JP2001205964A - Apparatus for manufacturing postcard with photograph - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for manufacturing a postcard with a photograph capable of improving productivity and a yield and shortening a cutting and molding times of the postcard with the photograph and holding good slitting. SOLUTION: The apparatus for manufacturing the postcards with the photographs one by one comprises the steps of continuously running and supplying a strip-like photograph P printed with many images at a predetermined interval to a line, coating its rear surface with an adhesive, aligning postcards L to be fed one by one from a postcard feeding unit 3 toward the line with the images, adhering the postcards L to the photograph P, thereafter cutting and slitting the photograph P. The apparatus also comprises a pair of rotary cutters 7, 8 for cutting the photograph P in a size of the postcard with the photograph to a primary product 51 at a downstream of the postcard adhering position of the line, and a slitter 9 for slitting the edge of the product 51 in a width direction to mold to the postcard 53 with the photograph.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of supplying a band-shaped photograph wound on a reel to a line and attaching the band-shaped photograph and a postcard to the back of a postcard.
The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing postcards with photographs that is collected as postcards with photographs.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A strip photo is flowed on a line, a postcard is fed out one by one, and the back surface is glued to the strip photo.
As a device that manufactures a single postcard with a photo by cutting the band-shaped photo with the postcard attached while transporting the line,
Conventionally, various types have been used. Examples of such a device include those described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Nos. 2-229094 and 3-72351.

[0003] In the apparatus for manufacturing postcards with photographs described in these publications, a mechanism for gluing the band-shaped photographs and a mechanism for transporting the postcards are complicated, so that the apparatus becomes large and maintenance and inspection are troublesome. Also, since the postcard is pasted on the band-shaped photo, it is wound on a reel and cut once, so the postcard with the photo that is finally obtained tends to have a winding habit, curled and warped It is easy to be.

Accordingly, the applicant of the present application has proposed a manufacturing apparatus for postcards with photographs for solving such a manufacturing problem, and has filed an application as Japanese Patent Application No. 3-353545. This consists of a reel that feeds the strip with a belt-shaped photo and a postcard feeding unit that feeds the postcard one by one.
It has a glue application unit for applying glue to the back surface of the belt-shaped photograph, and a crimping part for pressing and attaching a postcard to the belt-shaped photograph, and a cutter and a slitter are provided downstream of the crimping part. The cutter is composed of a front cut section for cutting one place in the feed direction of the band-shaped photograph to which the postcard is pasted, and a rear cut section for cutting and aligning the portion cut by this front cut section again. A slitter is arranged between the front and rear cut sections.

According to such a configuration, the structure is simplified and the size can be reduced as compared with that described in the above-mentioned publication. Since the slitting is performed by the slitter after the first-stage cutting, the chips in the width direction of the band-shaped photograph to which the postcard is pasted can be formed into short strips, which facilitates the processing. In addition, since the band-shaped photograph on which the postcard is pasted is cut as it is through the line, the postcard with the photograph of the final product is not curled, and the work of packing a large number of postcards is simplified.

[0006]

The apparatus of the prior application has a configuration in which a rotary cutter is provided as a first-stage cut portion and a guillotine cutter is provided as a second-stage cut portion. If the rotary speed is made to match the feed speed of the band photo with the postcard attached thereto, the rotary cutter can continuously cut the band photo with the postcard attached thereto without stopping. On the other hand, the guillotine cutter is a mechanism that includes a fixed blade and a movable blade across a conveyance line of a band-shaped photograph on which a postcard is stuck, and performs cutting by moving the movable blade up and down. For this reason, in order to align a postcard with a photo, which is made into one piece by the rotary cutter, the postcard with the photo must be temporarily stopped and then cut. In other words, even though the band photo can be cut continuously,
The trimming of the postcard with the photograph as a single product becomes intermittent, and the time required to process the postcard with the photograph as the final product is inevitably long.

Further, since the slitter is disposed downstream of the former cutter, the edge in the width direction of a single photo postcard cut by the former cutter is slitted. In this case, one postcard with a photo is slitted while passing through the roll-shaped slitter, but at this time, it is already unrelated to the strip-shaped photo. Likely to happen. For this reason, the shearing by the slitter becomes defective, and the cut edges may become uneven.

As described above, in the conventional manufacturing apparatus for postcards with photographs, there is a problem that the time required for trimming the postcards with photographs to the final form is long, and a reduction in product yield due to poor slitting cannot be avoided.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for manufacturing a postcard with a photograph, which can shorten the cutting and molding time of the postcard with a photograph, maintain good slitting, and improve productivity and yield.

