B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – C
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
C
B65C 3/00 (2006.01) B65C 9/44 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2061529
TIRE LABELING APPARATUS Abstract A tire labeling apparatus (100) feeds labels (504) that are releasably adhered to a carrier web (502) from a supply reel (510) to a label dispensing station (900) where the labels (504) are transferred one at a time from the web (502) to an application roller (400). At the dispensing station (900), the carrier web (502) is tightly reversely bent to assist in sequentially "peeling" labels (504) therefrom; spent web material (502) is withdrawn from the dispensing station (900) and collected on a col- lection reel (520); and, each newly "peeled" label (504) is subjected to a jet of pressurized air (800) that forces the indicia-carrying face (506) of the label 504 into en- gagement with a curved, level-receiving portion (430) of the circumference of the application roller (400). Holes (426) open through the label-receiving portion (430), and ambient air is drawn through these holes (426) to generate air pressure differential forces that releasably retain each newly dispensed label (504) on the application roller (400) until the roller-carried label (504) is moved to an application station (1000) where the label (504) is ap- plied to a rotating tire bead (56). As the application roller (400) is moved between the dispensing station (900) and the application station (1000), a resilient roller (470) and a label reader (490) move with it. At the ap- plication station (1000), the application roller (400) transfers the one label (504) that it carries to a rota- ting bead portion (56) of a tire (52); the resilient rol- ler (470) assures that each newly applied label (504) con- forms to the curved shape of the tire bead portion (50) to which it is applied; and, the label reader (490) reads the label's indicia (506). Once a valid "read" has been ob- tained, the application roller (400), the resilient roller (470) and the reader (490) are withdrawn, and the applica- tion roller (400) is repositioned at the dispensing sta- tion (900) to receive a next-dispensed label (504).
Sim & Mcburney
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
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