JP2000318857A - Film material supply device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device to efficiently conduct a supply of film material. SOLUTION: A film material supply device 100 is provided with a tray 101 to contain plural films F, a rack device 103 provided with plural stages of the trays 101, a rack device 103 provided with plural stages of the tray 101, a drawing arm 105 to draw the tray 101 from the rack device 103, and a discharge arm 107 to carry the films F one by one from the drawn tray 101. A motor 133 is driven to set the drawing arm 105 to the tray 101 of a specified stage, and a handle 102 of the tray 101 is grasped by a chuck 117. After that, a cylinder 121 is driven to draw the tray 101, and the film F in the tray 101 is sucked by a suction pad 135 of the discharge arm 107 to be carried to a subsequent process.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a film material supply device for automatically supplying a film material.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is a case where a film material such as an anti-glare film cut to a certain size is attached to a CRT surface. In this case, a method is known in which the film material is set and held on a suction pad or the like, and the film material is attached to the surface of the CRT while the suction pad and the CRT are relatively moved. In this type of method, the supply of the film material to the suction pad is conventionally performed manually.

[0003]

However, the conventional film supply method relies on human power and cannot supply the film material efficiently. The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and has as its object to provide an apparatus for efficiently supplying a film material.

[0004]

According to the present invention, there is provided a tray for storing a film material, a rack device having a plurality of trays, and a tray drawer for pulling out the tray from the rack device. Means,
By configuring the film supply device with the transport means for transporting the film material one by one from the drawn tray, it is possible to store a large amount of sheets for one day or several days, thereby improving the work efficiency. Labor saving can be achieved. In addition, the rack device may include a plurality of rows of the plurality of trays and may be configured to be movable.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Here, a sticking device for sticking an anti-glare film on a CRT surface is taken as an example, and a film material supply device used in the sticking device will be described. As the anti-glare film, one obtained by applying an adhesive to a film material and protecting the adhesive with a release sheet is used.

FIG. 1 is an overall plan view of the sticking device, and FIG. 2 is a side view of the sticking device. In the drawing, 100 is a film material supply device for supplying an antiglare film (hereinafter simply referred to as “film F”). Reference numeral 200 denotes a holding unit that sucks and holds the supplied film F, 300 denotes a peeling unit that peels a release sheet from the film F that is sucked by the holding unit 200, and 400.
Denotes a sticking unit that sticks the film F to the CRT 10, and 500 denotes a transport unit that transports the CRT 10. The film F is placed with the film substrate side up and the release sheet side down. Then, the film F is supplied to the holding unit 200 by the film supply device 100, and the adsorbed film F
The peeling sheet is peeled by the peeling unit 300. On the other hand, the CRT 10 is conveyed to the attaching section 400, and the holding section 200 is moved by the conveying means 201 there, and the holding section 200 applies the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the film F from which the release sheet has been peeled to the surface of the CRT 10 while pressing it. I do. After pasting,
The CRT 10 is discharged from the transport unit 500.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the film material supply device 100. The film material supply device 100 includes a tray 101 for storing a plurality of films F, a rack device 103 having a plurality of trays 101, and a rack device 103. Arm 10 as pulling means for pulling out tray 101 from
5 and an unloading arm 107 as a transporting means for unloading the film F one by one from the drawn-out tray 101.

The tray 101 has a box shape with an open upper surface, and rollers 109 are attached to both sides thereof, and the rollers 109 are engaged with rails in the rack device 103. Handles 102 are provided before and after the tray 101.

The rack device 103 is slidably mounted on a rail 113 via a slider 111 and is driven by a cylinder 115. Rail 113 is film F
Are arranged along the transport direction (from right to left in FIGS. 1 and 2). The racks 103A and 103B have at least two
A plurality of trays 101 are arranged in rows (two rows in the illustrated example).
Are stored in multiple stages.

The drawer arm 105 includes a chuck 117 for holding the handle 102 of the tray 101 and a chuck
And a slide cylinder 121 that moves the tray 101 with the handle 102 held by the chuck cylinder 119. The slide cylinder 121 is attached to the lifting plate 123,
The lift plate 123 is attached to a lift plate receiver 125. The elevating plate receiver 125 is attached to the rail 127 so as to be able to move up and down, and is screwed into the ball screw 131 via the connecting portion 129. By driving the elevating motor 133 to rotate, the ball screw 131 rotates and the drawer arm 105 moves up and down. I do.