[0010]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a belt-shaped photograph on which a large number of images are printed at regular intervals is supplied by continuously running the line, and an adhesive is applied to the back surface of the line. An apparatus for aligning postcards fed one by one from a feeding unit with the image, pasting them to the band-shaped photograph, and then cutting and slitting the postcards with each photo, wherein Downstream of the postcard pasting position, a pair of rotary cutters is provided, which is a primary product by simultaneously cutting the band-shaped photograph on which the postcard is pasted to the size of the postcard with the photograph, and downstream of the width of the primary product. It is characterized by having a slitter for slitting the edge in the direction to form a postcard with a photograph.

In the present invention, the simultaneous cutting by the pair of rotary cutters and the subsequent slitting by the slitter are performed, so that the band-shaped photograph with the postcard attached thereto and the primary product after the cutting are continuously processed without stopping. And productivity can be improved.

In the above arrangement, the slitter includes a receiving roller, a cone-shaped blade disposed with a rotation axis downstream of the receiving roller, and abutting against an axial end surface of the receiving roller. And a pressing roller disposed upstream of the rotation axis of the cone-shaped blade and nipping the primary product on the line together with the receiving roller.

[0013] In such a configuration, the primary product, which is unrelated to the strip-shaped photograph, can be slitted while receiving the primary product by nip between the receiving roller and the pressing roller, so that the primary product can be processed without bending or sagging. A postcard with a photograph in which both ends in the width direction are well aligned can be obtained.

[0014] Further, a pair of exclusion films for opening a path to allow passage of the primary product and for removing chips, immediately downstream of the rotary cutter disposed downstream of the pair of rotary cutters. May be arranged in such a manner that the lines intersect vertically.In such a configuration, the cut chips are wiped off with a film for elimination, thereby quickly collecting the chips in a dust box provided inside the apparatus body. And the processing of chips is simplified.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic front view showing the whole of an apparatus for manufacturing a postcard with a photograph according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows a line for transporting a band-shaped photograph and cutting and slitting a glued postcard together with a drive system thereof. It is a schematic diagram.

In the figure, on the upper surface of a main body 1 of a postcard-with-photographing apparatus, a reel 2 on which a sheet-like band-shaped photograph P in which photographs have been developed at regular intervals is wound, and the front side of the postcard L are inclined upward. A postcard feeding unit 3 for mounting and feeding one by one to a line is arranged. A glue tank 1a containing liquid glue is provided at the upper end of the main body 1, a dust box 1b for collecting chips is provided therein, and a stocker 1c for collecting postcards with photographs is provided at the right end. ing.

The reel 2 is provided with a brake clutch mechanism and the like, releases the belt-shaped photograph P at a constant speed, and supplies the strip-shaped photograph P to a line for adhering to the postcard L and for cutting and slitting. The belt-shaped photograph P from the reel 2 travels while being given back tension by a tension roller 2a rotated by a drive motor 2a-1 (see FIG. 2).
It is sent downstream via the glue application unit 4a and the drying unit 4b. The glue application unit 4a is provided with a glue tank 1a.
The drying unit 4b sprays hot air to dry the liquid glue to an appropriate hardness by applying a liquid glue to the back surface of the belt-shaped photograph P with a nozzle communicating with the nozzle.
It is the same as that described in -353545.

The postcard feeding unit 3 is capable of feeding the lowermost one of the stacked postcards L by a roller row 3a which is driven to rotate by a driving motor (not shown). It has a configuration similar to that described in JP-A-3-353545. The cutout direction of the postcard L is a direction in which the postcard L enters from a diagonally upper direction with respect to the feeding direction of the band photo P conveyed downstream from the glue application unit 4a, and a pair of crimping is performed at the junction of the band photo P and the postcard L. Rollers 5a and 5b are arranged. Pressure roller 5a
Is connected to a drive motor 5a-1 (see FIG. 2) and is driven to rotate. The other pressure roller 5b also rotates in conjunction with this. A postcard L is supplied between the pressing rollers 5a and 5b in such a manner as to match the passage of the band photo P on which the glue is applied. The nip force of the pressing rollers 5a and 5b causes the back surface of the postcard L to be photographed. Is adhered to the back of the device via glue. In addition, matching of the feeding of the band photo P and the feeding of the postcard L is possible by appropriately providing sensors (not shown) for detecting the respective positions. You can paste the postcard L.

