CN205705813U - A kind of perforating binding machine of finance list - Google Patents

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CN205705813U
CN205705813U CN201620411922.6U CN201620411922U CN205705813U CN 205705813 U CN205705813 U CN 205705813U CN 201620411922 U CN201620411922 U CN 201620411922U CN 205705813 U CN205705813 U CN 205705813U
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李玉美
李才林
李茂菊
冯虹
张宪英
朱莉
刘素英
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The utility model discloses the perforating binding machine of a kind of finance list, including support, perforating mechanism, binder mechanism and plastic heat sealing device, perforating mechanism, fix two the first cylinders in the front end of cantilever, install a perforating cutting tool in the lower end of the second cylinder, described perforating cutting tool is cylindric cutter;Plastic heat sealing device includes cone boss and the annular groove being arranged on around boss, it is inlaid with electrical heating elements in boss, binder mechanism includes U-rail, ejects cylinder, elastic compression assembly, feeding port and discharging opening, wherein discharging opening faces the plastic heat sealing device of top, is provided with in discharge outlet and ejects cylinder.The utility model integrates arrangement, punches, binds, and binding efficiency is higher, and disclosure satisfy that the needs of each departments such as finance, storekeeper, occurrences in human life.

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A kind of perforating binding machine of finance list
Technical field
This utility model relates to financial statement arrangement, binding device field, specifically a kind of finance list Perforating binding machine.
Background technology
List often occurs in financial transaction, for example invoice expense report etc., and these lists are owing to being original Record voucher, need appropriate keeping.
As a example by invoice reimbursement document, common list management method is, first, will be pasted with invoice List carries out manual sorting, arranges list neat, then uses one block of smooth steel plate to flatten list, Then electric drill or special boring bar tool is used to punch at the bookbinding position of list, and according to overall Thickness suitably increases ivory board of filling a vacancy, and then penetrates a plastic pin in drill hole, uses binder to carry out Bookbinding.
In above-mentioned method, needing multiple step, pressing step therein needs to use steel plate to flatten, Waste time and energy, generally require one and could flatten round the clock, affect operating efficiency.
There are no arrangement, bookbinding all-in-one currently on the market.
Utility model content
In order to solve the deficiencies in the prior art, the utility model provides the perforating binding machine of a kind of finance list, Solve existing list arrange, inefficiency, effect difference, the problem not having special equipment in forwarding.
The technical scheme that the utility model solves that its technical problem used is:
The perforating binding machine of a kind of finance list, it is characterised in that include support, perforating mechanism, binder Structure and plastic heat sealing device,
The gap frame that described support is made up of base, cantilever and column, and arrange anti-in the outside of support Protective case;Base is provided with workbench, platform is provided with a pair line slideway, on line slideway First slide plate is installed, parallelogram linkage is installed in the space between described workbench and the first slide plate, In described parallelogram linkage, two relative pivoting points are arranged on the first slide plate by being slidably connected The back side, the 3rd pivoting point of parallelogram linkage is arranged on the upper table of workbench by being slidably connected Face, the 4th pivoting point of parallelogram linkage installs pull bar;
Perforating mechanism, fixes two the first cylinders in the front end of cantilever, and the piston rod of described first cylinder passes through Cantilever straight down and piston rod top connect the first pressing plate, be provided above cylinder at the first pressing plate and fix Plate, described second cylinder is fixed in air cylinder fixed plate, and the second cylinder is vertically arranged and piston rod passes through first Pressing plate, and a perforating cutting tool is installed in the lower end of the second cylinder, described perforating cutting tool is cylindric cutter;
Being provided with the circular hole being vertically oppositely arranged with perforating cutting tool on the first slide plate, the diameter of described circular hole is big Diameter in perforating cutting tool;
Plastic heat sealing device, described plastic heat sealing are set on the left of perforating cutting tool or on first pressing plate on right side Device includes cone boss and the annular groove being arranged on around boss, is inlaid with electrical heating unit in boss Part,
Be provided with binder mechanism on described workbench, described binder mechanism include U-rail, eject cylinder, Elastic compression assembly, feeding port and discharging opening, wherein discharging opening faces the plastic heat sealing device of top, Discharge outlet is provided with and ejects cylinder, and described U-rail is made up of two symmetrically arranged L-shaped angle bar, The lower surface of plastic pin is limited and have one-way movement trend in U-rail, lives at the described cylinder that ejects Installing one beyond the Great Wall and ejecting pin, the described end face ejecting pin is ladder shaft-like, and the step being relatively large in diameter On be provided with the breach of and described U-rail matched in clearance, under the described effect ejecting cylinder, can To eject and to penetrate into a plastic pin in list circular hole;
By line slideway, the second slide plate is installed in the centre position of cantilever, wherein installs perpendicular on the second slide plate To the 3rd cylinder arranging, the 3rd cylinder piston rod down and fixes the second pressing plate in the end of piston rod, its In be provided with four upwardly extending leads on the second pressing plate, described lead passes through guide bearing and second Slide plate is slidably matched, and the front end of the first slide plate is provided with front end locator protrusions or graduation mark, to table Single placement location indicates.
