EP2620401B1 - Automatic card-cutting apparatus - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to an automatic card-cutting apparatus.
- a conventional automatic card-cutting apparatus is provided with a pair of upper and lower rotation piece blades to cut paper in a transferring direction, and a lateral cutter portion to cut the paper in a lateral direction at right angles with the transferring direction (refer to Japanese Provisional Publication No. 2011-201646 , for example).
- plural slitter heads 9 each of which has a lower piece blade 99 as shown with two-dot broken lines in Figure 9 are provided.
- each of the plural slitter heads 9 is provided with a first head 9A to cut outside edges 92a on the left and right sides of a longitudinal middle waste portion 92 and a second head 92b to cut inside edges 92b on the left and right sides of the longitudinal middle waste portion 92 as to remove the longitudinal middle waste portion 92 of paper 90 shown with two-dot broken lines, and the first head 9A and the second head 9B are disposed on different positions on a transferring direction X.
- the number of the slitter heads 9 is large, and the entire apparatus is made long in the transferring direction X and large.
- an object of the present invention to provide an automatic card-cutting apparatus, having compact dimension along the transferring direction, with which the longitudinal middle waste portion can be easily cut into belt-shaped with high accuracy.
- An automatic card-cutting apparatus relating to the present invention is provided with a feeding table 7 on which sheets of paper 90 shown with two-dot broken lines in Figure 1 are layered and placed, plural 1 transfer rollers 5 to contact the lower face of the paper 90 and transfer the paper 90 sheet by sheet, plural presser rollers 37 touching the upper face of the paper 90 to prevent the transferred paper 90 from floating, plural slitter heads 1 to cut the paper 90 in a transferring direction X, and an outlet table 8 on which cards C, formed by divisional cutting of the paper 90 and shown with two-dot broken lines, are stored, on a main body casing 3. And, an upward-opening dust box 4 is provided outside of the main body casing 3.
- the paper 90 as divided by two-dot broken lines, has plural card-allotted portions 93 to be cards C, left and right side edge portions 91 to be cut, a front edge portion 95 and a rear edge portion 96 to be cut, plural longitudinal middle waste portions 92 to be cut, and plural lateral middle waste portions 97 to be cut.
- the cutting layout is multi-face layout in which plural cards C are formed with one sheet of the paper 90.
- size of the card-allotted portion 93 (card C to be formed) is various as post cards, photographs, desk calendar sheets, business cards, etc.
- the longitudinal middle waste portion 92 is a middle position in the lateral direction Y of the paper 90 and between card-allotted portions 93 neighboring in the lateral direction Y, and called blank portion or gutter.
- the lateral middle waste portion 97 is a middle position in the transferring direction X of the paper 90 and between card-allotted portions 93 neighboring in the transferring direction X, and called blank portion or gutter.
- the plural slitter heads 1 are provided with a pair of left and right side heads 1A to cut the left and right side edge portions 91 shown with two-dot broken lines into belt-shaped, and plural middle heads 1B to cut the longitudinal middle waste portion 92 of the paper 90 into belt-shaped.
- the middle head 1B has a short shaft 13 supported by an upper case body 10A of a head casing 10.
- An upper blade 11 is attached to the short shaft as to freely idle.
- the upper blade 11 is formed into a circular plate and double-blade type in which a corner portion, where the left and right side faces and a peripheral face contact, is formed into a right angle edge (blade) portion 11a.
- the middle head 1B has a pair of left and right lower blades 12, each of which contacts left and right side edge portions 11d of the upper blade 11, on a lower case body 10B of the head casing 10
- the lower blade 12 is formed into a truncated cone in front view thinner than the upper blade 11, and single-blade type in which a peripheral edge 12a disposed on an inner position of the casing 10 is formed into an edge blade.
- the middle head 1B has a pair of left and right elastic pushing members 17 to elastically push the edges 12a of the two lower blades 12 respectively toward the left and right side edge portions 11d of the upper blade 11 within the lower case body 10B.
- the elastic pushing member 17 is composed of a spiral spring, and attached as to be mounted to a rotational force transmitting shaft 31 of polygonal stick inserted to the lower case body 10B as to freely slide in the lateral direction Y.
- the lower blade 12 is attached as to be mounted to the rotational force transmitting shaft 31 of polygonal stick inserted to the lower case body 10B as to freely slide in the lateral direction Y and to be driven to rotate.
- the middle head 1B is composed as that the pair of left and right lower blades 12 rotates together with the upper blade 11 by frictional force on the contact portions generated by the lower blades 12 holding and pushing the upper blade 11.
- the rotational force transmitting shaft 31 for the lower blade 12 is mounted on the main body casing 3 on a position under the transferred paper 90.
- an interval dimension D between the two lower blades 12 (refer to Figure 6 ) is kept by the elastic pushing member 17 as to be approximately same as the thickness of the upper blade 11 to cut and remove the longitudinal middle waste portion 92 with a predetermined width dimension W (refer to Figure 3 ).
