JP2003276940A - Nonstandard-sized envelope enclosing and sealing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for performing name identification on unit forms of unspecified quantity and binding the forms together, enclosing the forms and sealing the envelope, and then printing an address on the surface of the envelope. <P>SOLUTION: In the nonstandard-sized envelope enclosing and sealing system, a continuous form that has been output of the unspecified number in enclosing unit is cut into unit forms, the name identification of the unit forms by addressee is performed, and the forms are bound into a book; the book is put into a nonstandard-sized envelope, the envelope is sealed, and the address is printed on the surface of the envelope; and a mail delivery report is stuck on the envelope. The system performs a series of operations as follows: inquiring in database 100d about addressee information to be printed to obtain the information by using an identification mark that is printed on each unit form for an addressee as a clue; printing name and address on the surface of the nonstandard-sized envelope based on the obtained information; and printing the name and on the mail delivery report and sticking the report on the envelope. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a regular outer envelope enclosing and sealing system. For details, use the identification mark (bar code, etc.) information printed in advance on the continuous form as a key to perform name collation, and automatically collect the united documents collected for each recipient in a standard envelope. The present invention relates to a device for inquiring a database based on the read identification mark information, printing addressee information on an envelope, outputting the information on a mail delivery report, and affixing it on the envelope. The field of use of the system of the present invention relates to fields related to government offices, transportation, and physical distribution, in which individual documents are often sealed and enclosed in envelopes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a large amount of unpaid invoices are collectively output and sent to each debtor, the number of output sheets is an unspecified random number for each debtor. Since the number of unspecified sheets is usually about 10 or more, the envelope is also a large standard outer envelope. When such an unspecified number of unit forms are supplied in a predetermined order and overlapped to expose the pages to be the cover and collate them for each unit, in the conventional method, the unit forms to be the cover are displayed at the top. For this purpose, the sheets to be supplied for each unit to be enclosed are supplied in order from the last page and overlapped. In practice, desired information is printed out on a continuous paper, supplied, cut into pages, and unit forms are sorted by each recipient.

In the case of supplying an unspecified number of unit forms in a predetermined order, superposing them, exposing a cover sheet, and collating each unit, when supplying a unit form cut from continuous sheets. In the state before cutting, even if the sheets are set from the last page, as long as these sheets are not cut off page by page, the supply process for each unit can be reliably performed. Further, even if the work of flipping over the sheets and confirming them is performed, since they are in a continuous state, the stacking order is not disturbed. However, when using sheet-type single-piece sheets that have already been made into single pieces, it is possible that the sheet will be lost during the setting of the sheet-type single-piece sheets for which the predetermined information has been output in the collating and sealing device. In many cases, the operator is forced to perform a very troublesome and time-consuming operation in order to confirm whether or not the supplied single-leaf sheets are stacked in a predetermined order.

In order to efficiently carry out this kind of work, the following prior arts have been proposed and will be examined below. Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 6-80303 “Collage enclosing and sealing method” also proposes a method related to the same work. The technique proposed in the same publication is such that, in a continuous form in which desired information has been printed out in a predetermined order in advance, a machine-readable identification mark (bar code or the like) is printed out on a unit form sheet serving as a cover at least at the time of collating Similarly, an identification mark is printed out on the invoice and the delivery slip. Using these three identification marks for machine reading as a clue, it is a collated encapsulation method that encloses the printed matter in the window opening envelope. is there. However, if there are three machine-readable identification marks on the cover, invoice, and delivery slip in this way, it is necessary to read and collate the identification marks (bar codes, etc.) output on the three types of forms. If there is a problem in the form and a jam occurs (paper jams), the sequence number will be incorrect and erroneous encapsulation will occur. Then, there is a problem that the manual work of collating and pasting is required each time and that the enclosing and sealing work cannot be performed until all three types of forms are output.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-77155 "Collecting Enclosing and Sealing Device"
As for the machine-readable identification mark (bar code), the single-sided paper with the address information printed is output first, and collation encapsulation is performed based on this output. Since it does not use a database, there is a problem that all three types of forms must be output in advance before the enclosing and sealing work can be started. Further, when trouble occurs, there is a problem that work is interrupted as in the above.

