High Performance Automatic Composite Can Labelling

The unlabelled tubes are placed in the tube guides that accept up to about 10 tubes. The operator places the unglued label on a feed table and depresses a hand valve. The tube is automatically loaded onto a mandrel, the label is taken automatically over precision glue rollers and via 'pickers' is delivered and applied to the plain tube - the tube is then cut. The cut, labelled tubes are then ejected from the machine and the process is repeatedOptions include:An automatic sheet label feedA stack of labels is placed on label platform. A line of vacuum suckers takes the top label and presents it to the in-feed rollers and the vacuum is released allowing the label to travel onto the wet rollers, over the pickers and onto the tube. The label platform is automatically raised to maintain a constant height under the suckers. 'Fluffers' blow air through the front of the label stack to ensure each label is separate.

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