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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2003
Applicants:
Klaus Krämer, Dortmund, DE;
Heinz-michael Zwilling, Hamm, DE;
Thomas Stienen, Unna, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG, Dortmund, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B061/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage comprising of a filling machine, a bottle closing station and a labeling station configured and disposed to label filled bottles. The labeling station comprises a label storage magazine configured to hold a plurality of single-sheet labels in a stacked condition, pie-shaped grippers, that extract labels from the storage magazine and directly apply them on the bottles. The grippers are heated prior to applying the labels to the bottles to assist in securing the labels and then the grippers are cooled. -