Most preferably, it in described second pressing plate and the first slide plate, is provided with auxiliary electrical heater element, by heating Mode make between the second pressing plate and the first slide plate formed a high temperature samming field.
Most preferably, described electrical heating elements be heating wire or electric heating aluminium block.
Most preferably, described perforating cutting tool is an alloy cutter, and its cutting edge is that triangle is jagged.
Most preferably, the upper end closure of described perforating cutting tool, and arranging on the perforating cutting tool of occluding member There is an air valve, realize the paper scrap within cleaning automatically by the form of air pulsing.
Most preferably, described elastic compression assembly includes spring and slide block, described both ends of the spring connection sliding block respectively And base, described slide block acts in plastic pin.
The using method of perforating binding machine of a kind of finance list, it is characterised in that order carries out following operation:
Step one: open electricity auxiliary heating function so that plastic heat sealing device heats up, meanwhile, the first slide plate Also heat up with the second pressing plate, wherein, described boss rise temperature control at 300 degree ± 30 degree, described first slide plate With the Temperature Field Control that second between pressing plate part is at 80 degree ± 10 degree;
Step 2: by a pile the punching station that is placed on the first slide plate of list, then make the first pressure List, with pressing at present, is compacted, then records the difference in height of two pressing plates, unclamp first by plate and the second pressing plate Pressing plate, the binding unit at list is filled in the paperboard meeting difference in height, is again pressed down the first pressing plate, then start List is punched, then unclamps the first pressing plate by perforating mechanism, moves to the first slide plate bind station;
Step 3: be again started up the first pressing plate and press to as completely densified, then starts binder mechanism, at dress It is gradually increased the first pressing plate and the pressure of the second pressing plate during ordering, and realize the heat seal of plastic pin, simultaneously To heat seal device power-off, it is achieved cooling, pressurize removes the pressure of the first pressing plate and the second pressing plate after at least 10 minutes Power, completes once to bind.
The beneficial effects of the utility model are:
The utility model integrates arrangement, punches, binds, and binding efficiency is higher, and disclosure satisfy that finance, The needs of each department such as storekeeper, occurrences in human life.
During arrangement, by the compression of electrical heating and cylinder, it is achieved quickly arrange, by punching, The conversion of two stations of bookbinding a, it is achieved equipment completes multiple operation, liberates labour.
Brief description
Fig. 1 is schematic diagram one of the present utility model.
Fig. 2 is schematic diagram two of the present utility model.
Fig. 3 is the stereogram of the utility model core texture.
Fig. 4 is the schematic diagram of parallel-crank mechanism.
Fig. 5 is the original state figure of drilling process.
Fig. 6 is the punching state diagram of drilling process.
Fig. 7 is the original state figure of bookbinding operation.
Fig. 8 is the heat seal state diagram of bookbinding operation.
Fig. 9 is the transverse sectional view of drill process.
Figure 10 is the transverse sectional view of forwarding.
Figure 11 is overall structure figure of the present utility model.
