Labeling station of a machine for labeling objects, especially bottles

Claim 1

In a labeling station of a labeling machine for objects, such as bottles or the like of the type having a gripping cylinder rotatable in one direction, wherein the improvement comprises: a rotatable carrier, at least one gluing segment having a cylindrically curved pickup surface and mounted on the carrier for oscillatory movement about an axis of rotation disposed between the center of curvature of the cylindrically curved pickup surface and the pickup surface, to dispose the center of the pickup surface tangential to the gripping cylinder at the center of the oscillatory movement and means for accelerating and retarding the rotational speed of the gluing segment to effect the rolling of its pickup surface on the surface of the rotating gripping cylinder including means for rotating the gluing segment carrier in the same direction as that of the gripper cylinder and means driving each gluing segment for rolling on the gripper cylinder to perform a rotatory movement whose direction of rotation is opposite that of the gluing segment carrier and of the gripper cylinder wherein each gluing segment swings in the one direction of rotation upon the rolling action and swings same back again before the next rolling action.