JP2002240497A - Foil transferring device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a foil transferring device wherein a fine adjustment of a pressure to mark an article to be transferred is possible, and which can transfer a foil to the article to be transferred by an optimal marking pressure in response to the material of the article to be transferred. SOLUTION: For this foil transferring device, a balancer member which balances the weight of a moving section 10 is provided. Then, contact sections which can come into contact with each other are respectively provided on the moving section and a housing cylinder member 31, under the state wherein the balancer member balances the weight of the moving section 10. The foil transferring device is constituted in such a manner that such contact sections may approach or come into contact with each other by the balancer member.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to a foil transfer area forming section for determining an area where a foil is to be transferred to an object to be transferred, and to a surface of the object to be transferred in accordance with an instruction from the foil transfer area forming section. Along with a traveling part that can move along the moving part, and the traveling part is provided with a moving part that can move up and down in a vertical direction with respect to the object to be transferred. The present invention relates to a foil transfer device provided with a heating and engraving head provided therein, and a pressure adjusting means for the object to be transferred provided between the traveling section and the moving section.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a transfer foil is transferred onto a transfer object so as to have a shape such as a character or a figure. By transferring the foil, the visibility of characters and the decorativeness of the transferred object have been improved.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-216998 discloses such a method of transferring a foil. Here, an image such as a character to be engraved is created on a computer image, and an image signal of the created image is supplied to the heating engraving unit. The heating engraving unit has a traveling unit that moves while engraving the heating so as to draw the created image in response to the supplied image signal. Then, the foil to be imprinted is superimposed on the material to be imprinted (transferred material), and the heating and engraving unit heat-engraves the superimposed foil and the transferred material in accordance with the image signal to form an image. Is stamped with foil.

In this foil transfer method, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, an image forming section B for creating an image to be imprinted and outputting an image signal, and a foil 81 attached to a transfer object 82 at a predetermined position. A foil transfer device X provided with a heating stamping section A having a running section 87 for heating and stamping with pressure and temperature is used. The traveling section 87 is heated at a constant temperature that can be changed and has a constant pressure that can be changed. A heating marking head 11 capable of marking with (marking pressure) has been used.

[0005] The foil 81 and the transfer object 82 are
1 is placed on a table 83 provided in the heating engraving part A in a state of being superimposed on the above.

The heating and engraving head 11 can faithfully reproduce the fine shape of the image because the tip 12 has a sharp pen shape, and is always supported by elastic bodies such as coil springs 84 and 85. It is configured to have a constant marking pressure. The stamping pressure can be set, for example, by changing the strength or stress of the coil springs 84 and 85 that support the heating stamping head 11, and the temperature of the heating stamping head 1 can be adjusted. For example, it can be performed by arranging a heater 21 or the like in the heating and engraving head and changing the power supplied to the heater 21. , The foil 81 was heated.

[0007] The foil transfer apparatus X thus constructed maintains the heating stamping head 11 at a predetermined temperature by means of the heater 21 while maintaining the weight of the running section including the heating stamping head 11 and the coil springs 84, 85. The balance is maintained by the elastic supporting force of the transfer object 82 with respect to the transfer object 82.
It was said that appropriate pressure could be applied according to the material. As a result, the same image as the image formed in the image forming section B was accurately imprinted on the transferred object 82 by the heating engraving head 11.

[0008]

According to the above-mentioned conventional foil transfer apparatus, the balance is maintained by the weight of the running section including the heating stamping head and the elastic support force of the coil spring, and the heating stamping head is mounted on the heating stamping head. It is configured to apply a constant marking pressure. Stamping pressure, as described above, it can be set by changing the strength or the stress of a coil spring for supporting the heating marking head.

The coil spring is preferably a spring having a strong stress in order to reliably press the transfer object or to transfer the foil to the transfer object reliably. It is desirable that the strength can be changed to an optimum pressure according to the material of the transfer object.

However, if a coil spring having a strong stress is used, there is a possibility that the imprinting pressure is too high and the transfer object is damaged, and the strength of the coil spring is reduced. However, there is a problem that it is difficult to finely adjust the stress even if an attempt is made to change the stamping pressure so as to have an optimum stamping pressure according to the material. Therefore, it is very difficult to optimize the transfer state of the foil transferred onto the transfer object according to the material of the transfer object.

