The device includes a mold block having at least one thermoforming chamber (28) having an inside surface (29), an axial opening (28A) through which a decorative wrap-around label (38) can be inserted into the chamber, and a moving end-wall (40) opposite from the opening. The end-wall is suitable for moving in an end segment (28A) of the chamber (28) between a positioning high level and at least one thermoforming low level, and the device has at least one tongue-and-groove set comprising a fin (42) on the end-wall (40) that is engaged in a notch (44) in the inside surface of the end segment (28B).

A thermoforming device includes: a base configured to hold a substrate; a hot plate including a heating surface facing vertically downward; a sheet transport portion that supplies a sheet onto the heating surface of the hot plate; and a substrate supply portion configured to attach the substrate to the base and detach the substrate from the base, and to dispose the substrate at a substrate supply position positioned in a lower area of the sheet which is opposite to a side of the sheet in which the heating surface is provided. In the thermoforming device, heating of the sheet using the hot plate and attachment and detachment of the substrate with respect to the base are performable at the same time, and the sheet heated and softened by the hot plate is attached to the substrate at the substrate supply position.

An apparatus for forming objects, in particular containers, and for applying respective labels thereto, includes a forming arrangement provided with a punch cooperating with a cavity of a die to make the objects by forming a sheet of thermoformable material. The cavity includes a first wall element and second walls. The first wall element is movable between a first operating position in which it receives a label and a second operating position in which it bounds the cavity in cooperation with the second walls, and supports the label in such a manner that during a subsequent forming operation the label is fixed to, in particular substantially incorporated in, the object.

The container comprises a container body and a label placed on said body. The label has a window through which there can be seen decoration on the body of the container. In the method, before affixing the label on the body, a window is cut out in the label, and then the label is affixed in such a manner that a portion of the body is visible through said window, and decoration is made on said portion of the body of the container.

A laminate molding system (11) in which an article to be laminated-molded (A) is carried into a laminating apparatus from one side thereof (12) by using a carrier film (F1, F2), and after the article (A) is laminated-molded in the laminating apparatus (12), the laminated-molded article (A) is carried out of out the laminating apparatus from another side thereof (12), in which drooping prevention mechanisms (18a, 18b) for preventing the carrier film (F1) and the laminated-molded article (A) from drooping at a molding position (12a) of the laminating apparatus (12) are respectively provided at an outer-side nearby position on a carry-in side with respect to the molding position (12a) of the laminating apparatus (12) and an outer-side nearby position on the carry-out side with respect to the molding position (12a) of the laminating apparatus (12). In this way, a laminating molding system and a laminating molding method capable of alleviating a problem in regard to the occurrence of defective molding caused by the drooping of a carrier film in a laminating apparatus are provided.