JP2005059909A - Automatic processing-and-packing line for tickets with serial numbers - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automate packaging operation from operation of cutting printing sheets on which tickets with their serial numbers are printed in succession to operation of constituting shipping configuration including operation of supplementing tickets with missing serial numbers, to enhance efficiency in the packing operation and save space needed for the packing operation, and, further, to prevent erroneous packing or erroneous supplementing. <P>SOLUTION: A printing sheet on which tickets with their serial numbers are printed in succession are cut into ticket slips. The removal of dummy tickets or imperfect tickets takes place for each bundle 22 of tickets to be packed. Thereafter, a predetermined number of the tickets are packed in the bundle 22, and serial number information is imparted to each bundle 22. A predetermined number of packs of the bundles of tickets 22 are placed on the placing shelves 21 of a rack 13 marked with serial number information corresponding to the serial number information of the packed bundles of tickets 22. With the packed bundles 22 of tickets placed on all the placing shelves 21, the packed bundles of tickets 22 are conveyed from the rack 22 and then stored in an external box according to the serial number information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention includes a packing operation for cutting a printed sheet on which consecutively numbered tickets are continuously printed, packing a predetermined number of sheets into a packing ticket bundle, and storing the packing ticket bundle in an outer box, up to a work for supplementing missing tickets. It relates to a fully automated processing and packaging line.

  Tickets such as lottery tickets, gift certificates, large facilities such as stadiums and theaters, airplanes, trains, reserved seat tickets for large transportation means such as large passenger ships, and various cards are numbered consecutively. Missing or overlapping serial numbers on each ticket are not allowed. Therefore, in such serial numbered tickets, the serial numbers attached to the tickets are strictly managed from the time of printing to the purchaser's hand.

  In the case of serial numbered tickets with a large number of sheets to be sold, a printed sheet is usually formed by printing a plurality of consecutive numbered tickets on a large or long sheet, cut into individual pieces, and then bundled according to the serial number. Each unit is packed in a large outer box, sealed, and shipped to the seller.

  Defective products such as printing misalignment, misprinting, cutting misalignment, etc. that occur during printing and cutting of the above serial numbered tickets, dummy tickets inserted to grasp the printing status or to indicate the printing position or cutting position are Since the defective product is excluded from being packed and the serial number is missing, the defective product is collectively printed as a missing ticket and replenished.

  All consecutive numbered tickets are packed and shipped according to the serial number. Therefore, the ticket, the packing unit, and the outer box packed in the packing unit are all packed so that the serial numbers assigned to the ticket are continuous.

  Therefore, when a defective product occurs, the outer box cannot be sealed until the missing ticket is refilled in the predetermined outer box.

  Currently, most of the work of packing the serialized numbered tickets is manual. Therefore, the work of moving the outer box waiting for refilling the missing number ticket and the work for refilling the missing number ticket are very complicated, and securing the storage location of the outer box waiting for the refilling is also a problem. In addition, due to manual operation, packaging errors and replenishment errors are likely to occur, and automation has been desired.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a storage shelf device that can efficiently store and take out files managed by serial numbers. However, this device is a device for storing files that are stored semipermanently, and is not a device that stores files according to serial numbers. .

Japanese Patent Publication No. 1-15442

  The object of the present invention is to automate the process of cutting and packing a printed sheet on which serial numbered tickets are continuously printed, including the work of replenishing missing tickets, to improve the efficiency of the packing work and to save space in the packing work, and further to packing The purpose is to prevent mistakes and replenishment mistakes.