Further, as shown in FIG. 9, the upper and lower ends of the coil springs 84 and 85 have stoppers 93 and 85, respectively.
Since it is fixed by the head 94 and the head bearing 95, the weight of the running part including the heating stamp head is always a part of the factor that determines the stamping pressure. Therefore, the adjustment of the engraving pressure must be performed in consideration of the weight of the running section including the heating engraving head, and in this regard, the transfer state of the foil is also adjusted according to the material of the transfer target. It was one of the very difficult reasons to optimize.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to enable fine adjustment of the pressure for imprinting an object to be transferred, and to transfer a foil to an object to be transferred with an optimum embossing pressure according to the material of the object to be transferred. It is to provide a device.

[0013]

Means for Solving the Problems [Structure 1] A feature structure of the present invention for achieving this object is a foil transfer area forming section for determining an area where a foil is transferred to an object to be transferred; A traveling section movable along the surface of the transferred object by a command from the transfer area forming section, and the traveling section includes a moving section that can move up and down in a vertical direction with respect to the transferred object. The moving section is further provided with a heating and engraving head provided with a temperature adjusting means, and a pressure adjusting means for the object to be transferred is provided over the traveling section and the moving section. In the foil transfer device, a balancer member that offsets the weight of the moving unit is interposed between the traveling unit and the moving unit, and the balancer member offsets the weight of the moving unit. Provided separately for the traveling section and the moving section Abutment portion which can come into contact There are located at a point that is configured to close or abut, the effects thereof are as follows.

[Function and Effect 1] As the balancer member, for example, a mechanism for supporting the moving portion with a vertical and upward force can be applied as described in an embodiment described later.

That is, such a balancer member is interposed between the traveling section and the moving section, and provided separately for the traveling section and the moving section in a state where the weight of the moving section is offset. When the abutting portions that can abut each other are configured to abut or approach each other, the moving portion is lowered when the pressure adjusting means adjusts the distance between the traveling portion and the moving portion. However, since the contact portions are already in contact with each other or immediately contact each other, the moving portion does not descend.

This means that the pressure of the pressure adjusting means adjusted to set the engraving pressure of the heating engraving head all becomes the engraving pressure of the heating engraving head. Assuming that the contact portions are initially separated from each other, the moving portion is pushed down when adjusting the pressure adjusting means, and the balancer member is contracted. Some will be lost to the deformation of the balancer member.

However, with this configuration, when the engraving pressure at which the traveling section presses the transfer object is set in accordance with the material of the transfer object, the pressure set by the pressure adjusting means is: That is, since the stamping pressure of the moving unit with respect to the transfer object is used, it is not necessary to consider the weight of the moving unit and the force of the balancer member, and the pressure can be easily adjusted.

Therefore, fine adjustment of the engraving pressure is possible by the pressure adjusting means, and the transfer state of the foil transferred onto the transfer object can be optimized according to the material of the transfer object. . Further, the possibility that the imprint pressure is too high and damages the transfer object is reduced.

[Structure 2] A feature of the present invention to achieve this object is that, in the structure 1 described above, the pressure adjusting means is capable of adjusting the position of the traveling section with respect to the traveling section along the direction of elevation of the moving section. And a pressurizing means that acts over the screwing member and the moving portion. The operation and effect are as follows.

[Function and Effect 2] In other words, if the member for adjusting the pressure is a screwing member capable of adjusting the position of the moving part with respect to the traveling part in the elevating direction of the moving part, the operation at the time of the pressure adjustment is as follows. Since it is sufficient to simply perform the operation of rotating the screw member, the pressure can be easily adjusted.

Further, when the pressurizing means acts on the screw member and the moving portion, the pressure adjusted by the screw member is easily transmitted to the moving portion. . Therefore, the pressure adjusting means of the moving unit with respect to the transfer object can be constituted by the pressurizing means and the screw member, so that the pressure adjusting means can be simplified.