- the width dimension W can be changed by changing the thickness dimension T of the upper blade 11.
- the interval dimension D is set to be 3 to 15mm, more preferably, 5 to 8mm.
- a fixation portion where the upper case body 10A and the lower case body 10B are mutually fixed is disposed on a position corresponding to a longitudinal slit portion 94 (refer to Figure 3 ) of the paper 90 formed with removal of the longitudinal middle waste portion 92 because the paper 90 goes between the upper case body 10A and the lower case body 10B. That is to say, the position of the fixation portion in the lateral direction Y is between the lower blades 12, and the position of the fixation portion in the transferring direction X is a downstream position (forward position) to the upper blade 11.
- the side head 1A has one lower blade 12 of single-blade type within the head casing 10. And, although not shown in Figures, the side head 1A, similar to the middle head 1B, has one upper blade attached to a short shaft supported by the head casing 10 as to freely idle. And, an elastic pushing member composed of spiral spring is provided to push the lower blade 12 as to contact one of the left and right side edge portions of the upper blade within the casing 10. And, the lower blade 12 of the side head 1A is mounted to a rotational force transmitting shaft inserted to the casing 10 and driven to rotate together with the upper blade by frictional force on the contact portion with the upper blade.
- the construction of the cutting portion of the side head 1A is the construction of the middle head 1B from which one of the left and right lower blades 12 and one of the elastic pushing members 17 are omitted.
- the upper blade of the side head 1A may be the same as that of the middle head 1B or the same as the lower blade 12.
- two side heads 1A and two middle heads 1B are provided. And, the two side heads 1A and the two middle heads 1B are disposed on different positions in the transferring direction X. Further, two middle heads 1B are disposed on the same position in the transferring direction X, and two side heads 1A are disposed on the same position in the transferring direction X.
- the two side heads 1A and the two middle heads 1B are position-adjustable in the lateral direction Y respectively and independently.
- a nut portion 14 is formed through each of the slitter heads 1 (occasionally called head 1 below) to screw a screw shaft 32 into the lower case body 10B of the casing 10.
- an escape hole 15 is formed through the lower case body 10B of each of the heads 1 to insert the screw shaft 32 screwing to the neighboring head 1.
- the nut portion 14 of one of the heads 1 and the nut portion 14 of the other of the heads 1 are formed on different positions in the transferring direction X.
- the escape hole 15 of one of the heads 1 and the escape hole 15 of the other of the heads 1 are formed on different positions in the transferring direction X. That is to say, the neighboring heads 1 mutually differentiate the positions of the nut portions 14 and the escape holes 15.
- the screw shaft 32 is mounted on the main body casing 3 on a position under the transferred paper 90.
- One of the heads 1 can be freely moved in the lateral direction Y by the rotation of one of the screw shafts 32 because one of the screw shafts 32 is inserted to one of the heads 1 with screwing and inserted to the other of the heads 1 without screwing.
- Each of the plural screw shafts 32 is provided with a motor to move each of the heads 1 in the lateral direction Y independently. That is to say, the heads 1 neighboring in the lateral direction Y can mutually come close to and part from.
- a controlling portion for driving the motor for the screw shaft 32 by electric signals to rotate the screw shaft 32, and adjust the position of the head 1 in the lateral direction Y, is provided.
- the position of each of the heads 1 is adjusted by automatic control of the controlling portion with reading of identification marks such as bar codes printed on the paper 90 by a sensor, or preliminarily input settings.
- two guide receiving holes 16 are formed through the lower case body 10B of each of the heads 1 to which two guiding shafts 33 are respectively inserted.
- the head 1 is set to freely slide in the lateral direction Y with the posture stably kept by the two guiding shafts 33 and the screwed screw shaft 32.
- the guide receiving holes 16 are formed through the neighboring heads 1 on the same position in the transferring direction X as the neighboring heads 1 share the two guiding shafts 33.
- the guiding shaft 33 is mounted on the main body casing 3 on a position under the transferred paper 90.
- a timing belt 6 to transmit the rotational force to the plural transfer rollers 5 is provided within the main body casing 3 as shown in Figure 7 .
- the timing belt 6 is suspended on a driving rotational body 36 composed of a timing pulley driven to rotate by a stepping motor, and also suspended on a receiving timing pulley portion disposed on an end portion of the transfer roller 5. And, tension is given to the timing belt 6 by plural tension pulleys.
- the plural transfer rollers 5 are provided with plural slitter side transfer rollers 5A (slitter side transfer rollers 5A group) disposed near the plural slitter heads 1, and positioning transfer rollers 5B (positioning transfer rollers 5B group) disposed near the lateral cutter portion 2 to position the paper 90 when the paper 90 is cut in the lateral direction Y.
