EP0645248A2 - Machine à imprimer - Google Patents

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EP0645248A2
EP0645248A2 EP94113784A EP94113784A EP0645248A2 EP 0645248 A2 EP0645248 A2 EP 0645248A2 EP 94113784 A EP94113784 A EP 94113784A EP 94113784 A EP94113784 A EP 94113784A EP 0645248 A2 EP0645248 A2 EP 0645248A2
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Dirk Umbach
Peter Schneider
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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

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  • the invention relates to a printing machine with a detachably mounted, spring-loaded pressure head against a counter pressure roller between the and the counter pressure roller pass through the effective run of a printing tape and a record carrier to be printed on, in which a device for lifting the contact pressure between the counter pressure roller and the printing head during a standstill of the printing tape is provided.
  • a printing press of the generic type has become known from DE 41 08 172 A1. If, for example, labels are to be printed on the recording medium in this way or partial areas of the latter to be used as labels, there are intermediate areas without printing between two labels or partial areas.
  • a device is therefore used in which, in economy mode - in which the recording medium is not printed but is moved past the printhead - the thermal printhead remains in the printing position and the counterpressure roller is moved to a position further away from the printhead. The transport of the transfer belt is thus interrupted.
  • the transfer ribbon is not in sufficient distance between the print head and the counter-pressure roller, for example can be briefly present during their movement, through which contact with the record carrier being transported is undesirably moved on.
  • the invention proposes that a locking device for the printing tape can be brought into an effective position by means of a control of the printing press while the printing tape is at a standstill.
  • the printing press is equipped with a control system that specifies exactly where the record carrier should be printed and where there should be gaps in the direction of flow.
  • the data required for this are located in a computer of the control.
  • the locking device for the thermal transfer ribbon is brought into an effective position so that it cannot continue to run, the recording medium can continue to run underneath the stationary thermal transfer ribbon without damage to both ribbons, since with The printhead is lifted, for example, when the thermal transfer ribbon stops.
  • the locking device for the thermal transfer ribbon is released and the contact pressure for the print head is generated again. This means that both ribbons run through the print area to the next "last line”.
  • the removal of the contact pressure can be achieved, for example, by slightly removing the thermal print head from the counterpressure roller while simultaneously increasing the spring force. Fractions of a millimeter are sufficient here. Instead, you can also remove the counter pressure roller from the thermal print head until the spring is completely relieved. However, this generally requires a larger adjustment range, which is why the first-mentioned variant is preferred.
  • the printing tape is preferably unwound from a first spool and wound onto a second spool.
  • the thermal transfer ribbon can be directly or indirectly e.g. Hold on to the supply reel.
  • a slip clutch is connected between a drive for the printing tape and a spool for the printing tape driven by the drive. Holding the thermal transfer ribbon has the result that the output side of the slip clutch, for example the second spool, can no longer rotate. Because of the interposed slip clutch, however, the drive motor can continue to run without damage to this drive or the thermal transfer ribbon. If the latter is released by the locking device, it is then transported further through the clutch, which is now no longer slipping, with the aid of the drive motor.
  • a drive for lifting the counterpressure roller from the thermal print head or the latter from the counterpressure roller can also be actuated according to the invention by the control of the printing press.
  • thermal transfer ribbon can be locked indirectly by holding the first spool in place, the locking device interacting with the first spool.
  • this does not mean that the locking device must act directly on the first coil, rather it is sufficient if it acts on an element which is coupled to the first coil in a rotationally fixed manner.
  • the first coil is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to an externally toothed wheel, to which a latching tooth that can be adjusted by means of the control is assigned.
  • the locking tooth can engage in any gap between two adjacent teeth and thereby stop the turning of this externally toothed wheel.
  • the non-rotatably coupled first coil is also fixed.
  • the tape can then no longer be unwound from this spool and consequently can no longer be wound onto the second spool.
  • one does not provide a pointed tooth shape, but rather a rectangular or a saw tooth shape.
  • latching tooth is located on a swivel arm which can be held in an ineffective position by means of a controllable locking member.
  • the locking member can be brought into an ineffective position via the control of the printing press, so that the swivel arm can carry out the swiveling movement necessary for locking. This is done, for example, with some assistant, for example Spring force, or with the help of gravity, which requires that the swivel arm is in a raised pivot position when the ratchet tooth is disengaged.
  • the locking member can be transferred from its locking position into a release position and vice versa by means of a controllable drive.