In figure: 1 support, 11 bases, 111 line slideways, 12 cantilevers, 2 first slide plates, 21 pull bars, 22 parallelogram linkages, 31 first cylinders, 32 first pressing plates, 33 air cylinder fixed plate, 34 second Cylinder, 35 perforating cutting tools, 351 air valves, 4 plastic heat sealing devices, 41 boss, 42 annular grooves, 43 electricity Heating element heater, 51U shape track, 52 eject cylinder, and 521 eject pin, 6 plastic pin, 71 leads, 72 second pressing plates, 73 the 3rd cylinders, 8 lists, 9 second slide plates.
Detailed description of the invention
As shown in Figure 1 to 11, for existing defect, protection main body of the present utility model is as follows:
Develop is the perforating binding machine of a kind of finance list, and its basic principle is to be entered by hold-down mechanism Row compacting, realizes quickly arranging under the effect of heat auxiliary, and compacting further, becomes regular, Then quickly punch under the effect of perforating mechanism, can fit according to the thickness of list before punching It when increase paperboard gasket, and in perforating mechanism, is provided with shredded paper bits cleaning system, prevent perforating cutting tool from blocking, Eventually move to bind station, complete to wear pin, binding work by binder mechanism, complete work.
Based on the description above, below its structure is described in detail:
Support 1, support provides installation foundation for whole equipment, including the cantilever 12 on base 11 and top, It is attached by a column, be monolithically fabricated the framework of a C-shaped, for the installation of other parts, and Protecting crust is set in the outside of support, forms outward appearance framework of the present utility model.
Being provided with each workbench on the pedestal 11, workbench is steel plate that one is flat, that area is bigger, Platform is provided with a pair line slideway 111, line slideway is provided with a flat board, be the first slide plate 2, the first slide plate 2 can move in orientation, two, left and right, is labeled as the station of Derivative limit on the left or on the right position respectively beating Hole station and bookbinding station.Install in the space between the workbench and the first slide plate 2 of base one group parallel Quadrilateral connecting rod mechanism 22, wherein in this parallelogram linkage, two relative pivoting point A pass through sliding The mode being dynamically connected is arranged on the back side of the first slide plate, the 3rd pivoting point B of parallelogram linkage It is arranged on the upper surface of workbench by way of being slidably connected, the 4th pivot of parallelogram linkage Contact installs a pull bar 21, and pull bar, for manually operated, controls parallelogram connection-rod machine by pull bar 21 The deformation of structure, it is achieved the first slide plate switches between two stations, completes position switching.
Be provided with two the first cylinders 31 in the front end of cantilever 12, wherein the first cylinder 31 is vertical installation In the upside of cantilever, piston rod passes through cantilever 12 straight down, and the top of piston rod connects one first Pressing plate 32, the first pressing plate 32 is parallel to each other with cantilever, and is provided above cylinder at the first pressing plate 32 and fixes Plate 33, the second cylinder 34 is fixed on cylinder and fixes on 33 plates, and the second cylinder is vertically arranged, and piston rod is vertical Downwards, and piston rod pass through the first pressing plate 32, and the lower end of the second cylinder install a perforating cutting tool 35, This perforating cutting tool 35 is cylindric cutter, is described later in detail with regard to below the concrete structure of perforating cutting tool.
Above-mentioned air cylinder fixed plate 33 is to be fixed on the top of the first pressing plate 32 by four columns, wherein The effect of the first pressing plate is that the end to list carries out local and is compacted, in order to punches and wears the reality of pin technique Execute.
Corresponding on the first slide plate 2, corresponding position is provided with a circular hole 23 with perforating cutting tool, this circle The diameter in hole is more than the diameter of perforating cutting tool.
Perforating cutting tool 35 is an alloy cutter, and its cutting edge is that triangle is jagged, in the upper end of perforating cutting tool Closure, and it on the perforating cutting tool of occluding member, is being provided with an air valve 351, by the shape of air pulsing Formula realizes the paper scrap within cleaning automatically.
In use, cylinder etc. need to be equipped with a malleation source of the gas.
