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EP0309811B1
EP0309811B1 EP88115019A EP88115019A EP0309811B1 EP 0309811 B1 EP0309811 B1 EP 0309811B1 EP 88115019 A EP88115019 A EP 88115019A EP 88115019 A EP88115019 A EP 88115019A EP 0309811 B1 EP0309811 B1 EP 0309811B1
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Gerhard Piller
Michael Schwarzbauer
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/315—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material
    • B41J2/32—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
    • B41J2/325—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet

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  • the invention relates to a device for printing receipts according to the features of the preamble of claim 1.
  • Modern document processing systems with devices for optical character recognition are increasingly being equipped with printing devices with which additional data, preferably receipt data, can be printed. Since printing devices of this type have to be arranged between the reading device and the adjoining compartment path with one or more storage compartments, and there is usually little space there, the installation of a printing device occasionally presents major problems. In addition, the printing device usually has to be serviced at regular intervals.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object of designing and arranging a device for printing receipts in a receipt processing device such that the printing device is easily accessible and can be easily maintained.
  • the figure shows a schematic representation of a document processing device, for example a form reader with optical character recognition. It shows in detail an input table 1 with a first singling roll 2, which pulls the topmost document from a document stack 3 lying on the input table 1 and guided by a lateral stop and fed to a second singling roll 4.
  • This second singling roller 4 is followed by a transport route with accelerator roller 5, which transfers the document to further means of transport.
  • These further transport means consist of two rows of parallel pairs of rollers 6, 7, between which an optoelectric reading device, not shown, is provided.
  • a deflection roller 8 which forwards the document together with a curved outer baffle (not shown) to a section 9.
  • the document processing device also contains a printing device 12, which is designed as an independent structural unit and is arranged such that the print head 13 of the printing device 12 is located in front of a counter-pressure roller 14.
  • This counter pressure roller 14 is made of foam, rubber or the like and is arranged next to the deflection roller 8 which does not record the full width of the document so that its apex line facing the print head 13 runs in alignment with a corresponding apex line in the document guide of the deflection roller 8.
  • the entire printing device 12 is also held in guide elements (not shown) and can be pulled out tangentially to the apex line of the counter-pressure roller 14 along the guide elements from the printing position (see arrow).
  • the printing device works, for example, according to the thermal transfer principle, in which the print head 13 consists of a series of thermal printing dots which are activated and heated in accordance with the character code provided in the character generator. At the same time, the print head 13 is pressed with a defined contact pressure by means of a lifting magnet 15 against a thermal ink ribbon 16, which in turn is pressed against the counter-pressure roller 14. By heating the print head 13, the thermal ink ribbon 16 is heated point by point, with corresponding ink dots being transferred from the thermal ink ribbon 16 to the paper of a document transported between the thermal ink ribbon 16 and the counter-pressure roller 14.
  • the thermal transfer principle has the advantage over other printing methods, in particular dot-matrix or ink-jet printing methods, that it is quieter in comparison to dot-matrix printing and that, in contrast to ink-jet printing, it is both independent of the paper quality and independent of the respective installation position in the device .
  • an approximately rectangular cassette 17 is provided, which has two ribbon winding cores which can be plugged onto guide pins - winding core 18, winding core 19 - and in which the thermal ink ribbon 16 has a series of deflection rollers 20 along a longitudinal edge on the print head 13 is moved past.
  • this longitudinal edge has two openings 21, 22, of which the first opening 21 in the region of the print head 13 and the second opening 22, relative to the center line running between the two tape winding cores 18, 19, is arranged mirror-symmetrically to the opening 21.
  • the two approximately rectangular openings 21, 22 are selected so large that, as can be seen in the opening 21, the print head 13 can dip into the cassette 17 behind the thermal ink ribbon 16.
  • a U-shaped slot opening 23, 24 for a capstan drive shaft 25 or a light barrier 26 is provided on the two narrow sides of the cassette 17.
  • the arrangement of the individual openings 21, 22 and 23, 24 is expediently chosen so that the cassette can be used as a reversible cassette in multiple operation.
  • For the drive of the thermal ribbon 16 provides the already mentioned Kapstan drive shaft 25 and a pressure roller 27 which presses against the other side of the belt when the printing device 12 is inserted.
  • a slip coupling integrated in the Kapstan drive shaft 25 also has the effect that the higher ribbon speed per se corresponds to the lower transport speed of the at the print head 13 moving print template is adjusted.
  • the drive coupled to the drive of the capstan drive shaft 25 for the ribbon winding core 18 receiving the ribbon to be wound is also adjusted by a slip clutch so that there is only a very low driving torque for this ribbon winding core 18.
  • the end of the ribbon is monitored, the position of the light barrier 26 relative to the print head 13 being selected such that all documents already in transit are still printed when the end of the ribbon passes the print head before the end of the ribbon 13 reached.