In such a pressure adjusting means, when the engraving pressure for pressing the transfer object is changed by the pressure adjusting means, the abutting portions are configured to abut or approach each other. The contact portions immediately come into contact with each other, and the height of the moving portion is determined in this state. That is, when the pressure is adjusted by the pressure adjusting unit, the height position of the moving unit does not change compared to before the pressure adjustment. Therefore, the distance between the object to be transferred and the moving part can be easily adjusted, so that the foil transfer efficiency is improved.

[Structure 3] A feature of the present invention for achieving this object is that, in the above structure 1 or 2, a ball which comes into contact with the object to be transferred is attached to a head tip which is a tip of the heating stamping head. The operation and effects are as follows.

[Effect 3] That is, if a ball member which comes into contact with the object to be transferred is provided at the head tip portion which is the tip portion of the heating stamping head, the surface of the foil is transferred when the foil is transferred. Since the ball member can move so as to roll on the upper portion, smooth movement with less friction can be achieved. Therefore, the foil can be easily transferred, and the efficiency of the foil transfer can be improved.

[Structure 4] In order to achieve this object, the present invention is characterized in that, in any one of the structures 1 to 3, the moving section includes a nose guard capable of adjusting the amount of protrusion of the heating stamp head. The nose guard member is provided with a transfer object contact surface capable of contacting the transfer object, and the operation and effect are as follows.

[Effect 4] In other words, if the nose guard member can adjust the protrusion amount of the heating stamp head, the protrusion amount of the heating stamp head can be changed according to the material of the transfer object. .

Further, if the nose guard member is provided with a transfer object contact surface capable of contacting the transfer object, even if the transfer object surface has irregularities, the transfer object contact surface may be provided. Since the contact surface moves up and down following the irregularities, the depth of the engraving of the heating engraving head can be stabilized. Therefore, it is possible to easily optimize the transfer state of the foil by determining an optimum transfer condition according to the material of the transfer object.

[0028]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the drawings, portions denoted by the same reference numerals as those of the conventional example indicate the same or corresponding portions.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the foil transfer apparatus of the present invention. The foil engraving apparatus X mainly includes a foil transfer area forming unit B that determines an area where the foil 81 is to be transferred to the transfer object 82,
A stamping section A for transferring the foil 81 to the surface of the transfer object 82 in accordance with a command from the foil transfer area forming section B. Hereinafter, each configuration will be described in detail.

(1) Foil Transfer Area Forming Section The foil transfer area forming section B determines, for example, an area such as a character or a figure to be foil-transferred by computer image processing in order to determine an area to be foil-transferred to the object 82. The present invention is applicable as long as it can be formed and can output an image signal corresponding to the formed image.

The foil transfer area forming section B is composed of a terminal 101 such as a personal computer. As a preferred embodiment, characters and / or graphics or the like to be foil-transferred to an object using a system such as CAD / CAM are used. Create an image such as An image signal corresponding to the image formed by the foil transfer area forming section B is transferred to a later-described engraving section A by a cable 102 or the like.

(2) Marking Section The marking section A is configured to transfer the foil 81 onto the surface of the transfer object 82 in response to a command from the foil transfer area forming section B. The main components of the engraved part A include:
For example, a traveling section 87 that can move along the surface of the transferred object 82 in accordance with a command from the foil transfer area forming section B, a driving mechanism 88 that drives the traveling section 87, the foil 81, the transferred object 82, and the like. A table 83 on which the object 80 is placed, an operation unit 89 for controlling the driving mechanism 88, and the like are provided.

As shown in FIG. 1, the traveling portion 87
A horizontal direction (AA ′ direction in FIG. 1) along a traveling groove 91 provided on a side surface of the drive mechanism 88, or a front-rear direction (FIG. 1B) by an arm (not shown) projecting from the traveling groove 91. −B ′ direction) and is attached to the drive mechanism 88 via a traveling section attaching portion 90 so as to be movable in the (−B ′ direction).
Therefore, the travel unit 87, the traveling unit mounting portion 90
At the same time, the side surface of the drive mechanism 88 can be moved horizontally.

