Avery Dennison Corporation

Dennison Manufacturing Company

Joseph F Callinan

Syed A Asghar

Fritz E Bauer

Peter F Imondi

Paul D Christo

Voldemars Kaliksons

Tim Somadelis

Alan Wysoki

Jack Zettler

A system for applying labels, disposed on a web, to articles, comprising web transfer means for moving the web along a web path, said web path having a label transfer portion, a transfer platen, having a transfer surface, said surface being adjacent the label transfer portion, a plurality of label transfer elements, mounted to the platen and adapted to contact the web and to cause a label to transfer from the web to an article, and a plurality of article presentation means, a plurality of which are adapted to present an article to a the web and a transfer element. A system for applying decorative labels to articles, the system including unwind reel, a wind reel, a web, a web path which transfers the web from the unwind reel to the wind reel, a transfer point on the web path at which a label is transferred from the web to the article. The improvement lies in removing a piece of the web from the web at the transfer point using that piece as a portion of the label and removing it in such a way that the web remains capable of being transferred from the transfer point to the take up reel. The label is formed by perforating a portion of the web as a part of the label and by placing a thermally-actuated adhesive on the label portion of the web but not significantly on the non-label portion of the web.

Multi-transfer-roll heat-transfer decorator

Apparatus for decorating articles via heat transfer labelling

A decorator controlled by a signal processor for applying heat transfer labels and the like to articles. Servo circuits accept processor commands and direct operation of label feed and transfer elements. A transfer roller moves in a continuously variable manner to follow the contour of the article surface. A position roller precisely matches web movement to article movement, or enables controlled stretching or shrinking of the labels as they are applied to articles. A turret loads, indexes, and unloads articles for label application at two decorating sites. Indexing of the articles takes place as the turret is rotated.

Integrated decoration of articles

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Natick, MA, United States of America

Joseph F Callinan