- plural slitter side transfer rollers 5A slitter side transfer rollers 5A group
- positioning transfer rollers 5B positioning transfer rollers 5B group
- the timing belt 6 is divided into a first timing belt 6A to transmit the rotational force from the driving rotational body 36 to the slitter side transfer rollers 5A and a second timing belt 6B to transmit the rotational force from the driving rotational body 36 to the positioning transfer rollers 5B.
- the driving rotational body 36 is disposed nearer to the positioning transfer rollers 5B group than to the slitter side transfer rollers 5A group to make the circumference of the second timing belt 6B shorter than the circumference of the first timing belt 6A as to reduce slip and extension for highly accurate transmission more to the positioning transfer rollers 5B group than to the slitter side transfer rollers 5A group without delay of rotation and stop of the driving rotational body 36.
- a detection sensor for positioning to read the front end portion of the paper 90 is disposed near the upper and lower cutter blades of the lateral cutter portion 2 and on the upstream side (rear side) to the upper and lower cutter blades in the transferring direction X.
- a controlling portion to control the transfer amount of the paper 90 by rotating the positioning transfer rollers 5B group by driving and stopping the stepping motor according to the signals of the detection sensor and preliminarily input settings is provided.
- the feeding table 7 is disposed as to move in perpendicular directions, and a controlling portion to control the movement in perpendicular directions of the feeding table 7 is provided on the main body casing 3.
- the paper 90 in layered state can be certainly transferred sheet by sheet to prevent double transfer and entanglement. And, in comparison with a case in which sorting members such as separators are used, user's labor is reduced because position adjustment and changing work of the sorting members as to correspond to the thickness of the paper 90 are unnecessary.
- waste cut and removed by the head 1 is sent to a shooter on a position under the transfer rollers 5 and stored in the dust box 4.
- the dust box 4 is not stored within the main body casing 3, accumulating degree of the waste is clear, and the waste can be easily dumped.
- the main body casing 3 is provided with a touch panel type indication and operation portion 39 in which an operation portion and an indication portion (monitor) are unitedly formed to improve operationality.
- various modifications such as indication switching of operation state and sequence, language indication switching, visual image and indication buttons, indication order, controlling portion program change are easy, and indications easy to understand for operators and visually excellent are made possible thereby.
- one middle head 1B or equal to or more than 3 middle heads 1B may be provided.
- each of the heads 1, not restricted to the automatic control of the controlling portion with reading of identification marks such as bar codes printed on the paper 90 by a sensor or preliminarily made settings, may be adjusted to a desired position manually with operation of the indication and operation portion 39.
- the screw shaft 32 may be manually driven for position adjustment.
- the lateral cutter portion 2 sufficient when the lateral cutting is possible, may be a cutter portion in which an upper cutter blade of belt plate and a lower cutter blade of belt plate are pivoted like scissors and oscillated in up and down directions to cut the paper 90 in the lateral direction Y, or a guillotine type cutter portion in which the edges of the upper and lower cutter blades come close to and part from in horizontal state. And, the size of the paper 90 is freely chosen.
- the upstream side or the feeding side of the transferring direction X is called rear side, and the downstream side or the outlet side is called front side.
- the upstream and downstream directions of the transferring direction X are called longitudinal or front and rear directions
- the lateral direction Y is called left and right directions
- the thickness direction of the transferred paper 90 is called up and down directions.
- left and right side edge portions 91 are respectively cut into longitudinal belts by the pair of the left and right side heads 1A.
- the paper 90 is sent further, two longitudinal middle waste portions 92 are respectively cut into longitudinal belts by the pair of the left and right middle heads 1B.
- the longitudinal middle waste portions 92 are cut and removed with a predetermined width dimension W.
- cutting force is loaded uniformly on the paper 90 to reduce stick and entanglement of the paper 90 because the longitudinal middle waste portions 92 on plural positions (two positions) are simultaneously cut and removed on the same position in the transferring direction X.
- the paper 90 When the paper 90 is sent further, the front end position of the paper 90 is detected by the detecting sensor near the lateral cutter portion 2, the paper 90 is positioned in the transferring direction X by the plural positioning transfer rollers 5B and sent to the lateral cutter portion 2.
- the front edge portion 95 is cut off by the lateral cutter portion 2 on a predetermined position in the transferring direction X of the paper 90.
- sending and stop of the paper 90 are repeated by the positioning transfer rollers 5 with high accuracy, the paper 90 is intermittently transferred, and the lateral cutter portion 2 cuts the paper 90 corresponding to the sending and stop.
- lateral middle waste portions 97 are cut and removed with a predetermined width dimension S.
- the rear edge portion 96 is cut off and divisional cutting of one sheet of the paper 90 ends, and plural cards C, cut into predetermined lateral and longitudinal dimensions, are obtained from one sheet of the paper 90.
