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An apparatus for the removal of labels and foil tags adhering at different levels to containers, in particular, bottles. The bottles are gripped axially between a rotary plate and a gripping head on the circumference of a turntable, each of these is a gripping space. Corresponding to each gripping s

An apparatus for the removal of labels and foil tags adhering at different levels to containers, in particular, bottles. The bottles are gripped axially between a rotary plate and a gripping head on the circumference of a turntable, each of these is a gripping space. Corresponding to each gripping space, there are high-pressure nozzles located on an inner circumference of the turntable relative to the bottles. Jets of fluid from the nozzles are directed approximately tangentially to the surface of each bottle, so that the jets remove the label and the foil tag in a stripping process, and transport the labels and foil tags radially outward to a collector, which collector is equipped with a separator to separate the labels and foil tags from one another. The removal of labels applied with adhesive is facilitated if there is an anti-adhesive layer on the label between the adhesive layer and the label.

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A method for completely removing at least one label from at least one container using an apparatus for the complete removal of the at least one label from the at least one container, providing nozzxle means for emitting fluid under pressure for complete removal of the at least one label from the at

A method for completely removing at least one label from at least one container using an apparatus for the complete removal of the at least one label from the at least one container, providing nozzxle means for emitting fluid under pressure for complete removal of the at least one label from the at least one container; providing means for supplying fluid under pressure to the nozzle means; providing means for directing fluid under pressure from the nozzle means to a position at least partially underneath the at least one label of the at least one container; providing means for supporting at least one container during the complete removal of the at least one label from the at least one container; providing moving means for producing relative movement between the at least one container and the nozzle means; providing inlet means for supplying labelled containers for being impinged upon by fluid under pressure from the nozzle means; and providing outlet means for removing containers impinged upon by fluid under pressure from the nozzle means, the method comprising the steps of: (a) emitting fluid under pressure from the nozzle means for complete removal of the at least one label from the at least one container; (b) supplying fluid under pressure to the nozzle means; (c) directing fluid under pressure from the nozzle means to a position at least partially underneath the at least one label of the at least one container and impinging said fluid under pressure from the nozzle means to a position at least partially underneath the at least one label of the at least one label; (d) supporting the at least one container on the container supporting means during the complete removal of the at least one label from the at least one container; (e) producing relative movement between the at least one container and the nozzle means for completely removing the at least one label from the at least one container; (f) supplying labelled containers from being impinged upon by fluid under pressure from the nozzle means; (g) removing containers impinged upon by fluid under pressure from the nozzle means; wherein the moving means comprises means for rotating the at least one container, the nozzle means are disposed to impinge fluid under pressure, at an angle essentially tangential to the exterior surface of the at least one container, to a leading edge of rotation of the at least one label of the at least one container as the at least one container is rotated by said container supporting means, the method comprising the further steps of: rotating the at least one container; impinging fluid under pressure at an angle essentially tangential to the exterior surface of the at least one container and simultaneously impinging fluid under pressure on a leading edge of rotation of the at least one label of the at least one container as the at least one container is rotated; and wherein the means for supporting the at least one container comprises: container gripping means for gripping the at least one container comprising at least one of the following: a powered rotary plate, and a gripping head; and motor means for rotating said container gripping means in one of: a clockwise sense and a counter-clockwise sense, the method further comprising the steps of: (a) gripping the at least one container with the container gripping means; and (b) rotating the container gripping means in one of: a clockwise sense and a counter-clockwise sense; and wherein the moving means for producing relative movement between the at least one container and the nozzle means comprises turntable means having an interior portion and an exterior portion, the exterior portion having an outside periphery; and the nozzle means being disposed on the interior portion of the turntable means and the container supporting means is disposed on the exterior portion of the turntable means; the inlet means comprises feeder star wheel means for supplying labelled containers to the exterior portion of the turntable means and the outlet means comprises discharge star wheel means for removing containers from the exterior portion of the turntable means, the method comprising the further steps of: (a) disposing the nozzle means on the interior portion of the turntable means; and (b) disposing the container supporting means on the exterior portion of the turntable means.