Device and method for inserting a security and/or identification element between two layers of a marking strip for items of baggage

This invention relates to a device and a method for inserting a security and/or identification element between two layers of a marking strip for items of baggage, the two layers being an overlayer and a substrate joined together at at least in sub-sections by way of an adhesive layer, with the adhesive layer adhering to the overlayer when the substrate is delaminated. In implementing the method of the present invention, a plurality of marking strips in successive arrangement are processed as web material in a device of the present invention. The substrate of the web of the marking strips is interrupted at regular intervals. The present invention is directed to a device and a method for inserting a security and/or identification element between two layers of a marking strip for items of baggage, the two layers being an overlayer and a substrate joined together at least in sub-sections by way of an adhesive layer which adheres to the overlayer when the substrate is delaminated. The marking strips are manufactured with integrated security/identification elements at low cost. The marking strips are available in web form and are guided in a running direction past a vacuum source. The vacuum source is switched on as soon as a severing cut of a marking strip enters the range of action of the vacuum source, whereby the substrate is lifted from the overlayer of a marking strip so that a security/identification element is disposed onto the overlayer or the substrate, and that the running direction of the marking strip is reversed as soon as the leading section of the security/identification element adheres to the overlayer or the substrate, whereby the overlayer and the substrate of a marking strip are brought together again and the security/identification element is inserted between the two layers.