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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 1992
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1991
Ronald S Kaminski, Bowling Green, OH (US);
Owens-Illinois Plastic Products Inc., Toledo, OH (US);
Abstract
In an apparatus for making hollow plastic articles in which a label is positioned in each of a plurality of spaced partible molds in a predetermined array, preforms are positioned in each set of partible molds and the molds are closed and the preforms are blown outwardly to the confines of the molds to apply the labels to the resultant hollow plastic articles. The apparatus for delivering labels to the molds includes apparatus providing labels on a roll of labels, successively die cutting the labels from the web of the roll directly onto awaiting vacuum pads, thereafter moving each label and delivering each label to an endless vacuum conveyor by moving the label without substantially changing the orientation of the plane of the label relative to the plane of the label when it is cut and relative to the endless conveyor, indexing the endless vacuum conveyor to provide an array of labels on the conveyor which corresponds in spacing to the spacing of the array of molds, engaging the array of labels on the conveyor and removing the array of the labels from the conveyor and depositing the array of labels into the array of molds.