The present invention is a printing sheet in which consecutively numbered tickets are continuously printed, and a cutting device that cuts a printing sheet that has detected the printing position information of tickets to be excluded in advance;
A detection device for detecting the cutting position information of the ticket to be excluded from the cutting position of the cut ticket;
Exclusion device that collectively excludes a ticket included in a packaged ticket bundle including a ticket to be excluded as a packaged ticket bundle in a state where a predetermined number of tickets are packed by the printing position information and the cutting position information. When,
A ticket storage device that packs a predetermined number of tickets after a predetermined number of tickets are excluded according to a serial number into a packaged ticket bundle, and assigns the serial number information of the packed ticket to the packaged ticket bundle,
A plurality of movable racks having a plurality of mounting shelves on which a predetermined number of packing ticket bundles are mounted, and assigned serial number information corresponding to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundles to be mounted;
A mounting device for sequentially mounting the packing ticket bundle on each mounting shelf of the rack transferred to the mounting area according to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundle;
The empty racks were transferred from the placement standby area to the placement area, the racks in which the packaging ticket bundles were placed on all the placement shelves were transferred from the placement area to the unloading area, and all the packaging ticket bundles were carried out. The empty rack is transferred from the carry-out area to the placement standby area, and the rack having the placement shelf on which the bundle of missing tickets is not placed is transferred from the placement area to the replenishment standby area. Corresponding to the supply of the printed printing sheet, a rack transfer device that transfers a rack having a mounting shelf on which a bundle of missing numbered packages included in the printing sheet is mounted from the replenishment standby area to the mounting area;
In the carry-out area, a predetermined number of packing ticket bundles are unloaded from the rack, stored in the outer box according to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundle, and the serial number information corresponding to the serial number information of the stored packing ticket bundle is stored in the outer box. A packing ticket bundle storage device to be provided;
It is an automatic processing packing line of serial numbered tickets characterized by comprising.

  The present invention is a processed packing line that automates a series of packing operations from cutting a printed sheet to storing an outer box in a shipping form, including replenishment of missing tickets. In particular, in the present invention, since all the serial number information is assigned to the packing ticket bundle, rack, and outer box for management, packing errors and replenishment errors are prevented, and the reliability and efficiency of packing are greatly improved. Furthermore, in the present invention, since a movable rack is used and only racks that need to be replenished with missing tickets are transferred to the replenishment standby area, the space required for packing work can be used efficiently.

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

  FIG. 1 is a flow of the automatic processing packing line of the present invention. In the automatic processing packing line of the present invention, basically, a printed sheet on which serial numbered tickets are continuously printed is cut, defective products and dummy tickets are removed, and then a predetermined number of packages are packed as a packing ticket bundle, and then the packing ticket The bundle is temporarily placed on the rack, the missing ticket is replenished, and then stored in the outer box. The present invention is characterized in that defective products are eliminated and missing tickets are replenished in units of packing ticket bundles, and packing ticket bundles are stored in outer boxes in units of racks. This will be described in detail below.

[Supply of printing sheet]
First, a printed sheet on which a ticket is continuously printed is supplied to the automatic packaging line according to the present invention. The printed sheet is supplied as a sheet including a predetermined number of tickets or as a roll of long sheets. The printed sheet includes a dummy ticket for confirming the printing status in advance and for indicating various information such as the printing start position, and such a dummy ticket must be excluded at the time of packing. Also, tickets other than dummy tickets that have caused printing misalignment, misprinting, printing defects, stains, breakage, etc. must be excluded as defective products. Such a printing sheet is supplied to the automatic processing packing line of the present invention in a state where the printing position information of the ticket to be excluded is detected.

[Cutting of printed sheets]
The supplied printing sheet is cut into individual tickets by a cutting device.

[Cutting position information detection]
In order to exclude a ticket having a cutting position deviation as a defective product, the cutting position information of the defective product is detected by a detection device.

[Exclude defective products and dummy tickets]
Based on the above-described printing position information and cutting position information, dummy tickets and defective products are excluded from the line by an exclusion device. At this time, since the serial numbers are assigned to the defective products, the defective products excluded from the line become missing tickets. In the present invention, in order to perform the missing ticket replenishment operation accurately and efficiently, the defective product is removed and the missing ticket is replenished with a bundle of packaged tickets. That is, in the automatic processing packing line of the present invention, a state in which a predetermined number of tickets are packed is defined as a packing ticket bundle. The sequential number of the ticket to be packed in such a bundle of packing tickets is determined in advance, and all the tickets included in the packing ticket bundle including the defective ticket are excluded as missing tickets at the same time as the defective product, and the packaging It is a missing number in ticket bundle units.

[Packing ticket bundle packing and serial number information]
The non-defective tickets and the non-defective tickets after the elimination of the dummy tickets are packed together by a predetermined number by the ticket storage device to form a packed ticket bundle. At this time, the serial number and the number of the tickets are detected by a detector or the like, and it is confirmed that there is no erroneous packing. A bundle of packed tickets packed with a predetermined ticket is sealed if necessary, and serial number information of the packed tickets is given to the outside.