[0006]

Therefore, according to the present invention,
It was completed by conducting research to build a system that does not cause troubles due to troubles like conventional equipment. That is, the feature of the system of the present invention, which is different from the conventional apparatus, is that all three types of forms, which are a unit form that serves as a cover, an invoice, and a mail delivery report (also called a "delivery slip" or "judgment slip"), are prepared in advance. Instead, the printed out unit form is sorted based on the identification mark such as a bar code, bound, bound and sealed, and then the bar code etc. on the main paper of the envelope with a window opening is read and based on this. Contact the database of the host computer to get the address and name information, and print the address and name of the recipient directly on the envelope surface, and do the same for the mail delivery report. To do.

[0007]

Means for Solving the Problems The gist of the present invention for solving the above problems is to cut out an output continuous form consisting of an unspecified number of enclosed units into a unit form, and then identify the unit form for each recipient. After that, in a system that binds the booklet, encloses it in a standard outer envelope, prints the address, and affixes the mail delivery report, prints using the identification mark printed on the unit form for each recipient as a clue. Should be obtained by inquiring the database of the addressee information to be sent, based on the acquired information, the addressee's address and name are printed on the surface of the standard envelope, and the address / name is printed on the mail delivery report. A standard outer envelope enclosing and sealing system, which is characterized by performing a series of operations of attaching to an envelope.

In the above, the unit form may be imprinted with the seal of the department or manager in charge of transmission of information, or the unit form may be accumulated and bound, and then the signature may be perforated. You may choose to postpay or separately pay.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION As described above, the system of the present invention performs identification matching using the identification mark printed in advance on a continuous form as a key, and automatically collects a collection of unit forms collected for each individual into a standard envelope. Encapsulate and seal, and refer to the addressee information in the database based on the identification mark of the continuous form read from the window opening of the envelope, the address of the addressee,
The present invention relates to a system for performing a series of operations for printing a name on an envelope, outputting a mail delivery report for a receipt stamp, and attaching the report to an envelope.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a block configuration of a standard outer envelope enclosing and sealing system, and FIG. 2 is a view showing a flow chart when encapsulating and enclosing with the system of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a cutting unit and a name identification unit, and FIG.
Is a plan view showing the bookbinding unit and the enclosing and sealing unit, and FIG.
It is a top view which shows a separate delivery stamp part, a label printer part, an address printing part, and a stack part.

As shown in FIG. 1, the standard outer envelope enclosing and sealing system according to the present invention includes a cutting unit 20, a name collating unit 30, a bookbinding unit 40, an enclosing and sealing unit 50, a post payment, a separate delivery stamping unit 60, a label printer unit 70, and an address. It is composed of a printing unit 80 and a stack unit 90. In each process after the name identification unit 30,
Although the unit form and the enclosed envelope are conveyed by a plane conveying mechanism such as a conveying belt and a conveyor, a detailed description of the conveying mechanism is omitted because it is a well-known mechanism. The controller (host computer) 100 is composed of a personal computer or the like, has a database 100d in which the addressee information is accumulated, provides the addressee information to the label printer section, the address printing section, and controls the entire system. The arrow Y in the figure indicates the flow direction of the unit form or the envelope sealed and sealed with the unit form.

To facilitate understanding, the flow of the enclosing and sealing system will be described first with reference to FIG. First, cutting is performed to convert the continuous form into the unit form 1 (S1). On the continuous form, a predetermined number of unit forms are printed for each recipient in the previous process. The last page is printed first for each recipient, and the unit form that becomes the first page when cut and stacked is at the top.
It is not limited to that. On the first page, an identification mark 1m is printed by a barcode or the like, together with the address and name of the recipient. The identification mark 1m may be provided on each unit form. The number of unit forms is unspecified (random) depending on the recipient, but usually 10 on average.
The number of sheets is about 30 sheets at maximum.

Immediately after cutting, the unit form is stamped on the first page (first sheet) (S2). This is to mark the department or person in charge of management of the transmitted information. A corresponding mark is stamped based on the information of the identification mark 1m. In addition, in the flowchart of FIG.
In the part where is, the mark is a bar code reader (BC
R) and the like are meant to be read and referred to. Next, in step S3, the unit forms are matched with reference to the mark 1m. The name identification is an operation of collating the form block for each addressee, and when the name identification is completed, the name identification is intermittently fed and the process proceeds to the next step.

The form blocks collected for each addressee are then bound (S4). Usually, the stapler is stitched and bound, but the method is not limited. After that, the perforation is performed by punching by the perforator (S5). The binding state (stitch shape, etc.), the signature, and the imprint are inspected (S6), and the nonconforming book is die-divided (separated) into the stack (S7, S8). On the other hand, the standard outer envelope 2 is fed to the envelope supply unit, and is taken out one by one, and the collated product of the unit form is enclosed and sealed in the envelope (S9). At this time, the mark 1m of the enclosed collation is made visible through the window of the envelope 2. The post-delivery / separate delivery stamping unit recognizes the identification mark and stamps the "post-delivery / separate delivery" mark at a predetermined position on the envelope (S10).

