JP2001092357A - Belt-like material for tag - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a material for tag from which thick tags used by passing bundling bands therethrough can be obtained by continuous printing and the four corners of the tags can be hemed. SOLUTION: This belt-like material consists of a long-sized belt-like base material 16 for forming the plural tags 14 and allows writing of printing displays 50 for identification by continuously printing the plural tags 14. The tags 14 are continuously printed in respective tag regions 14A by detecting marks 22 for detecting the printing position command of the belt-like base material 16 by an optical detecting means 34. The respective tags 14 are formed by cutting the belt-like base material 16 for every notch-like selective cutting marks 18 and 18' by means of a cutter 48. The notches 18A and 18'A are the hemming parts for the tags 14.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of attaching a bundle of wires to a binding band for closing a bag of various kinds of conveyed goods and for identifying the bundles of electric wires and the conveyed goods. The present invention relates to a tag band-shaped material used for forming a tag used.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to identify articles from each other, an identification tag is attached to an article, and the identification tag is attached to the binding band through a binding band bound to the article. I have. For example, in order to mutually identify a plurality of wire bundles, a tag is attached to a binding band that bundles the wire bundles.

[0003] Conventionally, such an identification tag is provided in advance.
Consists of a flat plate molded in a predetermined shape and having a sticking surface to which a predetermined label is to be stuck on an identification surface, or a flat bag-like material having a transparent front and forming a pocket into which a label is to be inserted. Was.

However, such an identification tag is used in such a manner that characters or the like are written on a separate label in advance and the label is attached or put in a pocket, so that handling of the identification tag is troublesome. In addition, when handling a large number of articles, since a character for identification is written by hand for each label, there is a disadvantage that workability is low.

In another prior art, a tag formed of a cardboard single piece form on which predetermined items are printed and having an insertion hole to be inserted into a form insertion shaft previously mounted on a predetermined article. Cards have been proposed. This tag card is formed by continuously printing predetermined items on continuous paper (continuous form) which can be separated from a portion having a feed hole at a vertical perforation and separated from each other at a horizontal perforation. (See Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 6-43676).

Since this tag card is manually separated from the tag card adjacent to the feed portion at the perforation, each corner is formed at a right angle. However, this tag card is small enough to be separated by hand. Since the tag card is made of relatively soft paper, even if the corner of the tag card is sharp, the operator's hand is not seriously hurt. Also, since the appearance is not so required, it is not necessary to chamfer the four corners.

However, the tag through which the tie band is used is made of a relatively hard material so as not to be broken even through the band, and such a hard tag is made of a continuous band-like material. If it is simply cut out, the four corners of the tag are sharp, which may hurt the operator's hand.If the four corners are right-angled and the corners are not trimmed, the appearance will be poor and the appearance will be poor. Not preferred.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a thick tag through which a binding band can be penetrated, which can be formed from a long object which can be continuously printed, and which is cut and formed. An object of the present invention is to provide a tag strip material in which the four corners of the tag are trimmed at the same time as cutting.

Another object to be solved by the present invention is to provide a tag-like band-shaped material that can easily perform printing at a predetermined position in each tag area.

[0010]

The basic object of the present invention is to provide a long strip-shaped base material on which a plurality of tags are to be formed, wherein the strip-shaped base material is formed so as to form each tag. A separation mark provided at an interval to cut the band-shaped base material and a binding band formed in a tag region between the separation marks adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction of the band-shaped base material and to which each tag should be attached should penetrate. Including a band through hole and a print position command detection mark for detecting a print command for commanding a position to be printed on each tag area, and the separation mark is formed from a notch formed relative to the edge of the band-shaped base material. ,
To provide a tag-like band-shaped material, characterized in that these notches serve as a border of the tag when the tag is formed by cutting the band-shaped base material between the opposed notches. It is in.

The print position command detection mark may be formed of a notch mark or a reflective mark provided on one edge of the band-shaped base material and distinguishable from the cut mark. The band through hole that can be identified may also serve as the band through hole.

The strip-shaped base material can be housed in a case that can be freely opened and closed while being wound in a roll shape. In this case, the starting end of the strip-shaped base material is designed to be easily pulled out from the opening of the case. Is preferred.

As described above, when the tag strip material is made of a long strip-shaped base material on which a plurality of tags are to be formed, it is possible to continuously print the plurality of tags and write characters for identification. Therefore, since no handwriting work is required, the workability is improved, and since there is no need to attach a label or insert into a pocket, handling becomes easy.