- each of the plural slitter heads 1 is provided with the side head 1A disposed as to be freely position-adjusted in the lateral direction to cut the side edge portion 91 of the paper 90 into belt shape, and the middle head 1B having the upper blade 11 of disc and the pair of lower blades 12 each of which contacts each of left and right side edge portions 11d of the upper blade 11, disposed as to be freely position-adjusted in the lateral direction to cut the longitudinal middle waste portion 92 of the paper 90
- the longitudinal middle waste portion 92 can be cut and removed by the predetermined width dimension W with high accuracy. That is to say, the cards C of predetermined dimensions can be certainly obtained from one sheet of the paper 90.
- the slitter head 1 can be moved in the lateral direction (Y) keeping the positional relationship between the upper blade 11 and the lower blade 12 and the positional relationship between the left and right lower blades, accurate positioning work is unnecessary, and the apparatus can easily and swiftly correspond to various cutting layout and printing deviation.
- the entire apparatus can be made compact further, the cards C cut with highly accurate longitudinal and lateral dimensions can be obtained from one sheet of paper further in large amount because the side head 1A and the middle head 1B are disposed on different positions in the transferring direction X, plural middle heads 1B are provided, and the plural middle heads 1B are disposed on the same position in the transferring direction X.
- the paper 90 can be positioned with high accuracy because the timing belt 6 to transmit rotational force of the driving rotational body 36 to the plural transfer rollers 5, the timing belt 6 is divided into the first timing belt 6A to transmit the rotational force to the slitter side transfer rollers 5A disposed near the slitter heads 1, and the second timing belt 6B to transmit the rotational force to the positioning transfer rollers 5B disposed near the lateral cutter portion 2 to conduct positioning when the paper 90 is cut in the lateral direction Y. And, the paper 90 can be pitch-sent with high accuracy, and the front edge portion 95, the rear edge portion 96, and the lateral middle waste portion 97 can be cut and removed with the predetermined dimensions. That is to say, the cards C of the predetermined dimensions can be certainly obtained from one sheet of the paper 90.
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Description
- This invention relates to an automatic card-cutting apparatus.
- A conventional automatic card-cutting apparatus is provided with a pair of upper and lower rotation piece blades to cut paper in a transferring direction, and a lateral cutter portion to cut the paper in a lateral direction at right angles with the transferring direction (refer to
Japanese Provisional Publication No. 2011-201646 - For example, in the conventional apparatus,
plural slitter heads 9 each of which has alower piece blade 99 as shown with two-dot broken lines inFigure 9 are provided. - And, each of the
plural slitter heads 9 is provided with afirst head 9A to cutoutside edges 92a on the left and right sides of a longitudinalmiddle waste portion 92 and asecond head 92b to cut insideedges 92b on the left and right sides of the longitudinalmiddle waste portion 92 as to remove the longitudinalmiddle waste portion 92 ofpaper 90 shown with two-dot broken lines, and thefirst head 9A and thesecond head 9B are disposed on different positions on a transferring direction X. - Therefore, the number of the
slitter heads 9 is large, and the entire apparatus is made long in the transferring direction X and large. - And, it is necessary to determine positions of the
first head 9A and thesecond head 9B in a lateral direction Y rightly with high accuracy to cut the longitudinalmiddle waste portion 92 with a predetermined width dimension W. However, it is quite difficult to determine the positions of thefirst head 9A and thesecond head 9B in the lateral direction Y with high accuracy. - Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic card-cutting apparatus, having compact dimension along the transferring direction, with which the longitudinal middle waste portion can be easily cut into belt-shaped with high accuracy.