After collating the identification mark (S11), the postal delivery report 3 is cut (S12), the recipient's address and name are printed (S13), and attached to the back of the envelope (S14).
The postal delivery report will be sent to you when the recipient receives the shipment.
It is a document for imprinting a confirmation mark. Next, the address and name of the recipient are printed directly on the envelope surface (S15). If necessary, product log management is performed (S16), the printed envelopes are stacked on the stacker (S17), and the enclosing and sealing work is completed. Product log management refers to capturing and storing an image of a genuine product immediately before loading the completed stacker. For that purpose, it is necessary to install a CCD camera or the like.

Hereinafter, each of the constituent blocks will be described in more detail. FIG. 3 shows a cutting section 20 and a name identification section 30.
3A is a plan view and FIG. 3B is a perspective view of supplying the continuous foam 1R to the cutting unit 20. The cutting unit 20 is a device for cutting the preprinted continuous form 1R into the unit form 1, and the name identification unit 3
0 is an identification mark (bar code) 1 m for the cut unit form
Is a part that collects in the same recipient unit with the clue. In the continuous form 1R, as shown in FIG. 3B, the unit forms 1 are connected via the perforation / cutting perforations 5, and the left and right sides of the unit form 1 are separated by the perforation 6 for cutting. A part 7 is provided in which the transfer holes 12, 1 are evenly spaced.
3 is provided. The continuous form 1R is placed at a predetermined position in a state of being folded in a zigzag shape by the perforation / cutting perforation 5, is pulled out upward, and is set on the pin tractor 22 of the burster device 21.

On the unit form 1, the addressee information (not shown) and the transmission information (not shown) are printed out in advance in a predetermined format on the document to be superposed as a unit at the time of collation, and the addressee information is printed on the collation form. On the unit form 1a, which should be the top cover at times, the identification mark 1m is printed together with the number of pages, the department in which the document is created, the name of the manager, etc. However, the identification mark 1m may be provided on each unit form.

A pin tractor 22 for transferring the continuous foam 1R using the transfer holes 12 and 13 is provided in the cutting section 20.
Is provided, and the continuous form 1R printed in the previous step is supplied to the burster device 21. Thereby,
The continuous form 1R is cut into each unit form 1. Meanwhile, the marginal portion 7 of the continuous form is cut and removed from the perforation 6 for cutting by the marginal slitter 26.

The burster device 21 is a known device that cuts each unit form 1 at the perforation / cutting perforation 5 depending on the difference in peripheral speed between the pair of front and rear rollers. At the time of cutting, the cutting member 27 is brought into light contact with the perforation / cutting perforation 5 to allow easy cutting. Following the burster device 21, a pair of upper and lower supply rollers (not shown)
Is provided, and when the barcode reader 23 reads the barcode 1m of the last unit form (the highest unit form 1a), the stamper 24 creates a transmission information at a predetermined position of the unit form 1a or The seal 8 of the person in charge of management is given.

In front of the stamping machine, there is arranged a name identification table 25 for receiving each unit form 1, 1a sent by the supply roller. Each unit form 1, 1a is
When the unit form 1 superposed on the lowest order is supplied to the name identification table 25 by the supply roller and the unit form 1a serving as the cover is superposed on the highest order, the united product 10 is collected as one unit. The name identification table 25 has a double table structure, and is stopped until the last unit form 1 is stacked. When the last unit form 1a, which is the highest level, is discharged, the collation unit 10 of the unit form is displayed. The structure is such that it is conveyed to the bookbinding section 40 side. When the collation product 10 of the unit forms is intermittently driven and moved by one division, the unit forms 1 and 1a to be collated next can be received on another name identification table.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing the bookbinding section and the enclosing / sealing section. The bookbinding unit 40 includes a first stapler 41, a second stapler 42, a perforator 43, and an inspection device 44 as a bookbinding device. Two staplers are installed for the purpose of supplementing stitches and the like, but one stapler may be installed. It is also preferable to install a patrol light 47 that warns of a binding problem. When the bound product 10 is bound, the sides thereof are aligned by a jogger 46 provided along the transfer path. The bookbinding method is not limited to the stapling method, but in the case of thin unit form blocks 1 and 1a, the method is sufficient. After binding, one unit of the collated product 10 is punched out by the perforator 43 and the signature 9 is inserted.