Further, since the printing of the tag can be performed at a predetermined position in the tag area by detecting the print position command detection mark of the band-shaped material by the optical detecting means, the printing position is shifted in the tag area. And a tag having a clear identification can be obtained.

[0015] The band-shaped base material is provided at predetermined intervals so as to form each tag, and has a cutting mark for cutting the band-shaped base material. The cutting mark is opposed to the edge of the band-shaped base material. Formed from the formed cutouts, these cutouts are intended to be the rim of the tag when the strip is cut between opposing cutouts to form the tag, and therefore the cutout A tag with four corners can be formed simply by cutting the mark for each mark, and the hand of the operator is not hurt by the tag, and a good appearance can be given to the tag.

Further, the band-shaped base material is housed in an openable and closable case wound in a roll shape, and the starting end of the band-shaped base material is desired to be easily pulled out from an outlet of the case. By appropriately mounting or approaching the case to the printing and cutting machine, and feeding the starting end of the strip-shaped base material fed from the case to the tag printing and cutting machine, the tag can be easily printed and separated.

[0017]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIGS. 1 and 2 show a tag band material 10 according to the present invention. The material 10 is housed in a substantially flat rectangular openable and closable case 12.

As shown in FIG. 2, the tag strip material 10 is composed of a long strip-shaped base material 16 on which a plurality of tags 14 are to be formed. Each tag is formed in a tag area 14A between a plurality of pairs of cutting marks 18 and 18 'which are provided at predetermined intervals to cut the band-shaped base material 16 and the cutting marks 18 and 18' adjacent in the longitudinal direction. A plurality of print position commands provided for each tag area 14A so as to detect a band through hole 20 through which a binding band to which the tag band 14 is to be attached to penetrate, and a print command for specifying a print position of each tag area 14A. And a detection mark 22.

The band-shaped substrate 16 has an appropriate width and thickness and is made of a plastic or other appropriate material having a color suitable for printing. Preferably, it has flexibility. For example, it is formed from white vinyl chloride having a width of 5 to 10 cm and a thickness of about 0.5 mm.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, each pair of cutting marks 18 and 18 '
A substantially V-shaped notch 18A, 1
8'A, these V-shaped notches 18A,
When the tag 14 (see FIGS. 6 and 10) is formed by cutting the band-shaped base material 16 so as to connect the notches 18A and 18'A facing each other, the tag 18 has a rounded shape. Are formed so as to form the corners 24 and 24 ′ having the following. As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the starting end 16a and the not-shown rear end of the strip-shaped base material 16 have rounded corners 24A and 24'A in advance.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the print position command detection mark 22 is formed of a substantially U-shaped notch 22A provided on one edge 17 of the band-shaped base material 16. As will be described later, the print position command detection mark 22 is used to detect the tag area 14 by an optical detection means in the tag print cutting machine.
It is used to optically detect the printing position of A.

The print position command detection mark 22 is notch 2
In the case of 2A, if it cannot be distinguished from the separation mark 18A at the same position, the position is detected by the separation mark 18A. To avoid this, as shown in FIG. In the meantime, the optical detection means does not react to the cutting mark 18 with the passage of the belt-shaped material 10 but reacts to the print position command detection mark 22 so that the print position command detection mark 22 The reaction portion 22a is located at a position separated from the separation mark 18A and can be identified as the separation mark 18.

The strip material 10 of FIG. 2A is substantially the same as the strip material 10 of FIG. 2B except that the length and width of the tag region 14A are different. The band-shaped material 10 of FIG. 2 is different from the band-shaped material 10 of FIG. 3 in that the band-shaped material 10 of FIG. 2 has a band through-hole 20 along the other edge 17 ′ of each tag region 14A. It is substantially the same except that it is provided near the front end in the longitudinal direction of each tag area 14A.

As shown in FIG. 1, the band-shaped substrate 10
It is housed in an openable and closable case 12 wound around a roll 10W on a winding core (not shown), and the starting end 16a of the strip-shaped base material 16 is desired to be easily pulled out from an outlet 12a of the case. An appropriate detent 26 can be detachably attached to the start end 16a so that the start end 16a of the band-shaped base material 16 is not drawn into the case 12.

