Label peeling device for label issuing machine

Abstract

The disclosure concerns a label peeling device for use with a label issuing machine, such as a hand labeler or a measuring printer. There is a feed unit for feeding a label web, which web comprises a plurality of labels temporarily adhered in series to a web of backing paper. A peeling unit turns and deflects the backing paper web rearwardly, as it is being fed by the feed unit, and the labels peel one by one from the backing paper at the line of deflection due to the rigidity of the labels. An auxiliary label peeling member is arranged in the vicinity of that portion of the peeling unit at which the backing paper and the labels separate. In some embodiments, the auxiliary peeling member has a label abutment portion so placed, shaped and sized that any label which might fail to peel from the backing paper merely by the reverse turning of the backing paper web is moved to abut the label abutment portion until it is forcibly peeled from the backing paper. The auxiliary peeling member comprises a rotary member which is rotatable in the advancing direction of the labels. Any label, which might otherwise fail to peel off, abuts and rides over the rotary member. In another embodiment, a scraper reciprocates toward the deflection line along the surface of the backing paper from which the labels are peeled for peeling any label off the backing paper web.