JP2003057758A - Slide mount supply device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely feed slide mounts one by one with a simple constitution. SOLUTION: A feeding member 29 is provided in the bottom of a supply cartridge 14. The feeding member 29 presses a first slide mount 17d in the lowest part in the feeding-out direction of an arrow A1. The first slide amount 17d is fed to a mount supply carrying part 30. The mount supply carrying part 30 is provided with a mount sensor. The mount sensor detects whether the first slide mount 17d has been fed out or not. The feeding member 29 is reciprocated, and the feeding member 29 is reciprocated again in the case that the mount sensor doesn't detect the first slide mount 17d.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a slide mount supply device for feeding slide mounts one by one from a supply mount cartridge.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Image information on a photographic film is read by a CCD, digitally processed, and then printed on photographic paper or the like. In this case, from the light transmission part provided in the film passage, the light of the light source is applied to the photographic film,
Image information is read by capturing the transmitted light of the photographic film with a CCD. The reading of such image information is performed using a film carrier.

A film carrier is also used when reading an image from a slide mount. The slide mount is composed of a frame-by-frame photographic film on which an image is recorded and a frame body which surrounds and holds the periphery of the photographic film. When reading an image from the slide mount, for example, JP-A-11- 112714, JP 2000
A film carrier that automatically conveys a slide mount, such as that proposed in U.S. Pat.

For example, in the film carrier proposed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-180989, a vertically mounted mount cartridge for supply (hereinafter referred to as a supply cartridge) for accommodating a plurality of slide mounts stacked vertically.
And a mount cartridge for collection (hereinafter,
(Collection cartridge) is provided, and the slide mount is automatically conveyed between these cartridges. In this film carrier, when the image is read, the feeding member arranged at the bottom of the supply cartridge is locked to the rear end of the lowermost slide mount to move the lowermost slide mount of the supply cartridge. The image is sent out one by one from the mount delivery port to the image reading position. According to this
Since the slide mount can be automatically conveyed, the image reading process can be efficiently performed.

[0005]

However, in the above film carrier, when a slide mount having a warp or deformation or a slide mount having a chamfered edge portion is accommodated in the supply cartridge, the slide mount is mounted on the slide mount. In some cases, the delivery member may not be delivered, because the delivery member may move below the lowermost slide mount without being locked.
Further, even when the relative positions of the slide mount and the sending member are slightly deviated, the sending member may not be locked to the slide mount and the slide mount may not be sent out.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a slide mount supply device capable of reliably sending out a slide mount with a simple structure.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a slide mount supply device of the present invention comprises a frame-shaped photo film on which an image is recorded and a frame body surrounding and holding the photo film. The slide mount composed of and is stacked and housed in a vertically mounted cylindrical mount cartridge, and the rear end of the slide mount at the bottom is pressed to move the slide mount in the direction orthogonal to the stacking direction. Then, in the slide mount supply device provided with the mount delivery means for delivering from the mount delivery port formed in the lower part of the mount cartridge, and the mount detection means for detecting whether or not the slide mount is delivered from the mount delivery port, If the slide mount is not detected by the mount detecting means, It is provided with a mount re sending means for repeatedly performing the feed-out operation cement delivery means.
By providing the vibrating means for vibrating the cartridge, it is possible to prevent jamming in the cartridge.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS As shown in FIG. 1, a film carrier 10 has a carrier body 10a, and a supply cartridge loading port 11 is provided in the carrier body 10a.
And a recovery cartridge loading port 12 are formed.
A supply cartridge 14 and a recovery cartridge 15 are loaded into these loading ports 11 and 12. The supply cartridge 14 and the recovery cartridge 15 are the same, and when the supply cartridge becomes empty, it is attached to the recovery cartridge loading port 12 as a recovery cartridge. A reading opening 16 is provided between the loading ports 11 and 12 on the carrier body 10a. An illumination light source is arranged below the reading opening 16 and, for example, a line CCD scanner is arranged above it. The image on the slide mount 17 is read by a line CCD scanner.

The supply cartridge 14 is composed of a cartridge body 18 and a lid 19. The cartridge body 18 is formed in a groove shape with a transparent synthetic resin, and the slide mount 17 and the sort card 20 are stacked and housed in the groove. The lid 19 has a hinge portion 21.
It is attached to the upper part of the cartridge main body 18 via and is displaced between the open position and the closed position. At the open position, the side opening and the upper opening of the cartridge body 18 are opened, and the slide mount 17 can be easily loaded. In the closed position, the cartridge body 18 and the lid 1
9, the supply cartridge 14 has a rectangular tube shape.