Next, the use state of the tag band material 10 of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 to 12. As shown in FIG. 5, the base material starting end 16a of the band material 10 in the case 12 is shown in FIG.
, The detent 26 is removed, and a predetermined length including the starting end 16a of the strip material 10 is cut by the tag printing and cutting machine 30.
To the introduction port 32 of.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the tag printing and cutting machine 30 has an optical detecting means (optical reading means) 34, a printing means 36, a conveying means 38, a cutting means 40, and a control means. 42.

The printing means 36 includes a platen roller 44 for supporting the band-shaped material 10 and a thermal head 46 for moving the band-shaped material 10 back and forth so as to press the platen roller 44 and printing the tag region 14A of the band-shaped material. I have. Between the thermal head 46 and the belt-shaped material 10, a marking tape 48 sequentially fed to the printing area is interposed. The conveying means 38 includes a pair of conveying rollers 50 and 50 ′ for conveying the strip material 10 with the strip material 10 interposed therebetween on the downstream side of the printing means 36.
4 to form a mark 1
8, 18 '. The cutter 52 is provided with a cutter receiver (not shown).
While receiving 0, the strip-shaped material 10 is cut.

As shown in FIG. 7, the control means 42 generates control commands Sp, Sco and Scu for controlling the driving of the printing means 36, the transport means 38 and the cutting means 40. The printing device 36 and the cutting device 40 are controlled to continuously receive the print command detection signal Sd from the optical detection device 34 described later, except that the web material 10 is continuously transported except during the operation of the printing device 40. Means 4
2 controls printing and cutting, respectively.

The optical detecting means 34 is arranged at a predetermined position from the printing means 36 on the upstream side of the printing means 36.
When the optical detection means 34 detects the print position command detection mark 22 for each tag area 14A of the belt-shaped material 10,
The detection signal Sd is supplied to the control means 42. The control means 42 supplies the print signal Sp to the printing means 36 to start printing when the belt-shaped material 10 moves a predetermined distance after receiving the detection signal Sd, and after moving the predetermined distance, cuts. The printing unit 36 and the cutting unit 40 are controlled so that the signal Scu is supplied to the cutting unit 40 and the band material 10 is cut.

More specifically, for example, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, the distance D1 between the optical detection means 34 and the printing means 36 is 32 cm, and the distance D2 between the printing means 36 and the cutting means 40 is 20 cm. Further, as shown in FIG. 7B, the length of the tag area 14A (the length of the tag 14) is set to 10 cm,
4A to 2 cm long area from the front end (each lug area 1
It is assumed that printing is performed at a length of 6 cm at the center of 4A) and that the leading edge of the print position command detection mark 22 is provided at 5 cm from the leading edge of each tag area 14A.

After the print position command detection mark 22 of the specific tag area 14A is detected by the optical detection means 34, the belt-shaped material 10 is 39 cm (D1 = 42 cm) and the print start position and the print position command detection in the tag area 14A are detected. The control means 42 supplies a print signal Sp to the print means 36 when the control means 42 advances by a distance (a distance obtained by subtracting a distance of 3 cm from the mark), and starts printing. The control means 42 sets the control signal Sp so as to print a predetermined character or the like over a length of 6 cm in advance, so that the predetermined character is printed over the length of 6 cm in the specific tag area 14A. You. Although not shown, the control unit 42 has input in advance specific characters to be printed, and the control unit 42 outputs the detection signal Sd
When the belt-shaped material 10 advances 39 cm after receiving the command, a printing signal Sp is supplied to the printing means 36 to instruct the start of printing, and a predetermined character or the like is printed on the thermal head 48.

After the printing is completed, the band-shaped material 10 is further
After moving forward by (the sum of D2 = 20 cm and the interval of 2 cm between the end of the printing end position of the tag area 14A and the end), the control unit 42 supplies the transport stop signal Sco to the transport unit 38 and simultaneously sends the signal to the cutting unit 40. A cutting signal Scu is supplied to temporarily stop the driving of the conveying means 38 and, consequently, the conveyance of the strip material 10, and the cutting means 40 cuts the strip material 10 across the cutting marks 18 and 18 ', and the subsequent tag The area is separated from the area 14A (see FIG. 6).

