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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1982
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1980
Ernest W Hellmer, Chicago, IL (US);
The Continental Group, Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
This relates to a transfer apparatus for transferring labels from a label stack into the cavity of a moving mold half. The transfer device includes a pivotally mounted arm which has mounted on its free end a transfer head which swings about the arm so that for a limited movement of the arm there can be a much greater movement of the transfer head. Thus, the transfer head may rapidly enter and rapidly depart from a mold cavity so that a label may be seated in the mold cavity very quickly without requiring any slowdown of the movement of the mold half. The transfer head is provided with vacuum heads which operate to effect a peeling of a label from its associated stack beginning along one edge portion of the label so as to assure that only a single label is picked up from the stack.