On the other hand, the table 83 is attached to the drive mechanism 88 so that fine adjustment can be made in the height direction.

Accordingly, after the height of the table 83 is finely adjusted, the traveling section mounting section 90 is appropriately moved, so that the traveling section 87 attached to the traveling section mounting section 90 is moved.
Can be moved to any position on the surface of the mounting object 80 described above mounted on the table 83.

Here, the running section mounting section 90 moves in response to a command from the foil transfer area forming section B. For this reason, the traveling section 87 accurately moves the same area as the area determined in the foil transfer area forming section B on the surface of the article 80 placed on the object to be transferred 82. Can be.

[0037] Since the operation unit 89 is capable of controlling the operation of the travel unit mounting section 90, the traveling unit mounting section 9
0 can also be controlled and moved from the operation unit 89.

As shown in FIGS.
Is a moving unit 10 that can move up and down in the vertical direction with respect to the transfer object 82, a housing tubular member 31 that houses the moving unit 10,
It has a balancer member 41 and the like for offsetting the weight of the moving part 10. Hereinafter, each configuration of the traveling section 87 will be described in detail.

(2-1) Moving Unit The moving unit 10 is configured to be vertically movable with respect to the transfer object 82. As shown in FIGS.
The moving unit 10 includes a core member 13, a core member holder 14,
It has a holder accommodating member 15.

The core member 13 is a hollow cylindrical member,
The distal end side is provided with excellent heat stamping head 11 of the thermal conductivity. The heating and engraving head 11 is a portion that is in direct contact with the transferred object 82. The tip of the heating engraving head 11 is preferably sharpened in a pen shape in order to accurately engrave a fine shape, but can be appropriately changed according to the shape of an image or a character. The tip of the heating stamp head 11 is preferably formed of a material having wear resistance.

The core member holder 14 is a hollow cylindrical member, and is a member for loading and holding the core member 13. The holder accommodating member 15 is a hollow cylindrical member, and is a member that inserts and holds the core member holder 14 into which the core member 13 is inserted and held.

An engaging portion 15a is provided on the inner periphery of the holder accommodating member 15, and the engaging portion 15a comes into contact with the engaging portion 13b of the core member 13. It is locked in the housing member 15. A locking portion 13a is provided on the outer periphery near the center of the core member 13.
Is provided, and the core member holder 14 is locked when the locking portion 13a comes into contact with the locking portion 14a of the core member holder 14.

Accordingly, the core member 13 and the core member holder 14
And moving part 10 composed of a holder housing member 15
These three members are integrated into the housing cylinder member 3
1 can be moved up and down (see FIGS. 5 and 6).

A ring mounting groove 16 in which a ring member 22 such as an E-ring can be mounted is provided on the outer peripheral wall of the end of the holder housing member 15.

(2-1-1) Temperature Adjusting Means A temperature adjusting means 21 is provided in the hollow portion of the heating and engraving head 11. A ceramic heater or the like can be applied to the temperature adjusting unit 21, and the wiring 103 connected to the temperature adjusting unit 21 is a hollow core member 13.
Heater controller 1 provided inside and outside
04. Therefore, the temperature control means 2
1 can be adjusted to a predetermined temperature, and the heating and engraving head 1
When the temperature adjusting means 21 is arranged so as to be in contact with the inner peripheral wall 1, the temperature of the heating and engraving head 11 having excellent thermal conductivity can be adjusted.

At this time, although it depends on the material of the foil 81, generally, if the temperature of the heating and engraving head 11 is too high, the gloss of the transferred foil is lost, and if the temperature is too low, the foil is coated. It is known that it is difficult to be transferred to the transcript 82. Therefore, the heating and engraving head 11 is 140-
It is preferable to adjust the temperature to about 180 ° C.

(2-1-2) Pressure Adjusting Means The holder accommodating member 15 is provided with a pressure adjusting means 92 for the mounted object 80 including the transfer object 82.
The pressure adjusting means 92 includes, for example, a screwing member 51 capable of adjusting the position of the moving portion 10 with respect to the traveling portion 87 along the vertical direction. And a pressurizing means 42 acting over a range.

