EP0965442A2 - Dispositif et pocédé pour la fabrication d'étiquettes pour la protection électronique d'articles - Google Patents

Dispositif et pocédé pour la fabrication d'étiquettes pour la protection électronique d'articles Download PDF

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EP0965442A2
EP0965442A2 EP99108738A EP99108738A EP0965442A2 EP 0965442 A2 EP0965442 A2 EP 0965442A2 EP 99108738 A EP99108738 A EP 99108738A EP 99108738 A EP99108738 A EP 99108738A EP 0965442 A2 EP0965442 A2 EP 0965442A2
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Detlef Duschek
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B13/00—Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
    • G08B13/22—Electrical actuation
    • G08B13/24—Electrical actuation by interference with electromagnetic field distribution
    • G08B13/2402—Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS], i.e. systems using tags for detecting removal of a tagged item from a secure area, e.g. tags for detecting shoplifting
    • G08B13/2428—Tag details
    • G08B13/2437—Tag layered structure, processes for making layered tags
    • G08B13/244—Tag manufacturing, e.g. continuous manufacturing processes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C1/00—Labelling flat essentially-rigid surfaces
    • B65C1/02—Affixing labels to one flat surface of articles, e.g. of packages, of flat bands
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/08—Label feeding
    • B65C9/18—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls
    • B65C9/1865—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip
    • B65C9/1869—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip and being transferred directly from the backing strip onto the article
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1705—Lamina transferred to base from adhered flexible web or sheet type carrier