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The printing device (12) is constructed as an independent modular unit and so arranged that the print head (13) is located in front of a counter-pressure roller (14) which is mounted beside the deflection roller (8) of the document processing equipment, which roller does not extend across the full width of the document, in such a manner that its crown line facing the print head (13) runs aligned with a corresponding crown line of the deflection roller (8). The modular unit is held in guidance elements and can be drawn out from the printing position along the guidance elements tangentially to the crown line of the counter-pressure roller (14). Preferably, a print head (13) having a thermal ink ribbon (16) transported synchronously with the document, and operating by the thermal transfer principle serves as the printing device (12). <IMAGE>

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Die Erfindung betrifft eine Vorrichtung zum Bedrucken von Belegen gemäß den Merkmalen des Oberbegriffs des Anspruchs 1.The invention relates to a device for printing receipts according to the features of the preamble of claim 1.

Moderne Belegverarbeitungsanlagen mit Einrichtungen zur optischen Zeichenerkennung werden in zunehmenden Maße mit Druckeinrichtungen ausgestattet, mit denen zusätzliche Daten, vorzugsweise Quittungsdaten, aufgedruckt werden können. Da derartige Druckeinrichtungen zwischen der Leseeinrichtung und der sich anschließenden Fachstrecke mit einem oder mehreren Ablagefächern angeordnet werden müssen, und dort üblicherweise wenig Platz zur Verfügung steht, bereitet der Einbau einer Druckeinrichtung gelegentlich große Probleme. Hinzu kommt, daß die Druckeinrichtung üblicherweise in regelmäßigen Abständen gewartet werden muß.Modern document processing systems with devices for optical character recognition are increasingly being equipped with printing devices with which additional data, preferably receipt data, can be printed. Since printing devices of this type have to be arranged between the reading device and the adjoining compartment path with one or more storage compartments, and there is usually little space there, the installation of a printing device occasionally presents major problems. In addition, the printing device usually has to be serviced at regular intervals.

Der vorliegenden Erfindung liegt daher die Aufgabe zugrunde, eine Vorrichtung zum Bedrucken von Belegen in einer Belegverarbeitungseinrichtung so auszubilden und anzuordnen, daß die Druckeinrichtung leicht zugänglich ist und einfach gewartet werden kann.The present invention is therefore based on the object of designing and arranging a device for printing receipts in a receipt processing device such that the printing device is easily accessible and can be easily maintained.

Diese Aufgabe wird bei einer Vorrichtung der eingangs genannten Art durch die im kennzeichnenden Teil des Anspruchs 1 angegegebenen Maßnahmen gelöst. Durch die Ausbildung als selbständige Baueinheit, die bis auf die Gegenandruckrolle alle Komponenten der Druckvorrichtung enthält, kann die Vorrichtung relativ einfach aus der Gesamtanordnung entnommen und damit in einfacher Weise gewartet werden. Die Anordnung der Druckvorrichtung im Umlenkbereich der Belegtransportstrecke hat außerdem den Vorteil, daß die Druckvorrichtung ohne Eingriff in die Belegtransportstrecke seitlich angesetzt werden kann.This object is achieved in a device of the type mentioned by the measures specified in the characterizing part of claim 1. Due to the design as an independent structural unit, which contains all components of the printing device except for the counter-pressure roller, the device can be removed from the overall arrangement relatively easily and can therefore be serviced in a simple manner. The arrangement of the printing device in the deflection area of the document transport route also has the advantage that the printing device can be attached laterally without intervention in the document transport route.

Vorteilhafte Weiterbildungen der Erfindung sind in den Unteransprüchen angegeben.Advantageous developments of the invention are specified in the subclaims.

Ein Ausführungsbeispiel der Erfindung wird im folgenden anhand der Zeichnung näher erläutert.An embodiment of the invention is explained below with reference to the drawing.