The screwing member 51 is provided so as to be adjustable in position along the vertical direction of the moving part 10 with respect to the running part 87. Attached by fitting. Therefore, by rotating the screwing member 51 with respect to the housing cylinder member 31 and changing their axial position, the axial position of the screwing member 51 with respect to the housing cylinder member 31 is adjusted, and the traveling section Adjustment of the position with respect to 87 becomes possible.

The pressurizing means 42 is a member acting over the screw member 51 and the moving part 10, and is formed of, for example, a coil spring made of a wire having a diameter of 1.6 mm. More specifically, the lower end of the pressing means 42 is
The upper end of the pressurizing means 42 is locked by a washer 23 attached to the lower part of the holder housing member 15, and the upper end of the pressurizing means 42 is locked by a pressurizing means accommodating portion 52 which accommodates a part of the pressurizing means 42. It is locked by the part 53.

When the screw member 51 is adjusted so as to compress the pressing means 42, the pressing means 42 presses the washer 23. Since the washer 23 is mounted on the holder accommodating member 15, the force of the pressing unit 42 pressing the washer 23 is transmitted to the moving unit 10, and the load 80 can be pressed.

The washer 23 is provided with the pressing means 4.
The number of sheets can be appropriately charged according to the strength of the spring of 2 or the like. In this embodiment, a case where three washers 23 are inserted is illustrated.

The pressing force of the pressurizing means 42 needs to be changed according to the material of the transfer object 82 and the like. Therefore, by adjusting the position of the screw member 51 with respect to the traveling portion 87 along the direction in which the moving portion 10 moves up and down,
The width from the upper end to the lower end of the pressurizing means 42 can be changed, whereby the pressing force of the pressurizing means 42 can be adjusted.

More specifically, when the position of the screwing member 51 is lowered, the width of the upper end to the lower end of the pressing means 42 is adjusted so that the compressive force of the pressing means 42 increases. However, when the position of the screwing member 51 is raised, the width of the pressing unit 42 is increased from the upper end to the lower end, and the compressing force of the pressing unit 42 is reduced.

Therefore, the moving section 10 provided with the pressure adjusting means 92 can adjust the pressure with respect to the transfer object.

The outer surface of the pressure adjusting means 92 has
Marks for adjustment and the like can be appropriately provided.

(2-1-3) Ball Member As shown in FIG. 7, a ball tip 17 which comes into contact with the transfer object may be provided at the head tip 12 which is the tip of the heating stamping head 11. It is possible. Thereby, the ball member 17 can move so as to roll on the surface of the foil 81, so that the foil can be easily transferred.

(2-2) Housing Tube Member The housing tube member 31 is a member for housing the moving unit 10, and is preferably a hollow cylindrical member such as a spindle or the like. Sliding portion 32 of the inner peripheral wall of the housing tubular member 31
Abuts on the outer peripheral wall of the holder accommodating section 15 in the moving section 10. The inner diameter of the housing cylinder member 31 is set to be larger than the outer diameter of the holder housing portion 15 by, for example, about 0.001 mm.

The inner peripheral wall of the housing tubular member 31 formed to have a larger diameter than the sliding portion 32 and the holder housing portion 1
The space surrounded by the 5 outer peripheral wall of the balancer member accommodating portion 33 for accommodating the balancer member 41 described later is provided.

Further, the housing cylinder member 31 is fixed to the traveling portion mounting portion 90 via the sleeve member 7. The sleeve member 7 is provided with a screw hole 71, and a screw is inserted into the screw hole 71 and the screw is tightened, whereby the housing cylinder member 31 is fixed to the sleeve member 7.

(2-3) Balancer Member The balancer member 41 is a member for offsetting the weight of the moving part 10 and is interposed between the traveling part 87 and the moving part 10. For example, the balancer member 41 includes:
It is formed by a coil spring or the like having a diameter of about 1.6 mm, and is accommodated in the balancer member accommodating portion 33 to support the moving portion 10 with a vertical and upward force.

The balancer member 41 is not limited to a coil spring, but may be an air spring or an air damper using air pressure. In this embodiment, the case where the coil spring is applied is described. As an example, also for other members, those in which each member is designed on the assumption that this coil spring is applied will be exemplified.