- This object is solved according to the present invention by automatic card-cutting apparatus including features of
claim 1. Furthermore detailed embodiments are described in thedependent claims - The present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
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Figure 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of an automatic card-cutting apparatus according to the present invention; -
Figure 2 is a simplified top view showing an example of a slitter head and cutting lay-out; -
Figure 3 is a simplified top view showing an example of a slitter head and cutting lay-out with a partial cross section; -
Figure 4 is a perspective view of a principal portion; -
Figure 5 is a partial transparent view ofFigure 4 ; -
Figure 6 is an enlarged front view of a principal portion showing an example of an upper blade and a lower blade; -
Figure 7 is a cross-sectional side view showing an example of a timing belt and a transfer roller; -
Figure 8A is a simplified top view to explain functions; -
Figure 8B is a simplified top view to explain functions; -
Figure 8C is a simplified top view to explain functions; and -
Figure 9 is an explanatory top view to explain a conventional automatic cutting apparatus. - Preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
- An automatic card-cutting apparatus relating to the present invention is provided with a feeding table 7 on which sheets of
paper 90 shown with two-dot broken lines inFigure 1 are layered and placed, plural 1transfer rollers 5 to contact the lower face of thepaper 90 and transfer thepaper 90 sheet by sheet,plural presser rollers 37 touching the upper face of thepaper 90 to prevent the transferredpaper 90 from floating,plural slitter heads 1 to cut thepaper 90 in a transferring direction X, and an outlet table 8 on which cards C, formed by divisional cutting of thepaper 90 and shown with two-dot broken lines, are stored, on amain body casing 3. And, an upward-opening dust box 4 is provided outside of themain body casing 3. - An example of cutting layout of the
paper 90 is hereby shown inFigure 2 to make the explanation easy. Thepaper 90, as divided by two-dot broken lines, has plural card-allottedportions 93 to be cards C, left and rightside edge portions 91 to be cut, afront edge portion 95 and arear edge portion 96 to be cut, plural longitudinalmiddle waste portions 92 to be cut, and plural lateralmiddle waste portions 97 to be cut. The cutting layout is multi-face layout in which plural cards C are formed with one sheet of thepaper 90. For example, size of the card-allotted portion 93 (card C to be formed) is various as post cards, photographs, desk calendar sheets, business cards, etc. - The longitudinal
middle waste portion 92 is a middle position in the lateral direction Y of thepaper 90 and between card-allottedportions 93 neighboring in the lateral direction Y, and called blank portion or gutter. - The lateral
middle waste portion 97 is a middle position in the transferring direction X of thepaper 90 and between card-allottedportions 93 neighboring in the transferring direction X, and called blank portion or gutter. - In
Figure 3 , theplural slitter heads 1 are provided with a pair of left andright side heads 1A to cut the left and rightside edge portions 91 shown with two-dot broken lines into belt-shaped, andplural middle heads 1B to cut the longitudinalmiddle waste portion 92 of thepaper 90 into belt-shaped. - As shown in
Figures 4 through 6 , themiddle head 1B has ashort shaft 13 supported by anupper case body 10A of ahead casing 10. Anupper blade 11 is attached to the short shaft as to freely idle. Theupper blade 11 is formed into a circular plate and double-blade type in which a corner portion, where the left and right side faces and a peripheral face contact, is formed into a right angle edge (blade) portion 11a. - And, the
middle head 1B has a pair of left and rightlower blades 12, each of which contacts left and rightside edge portions 11d of theupper blade 11, on alower case body 10B of thehead casing 10 - The
lower blade 12 is formed into a truncated cone in front view thinner than theupper blade 11, and single-blade type in which aperipheral edge 12a disposed on an inner position of thecasing 10 is formed into an edge blade. - And, the
middle head 1B has a pair of left and right elastic pushingmembers 17 to elastically push theedges 12a of the twolower blades 12 respectively toward the left and rightside edge portions 11d of theupper blade 11 within thelower case body 10B. The elastic pushingmember 17 is composed of a spiral spring, and attached as to be mounted to a rotationalforce transmitting shaft 31 of polygonal stick inserted to thelower case body 10B as to freely slide in the lateral direction Y. - The
lower blade 12 is attached as to be mounted to the rotationalforce transmitting shaft 31 of polygonal stick inserted to thelower case body 10B as to freely slide in the lateral direction Y and to be driven to rotate. - Then, the
middle head 1B is composed as that the pair of left and rightlower blades 12 rotates together with theupper blade 11 by frictional force on the contact portions generated by thelower blades 12 holding and pushing theupper blade 11. The rotationalforce transmitting shaft 31 for thelower blade 12 is mounted on themain body casing 3 on a position under the transferredpaper 90. - And, an interval dimension D between the two lower blades 12 (refer to
Figure 6 ) is kept by theelastic pushing member 17 as to be approximately same as the thickness of theupper blade 11 to cut and remove the longitudinalmiddle waste portion 92 with a predetermined width dimension W (refer toFigure 3 ). And, the width dimension W can be changed by changing the thickness dimension T of theupper blade 11. And, the interval dimension D is set to be 3 to 15mm, more preferably, 5 to 8mm. When the interval dimension D is lower than the minimum value, smooth position adjustment becomes difficult when printing deviation exists. When the interval dimension D is over the maximum value, waste is so much that many cards C can't be obtained from one sheet of thepaper 90. - The