  FIG. 5 shows a specific form of a bundle of packing tickets according to the present invention. In the figure, 41 is a ticket. FIG. 5A shows a form in which a predetermined number of tickets 41 are stacked and packed with a band seal 42. FIG. 5B shows a form in which the ticket 41 is stored in a cylindrical exterior 43, and FIG. 5C shows a form in which the ticket 41 is stored in the inner box 44. In the forms (b) and (c), the ticket 41 may be temporarily packed in the banding 41 as shown in (a) and then stored in the exterior 43 or the inner box 44. Furthermore, the form (c) In the above, two or more forms of (a) may be stored in the inner box 44.

[Rack transfer to placement area]
The rack used in the present invention is movable, and a plurality of racks are attached to the rack transfer device. Each rack is provided with a plurality of mounting shelves for mounting a predetermined number of packing ticket bundles, and serial number information corresponding to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundles to be mounted for each rack is given. All empty racks have been transferred to the placement standby area. From the area, racks to which serial number information corresponding to the serial number information corresponding to the stack of package packs to be placed are selected and transferred to the placement area.

[Placing a bundle of packing tickets on a rack]
The packing ticket bundle is sequentially placed on each mounting shelf of the rack according to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundle. Each mounting shelf is provided with serial number information of the corresponding packing ticket bundle in the area of the packing ticket bundle to be mounted. Therefore, the corresponding area of the mounting shelf on which the bundled packing ticket bundle that has been excluded by the exclusion device is left empty.

[Rack transfer to unloading area]
The rack in which the packing ticket bundle is placed on all the placement shelves is transferred from the placement area to the carry-out area by the rack transfer device.

[Storing packing ticket bundles in the outer box and assigning serial number information]
From the stack shelf of the rack transferred to the mounting area, the packing ticket bundle is sequentially carried out by the packing ticket bundle storage device, stored in the outer box according to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundle, and sealed as necessary. Then, serial number information corresponding to the serial number information of the packaged package is stored in the outer box. In storing the package, the serial number information given to the package is detected by a detector or the like, and it is confirmed that there is no erroneous storage.

[Rack transfer to the stand-by area]
All the packed ticket bundles are unloaded from the placement shelf, and the rack that has become empty is transferred from the carry-out area to the placement standby area by the rack transfer device.

[Rack transfer to replenishment standby area]
The rack in which only the missing number of packed ticket bundles are not placed is transferred from the placement area to the replenishment standby area and waits for the missing number to be replenished.

[Supplement of missing tickets]
After the packing for a predetermined print sheet is completed, the missing ticket generated from the print sheet is replenished. That is, a printing sheet on which a missing ticket is newly printed is prepared, and the above-described [printing sheet supply] to [packing ticket bundle packing / sequential number information addition] steps are repeated.

  Corresponding to the supply of the printed sheet of the missing ticket, the rack having the mounting shelf to which the bundle of packed tickets of the missing ticket is replenished is transferred from the replenishment standby area to the placing area, and the replenished missing ticket is packed. The packing ticket bundle is placed on the corresponding placement shelf according to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundle.

  If a defective product further occurs in the missing ticket replenishment process, the replenishment process is repeated, and finally the rack in which the packing ticket bundle is placed on all the placement shelves is transferred to the carry-out area, and each packing is performed. The ticket bundle is stored in a predetermined outer box, and serial number information is given.

  FIG. 2 shows a schematic plan view of an embodiment of the automatic processing packaging line of the present invention. Moreover, the schematic front view of the rack used in the line is shown in FIG. 3, and the packing form is shown in FIG. 2 to 4, 1 is a printing sheet, 2 is a cutting device, 3 is a detection device, 4 is a rejection device, 5 is a ticket storage device, 6 is a waiting area for a bundle of packed tickets, 7 is a loading device, and 8 is a rack transporter. Apparatus, 9 is a loading area, 10 is a loading standby area, 11 is a replenishment waiting area, 12 is a carry-out area, 13 is a rack, 14 is a packing ticket bundle storage device, 21 is a loading shelf, 22 is a packing ticket bundle, 32 is an outer box.

