Labeling machine

Claim 1

IN A LABELING MACHINE PROVIDING A TABLE ADAPTED TO HAVE A PACKAGE STATIONED THEREON FOR LABELING, A CARRIER SUPPORTED FOR VERTICAL TRAVEL ABOVE THE LABELING STATION BETWEEN AN UPPER LOCATION ELEVATED ABOVE AND A LOWER LOCATION APPROXIMATING TTHE UPPER LEVEL OF A PACKAGE OCCUPYING THE STATION, A PICK-UP ARM MOUNTED UPON THE CARRIER FOR RECIPROCAL UP AND OVER SWING MOVEMENT ABOUT AN APPROXIMATELY HORIZONTAL AXIS FROM A NORMAL POSITION EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY IN ONE LATERAL DIRECTION FROM CENTER INTO AND FROM A PICK-UP POSITION EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY IN THE OTHER LATERAL DIRECTION FROM CENTER, A BRUSH ALSO MOUNTED UPON THE CARRIER FOR RECIPROCAL SWING MOVEMENT FROM A NORMAL POSITION IN WHICH THE SAME OVERLIES THE PICK-UP ARM WHEN THE LATTER IS IN ITS NORMAL POSITION INTO AND FROM A POSITION OUT OF THE SWING PATH OF SAID PICK-UP ARM, MEANS OPERATING WHEN THE CARRIER IS IN ITS ELEVATED POSITION FOR SWITNGING THE PICK-UP ARM AND THE BRUSH FIRST MOVING THE BRUSH INTO ITS OUT-OF-THE-WAY POSITION, THEN RECIPROCATING THE PICK-UP ARM, AND FINALLY RETURNING THE BRUSH, A FRAME FOR HOLDING AN ADHESIVELYCOATED LABEL, ADHESIVE SIDE UP, LOCATED AT THE APPROXIMATE UPPER LIMIT OF THE CARRIER''S TRAVEL IN A LOCATION WHEREAT THE PICK-UP ARM, MOVING TO ITS PICK-UP POSITION, IS BROUGHT DOWNWARDLY AGAINST THE ADHESIVE COATING OF THE LABEL TO CAUSE THE LABEL TO ADHERE THERETO AND BY ITS RETURN SWING TRANSFERS THE LABEL FROM THE FRAME TO A POSIRETURNING TO THE ELEVATED POSITION PREPARATORY TO INITIATING MEANS MADE TO OPERATE WHEN THE PICK-UP ARM AND BRUSH HAVE COMPLETED THEIR SWING MOVEMENTS FOR OPERATING THE CARRIER RECIPROCALLY IN ITS VERTICAL MOTION FIRST MOVING DOWNWARDLY TO PLACE THE LABEL UPON THE PACKAGE AND THEN RETURNING TO THE ELEVATED POSITION PREPARATORY TO INITIATING A FOLLOWING CYCLE OF OPEATION, AND MEANS ACTING UPON THE PACKAGE WHILE THE ARM IS AT ITS LOW POSITION FOR PUSHING SAID PACKAGE HORIZONTALLY FROM BENEATH THE ARM AND THE BRUSH SO THAT THE ARM SLIPS OUT FROM UNDER THE LABEL WHILE THE BRUSH WIPES THE LABEL ONTO THE PACKAGE.