upper blade 11, in other words, may be a thick double blade of short cylinder thicker than thelower blade 12. Thelower blade 12, in other words, may be a thin piece blade thinner than theupper blade 11. - And, although not shown in Figures, a fixation portion where the
upper case body 10A and thelower case body 10B are mutually fixed is disposed on a position corresponding to a longitudinal slit portion 94 (refer toFigure 3 ) of thepaper 90 formed with removal of the longitudinalmiddle waste portion 92 because thepaper 90 goes between theupper case body 10A and thelower case body 10B. That is to say, the position of the fixation portion in the lateral direction Y is between thelower blades 12, and the position of the fixation portion in the transferring direction X is a downstream position (forward position) to theupper blade 11. - Next, as shown in
Figure 3 , theside head 1A has onelower blade 12 of single-blade type within thehead casing 10. And, although not shown in Figures, theside head 1A, similar to themiddle head 1B, has one upper blade attached to a short shaft supported by thehead casing 10 as to freely idle. And, an elastic pushing member composed of spiral spring is provided to push thelower blade 12 as to contact one of the left and right side edge portions of the upper blade within thecasing 10. And, thelower blade 12 of theside head 1A is mounted to a rotational force transmitting shaft inserted to thecasing 10 and driven to rotate together with the upper blade by frictional force on the contact portion with the upper blade. In other words, the construction of the cutting portion of theside head 1A is the construction of themiddle head 1B from which one of the left and rightlower blades 12 and one of the elastic pushingmembers 17 are omitted. The upper blade of theside head 1A may be the same as that of themiddle head 1B or the same as thelower blade 12. - As shown in
Figure 2 andFigure 3 , twoside heads 1A and twomiddle heads 1B are provided. And, the twoside heads 1A and the twomiddle heads 1B are disposed on different positions in the transferring direction X. Further, twomiddle heads 1B are disposed on the same position in the transferring direction X, and twoside heads 1A are disposed on the same position in the transferring direction X. - And, the two
side heads 1A and the twomiddle heads 1B are position-adjustable in the lateral direction Y respectively and independently. - Concretely, as shown in
Figure 3 , anut portion 14 is formed through each of the slitter heads 1 (occasionally calledhead 1 below) to screw ascrew shaft 32 into thelower case body 10B of thecasing 10. - And, an
escape hole 15 is formed through thelower case body 10B of each of theheads 1 to insert thescrew shaft 32 screwing to the neighboringhead 1. - In the
heads 1 neighboring in the lateral direction, thenut portion 14 of one of theheads 1 and thenut portion 14 of the other of theheads 1 are formed on different positions in the transferring direction X. And, in theheads 1 neighboring in the lateral direction, theescape hole 15 of one of theheads 1 and theescape hole 15 of the other of theheads 1 are formed on different positions in the transferring direction X. That is to say, the neighboringheads 1 mutually differentiate the positions of thenut portions 14 and theescape holes 15. And, thescrew shaft 32 is mounted on themain body casing 3 on a position under the transferredpaper 90. - One of the
heads 1 can be freely moved in the lateral direction Y by the rotation of one of thescrew shafts 32 because one of thescrew shafts 32 is inserted to one of theheads 1 with screwing and inserted to the other of theheads 1 without screwing. - Each of the
plural screw shafts 32 is provided with a motor to move each of theheads 1 in the lateral direction Y independently. That is to say, theheads 1 neighboring in the lateral direction Y can mutually come close to and part from. - And, a controlling portion, for driving the motor for the
screw shaft 32 by electric signals to rotate thescrew shaft 32, and adjust the position of thehead 1 in the lateral direction Y, is provided. The position of each of theheads 1 is adjusted by automatic control of the controlling portion with reading of identification marks such as bar codes printed on thepaper 90 by a sensor, or preliminarily input settings. - And, as shown in
Figure 4 andFigure 5 , twoguide receiving holes 16 are formed through thelower case body 10B of each of theheads 1 to which two guidingshafts 33 are respectively inserted. Thehead 1 is set to freely slide in the lateral direction Y with the posture stably kept by the two guidingshafts 33 and the screwedscrew shaft 32. - And, the
guide receiving holes 16 are formed through the neighboringheads 1 on the same position in the transferring direction X as the neighboringheads 1 share the two guidingshafts 33. The guidingshaft 33 is mounted on themain body casing 3 on a position under the transferredpaper 90. - Next, a
timing belt 6 to transmit the rotational force to theplural transfer rollers 5 is provided within themain body casing 3 as shown inFigure 7 . - The
timing belt 6 is suspended on a drivingrotational body 36 composed of a timing pulley driven to rotate by a stepping motor, and also suspended on a receiving timing pulley portion disposed on an end portion of thetransfer roller 5. And, tension is given to thetiming belt 6 by plural tension pulleys. - The
plural transfer rollers 5 are provided with plural slitterside transfer rollers 5A (slitterside transfer rollers 5A group) disposed near the plural slitter heads 1, andpositioning transfer rollers 5B (positioning transfer rollers 5B group) disposed near thelateral cutter portion 2 to position thepaper 90 when thepaper 90 is cut in the lateral direction Y. - Then, the