  • the control of the printing press actuates the controllable drive for the blocking element, as a result of which it is transferred from its effective to an inactive position or vice versa. If the thermal transfer ribbon is to be removed again and made available for printing, the controllable drive resets the blocking element back into its inactive position.
  • the locking member is located in a very advantageous manner on a pivotally mounted lever which is adjustable by means of an eccentric drive forming the controllable drive. Rotation of the eccentric causes the lever coupled therewith to pivot, and this pivoting movement can be used for the pivoting movement of the pivoting arm with the latching tooth in the latched position and in the release position.
  • an eccentrically attached to a drivable rotary member engages in a longitudinal slot which is arranged at a distance from the axis of rotation of the pivotable lever on the latter.
  • This pin-slot connection enables the rotary motion to be converted into a reciprocating pivoting motion in a manner known per se. For this reason, the rotary member also only rotates by about 180 ° in each case in order to transfer the locking device from its active position into the inactive position or vice versa.
  • the longitudinal slot is transverse to the direction of deflection of the lever.
  • a further preferred embodiment of the invention contains claim 9.
  • the use of an angle lever brings with it many advantages, but in particular a compact design.
  • the swivel arm carrying or having the latching tooth can either be loaded by means of a spring or brought into the latched position in some other way, or that gravity is used for this purpose.
  • the latter has advantages above all in terms of gently finding the next tooth gap.
  • a particularly expedient variant of the invention results from claim 12. Accordingly, an adjustment drive for the thermal print head, that is to say a drive with which it is to be lifted off the counterpressure roller when the thermal transfer ribbon is at a standstill, can also be used to shut down the thermal transfer ribbon effect or cancel. From this point of view, a compact and therefore inexpensive design of the printing press is achieved in this area. In addition, you can get by with a small number of parts, which is advantageous in view of the low susceptibility to faults.
  • the thermal transfer ribbon 4 is unwound from a first spool 1, passes through the printing area 2 and is then wound onto a second spool 3.
  • the two spools 1 and 3, including the deflecting rollers or rollers 5 and 6, are preferably located in an ink ribbon cassette.
  • the working strand 7 of the thermal transfer ribbon 4 is located between the deflecting rollers 5 and 6. It is guided over a counter pressure roller 8 of the printing machine, which is not shown in detail. Between the thermal transfer ribbon 4 and the counter pressure roller 8 there is still a recording medium, not shown, e.g. a carrier tape with labels to be printed.
  • a thermal print head 9 rests on the continuous, working strand 7 of the thermal transfer ribbon 4 and, with the interposition of the aforementioned recording medium, presses it firmly against the counter-pressure roller 8.
  • the contact pressure is applied by means of a helical compression spring, which is not shown for the sake of clarity and depresses the pivotable arm 10.
  • the pivotable arm 10 carries the thermal print head 9.
  • the arm 10 mentioned, which is loaded by the helical compression spring, can be pivoted about the axis 12 in the direction of the double arrow 11.
  • the record carrier which can also be unwound from a reel or spool and possibly rewound onto another reel or spool, is divided into individual fields to be printed or bears, for example, labels which, however, should not be printed up to the front and rear edges. In this respect arise between intermediate sections unprinted in the direction of travel 13 of the two tapes between successive, identical prints. It is now an unjustifiable expense if the thermal transfer ribbon 4 is also transported on even if the recording medium located underneath is not to be printed at all. According to the invention, the unnecessary thermal transfer ribbon consumption can now be reduced, or at least brought to approximately zero, by stopping the thermal transfer ribbon 4 whenever the recording medium which is continuously being run is not to be printed on.
  • This comparatively sudden stopping of the thermal transfer ribbon 4 after the printing of the "last line” is achieved according to the invention by a locking device 14.
  • the printing machine basically requires an appropriate electronic control with a computer for printing in the thermal transfer process. This can now be used - because it also has all the necessary data - to bring the locking device 14 into the working position whenever the thermal transfer ribbon 4 should not continue to run and always to release it when the recording medium has run through so far that the next one to be printed Point in the printing area 2 has arrived.
  • the locking device 14 also includes a slip clutch 15 of a known type, not shown in detail.
  • the drive side of this slip clutch 15 is driven in the exemplary embodiment of the printing press via an endless drive member 16, for example a toothed belt, by means of an electric motor 17.
  • the electric motor 17 always remains switched on, so that the drive side of the slip clutch 15 is also constantly rotated.
