Label separating apparatus

Abstract

The invention relates to a label separating apparatus in which, of labels formed in rows and columns on a continuous substrate being transported along a line of transport, labels found good and labels found defective upon determination of their quality are transported separately. The invention seeks to ensure that all of a plurality of defective labels possibly extant in any one of the rows can concurrently be transferred without fail selectively onto a different line of transport. The apparatus includes a primary conveyer in which a continuous substrateA is transported having labelsA-D, which are spaced apart from each other by a given distance and arranged in rows and columns, formed thereon and peelably adhered thereto. The primary conveyer includes a transport turn-back memberA for permitting labelsA-D for each row concurrently to peel off the continuous substrate. In the apparatus, a label peeled off by the transport turn-back memberA and found defective is subjected to an air blast by an air-blasting memberA,B,C,D and is thereby oriented in transport towards a conveyer for defective labelsand adhered to on the conveyer for defective labelswhile it is held by a label holding memberformed with an air draining ventC.