timing belt 6 is divided into afirst timing belt 6A to transmit the rotational force from the drivingrotational body 36 to the slitterside transfer rollers 5A and asecond timing belt 6B to transmit the rotational force from the drivingrotational body 36 to thepositioning transfer rollers 5B. - The driving
rotational body 36 is disposed nearer to thepositioning transfer rollers 5B group than to the slitterside transfer rollers 5A group to make the circumference of thesecond timing belt 6B shorter than the circumference of thefirst timing belt 6A as to reduce slip and extension for highly accurate transmission more to thepositioning transfer rollers 5B group than to the slitterside transfer rollers 5A group without delay of rotation and stop of the drivingrotational body 36. - And, a detection sensor for positioning to read the front end portion of the
paper 90 is disposed near the upper and lower cutter blades of thelateral cutter portion 2 and on the upstream side (rear side) to the upper and lower cutter blades in the transferring direction X. - And, a controlling portion to control the transfer amount of the
paper 90 by rotating thepositioning transfer rollers 5B group by driving and stopping the stepping motor according to the signals of the detection sensor and preliminarily input settings is provided. - The feeding table 7 is disposed as to move in perpendicular directions, and a controlling portion to control the movement in perpendicular directions of the feeding table 7 is provided on the
main body casing 3. - The
paper 90 in layered state can be certainly transferred sheet by sheet to prevent double transfer and entanglement. And, in comparison with a case in which sorting members such as separators are used, user's labor is reduced because position adjustment and changing work of the sorting members as to correspond to the thickness of thepaper 90 are unnecessary. - And, waste cut and removed by the
head 1 is sent to a shooter on a position under thetransfer rollers 5 and stored in the dust box 4. The dust box 4 is not stored within themain body casing 3, accumulating degree of the waste is clear, and the waste can be easily dumped. - And, the
main body casing 3 is provided with a touch panel type indication andoperation portion 39 in which an operation portion and an indication portion (monitor) are unitedly formed to improve operationality. And, various modifications such as indication switching of operation state and sequence, language indication switching, visual image and indication buttons, indication order, controlling portion program change are easy, and indications easy to understand for operators and visually excellent are made possible thereby. - In the present invention, modifiable and not restricted to the embodiment shown in Figures, one
middle head 1B or equal to or more than 3middle heads 1B may be provided. And, each of theheads 1, not restricted to the automatic control of the controlling portion with reading of identification marks such as bar codes printed on thepaper 90 by a sensor or preliminarily made settings, may be adjusted to a desired position manually with operation of the indication andoperation portion 39. And, thescrew shaft 32 may be manually driven for position adjustment. And, thelateral cutter portion 2, sufficient when the lateral cutting is possible, may be a cutter portion in which an upper cutter blade of belt plate and a lower cutter blade of belt plate are pivoted like scissors and oscillated in up and down directions to cut thepaper 90 in the lateral direction Y, or a guillotine type cutter portion in which the edges of the upper and lower cutter blades come close to and part from in horizontal state. And, the size of thepaper 90 is freely chosen. - In the present invention, the upstream side or the feeding side of the transferring direction X is called rear side, and the downstream side or the outlet side is called front side. And, the upstream and downstream directions of the transferring direction X are called longitudinal or front and rear directions, the lateral direction Y is called left and right directions, and the thickness direction of the transferred
paper 90 is called up and down directions. - Next, the function of the automatic card-cutting apparatus of the present invention is described.
- When the
paper 90 is sent in the transferring direction X as shown inFigure 8A , left and rightside edge portions 91 are respectively cut into longitudinal belts by the pair of the left and right side heads 1A. - Then, as shown in
Figure 8B , thepaper 90 is sent further, two longitudinalmiddle waste portions 92 are respectively cut into longitudinal belts by the pair of the left and right middle heads 1B. The longitudinalmiddle waste portions 92 are cut and removed with a predetermined width dimension W. As described above, cutting force is loaded uniformly on thepaper 90 to reduce stick and entanglement of thepaper 90 because the longitudinalmiddle waste portions 92 on plural positions (two positions) are simultaneously cut and removed on the same position in the transferring direction X. - When the
paper 90 is sent further, the front end position of thepaper 90 is detected by the detecting sensor near thelateral cutter portion 2, thepaper 90 is positioned in the transferring direction X by the pluralpositioning transfer rollers 5B and sent to thelateral cutter portion 2. - Then, the
front edge portion 95 is cut off by thelateral cutter portion 2 on a predetermined position in the transferring direction X of thepaper 90. After this, sending and stop of thepaper 90 are repeated by thepositioning transfer rollers 5 with high accuracy, thepaper 90 is intermittently transferred, and thelateral cutter portion 2 cuts thepaper 90 corresponding to the sending and stop. - And, as shown in
Figure 8C , lateralmiddle waste portions 97 are cut and removed with a predetermined width dimension S. Finally, therear edge portion 96 is cut off and divisional cutting of one sheet of thepaper 90 ends, and plural cards C, cut into predetermined lateral and longitudinal dimensions, are obtained from one sheet of thepaper 90. - As described above, number of the slitter heads can be reduced, production of the apparatus can be made easy to reduce the cost, and the apparatus can be made compact with small longitudinal dimension because in the automatic card-cutting apparatus of the present invention, provided with the