  • the slip clutch 15 transmits the torque from its drive side to its output side, on which the second coil 3 is located. If, however, the locking device 14 abruptly interrupts the belt run, the frictional torque of the slip clutch 15 is no longer sufficient to transmit the driving force of the electric motor 17 to the driven side of the slip clutch 15. As a result, the slip clutch 15 slips. As soon as the locking device 14 releases the first spool 1 again, the driven side of the slip clutch 15 also runs again and as a result the thermal transfer ribbon 4 running from the first spool 1 is wound up again on the second spool 3.
  • the contact pressure with which the thermal print head 9 is pressed against the counterpressure roller 8 must be released during the standstill phases. This is done in a simple manner, for example by an actuator 18 being pivoted in the direction of arrow 19 at the given time via the control of the printing press, which is coupled to the swivel arm 10 in the manner explained in more detail below and consequently takes the latter in the same direction, whereby the thermal print head 9 is then lifted off the counter-pressure roller 8.
  • an actuator 18 being pivoted in the direction of arrow 19 at the given time via the control of the printing press, which is coupled to the swivel arm 10 in the manner explained in more detail below and consequently takes the latter in the same direction, whereby the thermal print head 9 is then lifted off the counter-pressure roller 8.
  • the first-mentioned alternative is preferred for many reasons.
  • the first coil 1 is rotatably connected to an externally toothed wheel 20.
  • An adjustable locking tooth 21 is located above it. It is held by a swivel arm 22 and is preferably manufactured in one piece with it.
  • the pivot arm 22 can be pivoted about an axis 24 in the direction of the double arrow 23.
  • the swivel arm 22 is in the rotational position shown in FIG. 1. It is held in this ineffective position by a controllable locking member 25.
  • a drive 26 which can also be controlled by the control of the printing press, the swivel arm 22 can be moved into the effective position shown in FIG.
  • the locking member 25 is located on a pivotably mounted lever 27 which is adjustable by means of an eccentric drive 28.
  • the lever 27 is preferably an angle lever, the upper end of which forms the locking member 25 in the drawing. As soon as this end is lowered, the swivel arm 22 follows this movement, and the latching tooth 21 then engages in the next tooth gap 29.
  • the lever 27 is rotatable about an axis 30.
  • an open longitudinal slot 31 in which a pin 32 engages. Both are part of the eccentric drive 28.
  • the pin 32 is attached to a drivable rotary member 33.
  • the longitudinal slot 31 extends, for example in FIG. 2, approximately in the longitudinal direction of the angled arm 34 of the angled lever 27 articulated on the axis 30. Accordingly, the locking member 25 is located on the free angled arm 35.
  • the swivel arm 22 with the latching tooth 21 is one in the exemplary embodiment simple, pivotable lever, which has at its free end a preferably spherical support element 36 which rests on the top of the end face of the free angle leg 35 forming the locking member 25.
  • the articulated angle leg 34 of the pivotable angle lever 27 is extended beyond the bearing 30.
  • the resulting extension arm is designated 37. It is designed like a hook at its free end, the hook 38 essentially by one is formed laterally open longitudinal slot 39.
  • a bolt 40 which is fastened to the swivel arm 10, engages in this.
  • the rotary member 33 with the pin 32 starting from its rotational position according to FIG. 1, is rotated counterclockwise, for example, by approximately 180 °, the pin 32, which engages in the longitudinal slot 31, also pivots the lever 27 counterclockwise about its axis of rotation 30.
  • the thermal print head 9 is lifted from the counter-pressure roller 8 via the connection 39, 40, thereby releasing the pressure of the two ribbons in the printing area 2, and, on the other hand, the locking member 25 is also lowered, as a result of which the swivel arm 22 performs a swivel movement in the direction of arrow 23 can.
  • the stopping of the thermal printing tape 9 is basically forcibly coupled with a relief of the print head 9 in the printing area 2.
  • control for the 180 ° rotary movement is achieved with the aid of a control disk 41, which is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotary member 33, and a sensor which operates, for example, on an optical basis and which can scan the two radial edges of the control disk 41.
  • a corresponding control unit for the drive motor 26 of the rotary member 33 is then located in this area.

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DE4332562A DE4332562A1 (de) 1993-09-24 1993-09-24 Druckmaschine zum Bedrucken eines Aufzeichnungsträgers mittels eines Thermotransferbands
DE4332562 1993-09-24

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