The slide mount 17 is, as is well known,
A frame reversal film 17a is sandwiched between two frame bodies 17b. A rectangular opening corresponding to the size of the image area 17c of the reversal film 17a is formed in the center of the frame 17b. The sort card 20 is for dividing the slide mounts 17 of each order unit into a group, and is inserted between the slide mounts 17 of each order unit. An identification hole 20a is formed in the sort card 20, and can be identified from the slide mount 17 by a mount sensor 51 described later.

As shown in FIG. 2, a delivery member 29, a mount supply / conveyance unit 30, a movable document table 31, a mount collection / conveyance unit 32, and a pull-in roller 33 are provided inside the carrier body 10a.

The cartridges 14 and 15 are mounted on the base plate 35 in the cartridge loading ports 11 and 12. The delivery member 29 enters the bottom portion of the supply cartridge 14 and delivers the slide mount 17 to the mount supply / conveyance unit 30. In addition, the movable document table 31 is mounted on the slide mount 1.
Image reading is carried out when holding 7 and crossing the reading line RS.

A solenoid 34 is attached on the upper surface of the carrier body 10a near the supply cartridge 14, and a cartridge pressing plate 34b is attached to the tip of the movable iron core 34a so as to face the side surface of the supply cartridge 14. Has been. When the solenoid 34 is energized, the magnetic force of the coil in the solenoid 34 causes the movable iron core 3 to move.
4a is moved between the position where it projects from the inside of solenoid 34 and the position where movable iron core 34a retracts inside solenoid 34. The solenoid 34 has a cartridge pressing plate 34 when the movable iron core 34 a projects from the solenoid 34.
b is arranged so as to hit the supply cartridge 14.

As shown in FIG. 3, the supply cartridge 14
When is loaded in the supply cartridge loading port 11, the lid 19 contacts the frame 36 of the carrier body 10a. The bottom of the cartridge body 18 is formed with an opening 37 into which the delivery member 29 is inserted.

Further, at the bottom of the cartridge body 18,
A mount locking piece 38 is formed, and the mount locking piece 38 holds the side edges of the slide mounts 17 stacked in the cartridge body 18 so as not to fall off. A mount delivery port 39 is formed between the mount locking piece 38 and the lid 19, from which the lowermost slide mount is delivered in the delivery direction A1.

A multi-feed restricting plate 40 is rotatably attached to the frame 36 so as to be located near the mount outlet 39. The multi-feed restricting plate 40 shields the mount outlet 39 almost entirely, and prevents two slide mounts 17 from being fed out at the same time. The multi-feed restricting plate 40 is provided with a mounting portion 40a, and the mounting pin 41 is inserted into the mounting portion 40a via the frame 36. Further, two coil springs 42 are attached to the multiple feed restricting plate 40.

Then, as shown in FIGS. 4 to 7, a part of the frame 36 is bent so as to surround the multiple feed restricting plate 40, and the other end of the coil spring 42 is attached to the inside thereof. As a result, the multi-feed restricting plate 40 is biased toward the supply cartridge 14 side. The delivery member 29 includes a base portion 29a, a locking portion 29b, and a raised portion 29c. Hereinafter, the lowermost slide mount will be described as the first slide mount 17d, and the one above it will be described as the second slide mount 17e. The base portion 29a is connected to a cam 46, which will be described later, and the first slide mount 17
d is placed. The locking portion 29b projects in a direction substantially orthogonal to the feeding direction A1, that is, in the stacking direction of the slide mounts 17, and the first slide mounts 17
It is locked to the rear end face of d.

An inclined surface is formed on the raised portion 29c, and the second slide mount 17e is pushed up by the inclined surface as the feeding member 29 moves. Ridge 29c
Is formed at a height that pushes up the second slide mount 17 so that the inner edges of the openings formed in each frame 17b of the first slide mount 17d and the second slide mount 17e are not caught.

As shown in FIG. 8, the supply motor 45 drives the cam 46 and the conveying roller pair 47. The cam 46 is driven by the rotation of the supply motor 45 transmitted via a clutch 48. The clutch 48 and the supply motor 45 are controlled by the controller 50 via the driver 49. The controller 50 also controls the drive of the solenoid 34, and the solenoid 34 is driven before the clutch 48 is turned on. When the sending member 29 reciprocates once and the slide mount 17 is sent to the mount supply / conveyance unit 33, the controller 50 turns off the clutch 48 and releases the rotation transmission from the supply motor 45 to the cam 46 by the clutch 48. To do. After that, the supply motor 45 is turned on to continue the conveyance of the slide mount 17 by the mount supply / conveyance unit 30.