Downstream of the pressure rollers 5a and 5b, there are provided first and second rotary cutters (to be described later), and a pair of feed rollers 6a rotatably driven by a drive motor 5a-1, and a pair of guide rollers 6b which rotate freely. , A pair of feed rollers 6 c and 2 that are driven to rotate in conjunction with a slitter (described later)
A pair of discharge rollers 6d and 6e are provided.

The first rotary cutter 7 is a combination of a cutter blade 7a and a receiving roller 7b.
c (see FIG. 2). 3A and 3B are detailed views of the first rotary cutter 7, in which FIG. 3A is a longitudinal sectional view as seen in a direction orthogonal to the line direction, and FIG. 3B is a longitudinal sectional view of a main part as seen in the line direction. . As shown in FIG. 3, the cutter blade 7a and the receiving roller 7b are rotatably supported by a housing 7d via a bearing, and are received from a cutter blade 7a rotated by a drive motor 7c via a gear train 7e.
The rotation is transmitted to. When the cutter blade 7a-1 is attached to the peripheral surface of the cutter blade 7a and driven by the drive motor 7c, the cutter blade 7a and the receiving roller 7b rotate in the direction of the arrow shown in FIG. At this time, the peripheral speeds of the tip of the cutter blade 7a-1 and the peripheral surface of the receiving roller 7b are the same, and this peripheral speed is
a, Photograph P supplied from 5b and pasted with postcard L
Feed rate.

The second rotary cutter 8 disposed downstream of the guide roller pair 6b also has a cutter blade 8a and a receiving roller 8b.
And is rotationally driven by a drive motor 8c (see FIG. 2). The second rotary cutter 8 has exactly the same configuration as the first rotary cutter 7, and in FIG. 3, common members 8 to 8e are shown in parentheses. The second rotary cutter 8 is also driven by receiving the peripheral speed of a cutter blade (not shown) provided on the cutter blade 8a so as to match the peripheral speed of the roller 8b. That is, the shear peripheral speed of the first and second rotary cutters 7 and 8 is the same as the transport speed of the belt-shaped photograph P. Then, control for synchronizing the driving of the respective drive motors 7c and 8c with high precision is performed, and the respective cutter blades 7a-1 and 8a-1 are controlled.
Cuts the strip photograph P at the same time.

Downstream of the feed roller pair 6c, there is provided a slitter 9 for slitting the width of one leaf of the band-shaped photograph P cut to a predetermined length by the first and second rotary cutters 7, 8. FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of a main part of the slitter 9 viewed from the downstream side of the line, and FIG. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. The slitter 9 is a drive motor 9a
Receiving roller 9b rotated by (see FIG. 2)
, A slitting roller 9c that rotates in conjunction with the receiving roller 9b via a gear train 9d, and a pressing roller 9e for stabilizing the feed of the cut postcard with a photograph. Slitting roller 9c
As shown in FIG. 4, a pair of cone-shaped blades 9c-1 arranged so as to sandwich the end face of the receiving roller 9b is provided. The first and second rotary cutters 7, 8
Slit off the edge in the width direction of the one-leaf postcard with a photo cut in step 2.

Here, as is apparent from FIG. 5, the rotation axis of the slitting roller 9c is slightly offset toward the downstream with respect to the rotation axis of the receiving roller 9b, and is located just above the rotation axis of the receiving roller 9b. The rotation axis of the pressing roller 9e is located. The pressing roller 9e is supported on a frame (not shown) of the main body 1 and the like by a pair of supporting arms 9e-1 rotatable up and down, and is pressed between the peripheral surface of the receiving roller 9b by the weight of the pressing roller 9e. Nip force can be obtained.

Further, immediately downstream of the second rotary cutter 8, as shown in FIG.
A pair of exclusion films 10a, 10
b is provided. These rejection films 10a and 10b are sheet materials having appropriate elasticity, such as OHP film materials, and have upper and lower ends fixed to the apparatus side, respectively, and the first and second rotary members arranged on the upper side. The exclusion film 10a of the primary product (described later) cut by the cutters 7 and 8 has a length intersecting with the pass line, and the upper end of the exclusion film 10b arranged on the lower side is slightly lower than the pass line. The exclusion films 10a and 10b are located directly above the dust box 1b, and the chips cut by the second rotary cutter 8 hit the exclusion films 10a and 10b and use the rebound thereof to collect the chips in the dust box 1b. . In addition, the cut primary product is allowed to advance to the slitter 9 side by pushing and expanding the elasticity of the excluding film 10a.