Die Figur zeigt in schematischer Darstellung eine Belegverarbeitungseinrichtung, beispielsweise ein Formularlesegerät mit optischer Zeichenerkennung. Sie zeigt im einzelnen einen Eingabetisch 1 mit einer ersten Vereinzelerrolle 2, die den jeweils obersten Beleg von einem auf dem Eingabetisch 1 liegend angeordneten und durch einen seitlichen Anschlag geführten Belegstapel 3 seitlich abzieht und einer zweiten Vereinzelerrolle 4 zugeführt. An diese zweite Vereinzelerrolle 4 schließt sich eine Transportstrecke mit Beschleunigerrolle 5 an, die den Beleg an weiterführende Transportmittel übergibt. Diese weiterführenden Transportmittel bestehen aus zwei Reihen parallel verlaufender Rollenpaare 6, 7, zwischen denen eine nicht dargestellte optoelektrische Leseeinrichtung vorgesehen ist. Als nächstes folgt eine Umlenkrolle 8, die den Beleg zusammen mit einem gebogenen Außenleitblech ( nicht dargestellt) an eine Fachstrecke 9 weiterleitet. Diese Fachstrecke 9 ist schwenkbar gelagert, so daß die Belege wahlweise in eines der beiden Ablagefächer 10, 11 abgelegt werden können. Die Belegverarbeitungseinrichtung enthält ferner eine Druckvorrichtung 12, die als selbständige Baueinheit ausgebildet und so angeordnet ist, daß sich der Druckkopf 13 der Druckvorrichtung 12 vor einer Gegenandruckrolle 14 befindet. Diese Gegenandruckrolle 14 besteht aus Schaumstoff, Gummi oder dergleichen und ist neben der den Beleg nicht in voller Breite erfassenden Umlenkrolle 8 so angeordnet, daß ihre dem Druckkopf 13 zugewandte Scheitellinie fluchtend zu einer entsprechenden Scheitellinie in der Belegführung der Umlenkrolle 8 verläuft. Die gesamte Druckvorrichtung 12 ist ferner in Führungselementen (nicht dargestellt) gehalten und tangential zur Scheitellinie der Gegenandruckrolle 14 entlang der Führungselemente aus der Druckposition herausziehbar (siehe Pfeil).The figure shows a schematic representation of a document processing device, for example a form reader with optical character recognition. It shows in detail an input table 1 with a first singling roll 2, which pulls the topmost document from a document stack 3 lying on the input table 1 and guided by a lateral stop and fed to a second singling roll 4. This second singling roller 4 is followed by a transport route with accelerator roller 5, which transfers the document to further means of transport. These further transport means consist of two rows of parallel pairs of rollers 6, 7, between which an optoelectric reading device, not shown, is provided. Next follows a deflection roller 8, which forwards the document together with a curved outer baffle (not shown) to a section 9. This compartment track 9 is pivotally mounted, so that the receipts can optionally be placed in one of the two storage compartments 10, 11. The document processing device also contains a printing device 12, which is designed as an independent structural unit and is arranged such that the print head 13 of the printing device 12 is located in front of a counter-pressure roller 14. This counter pressure roller 14 is made of foam, rubber or the like and is arranged next to the deflection roller 8 which does not record the full width of the document so that its apex line facing the print head 13 runs in alignment with a corresponding apex line in the document guide of the deflection roller 8. The entire printing device 12 is also held in guide elements (not shown) and can be pulled out tangentially to the apex line of the counter-pressure roller 14 along the guide elements from the printing position (see arrow).