After the cutting of the belt-shaped material 10 is completed, the control means 42 resumes the transport operation of the transport means 38 at the same time when the cutter 48 of the cutting means 40 is opened. Note that the thermal head 46 is pressed against the band-shaped material 10 via the marking tape 48 during the printing operation of the printing means 36, and may be pressed against the band-shaped material 10 even during non-printing. In this state, since the marking tape 48 is wasted, the thermal head 464 is preferably opened apart from the belt-shaped material 10 during non-printing in order to eliminate unnecessary feeding of the marking tape 48. .

In this way, the subsequent tag areas 14
Printing and cutting operations are performed in the same manner as in A, and as shown in FIG. 10, a number of tags 14 on which the print indication 54 is given are sequentially formed. As shown in FIG. 11, these tags 14 pass a binding band 56 through the band through hole 20, and bundle a predetermined article, for example, a wire bundle 58 as shown in FIG. 12. The printed display 54 on the tag 14 is a predetermined character or the like for identifying the wire bundle 58.

Each time the length of the tag area 14A of the strip-shaped material 10 differs, the transport distance until printing and cutting are performed after the optical detection means 34 detects the detection signal Sd is reset. For example, if the length of the tag area 14A is 15 cm, and if an attempt is made to set a print area over a length of 6 cm at the center while leaving 4.5 cm before and after 14 A of the tag area, the optical detection means 34 will cause a specific After detecting the print position command detection mark 22 in the tag area 14A, the printing operation is started when the band-shaped material 10 advances 36 cm, and the cutting operation is performed when the band-shaped material advances 24.5 cm after the printing is completed. The length of the tag 14 is 10 cm, 15 c
Needless to say, the length can be set to an appropriate length other than m, and the width can also be set to an appropriate value.

As can be seen from FIG. 7, one tag area 14
By the time the A is printed and separated, the band-shaped material 10 is removed after the print position command detection mark 22 of the tag area 14A is detected by the optical detection means 34.
9 cm (or 36 cm) and 22 cm (or 24.
5 cm) when it has moved forward, so that the tag area 14A located before the tag area 14A to be printed first will not be printed, and the distance between the optical detection means 34 and the printing means 36 will be reduced. No printing is performed on the tag area 14A in the range of the substantially corresponding length portion.

Therefore, as shown in FIG.
, The leader tape 110 having the print position command detection marks 122 at the same interval in front of the belt-shaped material 10 can be integrally formed. In this way, since the leader tape 110 sequentially supplies the detection signal Sd corresponding to the first tag area 14A of the belt material 10 behind it to the control means 42, printing is performed from the first tag area 14A of the belt material 10. The predetermined tag 14 can be formed by cutting. The leader tape 110 is not integrated,
In this case, the operation of forming the tag 14 from the strip-shaped material 10 is stopped halfway, and when the tag 14 is restarted thereafter, the tag 14 immediately follows the tag area next to the tag area where printing was completed last. This is preferable because printing can be started.

In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the print position command detection mark 22 is formed by a notch 22A.
(A) As shown in FIG.
It may consist of three. In this case, as the optical detection means 34, a light emitter / receiver that projects light and receives reflected light is used. Further, as shown in FIG. 4B, a through hole 21 formed near one edge 17 may also serve as a band through hole and a print position command detection mark. Also in this case, the through hole 21 is formed at a position away from the cutting mark 18 as shown by a symbol a so as to be distinguishable from the cutting mark 18 and the optical detection means 3
It is necessary that 4 does not mistake the dividing mark 18 as the through hole 21.

[0039]

According to the present invention, as described above, since the tag strip material is made of a long strip-shaped base material on which a plurality of tags are to be formed, a plurality of tags are continuously printed. Characters for identification and the like can be written, and therefore, handwriting work is not required, so that workability is improved, and since labeling and insertion into a pocket are not required, handling is easy.

Further, since the tag can detect the printing position command detection mark of the band-like material by the optical detecting means and can continuously print it at a predetermined position in each tag area, the printing position in the tag area can be changed. It is possible to obtain a tag having a clean printed display without deviation.

Further, in the band-shaped base material, the cutting mark for cutting the band-shaped base material at a predetermined interval so as to form each tag is formed from a notch formed opposite to the edge of the band-shaped base material. Therefore, these notches serve as the edge of the tag when the tag is formed by cutting the band-shaped base material at the notch, and therefore, the tag whose four corners are edged only by cutting at each cutting mark. Can be formed, the hand of the operator is not hurt by the tag, and the tag can be given a good appearance.