In the above configuration, the driving motor 2a-1
, The belt-shaped photograph P is supplied from the reel 2 as a continuous stream via the tension roller 2a, and after the liquid glue is applied to the back surface of the belt-shaped photograph P by the glue applying unit 4a, the liquid glue is moderated by the drying unit 4b. To an appropriate hardness. On the other hand, from the postcard feeding unit 3, the postcard L
Are cut out one by one, and are nipped by the pressure rollers 5a and 5b together with the band-shaped photograph P. By this nip, the back surface of the postcard L is adhered to the back surface of the belt-shaped photograph P. Then, the band photo P to which the postcard L is attached is transported downstream, so that cutting and slitting are performed in order.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the process from the attachment of the postcard L to the belt-shaped photograph P until the final product is obtained. As shown in FIG. 6A, the postcard L is formed by the pressing rollers 5a and 5b. The sheet P is conveyed in the direction of the arrow (downstream) while being attached on the belt-shaped photograph P at regular intervals. When the leading end of the belt-shaped photograph P reaches the first and second rotary cutters 7 and 8, the portions indicated by the alternate long and short dash line in FIG. That is, as described above, the drive motors 7c and 8c of the first and second rotary cutters 7 and 8 operate in synchronization, and the respective cutter blades 7a-1 and 8a-1 simultaneously cut the strip photograph P. . At this time, since the peripheral speed at the tip of the cutter blades 7a-1 and 8a-1 is made equal to the transport speed of the band photo P, the belt photo P is always fed at a constant speed without stopping.

The cutting position by the first and second rotary cutters 7 and 8 is, as is apparent from FIG. 2B, a little cut at the front end and the rear end in the feeding direction of the postcard L. Face to face. As a result, as shown in (c) of FIG.
And the chips 52 fall as they are and are collected in the dust box 1b. Then, the primary product 51 is continuously conveyed by the feed roller pairs 6a and 6c in FIG. 2 to the slitter 9, where it is slit by a line indicated by a two-dot chain line in FIG. The postcard 53 with one photograph shown in (1) is collected by the stocker 1c as a final product by feeding by the pair of discharge rollers 6d and 6e.

Here, the first and second rotary cutters 7,
Since the band-shaped photograph on which the postcard L is pasted is simultaneously cut by 8, the length of the cut primary product 51 (the length in the left-right direction in FIG. 6) can be made a highly accurate dimension. For example, if the cut of the first rotary cutter 7 is performed at a timing earlier than the cut by the second rotary cutter 8, the rear end of the primary product 51 is repelled by the cutter blade 7a-1, so that the second rotary cutter is cut. 8
And the length of the primary product 51 becomes shorter than a predetermined value. On the other hand, when the cutting by the second rotary cutter 8 is faster than the cutting by the first rotary cutter 7, the cutter blade 8a of the second rotary cutter 8 is used.
Since the belt-shaped photograph P is pulled by 1, the cutting position by the first rotary cutter 7 is shifted, and the length of the primary product 51 is longer than a predetermined dimension. On the other hand, by simultaneously performing the cuts by the first and second rotary cutters 7 and 8, the length of the primary product 51 can be cut with high accuracy.
Products without dimensional errors can be obtained.

The primary product 51 of one leaf shown in FIG. 6D enters the slitter 9. Since the primary product 51 is already unrelated to the belt-shaped photograph P, the feeding stability may be reduced. In contrast, in the present invention,
Since the slitter 9 is provided with the pressing roller 9e, the primary product 51 of one leaf is nipped by the pressing roller 9e and the receiving roller 9b, and the slitting roller 9c slits in this nip state. Therefore, the primary product 51
Even if the material itself is greatly bent or set, the nip is supported by the pressing roller 9e and the receiving roller 9b throughout the slitting period, so that the slitting is performed quickly. Therefore, postcard 53 with photo
The edges in the width direction can be trimmed well, and a high-quality product can be obtained.

Furthermore, the film 10a, 1 for removing chips
By providing 0b, the chips 52 after cutting can be reliably collected in the dust box 1b. This will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 7 shows a belt-shaped photograph P on which a postcard L is attached.
(A), the second rotary cutter 8 is sheared by the cutter blade 8a-1. At this time,
Since the cutter blade 8a and the receiving roller 8b are rotating in the direction of the arrow in the figure, the chips 52 that have been subjected to shear cutting are flipped off by the cutter blade 8a-1. On the other hand, since the exclusion films 10a and 10b are located immediately downstream of the second rotary cutter 8, the chips 52 bounce against the exclusion films 10a and 10b (see (b) of FIG. 3). ), Quickly dropped into the dust box 1b stored in the main body 1. On the other hand, the cut primary product 51 is conveyed as it is, and its stiffness overcomes the elastic force of the exclusion films 10a and 10b, passes through them, and is sent to the slitter 9 side (see (c) of the figure).