Die Druckvorrichtung arbeitet beispielsweise nach dem Thermo-Transfer-Prinzip, bei dem der Druckkopf 13 aus einer Reihe von Thermo-Druckpunkten besteht, die entsprechend dem im Zeichengenerator vorgesehenen Zeichencode angesteuert und erwärmt werden. Gleichzeitig wird der Druckkopf 13 mit definiertem Anpreßdruck mit Hilfe eines Hubmagneten 15 gegen ein Thermo-Farbband 16 gedrückt, das seinerseits gegen die Gegenandruckrolle 14 gedrückt wird. Durch die Erwärmung des Druckkopfes 13 wird das Thermo-Farbband 16 punktweise erhitzt, wobei entsprechende Farbpunkte vom ThermoFarbband 16 auf das Papier eines zwischen Thermo-Farbband 16 und der Gegenandruckrolle 14 transportierten Beleges übertragen werden. Das Thermo-Transfer-Prinzip hat gegenüber anderen Druckverfahren, insbesondere Nadeldruck-oder Tintenstrahldruckverfahren, den Vorteil, daß es im Vergleich zum Nadeldruck geräuschärmer ist und daß es im Gegensatz zum Tintenstrahldruck sowohl unabhängig von der Papierqualität als auch unabhängig von der jeweiligen Einbaulage im Gerät ist. Für den Transport des Thermo-Farbbandes 16 ist beispielsweise eine etwa rechteckförmige Kassette 17 vorgesehen, die zwei auf Führungsdorne aufsteckbare Bandwickelkerne - Aufwickelkern 18, Abwickelkern 19 - aufweist und bei der das Thermo-Farbband 16 über eine Reihe von Umlenkrollen 20 entlang einer Längskante am Druckkopf 13 vorbeibewegt wird. Zu diesem Zweck weist diese Längskante zwei Öffnungen 21, 22 auf, von denen die erste Öffnung 21 im Bereich des Druckkopfes 13 und die zweite Öffnung 22, bezogen auf die zwischen den beiden Bandwickelkernen 18, 19 verlaufende Mittellinie spiegelsymmetrisch zur Öffnung 21 angeordnet ist. Die beiden etwa rechteckförmigen Öffnungen 21, 22 sind dabei so groß gewählt, daß, wie bei der Öffnung 21 ersichtlich, der Druckkopf 13 hinter dem Thermo-Farbband 16 in die Kassette 17 eintauchen kann. Schließlich ist an den beiden Schmalseiten der Kassette 17 je eine U-förmige Schlitzöffnung 23, 24 für eine Kapstan-Antriebswelle 25 bzw. eine Lichtschranke 26 vorgesehen. Die Anordnung der einzelnen Öffnungen 21, 22 bzw. 23, 24 ist zweckmäßig so gewählt, daß die Kassette als Wendekassette im Mehrfachbetrieb einsetzbar ist. Für den Antrieb des Thermo-Farbbandes 16 sorgt die bereits erwähnte Kapstan-Antriebswelle 25 und eine im eingeschobenen Zustand der Druckvorrichtung 12 von der anderen Seite des Bandes gegendrückende Andruckrolle 27. Eine in der Kapstan-Antriebswelle 25 integrierte Rutschkopplung bewirkt außerdem, daß die an sich höhere Farbbandgeschwindigkeit an die niedrigere Transportgeschwindigkeit der am Druckkopf 13 vorbeibewegten Druckvorlage angepaßt wird. Der mit dem Antrieb der Kapstan-Antriebswelle 25 gekoppelte Antrieb für den das aufzuwickelnde Farbband aufnehmenden Bandwickelkern 18 wird ebenfalls durch eine Rutschkupplung so eingestellt, daß sich für diesen Bandwickelkern 18 nur ein sehr geringes Antriebsmoment ergibt. Mit der in der U-förmigen Schlitzöffnung 24 vorgesehenen Lichtschranke 26 wird das Bandende überwacht, wobei die Lage der Lichtschranke 26 zum Druckkopf 13 so gewählt ist, daß bei einer Bandendemeldung alle bereits auf dem Transportweg befindlichen Belege noch gedruckt werden, bevor das Bandende den Druckkopf 13 erreicht.The printing device works, for example, according to the thermal transfer principle, in which the print head 13 consists of a series of thermal printing dots which are activated and heated in accordance with the character code provided in the character generator. At the same time, the print head 13 is pressed with a defined contact pressure by means of a lifting magnet 15 against a thermal ink ribbon 16, which in turn is pressed against the counter-pressure roller 14. By heating the print head 13, the thermal ink ribbon 16 is heated point by point, with corresponding ink dots being transferred from the thermal ink ribbon 16 to the paper of a document transported between the thermal ink ribbon 16 and the counter-pressure roller 14. The thermal transfer principle has the advantage over other printing methods, in particular dot-matrix or ink-jet printing methods, that it is quieter in comparison to dot-matrix printing and that, in contrast to ink-jet printing, it is both independent of the paper quality and independent of the respective installation position in the device . For the transport of the thermal ink ribbon 16, for example, an approximately rectangular cassette 17 is provided, which has two ribbon winding cores which can be plugged onto guide pins - winding core 18, winding core 19 - and in which the thermal ink ribbon 16 has a series of deflection rollers 20 along a longitudinal edge on the print head 13 is moved past. For this purpose, this longitudinal edge has two openings 21, 22, of which the first opening 21 in the region of the print head 13 and the second opening 22, relative to the center line running between the two tape winding cores 18, 19, is arranged mirror-symmetrically to the opening 21. The two approximately rectangular openings 21, 22 are selected so large that, as can be seen in the opening 21, the print head 13 can dip into the cassette 17 behind the thermal ink ribbon 16. Finally, a U-shaped slot opening 23, 24 for a capstan drive shaft 25 or a light barrier 26 is provided on the two narrow sides of the cassette 17. The arrangement of the individual openings 21, 22 and 23, 24 is expediently chosen so that the cassette can be used as a reversible cassette in multiple operation. For the drive of the thermal ribbon 16 provides the already mentioned Kapstan drive shaft 25 and a pressure roller 27 which presses against the other side of the belt when the printing device 12 is inserted. A slip coupling integrated in the Kapstan drive shaft 25 also has the effect that the higher ribbon speed per se corresponds to the lower transport speed of the at the print head 13 moving print template is adjusted. The drive coupled to the drive of the capstan drive shaft 25 for the ribbon winding core 18 receiving the ribbon to be wound is also adjusted by a slip clutch so that there is only a very low driving torque for this ribbon winding core 18. With the light barrier 26 provided in the U-shaped slot opening 24, the end of the ribbon is monitored, the position of the light barrier 26 relative to the print head 13 being selected such that all documents already in transit are still printed when the end of the ribbon passes the print head before the end of the ribbon 13 reached.