Further, the band-shaped base material is housed in a case that can be freely opened and closed while being wound in a roll shape, and the starting end of the band-shaped base material is desired to be easily pulled out from the outlet of the case. The tag can be easily printed and cut by appropriately mounting or approaching the case to the tag printing and cutting machine, and feeding the starting end of the strip-shaped base material fed from the case to the tag printing and cutting machine.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing one storage mode of a tag strip material according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows one embodiment of a tag strip material according to the present invention, wherein FIG. 2A is a plan view of a tag strip material having a small length and width, and FIG. It is a top view of the strip | belt-shaped material for a tag which has width and width.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of another embodiment of the tag strip material according to the present invention.

4A and 4B show still another different form of the tag strip material according to the present invention. FIG. 4A is a plan view of a tag strip material having a print position command detection mark of a different form.
FIG. 2B is a plan view of the tag-like band-shaped material in which the band through hole also serves as a print position command detection mark.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a tag printing and cutting machine for printing a tag strip material according to the present invention and separating tags from each other.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged perspective view showing the internal structure of the tag printing and cutting machine.

FIG. 7 shows a control system for printing on a tag area by the tag printing / cutting machine of FIG. 6, and FIG.
FIG. 1B is an explanatory diagram showing the dimensional relationship of one tag area used for explaining the operation of this control system.

FIG. 8 shows the relationship between the print position command detection mark and the separation mark, and FIG. 8A is an explanatory diagram illustrating the relationship between the print position command detection mark and the separation mark of the belt-shaped material in FIG. 2; FIG. 4B is an explanatory diagram for explaining the relationship between the print position command detection mark of the band-shaped material of FIG. 4 and the separation mark.

FIG. 9 is a plan view of a belt-shaped material having a leader tape.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which tags are sequentially formed by a tag printing and cutting machine.

FIG. 11 is a perspective view showing a state where the tag is attached to the binding band.

12 is a perspective view showing a state in which the bundle of electric wires is bound by a binding band to which the tag of FIG. 11 is attached.

[Explanation of symbols]

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 10 strip-shaped material for tag 10 W roll 12 case 12 a take-out port 14 tag 14 A tag area 16 strip-shaped base material 16 a start end 17 one edge of strip-shaped base material 17 ′ other edge of strip-shaped base material 18 one cutout mark 18 A cutout 18 ′ The other cutout mark 18 'Notch 20 Band through hole 21 Through hole (also serves as band through hole and print position command detection mark) 22 Print position command detection mark 22A Notch mark 22a Reaction part 23 Reflective mark 24A Chamfer 24'A Chamfer 26 Detent 30 Tag printing and cutting machine 32 Inlet 34 Optical detection means 36 Printing means 38 Conveying means 40 Cutting means 42 Control means 44 Platen roller 46 Thermal head 48 Marking tape 50 Conveying roller 50 '' Transport rollers 52 Cutter 54 Printing Display 56 Ties 58 wire bundle control signal Sco control signal Scu control signal Sd printing position command detection mark detection signal to the cutting means to the conveying means to the Sp printing means

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A long strip-shaped base material on which a plurality of tags are to be formed, wherein the strip-shaped base materials are provided at a predetermined interval so as to form each tag, and the relative strip-shaped base materials are to be cut. Cutting marks to be formed, band through holes formed in a tag area between the cutting marks adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction of the strip-shaped base material, through which a binding band to which each tag should be attached should pass, and a position to be printed on each tag area. And a print position command detection mark for detecting a print command for instructing, the cutout mark is formed from a cutout formed opposite to the edge of the band-shaped base material, A tag-like band-shaped material, which becomes a rim of the tag when the tag is formed by cutting the band-shaped base material between the opposed notches. 2. The tag strip material according to claim 1, wherein the print position command detection mark is provided on one edge of the strip base material so as to be distinguishable from the cut mark. A band-shaped material for a tag, comprising a shape mark or a reflective mark. 3. The band-shaped material for a tag according to claim 1, wherein the print position command detection mark also serves as a band through hole provided so as to be distinguishable from the separation mark. A band-shaped material for a tag, characterized in that: 4. The tag strip material according to claim 1, wherein the strip base material is housed in a case that can be freely opened and closed while being wound in a roll shape. A tag-like material for a tag, wherein a starting end of the material for a belt is desired to be easily pulled out from an outlet of the case.