After the signature, the inspection device 44 performs quality inspection of the stitch 11, the signature 9, and the imprint 8. It is appropriate to use an image processing device for this. Poor quality 10
Is hybridized to the non-conforming book stacker 45. The collated product 10 which does not have any defects and is suitable for inspection is
It is driven intermittently and conveyed to the enclosing and sealing section 50 side (left side in FIG. 4). A management personal computer 48 and a bar code reader 49 are connected to the inspection device 44 so that the identification mark 1m can be read and the envelope that needs to be replenished can be grasped by the nonconforming book separated by the stacker 45.

The enclosing and enclosing device 51 of the enclosing and enclosing unit 50 encloses and seals the supplied collation 10 in the envelope 2 with the window opening by pulling out the envelopes 2 one by one from an envelope hopper (not shown). The enclosing / sealing device 51 is provided with a mechanism for enclosing the identification mark 1m so as to correspond to the window 2m, and bending and adhering the sealing piece to seal. As is generally well known, the window 2m of the envelope 2 with the window opening is
In the rectangular cutout part, a transparent film is adhered and formed on the front surface side.Also, the sealing piece is not normally adhered and can be adhered when given a predetermined condition. A heat sensitive adhesive, for example a rewettable adhesive, has been applied. The envelope 2 with a window opening that encloses the collated product 10 is stored in the temporary envelope hopper 53, then the conveying direction is changed to a right angle, and advances to the post-delivery / separate delivery stamp unit 60.

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing the post-delivery / separate delivery stamp section, label printer section, address printing section, and stack section. The post-delivery / separate delivery stamp unit 60 has a bar code reader 62 for reading the identification mark 1m from the window 2m of the envelope.
After that, the stamping machine 61 is used for post-payment / separate payment stamp 1
Do 4. Here, the purpose of reading and checking the mark 1m is to confirm that the envelope is in the database and to eliminate the envelope that is not in the database, but normally the envelope to be eliminated does not occur.

The label printer section 70 is a section that prints the address and name of the recipient on the mail delivery report and attaches it to the back surface of the envelope 2. The envelope 2 is inverted by the reversing mechanism 71 to expose the back surface, and the printed mail delivery report is attached to the surface of the envelope opposite to the window 2m by the paster 73 and the attaching device 74. Similar to the continuous form 1R, the postal delivery report is also in a continuous state in which it is connected through the perforations for folding and cutting, and the transfer holes are equidistantly provided at the margins provided at both ends with the perforations for cutting as boundaries. It is provided. The delivery report in a continuous state may be provided with a protective paper along one marginal portion, and the adhesive surface may be exposed when the protective paper is peeled off. Tape peeling mechanism 7
Reference numeral 5 relates to a device for peeling the tape.

Next, the address printing section 80 prints the address and name of the recipient on the envelope with the delivery report attached.
The envelope 2 is supplied to the reversing mechanism 71 in a state where the envelope 2 is once returned and the front surface side is exposed, and the ink jet printer 81 directly prints on the envelope surface. The address and name of the recipient to be printed are acquired from the controller database 100d. The same applies to the recipient who prints the delivery report on the label printer 70. Therefore, it is preferable to install a management personal computer 82 in the address printing unit 80 also for the purpose of controlling the ink control unit 81c of the inkjet printer.
It may play the role of 0. The envelope 2 after the printing of the address is conveyed by the envelope stacker 91 and the stack conveyor 92 in the stack section 90, and the envelope stack table 93.
Accumulated in.

[0027]

EXAMPLE A standard outer envelope sealing device used in the system of the present invention was manufactured with the following specifications. After cutting the continuous forms one by one, affix it to the specified position on the first sheet and sort the names (average 10
(30 sheets maximum, 30 sheets) After binding with a perforator, encapsulating and sealing, reading the bar code in the (window opening) on the envelope, stamping post-payment / payment stamp, and separately prepared mail delivery report Read the barcode on the envelope window and print the recipient's address and name on the slip. Furthermore, the bar code on the main paper inside the (window opening) of the envelope is read, the address is directly printed on the envelope, and the stacker is stacked in order. In addition, it has a function to check the quality of stitches and imprints for bookbinding before it is enclosed in an envelope, and a function to manage the product log by leaving the address part of the finished product in the image.

