Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
  • B65C11/00—Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles
  • B65C11/02—Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles having printing equipment
  • B65C11/0289—Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles having printing equipment using electrical or electro-mechanical means
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
  • B65C11/00—Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H35/00—Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers
  • B65H35/0006—Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H35/00—Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers
  • B65H35/0006—Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices
  • B65H35/006—Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices with means for delivering a predetermined length of tape
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
  • G07B1/00—Machines for printing and issuing tickets
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T83/00—Cutting
  • Y10T83/889—Tool with either work holder or means to hold work supply
  • Y10T83/896—Rotatable wound package supply

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device for issuing tickets or labels from a strip, by successive cutting of the end of this strip which is introduced into a cutting mechanism.
• a ticket or a label which, for example, constitutes proof of a transaction or the element of identification of an object or a product ...
• tickets are debited from a strip housed in the form of a roll in a frame and unwound by a drive mechanism which guides its end between the blades of a cutting member.
• the drive mechanism is that of a printing device, in particular thermal printing, by which the ticket or the label is provided with an inscription (data, bar codes, letters or numbers .).
• the strip section is delivered to itself and falls under the effect of gravity into a receptacle where it can be grasped by the user.
• the ticket is taken over by a conveyor to be taken to the place where it is entered by the user.
• This conveyor is an organ which complicates the device because it implements mechanical organs in contact with the section which are a constraint complicating the positioning of the band and a cause of malfunction of the assembly (wear, breakdown, jamming, ). This is particularly true when the strip is intended to deliver self-adhesive labels, that is to say that it is adhesive on one of its faces.
• the present invention intends to remedy these drawbacks by proposing means for issuing tickets or labels which are much simpler both in their structure and in their arrangement with the cutting members and the tape roll.
• the invention therefore relates to a device for issuing tickets, formed by sections cut from a single unwound strip, comprising a chassis in two parts, each of the chassis parts carrying a cutting blade, the chassis parts being movable relative to one another the other between a first relative position where the blades are in position to cooperate with each other in cutting the ticket and a second relative position where the blades are spaced from each other so as to release a sufficient space between them for easy access to the web path.
• the device comprises a ticket extractor located downstream of the blades, in the direction of unwinding of the strip, comprising a roller coupled to each of the parts so that in the first position above the rollers are in contact with each other along a generator and in the second position, the rollers are spaced from each other by a distance at least equal to that separating the blades in their second position .
• the device of the invention is then complet ⁇ ment opening so that the establishment of the tape roll or intervention in the event of failure or jamming is extremely simplified. It suffices to separate the two chassis parts from one another to access in a single maneuver the entire path traveled by the strip, upstream and downstream of the cutting mechanism.
• one of the motorized rollers is carried by the chassis part which is equipped with the motorized cutting blade of the cutting mechanism.
• This chassis part is preferably the most important, that of the device which forms the support for the tape roll, the other part being able to be summed up in a cover equipped with non-motorized cutting and extraction elements.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a device according to the invention in its closed state
• a device for issuing tickets or labels which comprises a frame 1 comprising two main parts 2 and 3, movable relative to one another.
• these parts are not completely detachable from one another but the invention extends to a frame in two parts detachable complet ⁇ ment from one another.
• the chassis part 2 is in the general form of a casing capable of receiving a roll 4 of a strip 5 of paper, for example of thermally sensitive paper on one of its faces 6 and covered with an adhesive on the other of its faces 7.
• the chassis part 3 is here in the form of a cover, articulated by one of its ends around an axis 8 carried by the housing 2 to pivot between a first position shown in FIG. 1 corresponding to the closed state of the chassis , the end of the cover 3 opposite its articulation coming to cooperate with a portion of the housing 2 opposite this articulation and a second position, shown in FIG. 2, in which the cover 3 leaves an opening 9 of the housing 2 uncovered, for example access to an internal housing of this box in which the roller 4 is housed.
• the housing 2 comprises, at its part bordering the opening 9 opposite the articulation 8, a cutting blade 10 which is mounted oscillating around its longitudinal axis, parallel to the axis of the joint 8, perpendicular to the plane of the figures.
• the oscillation of this blade is ensured by means of a driving mechanism carried by the housing 2 comprising, for example, a connecting rod 11 coupled to the blade 10 and a rotary crank pin 12 coupled to a rotary motor.
• the cover carries at its end opposite to its articulation 8, a cutting blade 13 called stationary.
