aligned with the lower wall (as shown) of the body 10.
- the trigger member 16 pivotally carries at pivots 27 two short links 28 (only one shown) which are also pivotally connected at 29 to a respective one of two bell-crank levers 30 which are pivotally connected at one end of one arm of each lever 32 to the body 10 and at the other end are spanned by a print-head 34 of generally conventional form in hand-held labelling apparatus.
- the print-head 34 may be of the fixed type (as shown) or may be capable of swinging in order to effect the printing operation on a label about to be dispensed at a printing platen 36.
- the print head is mounted between the two levers 30.
- the applicator includes a feed mechanism 39 (shown only in outline) which may be, for example, as illustrated and claimed in our co-pending application PCT GB 79 00005 and this includes a take-up reel 38 for spent backing strip.
- the spent backing strip reel is mounted wholly within the body and below (as illustrated) the reel of fresh web 12.
- an applicator roller 40 is provided at the end of the body 10 remote from the handle and the operative facets of the print head 34.are arranged to contact during the operational cycle immediately before printing an inking roller 42 disposed immediately above the applicator roller 40.
- the trigger member 16 is squeezed and the link 28 provides a toggle action so that at the overcentre position with the pivots 18, 27, 29 substantially aligned the bell-crank levers 30 swing and cause the print head 34 to move, contact the inking roller 42 and subsequently apply a print impression to a label on the platen 36 which also forms a guide for the label web both before and after a label has been dispensed from the backing.
- the amount of force applied to the label will be independent of the squeezing pressure applied to the trigger member 16 and by appropriate design of the bell crank lever 30 and of the link 28, the amount of pressure applied can be multiplied substantially beyond the pressure applied to the trigger member itself.
- toggle action linkage is applied as hereinbefore described to apparatus operated by a squeeze action trigger, it is applicable to other apparatus such as disclosed in our co-pending application PCT GB 79 00005.
- the apparatus could, with appropriate modification be used with heat-sensitive adhesive labels.
- the apparatus could also be used for a web of non-adhesive labels or tickets, and the term "label" as used herein is intended to cover tickets without any adhesive coating.
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- Printers Characterized By Their Purpose (AREA)
Abstract
Applicateur d'etiquettes pour imprimer et appliquer les etiquettes imprimees. L'applicateur comprend une poignee manuelle (16) pivotant sur le chassis de l'appareil et servant a actionner une tringlerie (28) qui, en association avec un levier coude, amene une tete imprimante en contact avec une etiquette sur la platine. La tringlerie (28) et les leviers coudes (30) servent a produire une action du type a genouillere de sorte que meme pour une impression d'estampillage, la force d'impression appliquee est la meme quelle que soit la pression appliquee sur la poignee mobile. L'applicateur peut etre utilise par tout ou une bonne qualite d'impression des etiquettes est requise.Label applicator for printing and applying printed labels. The applicator comprises a manual handle (16) pivoting on the chassis of the device and used to actuate a linkage (28) which, in association with an elbow lever, brings a print head in contact with a label on the plate. The linkage (28) and the elbow levers (30) serve to produce a toggle-type action so that even for stamping printing, the printing force applied is the same regardless of the pressure applied to the handle. mobile. The applicator can be used by any where good quality label printing is required.
Description
Claims
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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GB2142978 | 1978-05-23 | ||
GB2142978A GB1597017A (en) | 1978-05-23 | 1978-05-23 | Apparatus for printing and dispensing labels |
Publications (2)
Publication Number | Publication Date |
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EP0015985A1 true EP0015985A1 (en) | 1980-10-01 |
EP0015985B1 EP0015985B1 (en) | 1982-05-12 |
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Family Applications (1)
Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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EP19790900498 Expired EP0015985B1 (en) | 1978-05-23 | 1979-12-17 | Label applicators |
Country Status (6)
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EP (1) | EP0015985B1 (en) |
JP (1) | JPS55500297A (en) |
CH (1) | CH644075A5 (en) |
DE (1) | DE2962785D1 (en) |
GB (1) | GB1597017A (en) |
WO (1) | WO1979001108A1 (en) |
Families Citing this family (3)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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GB2237534A (en) * | 1989-11-03 | 1991-05-08 | Martyn James Stuart Townley | Printing machine |
GB2301556A (en) * | 1995-05-13 | 1996-12-11 | Michael John Franklin | Improvements in printing on to tape-like material as it is dispensed |
JP3822934B2 (en) * | 1996-07-10 | 2006-09-20 | 株式会社新盛インダストリーズ | Handler Beller |
Family Cites Families (3)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US2122412A (en) * | 1937-02-15 | 1938-07-05 | Dennison Mfg Co | Tag remarker |
US3024724A (en) * | 1959-07-28 | 1962-03-13 | A Kimball Co | Hand remarkers |
AT337218B (en) * | 1973-09-07 | 1977-06-27 | Dymo Industries Inc | DEVICE FOR PRINTING AND DISPENSING LABELS OF A STEP-BY-STEP TAPE OF LABELS |
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1978
- 1978-05-23 GB GB2142978A patent/GB1597017A/en not_active Expired
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1979
- 1979-05-23 WO PCT/GB1979/000074 patent/WO1979001108A1/en unknown
- 1979-05-23 DE DE7979900498T patent/DE2962785D1/en not_active Expired
- 1979-05-23 CH CH46780A patent/CH644075A5/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1979-05-23 JP JP50077379A patent/JPS55500297A/ja active Pending
- 1979-12-17 EP EP19790900498 patent/EP0015985B1/en not_active Expired
Non-Patent Citations (1)
Title |
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See references of WO7901108A1 * |
Also Published As
Publication number | Publication date |
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JPS55500297A (en) | 1980-05-22 |
WO1979001108A1 (en) | 1979-12-13 |
DE2962785D1 (en) | 1982-07-01 |
EP0015985B1 (en) | 1982-05-12 |
CH644075A5 (en) | 1984-07-13 |
GB1597017A (en) | 1981-09-03 |
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