<Specifications of each part> (1) Cutting of actual paper; A continuous form having a paper width of 10 inches and a top and bottom of 11 inches is finished to an A4 approximate value. The main body is of a burster type and has a processing capacity of 40,000 sheets / hour. (2) Name-matching bookbinding: Barcode (NW-7) is read and name-matching binding is performed. (3) Imprint of the manager: Read the barcode and imprint the manager. (4) Perforator: After binding, a mark is given at a predetermined position. (5) Enclosed enclosure; Japanese envelope for A4, thickness of enclosed material 12m
m (6) Postpayment / separate payment stamp; read the barcode on the window opening of the envelope and stamp it on the envelope.

(7) Mail delivery report printing: A mail delivery report (OCR 90 kg) prepared in advance is read, the barcode is read while the continuous form is torn (with data), the delivery contents are printed, and the back of the envelope is printed. Affix to. Main body: Burster method Adhesive tape peeling mechanism printing method; Thermal printing method (8) Address printing; Envelope (window opening) Read the barcode on the main paper (to match the data) and print it at a predetermined position on the envelope surface To do. Printing system: Non-contact inkjet printing system (9) Inspection device: Inspection is performed before the collated product is sealed and sealed. The image processing apparatus performs quality inspection for the presence / absence of stitches, their shape, imprint, and the presence of imprint. (10) Management PC: Create operation processing logs (normal, abnormal processing list, etc.). It also manages the operation of the system.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and, for example, stamping, stamping, and binding at the time of collation are not necessarily required, and the burster device 21 and the enclosing and sealing device 51 of each device used. The configurations such as are not limited to those described above. Further, the reading identification mark for collation is not limited to the bar code. Further, as a collating method, it is possible to reverse the front and back of the above-described embodiment and stack the unit form 1a as the cover as the top.
Furthermore, depending on the material of the envelope 2, the window 2m may be made transparent without being cut out.
In addition, the attachment position of the mail delivery report is not limited to the back side of the envelope 2 and may be the front side as long as it does not cover the window 2m.

[0031]

As is apparent from the above description,
According to the present invention, like the conventional device, three types of forms (
It is not necessary to prepare all the unit sheets, invoices, and mail delivery reports that will be the cover sheet in advance. Simply output the information as an identification mark such as a barcode to one type of continuous printed sheet, and output other sheets. Therefore, the conventional output time can be significantly shortened. In addition to the output time, there is no need to arrange three types of forms again when a jam occurs, so waiting time is reduced and work efficiency is greatly improved. When a jam occurs, it is possible to immediately grasp the information indicating in which process the work is in progress or in progress.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a block configuration of a standard outer envelope enclosing and sealing system.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a flow chart in the case of performing enclosing and sealing in the system of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a cutting unit and a name identification unit.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing a bookbinding unit and an enclosing and sealing unit.

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing a post-delivery, separate-delivery imprinting unit, a label printer unit, an address printing unit, and a stack unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

1,1a unit form 1m identification mark, barcode 1R continuous foam 2 envelopes 3 Mail delivery report 4 Address label 5 Perforations for folding and cutting 6 perforation for cutting 7 Marginal section 8 seal 9 seal 10 gathered items 11 stitches 12,13 Transfer hole 14 Late payment / Separate payment stamp 20 cutting section 21 Burster device 22 pin tractor 23 Bar Code Reader 24 stamping machine 25 people gathering table 26 Marginal Slitter 30 people gathering department 40 Bookbinding Department 50 Enclosed Enclosure 51 Enclosing and sealing device 60 Postpayment / Separate payment stamp 70 Label printer section 80 Address printing section 82 Management PC 90 Stack 100 controller 100d database

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. After cutting an output continuous form consisting of an unspecified number of encapsulation units into unit forms, uniting the unit forms for each recipient, binding them, enclosing them in a standard outer envelope, and printing the addresses. , In a system for pasting a postal delivery report, the identification information printed on the unit form is used as a clue for each recipient, and the database is inquired of the recipient information to be printed, and the acquired information is obtained. Based on the above, print the recipient's address and name on the surface of the standard envelope,
Further, the fixed-size outer-envelope enclosing and sealing system is characterized by performing a series of operations of printing the address and name on a mail delivery report and pasting it on the envelope. 2. The standard outer envelope enclosing and sealing system according to claim 1, wherein the unit form is stamped with a seal of a department or manager in charge of transmitting information. 3. The standard outer envelope enclosing and sealing system according to claim 1, wherein the signature is perforated after the unit forms are accumulated and bound. 4. The standard outer envelope enclosing and sealing system according to claim 1, wherein the envelope is stamped for later payment and separate payment.