• This blade comes to bear on the oscillating blade when the chassis is in its closed state ( Figure 1), this support being provided by an elastic mechanism not shown, disposed between the cover and the blade 13, which can for this purpose slightly pivot around an axis of its attachment to the cover 3 perpendicular to the plane of the figures.
• the chassis also includes, in the device illustrated in the figures, means for printing one side of the strip.
• means for printing one side of the strip are here illustrated by a thermal printer, comprising a print head 14 carried by the housing 2 and a capstan 15 or support roller, carried by the cover 3.
• the head printing plate 14 is supported on one of the generators of the back-up roller 15 by a line of heating points which it comprises for the purpose of printing points on the thermally sensitive face of the strip 5 which passes between the two.
• 'these printing means is located upstream of the cutting blades 10 and 13 in the A direction of unwinding of the band 5.
• capstan 15 which is motorized, when the chassis is closed.
• this capstan is locked in rotation with, for example, a toothed wheel which, when the cover 3 is folded down, meshes with the output wheel 17 of a geared motor carried by the housing 2.
• the wheel 16 is decoupled from the wheel 17 since the capstan 15 is distant from the head 14 as is the blade 13 of the blade 10.
• the capstan surface 15 is compatible with the nature of the adhesive which carries the strip 5 on its face 7 so that there is sufficient friction between them so that there is entrainment of the strip without provided that there is a bonding tending to the winding of the strip around the capstan.
• the device according to the invention comprises means for extracting tickets or labels which are cut by the blades 10 and 13. These these include a set of rollers 18 and 19 for pinching the strip of paper which passes between them.
• the roller 18 is carried by the chassis part forming the housing 2 and is motorized thanks for example to a belt transmission 20 which connects a pulley, with which the roller 18 is equipped, to a motor 21.
• the roller 19 is in turn mounted idly on a cover portion 3 opposite the articulation 8.
• the spring means 22 for applying the roller 18 against the roller 19 are shown when the chassis is closed.
• the roller 18 is for this purpose capable of moving slightly in a light in an arc of a circle of the housing 2, centered on the outlet axis of the motor 21.
• it is the roller 19 which is biased against the roller 18 by a spring coupled between it and the cover 3.
• all the axes of all the rotating elements of the device according to the invention are parallel to the articulation axis 8 of the two chassis parts. It is not outside the scope of the invention to provide all the axes parallel to each other but not parallel to the articulation axis which may for example be orthogonal to these, the cover 13 opening then around an axis parallel to the plane of the figures It is also possible that the two parts 2 and 3 of the chassis 1 are entirely separable, the closure of the chassis being obtained by snap-fastening of one part on the other.
• the device of the invention allows the establishment of an easy roller of a roller 4 in its internal housing to the frame 1, through the opening 9 largely released by the pivoted cover 3 ( Figure 2) .
• the operator can then fold down the cover 3 while keeping the end of the strip outside the chassis.
• the strip is then in place between the printing head 14 and the capstan 15, between the blades 10 and 13 and between the rollers 18 and 19 of the extractor.
• the tape is then in place between the printing head 14 and the capstan 15, between the blades 10 and 13 and between the rollers 18 and 19 of the extractor.
• capstan 15 is driven by the capstan 15 and by the extractor.
• the capstan is immobilized while the cutting blade 10 is driven to cut the strip and detach a ticket or a label.
• the motor roller 18 of the extractor can be kept rotating so as to frictionally maintain tension in the strip during cutting, which makes it easier.
• the stop of the extractor is controlled and a label is kept pinched between the rollers 18 and 19 at its rear end. The user just has to grab it and pull it out with a slight pull.
• This mode of operation of the device is advantageous when it comes to issuing labels adhesives. Maintaining the label prevents it from falling and sticking to an element of the device.
• the nature of the surface of the roll 18 will be determined so that this roll can roll by sliding on the face 6 of the strip. 5 while the nature of the surface of the roller 19 will be identical to that of the capstan 15. It will be preferable to drive the roller 18 at a peripheral speed slightly higher than that printed on the strip by the capstan 15 so as to maintain slight tension in the belt at the cutting blades
• the extractor operating sequences differ from those of the previous case
• the extractor can operate continuously during the printing sequences of all the tickets.
• each cut ticket is driven and ejected by the extractor which propels it out.
• a receptacle for example a sort of tray or bowl 3a formed in the cover 3
• the ejected tickets are then stacked on each other in this bowl and the user can have a stack of tickets stored after the different printing and cutting sequences
• Sensors are provided on the path of the strip to detect its presence in order on the one hand to organize the operating sequences (rotation and stop) of the extractor according to whether one wishes to see it operating in holding clamp or on the ejector and on the other hand to activate alarms in the event of a web or ticket failure.
• An operator then only has to open the chassis for very practical access to the entire path of the belt in a very practical manner and to remedy the fault that has occurred simply and quickly.

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• General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
• Labeling Devices (AREA)
• Ticket-Dispensing Machines (AREA)
• Replacement Of Web Rolls (AREA)
• Devices For Checking Fares Or Tickets At Control Points (AREA)

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