plural transfer rollers 5 to transfer thepaper 90, the plural slitter heads 1 to cut thepaper 90 in the transferring direction X, and thelateral cutter portion 2 to cut thepaper 90 in the lateral direction Y at right angles with the transferring direction X to conduct divisional cutting of thepaper 90 into plural cards C, each of the plural slitter heads 1 is provided with theside head 1A disposed as to be freely position-adjusted in the lateral direction to cut theside edge portion 91 of thepaper 90 into belt shape, and themiddle head 1B having theupper blade 11 of disc and the pair oflower blades 12 each of which contacts each of left and rightside edge portions 11d of theupper blade 11, disposed as to be freely position-adjusted in the lateral direction to cut the longitudinalmiddle waste portion 92 of thepaper 90 into belt shape. The longitudinalmiddle waste portion 92 can be cut and removed by the predetermined width dimension W with high accuracy. That is to say, the cards C of predetermined dimensions can be certainly obtained from one sheet of thepaper 90. Theslitter head 1 can be moved in the lateral direction (Y) keeping the positional relationship between theupper blade 11 and thelower blade 12 and the positional relationship between the left and right lower blades, accurate positioning work is unnecessary, and the apparatus can easily and swiftly correspond to various cutting layout and printing deviation. - And, the entire apparatus can be made compact further, the cards C cut with highly accurate longitudinal and lateral dimensions can be obtained from one sheet of paper further in large amount because the
side head 1A and themiddle head 1B are disposed on different positions in the transferring direction X, plural middle heads 1B are provided, and the plural middle heads 1B are disposed on the same position in the transferring direction X. - A long driving rotation shaft for the upper blade, mounted on the
main body casing 3 on a position above the transferredpaper 90, is unnecessary, and a large space can be obtained above thepaper 90 because theupper blade 11 is having the right angle edge portion 11a, attached to theshort shaft 13 supported by thecasing 10 of themiddle head 1B as to freely idle, and rotated together with thelower blades 12 by frictional force of contact portion with the rotationally drivenlower blades 12. Therefore, disposal of jamming dust generated by entanglement of thepaper 90, and maintenance and repairing of the apparatus can be conducted easily and swiftly. - The
paper 90 can be positioned with high accuracy because thetiming belt 6 to transmit rotational force of the drivingrotational body 36 to theplural transfer rollers 5, thetiming belt 6 is divided into thefirst timing belt 6A to transmit the rotational force to the slitterside transfer rollers 5A disposed near the slitter heads 1, and thesecond timing belt 6B to transmit the rotational force to thepositioning transfer rollers 5B disposed near thelateral cutter portion 2 to conduct positioning when thepaper 90 is cut in the lateral direction Y. And, thepaper 90 can be pitch-sent with high accuracy, and thefront edge portion 95, therear edge portion 96, and the lateralmiddle waste portion 97 can be cut and removed with the predetermined dimensions. That is to say, the cards C of the predetermined dimensions can be certainly obtained from one sheet of thepaper 90.
Claims (4)
- An automatic card-cutting apparatus provided with plural transfer rollers (5) to transfer paper (90), plural slitter heads (1) to cut the paper (90) in a transferring direction (X), and a lateral cutter portion (2) to cut the paper (90) in a lateral direction (Y) at right angles with the transferring direction (X) to conduct divisional cutting of the paper (90) into plural cards (C) characterized by that:each of the plural slitter heads (1) is provided with a side head (1A) disposed as to be freely position-adjusted in the lateral direction to cut a side edge portion (91) of the paper (90) into belt shape, and a middle head (1B) having an upper blade (11) of disc and a pair of lower blades (12) each of which contacts each of left and right side edge portions (11d) of the upper blade (11), disposed as to be freely position-adjusted in the lateral direction to cut a longitudinal middle waste portion (92) of the paper (90) into belt shape.
- The automatic card-cutting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the side head (1A) and the middle head (1B) are disposed on different positions in the transferring direction (X), plural middle heads (1B) are provided, and the plural middle heads (1B) are disposed on the same position in the transferring direction (X).
- The automatic card-cutting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the upper blade (11) is having a right angle edge portion (11a), attached to a short shaft (13) supported by a casing (10) of the middle head (1B) as to freely idle, and rotated together with the lower blades (12) by frictional force of contact portion with the rotationally driven lower blades (12).
- The automatic card-cutting apparatus as set forth in claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein a timing belt (6) to transmit rotational force of a driving rotational body (36) to the plural transfer rollers (5) is provided; and
the timing belt (6) is divided into a first timing belt (6A) to transmit the rotational force to slitter side transfer rollers (5A) disposed near the slitter heads (1), and a second timing belt (6B) to transmit the rotational force to the positioning transfer rollers (5B) disposed near the lateral cutter portion (2) to conduct positioning when the paper (90) is cut in the lateral direction (Y).
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