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  1. Apparatus for printing documents in a document processing device, having an input tray (1) for documents deposited in stacks, a reading means arranged in the course of the document conveying path upstream of the printer (12), and a deflection roller (8) arranged downstream of the reading means for deflecting the documents into delivery trays (10, 11) arranged under the input table (1), characterized in that the printer (12) is constructed as an independent constructional unit consisting of a printer head (13) and a conveying system for an ink ribbon (16) which can be moved between two ribbon winding hubs (18, 19) past the printer head (13), and is arranged in such a way that the printer head (13) of the printer (12) is located in front of a corresponding platen (14) which is mounted next to the deflection roller (8) which does not cover the full width of the document, in such a way that its apex line, facing the printer head (13), extends flush with a corresponding apex line in the document guide of the deflection roller (8), and in that the constructional unit is held in guide elements and can be pulled out of the document processing device along the guide elements tangentially with respect to the apex line of the corresponding platen (14).
  2. Device according to Claim 1, characterized in that the transport system for the ink ribbon is constructed as an essentially rectangular cartridge (17) which can be fitted onto guide mandrils for the two ribbon winding hubs (18, 19) and which has on the longitudinal edge facing the printer head (13) at least one rectangular opening (21, 22) for the printer head (13) which dips into the cartridge (17) behind the ink ribbon (16), and, in addition, has a further opening (23) for a capstan drive shaft (25) that is mounted upstream of the winding hub (18).
  3. Device according to Claim 2, characterized in that the capstan drive shaft (25) has a slip clutch which matches the inherently higher ribbon speed to the lower conveying speed of the document which is guided between ink ribbon (16) and corresponding platen (14).
  4. Device according to Claim 3, characterized in that the drive, also provided with a slip clutch, for the winding hub (18) is coupled to the drive for the capstan drive shaft (25) and has a relatively low drive torque.
  5. Device according to one of Claims 2 to 4, characterized in that a further opening (24) for a light barrier (26) which monitors the end of the ink ribbon is provided in the region of the take-off hub (19).
  6. Device according to Claim 5, characterized in that the openings (23, 24) which are assigned to the capstan drive shaft (25) on the one hand and to the light barrier (26) on the other are arranged on the narrow sides of the cartridge in a position that is mirror-symmetrical with reference to the centre line between the two ribbon winding hubs (18, 19).
  7. Device according to Claim 6, characterized in that the openings (23, 24) for the capstan drive shaft (25) and the light barrier (26) are constructed as U-shaped slots.
  8. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a thermal transfer printer head (13) with thermal ink ribbon (16) is provided as printer (12).
  9. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the corresponding platen (14) consists of rubber, foamed material or the like.
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