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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 1990
Filed:
May. 23, 1988
Rudolf Zodrow, Dusseldorf, DE;
Wolfgang Rogall, Wuppertal, DE;
Egon Hoveler, Haan, DE;
Rainer Buchholz, Dusseldorf, DE;
Holstein und Kappert AG, Dortmund, DE;
Abstract
This invention relates to a labelling machine for bottles which includes a bottle feeding mechanism to feed the bottles to a revolving bottle support platform. The support platform directs bottles to a labelling mechanism and an application mechanism prior to their removal by a bottle withdrawing mechanism. The bottles are maintained against undesired rotation on the support platform by axial force on the top of each bottle to produce frictional contact between the bottom of each bottle and an elastic support plate for each bottle turntable on the revolving bottle support platform. The support plate includes an elastic body and several block-shaped friction bodies imbedded therein and distributed over its surface. The friction bodies have exposed contact surfaces, which lie in the plane of the exposed surface 13 of the elastic material. Such a support plate includes a long service life and capable of providing a high degree of friction between the micro-cracked bottom of a bottle and the friction bodies.