Perforating cutting tool 35 side (left side or right side) is provided with a plastic heat sealing device 4, this plastics Heat seal device is ripe parts, is fastened thereon by screw, its principle be by heating wire or The principle of electric heating block heating carries out molten plastic, and energising can form heating, and coordinates certain pressure to complete Sizing, after removing, can cool down shaping voluntarily.Concrete structure is as follows: this plastic heat sealing device generally one The parts of individual circle, its lower surface is provided with cone boss 41 and an annular being arranged on around boss is recessed Groove 42, is metallic element.It is provided with electrical heating elements 43 in plastic heat sealing device, made by heating Plastic pin melts, and completes heat seal.Wherein above-mentioned boss is conducive to turning up of plastic pin to strut.
Corresponding, in the lower section of position corresponding with boss 41, the workbench of base is provided with one Binder mechanism 5, including the 51st, U-rail ejects cylinder the 52nd, elastic compression assembly, feeding port and discharging opening, Wherein discharging opening faces the plastic heat sealing device of top, is a kind of vertically vertical position relation, in discharging The side of mouth is provided with and ejects cylinder 52 and U-rail, and U-rail is by two symmetrically arranged L-shaped angle bar Composition, the lower surface of above-mentioned plastic pin 6 is limited in U-rail, ejects cylinder 52 above-mentioned Installing one on piston and ejecting pin 521, the end face of this pin is ladder shaft-like, and on the step being relatively large in diameter It is provided with the breach of and above-mentioned U-rail matched in clearance, under the above-mentioned effect ejecting cylinder, can To eject and to penetrate into a plastic pin in above-mentioned list circular hole.
Be provided with second slide plate 9 in the centre position of cantilever 12, the second slide plate is straight by horizontally set Line guide rail enters line slip, wherein one the 3rd cylinder 73 of installation and four leads on the second slide plate, and the 3rd Cylinder is vertically arranged, and piston rod down, and fixes the second pressing plate 72 in the end of piston rod, wherein the second pressure Being provided with four upwardly extending leads 71 on plate, lead is by guide bearing and the second above-mentioned slide plate Reasonably coordinate, under the effect of the second pressing plate, there is to list in a pile the action of a pre-pressing, Form above-mentioned structure, and can carry out servo-actuated with the first slide plate during compressing.
The front end of the first slide plate is provided with front end locator protrusions or graduation mark, the placement location to list 8 Indicate.
Further, it in the second above-mentioned pressing plate and the first slide plate, is provided with electrical heating elements, such as electric heating Silk or electric heating aluminium block, by heating by way of make between the second pressing plate and the first slide plate formed a high temperature Samming field, then be matched for clamping tightly effect, it is possible to achieve quickly arrange and flatten, improve the flatness of list, It is easy to preserve.
Using method is as follows:
Step one: open electricity auxiliary heating function so that plastic heat sealing device heats up, meanwhile, the first slide plate Also heating up with the second pressing plate, wherein, described boss rises temperature control at 300 degree ± 30 degree, it is ensured that plastics are in Semi-molten state, the Temperature Field Control between described first slide plate and the second pressing plate part is at 80 degree ± 10 degree, warm Degree promotes, and the process that arranges is accelerated;
Step 2: the placement station being placed on the list put in order in a pile on the first slide plate, then makes List, with pressing at present, is compacted by the first pressing plate and the second pressing plate, then records the difference in height of two pressing plates, pine Drive the first pressing plate, fill in the paperboard meeting difference in height in the end of list, again press down the first pressing plate, then Starting perforating mechanism, punching list, then unclamp the first pressing plate, the first slide plate moves to bind station;
Step 3: be again started up the first pressing plate and press to as completely densified, then starts binder mechanism, at dress It is gradually increased the first pressing plate and the pressure of the second pressing plate during ordering, and realize the heat seal of plastic pin, simultaneously To heat seal device power-off, it is achieved cooling, pressurize can remove the first pressing plate and the pressure of the second pressing plate after 10 minutes Power, completes once to bind.
Step 4: overlay film can also be carried out to the list after bookbinding.