The unloading arm 107 has a plurality of suction pads 1.
35 and the arm plate 13 to which each suction pad 135 is attached.
7, an arm receiver 139 for fixing the arm plate 137,
Cylinder 14 that drives arm receiver 139 so as to be able to move up and down
0 and a rail receiving plate 141 for receiving the cylinder;
A rail 143 for mounting the rail receiving plate 141 in the direction of transporting the film F; the cylinder 145 drives the unloading arm 107 to move in the film transport direction.

A cleaning device 149 is disposed downstream (left side in FIGS. 1 and 2) of the carry-out arm 107, a carry-in conveyor 151 is provided at a stage preceding the cleaning device 149, and a carry-out conveyor 153 is provided at a stage subsequent to the cleaning device 149. I have.
The cleaning device 149 includes a pair of cleaning rollers, and removes dust and the like attached to the surface of the film F by passing the film F between the pair of rollers.
A positioning table 155 is arranged on the downstream side (left side in FIGS. 1 and 2) of the unloading conveyor 153, and the film F is sucked and held by the suction pads 157 on the unloading belt 153, and is conveyed to the positioning table 155 by a transfer device (not shown). Then, the posture of the film F is adjusted and the holding unit 2
It is transported to just below 00.

Next, the general operation of the film supply apparatus 100 will be described. First, the trays 101 containing the laminated films F are stacked in two rows (rack 103A, 103B).
Is housed in the rack device 103 arranged in the first place. This step is performed manually or by an automatic loading device. Next, the lifting / lowering motor 133 is driven to adjust the position of the drawer arm 105 to the tray 101 at a predetermined stage.
Grips the handle 102 of the tray 101. Next, the tray 101 is pulled out by driving the cylinder 121 and pulling the chuck 117, and further, the carry-out arm 107.
The film F in the tray 101 is sucked by the suction pad 135 of FIG.
Is placed on the carry-in conveyor 151. Loading conveyor 15
1, the film F is carried into the cleaning device 149, the surface of the film F is cleaned, and the film F is sucked and held by the holding unit 200 in a downstream process.
After the release sheet has been peeled off, the adhesive sheet of the film F from which the release sheet has been peeled off is attached to the CRT at the attaching section 400, and is then carried out of the machine by the transport section 500.

In the meantime, the film F in the tray 101 is successively sucked and conveyed by the carry-out arm 107 one after another, and
When one of the trays 101 is emptied by a sensor (not shown), the empty tray is moved to the slide cylinder 121.
And the height of the drawer arm 105 is set to the next tray 1 on which the film F is stacked.
01, the next tray 101 is pulled out, and the operation of sucking and transporting the film F is continuously performed. When the unloading of the film F from all the trays 101 on the side of the rack 103A is completed, the cylinder 115 is driven to
3 to the downstream side (the left side in FIG. 2), and the rack 103B
The side tray 101 is taken out from a predetermined stage, and the film F is sequentially processed by repeating the same operation as described above. In the meantime, the tray 101 in each stage on the side of the rack 103A that has become empty supplies the film F manually or by an automatic supply device (not shown).

Next, when all the film F in the tray 101 on the rack 103B side is completely unloaded, the rack device 103 is moved upstream (see FIG. 2) by the supply completion signal of the film F in each tray 101 on each side of the rack 103A. (Right side), the rack device 103 returns to the initial position, completes one cycle, and repeats this operation continuously.

As described above, according to the present invention, since the film F can be continuously supplied, the efficiency of supplying the film is significantly improved.

In the above example, the sticking device for sticking the film material to the CRT surface has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and can be used as a general film material supply device. In addition, sheet-like synthetic resin plates, metal foils, metal plates, paper, and the like are also included.

Further, in the above-described example, the supply device for supplying one type of film material has been described. However, the supply device for supplying various types of film materials having different sizes, shapes, and specifications can be used. In this case, film materials having different specifications are prepared for each tray, the tray specified by the instruction from the control device is separately pulled out, and the specified film material is unloaded and transported.

[0019]

According to the present invention, a tray for accommodating a film material, a rack having a plurality of trays, tray extracting means for extracting the tray from the rack, and a method for extracting the film material from the extracted tray. The provision of the transport means for transporting one sheet at a time makes it possible to efficiently supply the film material.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the film supply device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 100 film supply device 101 tray 103 rack device 103A rack 103B rack 105 drawer arm 107 carry-out arm F film (anti-glare film)

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[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] May 14, 1999 (1999.5.1
4)

[Procedure amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Drawing

[Correction target item name] All figures

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

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FIG. 2

FIG. 3

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A tray for storing a film material, a rack device having a plurality of trays, a tray pulling-out means for pulling out the tray from the rack device, and conveying the film material one by one from the drawn tray. A film supply device comprising: 2. The film supply apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the rack device includes a plurality of rows of the plurality of trays, and the rack is movably installed.