Label applying apparatus

Claim 1

IN A LABELING APPARATUS SIMULTANEOUSLY TO APPLY A PAIR OF LABELS TO RESPECTIVE LABEL RECEIVING SURFACES WHICH ARE DISPOSED SYMMETRICALLY ON A SINGLE ARTICLE ABOUT A COMMON AXIS OF REFERENCE BUT WHICH SURFACES ARE ANGULARLY RELATED LONGITUDINALLY OF THE AXIS, A LABEL APPLYING HEAD COMPRISING A FRAME; A FIRST BRACKET MOUNTED ON THE FRAME FOR RECIPROCAL MOVEMENT TOWARD AND FROM ONE OF SURFACES; A SECOND BRACKET; MEANS MOUNTING THE SECOND BRACKET ON THE FRAME FOR RECIPROCAL MOVEMENT TOWARD AND FROM THE OTHER LABEL RECEIVING SURFACE; DRIVE MEANS OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE BRACKETS CONCURRENTLY AND CORRESPONDINGLY TO RECIPROCATE SAID BRACKETS BETWEEN PREDETERMINED EXTENDED LABEL APPLYING POSITIONS AND RETRACTED POSITIONS; A PAIR OF SPACED BACKING PLATES INDIVIDUAL TO EACH BRACKET; MEANS INDIVIDUALLY PIVOTALLY MOUNTING THE PLATES ON THEIR RESPECTIVE BRACKETS FOR MOVEMENT ABOUT INDIVIDUAL AXES, SAID AXES FOR THE PLATES OF EACH BRACKET BEING DISPOSED IN A COMMON PLANE INDIVIDUAL TO THEIR BRACKET, THE AXES BEING INDIVIDUALLY PARALLEL TO THE ADJACENT PORTION OF THEIR RESPECTIVE LABEL RECEIVING SURFACES OF THE ARTICLE WHEN THEIR BRACKETS ARE IN RESPECTIVE EXTENDED POSITIONS, AND BEING ALSO INDIVIDUALLY DISPOSED IN PLANES COMMON TO THE REFERENCE AXIS OF THE LABEL RECEIVING SURFACE WHEN THEIR BRACKETS ARE IN RESPECTIVE EXTENDED POSITIONS; A FLEXIBLE LABEL RECEIVING PAD MOUNTED ON THE PLATES OF EACH BRACKET IN INTERCONNECTING RELATION BETWEEN THEIR RESPECTIVE PLATES AND URGING THEIR PLATES INTO COPLANAR RELATION, SAID PADS BEING ADAPTED TO CONFORM TO THEIR RESPECTIVE LABEL RECEIVING SURFACES OF THE ARTICLE UPON BEING PRESSED THEREAGAINST, THE MEANS MOUNTING THE SECOND BRACKET BEING PIVOTAL BETWEEN A FIRST POSITION WITH ITS RESPECTIVE PAD DISPOSED IN THE PLANE OF THE OTHER PAD WHEN BOTH BRACKETS ARE RETRACTED AND BEING PARALLEL TO ITS RESPECTIVE LABEL RECEIVING SURFACE WHEN ITS BRACKET IS EXTENDED, SAID SECOND BRACKET BEING RESISTIVELY URGED INTO SAID FIRST POSITION; AND MEANS CONNECTED TO THE SECOND BRACKET PIVOTING THE SECOND BRACKET TO ITS SECOND POSITION FOR MOVEMENT OF THE SECOND BRACKET TO ITS EXTENDED POSITION TO APPLY A LABEL AND RELEASING THE SECOND BRACKET FOR RETURN TO ITS FIRST POSITION IN RETRACTED POSITION WITH ITS PAD DISPOSED IN THE PLANE OF THE PAD OF THE FIRST BRACKET WHEN THE BRACKETS ARE RETRACTED FOR LABEL AND GLUE RECEIVING PURPOSES.