Embodiment described above is only to be described preferred embodiment of the present utility model, not right Scope of the present utility model is defined, on the premise of without departing from the utility model design spirit, and this area Person skilled is to various deformation of the present utility model and improves, and all should expand such as the utility model claim In protection domain determined by book.

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1. the perforating binding machine of a finance list, it is characterised in that include support, perforating mechanism, binder mechanism and plastic heat sealing device,
The gap frame that described support (1) is made up of base (11), cantilever (12) and column, and protecting crust is set in the outside of support;Base (11) is provided with workbench, on platform, by line slideway, the first slide plate (2) is installed, parallelogram linkage (22) is installed in the space between described workbench and the first slide plate (2), in described parallelogram linkage, two relative pivoting points are arranged on the back side of the first slide plate by being slidably connected, 3rd pivoting point of parallelogram linkage is arranged on the upper surface of workbench by being slidably connected, and the 4th pivoting point of parallelogram linkage installs pull bar (21);
Perforating mechanism, fix two the first cylinders (31) in the front end of cantilever (12), the piston rod of described first cylinder (31) pass through cantilever (12) straight down and piston rod top connect the first pressing plate (32), it is provided above air cylinder fixed plate (33) at the first pressing plate (32), second cylinder (34) is fixed in air cylinder fixed plate (33), second cylinder is vertically arranged and piston rod passes through the first pressing plate (32), and a perforating cutting tool (35) is installed in the lower end of the second cylinder, described perforating cutting tool (35) is cylindric cutter;
Being provided with the circular hole (23) being vertically oppositely arranged with perforating cutting tool on the first slide plate (2), the diameter of described circular hole is more than the diameter of perforating cutting tool;
First pressing plate on perforating cutting tool (35) left side or right side arranges plastic heat sealing device (4), described plastic heat sealing device includes cone boss (41) and the annular groove (42) being arranged on around boss, it is inlaid with electrical heating elements (43) in boss
It is provided with binder mechanism (5) on described workbench, described binder mechanism (5) includes U-rail (51), eject cylinder (52), elastic compression assembly, feeding port and discharging opening, wherein discharging opening faces the plastic heat sealing device of top, it is provided with in discharge outlet and eject cylinder (52), described U-rail is made up of two symmetrically arranged L-shaped angle bar, the lower surface of plastic pin (6) is limited and have one-way movement trend in U-rail, described eject on cylinder (52) piston install one eject pin (521), the described end face ejecting pin is ladder shaft-like, and it on the step being relatively large in diameter, is provided with the breach of and described U-rail matched in clearance, under the described effect ejecting cylinder, one plastic pin is ejected and penetrates in list circular hole;
By line slideway, the second slide plate (9) is installed in the centre position of cantilever (12), the 3rd vertically arranged cylinder (73) is wherein installed on the second slide plate, 3rd cylinder piston rod fixes the second pressing plate (72) down and in the end of piston rod, it is wherein provided with four upwardly extending leads (71) on the second pressing plate, described lead is slidably matched by guide bearing and the second slide plate, the front end of the first slide plate is provided with front end locator protrusions or graduation mark, the placement location of list (8) is indicated.
2. the perforating binding machine of a kind of finance list according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, it is provided with auxiliary electrical heater element in described second pressing plate and the first slide plate, by way of heating, make to be formed between the second pressing plate and the first slide plate the samming field of a high temperature.
3. according to claim 1 a kind of finance list perforating binding machine, it is characterised in that described electrical heating elements be heating wire or electric heating aluminium block.
4. the perforating binding machine of a kind of finance list according to claim 1, it is characterised in that described perforating cutting tool (35) is an alloy cutter, and its cutting edge is that triangle is jagged.
5. the perforating binding machine of a kind of finance list according to claim 4, it is characterized in that, the upper end closure of described perforating cutting tool, and it is being provided with an air valve (351) on the perforating cutting tool of occluding member, realize the paper scrap within cleaning automatically by the form of air pulsing.
6. the perforating binding machine of a kind of finance list according to claim 1, it is characterised in that described elastic compression assembly includes spring and slide block, and described both ends of the spring connection sliding block and base respectively, described slide block acts in plastic pin.
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