The lower end of the balancer member 41 is locked by a spring locking portion 34 a provided on the inner peripheral wall of the housing cylinder member 31, and the upper end of the balancer member 41 is mounted in the ring mounting groove 16. Locked by the ring member 22.

That is, since the ring member 22 is mounted on the outer peripheral wall of the holder accommodating portion 15, the moving portion 10 is supported upward by the balancer member 41, and the weight of the moving portion 10 is offset. You.

In the state where the balancer member 41 offsets the weight of the moving part 10, the moving part 10
It is preferable that the contact portions provided separately, which can be brought into contact with each other, and the housing cylinder member 31 are in contact with each other, or are close to each other with a very small gap. The contact portion,
As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the one provided on the side of the moving part 10 is referred to as a contact part 35a, and the one provided on the side of the housing cylinder member 31 is referred to as 35b.

This configuration has the following effects. That is, when adjusting the engraving pressure of the heating engraving head 11, the screwing member 51 in the pressure adjusting means 92 is advanced. At this time, the moving unit 10 tends to descend due to the pressing force of the pressurizing unit 42, but the contact unit 3
The moving part 10 does not descend because it has already contacted or immediately contacts 5a and 35b. This means that the pressurizing means 42 in the pressure adjusting means 92 which has been adjusted to set the engraving pressure of the heating engraving head 11.
Means that the pressing force of the above becomes the stamping pressure of the heating stamping head 11. Assuming that the contact portions 35a, 35b
Are initially separated from each other, the pressure adjusting means 92
When adjusting the pressurizing means 42 in the above, the moving unit 1
0 is depressed and the balancer member 41 is contracted.
Some of the increase in the pressing force is taken by the deformation of the balancer member 41.

However, with this configuration, the set pressure of the pressurizing means 42 in the pressure adjusting means 92 is:
Since the stamping pressure of the heating stamping head 11 is used, the concept of the stamping pressure becomes clear and the setting operation of the stamping pressure becomes easy.

This makes it possible to finely adjust the engraving pressure, and to optimize the transfer state of the foil 81 transferred onto the transfer object 82 according to the material of the transfer object 82.

(2-4) Nose Guard Member In the traveling section 87 having the above configuration, the moving section 1
0 has a transfer object contact surface 69 that can contact the transfer object 82 and can be provided with a nose guard member, which will be described in detail below, that can adjust the protrusion amount of the heating engraving head. .

As shown in FIG. 7, for example, as shown in FIG. 7, the nose guard member main body 64 is provided with a screw groove 62 with respect to the moving portion 10 (holder holder member 15).
And screwed in. A contact member 65 having a transferred object contact surface 69 that contacts the transferred object 82 is screwed to the nose guard member main body 64 in the screw groove 63.

Further, the contact member 65 is provided with a projecting hole 66 from which the tip of the heating stamp head 11 projects. Further, the peripheral portion of the transfer object contact surface 69 is
In order to improve the sliding with respect to the ornament 80 described above, a configuration in which chamfering is performed may be adopted.

By rotating the nose guard member main body 64 with respect to the holder accommodating member 15 to change the axial position thereof, the axial position of the nose guard member main body 64 with respect to the holder accommodating member 15 is adjusted. . Thereby, the amount of protrusion of the heating stamp head 11 protruding from the protrusion hole 66 can be adjusted. That is, the amount of protrusion of the heating and engraving head 11 can be changed according to the material of the transfer object 82, and the depth of the engraving of the heating and engraving head 11 can be stabilized.

As shown in FIG. 2, a scale 67 is provided on the outer periphery of the nose guard member main body 64 to indicate the amount of protrusion of the heating and engraving head 11, preferably on the outer periphery of the holder accommodating member 15. By providing the fixed scale indicating member 68 and the like, it is possible to confirm the amount of protrusion of the heating engraving head 11 at the present time. 1 of the scale 67
The scale can be set according to the pitch of the screw groove 62,
For example, it is possible to set so that the amount of protrusion of the heating marking head 11 changes by 0.025 mm by adjusting one scale.