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  • the invention relates to a device for producing labels for the electronic article surveillance, consisting of a label converter, which the Labels are removed from a carrier tape by means of a first dispensing edge and it in a predetermined position by means of a second dispensing edge applies the same or a different carrier tape, and an applicator for the Applying securing elements to the carrier tape. Furthermore concerns the invention a method for the production of labels for the electronic Article security.
  • the object of the invention is an apparatus and a method to propose the speed of production of labels for electronic article surveillance can be increased.
  • the applicator is designed in such a way that it continuously applies the securing elements to the carrier tape, so that at least one securing element is assigned to each label or any number of labels.
  • the production process can be accelerated as desired, since a continuous application of the securing elements to the carrier tape, onto which the labels are also placed continuously, is much quicker and easier to accomplish than an intermittent feed, in which the carrier tape is gradually inserted the next position is led.
  • All known designs of securing elements can of course be used as securing elements, e.g. soft magnetic securing elements, resonance frequency securing elements, acustomagnetic securing elements, etc.
  • the adhesive strength of the adhesive with respect to the labels is greater than the adhesive force between the adhesive and carrier tape.
  • the applicator consists of the following sub-elements: an applicator roller on which the securing elements are fixed by vacuum or magnets, and an applicator unit. While a vacuum application roller can be used completely independently of the nature of the securing elements to be dispensed, an application roller based on magnetic attraction can of course only be used when applying magnetic securing elements.
  • a regulating / control device is to be used It is provided that the correct positioning of the Securing elements with regard to the labels guaranteed.
  • the device should the device will also be able to print not every label but only one to equip selected number of labels with securing elements.
  • the device should only be able to label every fourth label to equip a label strip with a securing element. A by the way, appropriately designed label strips are already in EP 0 682 333 A1.
  • a preferred embodiment of the device according to the invention provides that the applicator unit consists of the following sub-elements: one Storage roller on which a carrier tape carrying the securing elements is wound, a dispensing edge over which the securing elements of the Applicator roller are fed, and at least one sensor that the Distance between the individual securing elements and their length certainly.
  • the adhesive force with respect to the carrier tape is less than the attraction / suction force from the applicator roller to the securing elements is exercised.
  • the invention Device should also be designed so that several side by side on the Carrier tape arranged labels simultaneously with security elements can be equipped. To do this, the appropriate rollers just be dimensioned accordingly.
  • a first sensor which determines the relative spacing of the labels on the carrier tape; a second sensor determines the relative distance of the securing elements on the carrier tape, while a third sensor is assigned to the application roller and determines the relative distance of the securing elements fixed on the application roller.
  • the latter can set the relative speed between the feed speed of the securing elements by the applicator unit and the peripheral speed of the application roller such that the securing elements are applied to the application roller at any desired point and subsequently to the carrier tape will. Consequently, any number of labels can be fitted exactly with at least one securing element.
  • control device adjusts the peripheral speed of the application roller to the running speed of the carrier tape. Furthermore, the control device regulates the peripheral speed of the storage roller of the applicator unit in such a way that the securing elements are applied to the application roller at a desired distance and subsequently fed to the carrier tape, so that they are then placed under the desired number of labels.
  • both the storage roller and the applicator roller each assigned an angle encoder and a motor.
  • the control device changes the peripheral speed of the Applicator roller accordingly, so that the securing elements on the Application roller have the predetermined distance from each other. Are again so after laminating the carrier tape and labels together the desired number of labels in the respective predetermined range of a label placed.
  • the task is solved as follows: the labels removed from the carrier tape by means of a first dispensing edge and by means of a second dispensing edge in a predetermined position again on the same or another carrier tape applied; the securing elements are by means of a further dispensing edge from a second carrier tape removed and on an application roller continuously on the first Carrier tape placed so that after laminating together Carrier tape and labels of a desired number of labels at least a securing element is assigned.
  • the label converter 1 itself is composed essentially of two dispensing edges 3, 4.
  • the carrier tape 5, on which the glued-on labels 2 are arranged, is unwound from a storage roller, not shown separately.
  • the labels 2 are detached from the carrier tape 5.
  • the carrier tape 5 is guided down over the dispensing edge 3 and in a loop by means of the deflecting rollers 19 to the dispensing edge 4, which is arranged in almost the same plane as the dispensing edge 3 and in its immediate vicinity.
  • the labels 2 are placed back on the carrier tape 5.
  • the carrier tape 5 is the same; another carrier tape 5 can also be used.
  • the advantage of using a carrier tape 5 is - besides the material saving - that only a sensor 16 for determining the position of the labels 2 on the carrier tape 5, as well as an angle encoder and a drive for the storage and / or winding roller are required.
  • the angle encoder, the motor, the storage roller and the winding roller are not shown separately in FIG. 1.
  • the securing elements 8 are applied to the applicator unit 6 Carrier tape 5 applied.
  • the applicator unit 6 consists of a Storage roller 12, a dispensing edge 15 and a winding roller 13. Die Securing elements 8 are in the desired over the dispensing edge 15 Distance placed on the perforated peripheral surface of the applicator roller 9 and there by means of suction, which is not shown separately Vacuum source is generated, fixed.
  • the carrier tape 14 is on the dispensing edge 15 pulled down and wound on the take-up roller 13.
  • the peripheral speed v1 preferably corresponds to the application roller 9 the running speed v2 of the carrier tape.
  • the distance the securing elements 8 on the carrier tape 5 is dimensioned so that after laminating the carrier tape 5 and labels 2 together Securing element 8 under the respectively predetermined number of labels 2 is positioned. Incidentally, in the case shown there is 2 under each label Securing element 8 applied.
  • angle sensors 20, 21st provided the information about the respective angular position and thus the Supply peripheral speeds v3, v1 of the rollers 12, 9.
  • the data will also fed to the control device 11. Based on the data, especially taking into account the length L and the distance x1 each securing elements 8 and labels 2 to be donated, determines the Control device 11, the respective peripheral speeds of Storage roller 12 and possibly of application roller 9, which are required are to the securing elements 8 at the desired distance x2 on the Carrier tape 5 and then below the desired number of labels 2 to place.
  • Fig. 2 is a flow chart for controlling the control device 11 shown.
  • the program for controlling the invention Device started. Using the specified measurement data and set data is calculated by the control device 11 under point 26 the peripheral speed v3 of the storage roller 12.
  • the Storage roller 9 with the aid of the angle encoder 20 via the motor 22 brought to the calculated peripheral speed v3.
  • the sensor 18 checked shortly before the transfer of the securing elements 8 from the Application roller 9 on the carrier tape 5, whether the securing elements 8 the have the desired relative distance x2 from each other (program item 28). If the check reveals the correct relative position of the securing elements 8 the program loops back to point 27.
  • Results under Program point 28 is a deviation from the required setpoint x2, at Point 29 corresponds to the peripheral speed v1 of the application roller 9 corrected.
  • the program ends when the desired number of labels 2 has been provided with securing elements.

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EP99108738A 1998-06-20 1999-05-03 Dispositif et pocédé pour la fabrication d'étiquettes pour la protection électronique d'articles Expired - Lifetime EP0965442B1 (fr)

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DE19827592A DE19827592A1 (de) 1998-06-20 1998-06-20 Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Herstellung von Etiketten für die elektronische Artikelsicherung
DE19827592 1998-06-20

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