In the mount supply / conveyance unit 30, the slide mount 17 sent out from the supply cartridge 14 is nipped from both sides thereof by three pairs of conveyance rollers 47,
It is sent to the movable document table 31. Further, a mount sensor 51 that also serves to detect the sort card 20 is arranged in the mount supply / conveyance unit 30. Mount sensor 51
Detects the tips of the slide mount 17 and the sort card 20 and outputs this detection signal to the controller 50. As a result, it is detected whether the slide mount 17 or the sort card 20 has been sent out from the supply cartridge 14. When the sort card 20 is being conveyed, the mount sensor 51 detects the identification hole 20a.
In this way, the slide mount 17 and the sort card 20 are identified.

The movable platen 31 includes a platen body 52 and a platen body 52.
It is composed of a pair of conveying rollers 53, a slide holding portion 54, and a document table moving mechanism 55. Platen body 52
From the mount supply / conveyance unit 30 to the slide mount 17
Is moved between a receiving position P1 for receiving the slide mount 17 and a discharging position P2 for discharging the slide mount 17 to the mount collecting and conveying section 32. Positions P1 and P2 shown in FIG. 8 represent positions of the center line of the document table main body 52. The slide mount 17 received from the mount supply / conveyance unit 30 is sent to the mount set position of the movable document table 31 by the rotation of the conveyance roller pair 53, and is nipped and fixed by the positioning protrusions 56 and 57 of the slide nip portion 54. .

The original table moving mechanism 55 includes a scan motor 5
8, a feed screw rod 59, and a female screw portion 60. The forward / reverse rotation of the feed screw rod 59 by the scan motor 58 is converted into the reciprocating motion of the document table main body 52. And
When the document table main body 52 is reciprocally moved in the left-right direction in the drawing, an image is read line by line by the CCD line scanner when passing through the reading line RS, and prescan is performed by the first feeding in the direction of arrow A1. Be seen. Then, while the document table main body 52 is being returned (A2 direction in the drawing), the autofocus for fine scanning is performed temporarily, and the fine scanning is performed by the second feeding in the A1 direction.
In the prescan, the platen body 52 is moved at a high speed, and the image is read roughly. In fine scan,
The document table main body 52 is moved at a slow speed, and the image is read finely. Reference numeral 61 is a driver for the scan motor 58.

Slide mount 17 from which an image is read
Is sent from the movable document table 31 to the mount collecting and conveying section 32 by rotation of the conveying roller pair 53. Mount collection and transport section 3
2 also has three pairs of conveying rollers 62, and sends the original from the moving original table 31 to the collecting cartridge 15.

A pull-in roller 33 is provided at the recovery cartridge loading port 12. The pull-in roller 33 is rotated by the collecting motor 64 for a certain period of time, and the slide mount 17 from the mount collecting / conveying unit 32 is drawn into the collecting cartridge 15. The retracted slide mount 17 is put in the lowermost layer of the recovered slide mount 17. Reference numeral 65 is a driver for the recovery motor 64.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. First, when a reading start signal is input by operating the reading start key on the operation panel, the controller 50 energizes the solenoid 34. When the solenoid 34 is energized, a magnetic force is generated in the coil inside the solenoid 34, and the movable iron core 34a reciprocates once. While the movable iron core 34a reciprocates one time, the cartridge pressing plate 34b moves the supply cartridge 1
4, the supply cartridge 14 is vibrated. As a result, even if the edge portion of the slide mount 17 is caught on the inner wall of the supply cartridge 14, this catch is eliminated and the supply cartridge 14
It is possible to prevent jamming inside.

Thereafter, the controller 50 causes the driver 4
The clutch 48 is connected via 9 and the supply motor 4
The rotation of 5 is transmitted to the cam 46. next,
The controller 50 starts driving the supply motor 45, and as shown in FIG. 5, the cam 46 rotates and the delivery member 29 starts moving. The delivery member 29 is locked to the rear end surface of the first slide mount 17d and presses the first slide mount 17d in the delivery direction A1. This pressing causes the first slide mount 17d to move the multiple feed regulating plate 4
It is sent out from the mount outlet 39 while pushing 0 open.