[0073]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A case where the above-described foil transfer apparatus of the present invention is used to transfer a foil to a book cover will be described.

First, the terminal 10 of the foil transfer area forming section B
In step 1, an image such as a character to be transferred to the cover of a book is created. Then, an image signal corresponding to the image formed by the foil transfer area forming section B is sent to the engraved section A via the cable 102.
Is forwarded to

Next, an object to be transferred 82, which is a cover material, is placed on the table 83 of the engraved portion A, a foil 81 is laid thereon, and a paraffin paper is further laid thereon. These are fixed as. The paraffin paper,
Although not necessarily used, the heating and engraving head 1
1 of the slip well, the heating engraving head 11 to alleviate the bite sharply before described ornament 80, or heated by the heating engraving head 11 is used to prevent from being locally performed Is more preferred.

After fixing the object 80, the table 8
After finely adjusting the height of No. 3, the operating stamp 10 sets the heating stamp head 11 at the stamp start position. At this time, the marking pressure can be adjusted by the pressure adjusting means 92 in accordance with the material of the transfer object 82.

Then, the user presses a start button provided on the operation unit 10 to start engraving. The heating and engraving head 11 moves the object 80 according to the transferred image signal.
The area corresponding to the image signal is heat-engraved while sliding on the surface of the paraffin paper fixed to the uppermost layer.

At this time, the heating and engraving head 11 is maintained at a predetermined temperature by the heater controller 104. The predetermined temperature can be set as appropriate depending on the material of the transfer object 82 and the like. further,
The protrusion amount of the heating engraving head 11 is 0.2 to 0.3 m.
The nose guard member 61 is adjusted to about m. The height and the stamping pressure of the heating stamping head are also appropriately adjusted depending on the material of the foil and the material and thickness of the transfer object 82.

The foil transfer speed of the heating and engraving head 11 is as follows.
Depends on the shape of the character or figure to be transferred, up to 35
If it is on the order of mm / sec, a finish without spots can be expected.

When the engraving is completed, the ornament 80 described above is removed from the table 83, and then the paraffin paper and the foil 81
Is peeled off from the transfer object 82, only the heat-stamped foil portion remains on the transfer object 82, and the excess foil portion is removed together with the paraffin paper. Is transferred to

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and the configuration of each part can be appropriately changed as long as the same operation and effect can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a foil transfer device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic side view of a traveling unit.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the correlation between members constituting a traveling unit.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing the correlation between members constituting a moving unit.

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a main part of a traveling unit.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a main part during foil transfer.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a main part near a head tip.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a conventional foil transfer device.

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of a conventional heating engraving head.

[Explanation of symbols]

 X Foil transfer device 10 Moving part 31 Housing cylinder member 41 Balancer member 35a, b Contact part

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A foil transfer area forming unit that determines an area where a foil is to be transferred to an object to be transferred, and a travel that can move along the surface of the object to be transferred according to a command from the foil transfer area forming unit. And a moving unit that is vertically movable with respect to the object to be transferred in the traveling unit, and the moving unit further includes:
A foil transfer device comprising: a heating and engraving head having a temperature adjusting means; and a pressure adjusting means for the object to be transferred provided between the traveling section and the moving section. A balancer member is provided between the traveling portion and the moving portion, and the balancer member is provided separately for the traveling portion and the moving portion in a state where the balancer member offsets the weight of the moving portion. Contact parts that can contact each other,
A foil transfer device that is configured to abut or approach. 2. The pressure adjusting means includes a screw member capable of adjusting a position of the moving portion with respect to the traveling portion along a vertical direction of the moving portion, and the pressure adjusting means extends between the screw member and the moving portion. 2. The foil transfer device according to claim 1, further comprising an operating pressure means. 3. The foil transfer apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a ball member that is in contact with the object to be transferred at a head end portion that is a front end portion of the heating and engraving head. 4. The transfer section is provided with a nose guard member capable of adjusting an amount of protrusion of the heating engraving head, and the nose guard member has a transfer object contact surface capable of contacting the transfer object. The foil transfer device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising: