Global Patent Index - EP 0593382 B1

EP 0593382 B1 19960306 - Method and device for continuously labelling articles such as fruit or vegetables

Title (en)

Method and device for continuously labelling articles such as fruit or vegetables

Title (de)

Verfahren zum automatischen und kontinuierlichen Etikettieren von Gegenständen wie Früchten oder Gemüse und Vorrichtung dafür

Title (fr)

Procédé pour étiqueter automatiquement et en continu des articles tels que des fruits ou des légumes et dispositif pour sa mise en oeuvre

Publication

EP 0593382 B1 19960306 (FR)

Application

EP 93460031 A 19931011

Priority

FR 9212455 A 19921012

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0593382A1] The invention relates to a method for automatically and continuously labelling articles such as fruit or vegetables. This method consists in placing the said articles in sheets (A1, A2, A3), with cavities, having parallel rows (L1) of cavities, in arranging these sheets in a single file on a conveyor with continuous movement, the said rows being arranged perpendicularly to the direction of advance of the conveyor, and in displacing at least one labelling head (T1, T2, T3) above a row (4) of cavities in a complex rectilinear translational movement resulting from a longitudinal advance movement jointly with that of the conveyor and a transverse movement, so as successively to deposit a label on each article in the said row (4), then in repeating this last operation for each of the said rows. It also relates to a device for implementing this method. <IMAGE>

IPC 1-7

B65C 3/00; B65C 1/02

IPC 8 full level

B65C 1/02 (2006.01); B65C 3/00 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

B65C 1/021 (2013.01 - EP US); B65C 1/028 (2013.01 - EP US); B65C 3/00 (2013.01 - EP US); Y10T 156/17 (2015.01 - EP US); Y10T 156/171 (2015.01 - EP US); Y10T 156/1788 (2015.01 - EP US); Y10T 156/1795 (2015.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT ES GB IT

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0593382 A1 19940420; EP 0593382 B1 19960306; AT E134955 T1 19960315; ES 2084477 T3 19960501; FR 2696714 A1 19940415; FR 2696714 B1 19950127; US 5387302 A 19950207

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 93460031 A 19931011; AT 93460031 T 19931011; ES 93460031 T 19931011; FR 9212455 A 19921012; US 13429993 A 19931008