After this, as shown in FIG. 6, the delivery member 29
Moves toward the feeding completion position by the rotation of the cam 46. At this time, the second slide mount 17e is the first
It may move in the delivery direction A1 due to the frictional force with the slide mount 17d. However, the multi-feed restricting plate 40 is urged by the spring 42 so that the second slide mount 1
Since 7e is pushed back in the direction opposite to the feeding direction A1, only the first slide mount 17d is mounted on the mount feeding / conveying unit 3.
Sent to 0.

In the mount supply / conveyance section 30, the first slide mount 17d is held by the conveyance roller pair 47,
The document is conveyed toward the movable document table 32. Further, when the mount sensor 51 detects the tip of the first slide mount 17d, the mount sensor 51 outputs a detection signal to the controller 50.

By the way, since the slide mount 17 has different standards and materials depending on the manufacturer, the frame 17b may be included in the slide mount 17.
There are things that are warped or the edges are chamfered. Such a slide mount 17 has a locking portion 29b of the delivery member 29 depending on the amount of warp and the chamfered dimension.
However, the delivery member 29 may reciprocate below the first slide mount 17d. Also,
Even when the relative position between the first slide mount 17 and the locking portion 29b is slightly deviated, the locking portion 29b may not be reliably locked to the rear end of the first slide mount 17.

Therefore, when the first slide mount 17d is not sent out from the mount outlet 39 and the first slide mount 17d is not detected by the mount sensor 51, the controller 50 re-engages the clutch 48. The rotation of the supply motor 45 is again changed to the cam 46.
And the delivery member 29 starts moving again. Thus, even if the first slide mount 17d is not delivered, the delivery member 29 is reciprocated again,
The first slide mount 17 can be delivered more reliably. The number of times the delivery member 29 is reciprocated when the first slide mount 17d is not delivered from the mount delivery port 39 may be set to an appropriate number.

Then, as shown in FIG. 7, after the first slide mount 17d has been fed out, the multiple feed regulating plate 40
Urges the spring 42 to return the second slide mount 17e and covers the mount outlet 39. Further, the cam 46 continues to rotate, the delivery member 29 moves toward the origin position shown in FIG. 3, and is stopped.

In the above embodiment, the forced vibration means is provided to prevent the jamming of the supply cartridge 14, but the forced vibration means may be omitted.

In the above embodiment, the solenoid is used as the forced vibration means. However, vibration may be applied to the cartridge by using an appropriate member such as a piezo element or a small motor used in a mobile phone. . Further, the recovery cartridge 1 is not limited to the supply cartridge 14.
The 5 may be vibrated by the forced vibration means. Also,
The timing of applying the vibration may be any timing other than when the image is being read.

In the above embodiment, the mount supply / conveyance path 3
The slide sensor 1 installed on the slide mount 1
Although it has been identified whether or not 7 has been sent out, a sensor for detecting the slide mount 17 may be provided at an appropriate position, for example, a sensor is provided on the multiplex feed plate 40.

[0035]

According to the present invention, when the slide mount is not detected by the mount detecting means, the mount re-feeding means for repeating the feeding operation of the mount feeding means is provided. It can be delivered reliably.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an appearance of a film carrier embodying the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing the outline of the internal structure of the film carrier.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a configuration of a supply cartridge and a multiple feed restricting plate.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a multiple feed restricting plate and a sending member before sending out a slide mount.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a multiple feed restricting plate and a delivery member at the beginning of delivery of the slide mount.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing a multiple feed restricting plate and a delivery member during delivery of the slide mount.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a multiple feed restricting plate and a delivery member after the slide mount is delivered.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing the outline of the internal structure of the film carrier.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 film carriers 14 Supply cartridge 17 Slide mount 29 Delivery member 29a Base part 29b Locking part 29c Raised part 39 Mount Outlet 40 Multiple feed control plate

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A slide mount composed of a frame-by-frame photo film on which an image is recorded and a frame body surrounding and holding the photo film is stacked on a vertically mounted cylindrical mount cartridge. A mount delivery means that is housed and moves the slide mount in a direction orthogonal to the stacking direction by pressing the rear end of the bottommost slide mount, and sends out from a mount delivery port formed at the bottom of the mount cartridge, In a slide mount supply device provided with a mount detection means for detecting whether or not a slide mount has been sent out from the mount outlet, when the slide mount is not detected by the mount detection means, a sending operation of the mount sending means is performed. A mount re-sending means for repeating the operation was provided. Slide mount supply device comprising. 2. The slide mount supply device according to claim 1, further comprising vibrating means for vibrating the cartridge.