As described above, the exclusion films 10a and 10b
The chip 52 can be collected in the dust box 1b without being scattered, and the processing of the chip 52 can be simplified. And such exclusion films 10a, 1
Ob can be provided not only downstream of the second rotary cutter 8 but also immediately downstream of the slitter 9. Although it is not shown in the drawing as an example of disposing it on the downstream side of the slitter 9, by providing the same configuration as the rejection films 10a and 10b on the downstream side of the slitter 9, the chips after slitting can be quickly removed. Can be collected in the dust box 1b.

It is to be noted that the upper end of the rejection film 10b arranged on the lower side has a length such that it does not come into contact with the surface of the belt-shaped photograph P and has a slight interval as shown in FIG. Thereby, the surface of the band-shaped photograph P is not damaged. In addition, even if the chips 52 adhere to the surface of the belt-shaped photograph P due to static electricity, the upper end of the exclusion film 10b can be engaged with the chips 52 and be removed.

[0035]

According to the present invention, since the first and second rotary cutters simultaneously cut the front end and the rear end of the postcard in the feeding direction, continuous processing can be performed without stopping the feeding of the band-shaped photograph, and productivity can be improved. Is improved. In addition, by providing a pressing roller that forms a nip portion between the slitter and a receiving roller, a primary product of one leaf can be stably slitted, and a high-quality postcard with a good trimming margin can be manufactured.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an entire postcard-with-photograph manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a line for transporting a band-shaped photograph and cutting and slitting a glued postcard together with a drive system thereof.

3A and 3B are details of the rotary cutter, wherein FIG. 3A is a cross-sectional view as viewed in a direction perpendicular to a line, and FIG. 3B is a cross-sectional view as viewed in a line direction.

FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of a main part of slitting viewed from a downstream side of a line.

5 is a longitudinal sectional view of a main part taken along line AA of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view showing a process of forming a product by cutting, slitting and transporting a belt-shaped photograph.

FIG. 7 is a schematic view showing, in order, the collection of chips and the passage of a primary product by an exclusion film.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body 2 Reel 2a Tension roller 3 Postcard feeding unit 4a Glue application unit 4b Drying unit 5a, 5b Crimping roller 5a-1 Drive motor 6a Feed roller pair 6b Guide roller pair 6c Feed roller pair 6d, 6e Discharge roller pair 7 First Rotary cutter 8 Second rotary cutter 7a, 8a Cutter blade 7a-1, 8a-1 Cutter blade 7b, 8b Receiving rollers 7c, 8c Drive motor 7d, 8d Housing 7e, 8e Gear train 9 Slitter 9a Drive motor 9b Receiving roller 9c Slitting roller 9c-1 Cone-shaped blade 9d Gear train 9e Press roller 9e-1 Support arm 10a, 10b Elimination film P Strip photo L Postcard

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing from the front page (72) Inventor Junichi Hirasawa 1683 Shimosakashita, Minamiseki-cho, Tamana-gun, Kumamoto 4 F-term within Nexus Corporation (reference) 2C005 WA07 WA08 WA15 2H098 AA02 EA15 HA01 HA04

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A belt-shaped photograph on which a large number of images are printed at a constant interval is supplied to a line by running continuously, and an adhesive is applied to the back surface thereof, and is fed one by one from a postcard feeding unit toward the line. An apparatus for aligning a postcard with the image and pasting the postcard on the image, and then cutting and slitting the postcard with the photograph, wherein the postcard is attached to the line downstream of the pasting position of the postcard. In addition to a pair of rotary cutters that cut the band-shaped photo with the postcard pasted to the size of the postcard with the photo at the same time and make it a primary product, the downstream edge of the primary product is slit in the width direction. An apparatus for manufacturing a postcard with a photo, comprising a slitter for forming the postcard with a photo. 2. The slitter includes a receiving roller, a cone-shaped blade disposed downstream of the receiving roller with a rotation axis and abutting on an axial end surface of the receiving roller, and a rotation axis of the cone-shaped blade. 2. The apparatus for manufacturing a postcard with a photograph according to claim 1, further comprising a pressing roller disposed further upstream and nipping the primary product on the line together with the receiving roller. 3. A pair of rejection films for opening a path to allow passage of the primary product and for removing chips immediately downstream of a rotary cutter disposed downstream of the pair of rotary cutters. 3. The apparatus for manufacturing a postcard with a photograph according to claim 1, wherein the lines are arranged so as to intersect the line vertically.