  In this embodiment, 20 packing ticket bundles 22 bundled and bundled according to a serial number of a predetermined number of consecutive numbers are stored in the outer box 32 according to the serial number of the packing ticket bundle 22 and shipped. As shown in FIG. 3, the rack 13 to be used has six stages of mounting shelves 21 for placing ten packing ticket bundles 22 in the horizontal direction in the vertical direction, and one packing ticket bundle 22 for two stages. It is assumed that it is stored in the outer box 32. In addition, you may provide a partition in the mounting shelf 21 between the area | regions in which the packing ticket bundle 22 is mounted.

  In the line of FIG. 2, the print sheet 1 whose print position information has been detected is supplied to the tip of the line. The printed sheet 1 is transported along the line from the right side to the left side of the paper, and in the meantime, the cutting device cuts each serial numbered ticket, and the detection device 3 detects the cutting position information of the ticket to be excluded and rejects it. In the apparatus 4, dummy tickets and defective products are excluded based on the printing position information and the cutting position information. The non-defective serial numbered tickets left on the line are bundled and bundled in the ticket storage device 5 while detecting a predetermined number and serial number to form a packaged ticket bundle 22, sealed as necessary, Give information. At this time, the sequential numbers of the tickets in the packed ticket bundle 22 are continuous.

  Next, the packaged ticket bundle 22 is transferred to the placement device 7. In the present embodiment, the packaged ticket bundle standby region 6 is provided between the ticket storage device 5 and the placement device 7. The packing ticket bundle standby area 6 is a place where the packing ticket bundle 22 is stored, and even if the rack transfer device 8 is temporarily stopped due to, for example, failure or maintenance, the packing ticket bundle storage device 5 There is no need to stop the line, and the placement of the packed bundle 22 can be started simultaneously with the start of the operation of the rack transfer device 8. By providing such a standby area between a plurality of devices constituting a line, it is preferable that when only a specific device is stopped, it is not necessary to stop the entire line and work efficiency is high. Therefore, it is preferable to provide a similar standby area between the other devices in addition to the packed ticket bundle standby area 6.

  An empty having serial number information corresponding to the serial number information of the packed ticket bundle 22 transferred from the empty rack 13 that has been operated in the rack transfer device 8 and has been waiting in the placement standby area 10 to the placement device 7. The rack 13 is selected and transferred to the placement area 9. Next, according to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundle 22, the packing ticket bundle 22 is sequentially placed on each placement shelf 21 of the rack 13 arranged in the placement area 9. At this time, since the packaging ticket bundle 22 of the missing number excluded in the exclusion device 4 is a missing number, the packaging ticket bundle 22 remains unmounted in the corresponding area of the mounting shelf 21. FIG. 3 shows a rack 13 in which the packing ticket bundle 22 in the third region, which is the uppermost right end, the second step from the top, the second from the left, the fifth step from the top, and the fifth from the left, is a missing number.

  In the placement area 9, the rack 13 in which the packing ticket bundles 22 are placed on all the placement shelves 21 is moved to the carry-out area 12 by operating the rack transfer device 8. The storage device 14 stores a predetermined number of packing ticket bundles 22 in the outer box 32 according to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundles 22, seals them as necessary, and corresponds to the serial number information of the stored packing ticket bundles 22. The serial number information is assigned to the outer box 32.

  In the present invention, the packing of the ticket into the packing ticket bundle 22, the placement of the packing ticket bundle 22 on the rack 13, and the storing of the packing ticket bundle 22 from the rack 13 into the outer box 32 are all performed according to the serial number information. Therefore, the sequential numbers of the tickets stored in the outer box 32 are continuous.

  All the packed ticket bundles 22 are carried out from the placement shelf, and the rack 13 which has become empty is transferred again to the placement standby area 10 by the rack transfer device 8.

  On the other hand, in the placement area 9, the rack 12 having the placement shelf 21 in which the missing number of packing ticket bundles 22 are not placed is transferred to the replenishment waiting area 11 by the rack transfer device 8, and Wait for replenishment.

  After the packaging of the predetermined printing sheet 1 is completed, the missing ticket generated from the printing sheet 1 is replenished. That is, the missing numbered tickets are newly printed, the printed sheet 1 with the printing position information detected is prepared, supplied to the line, and the cutting, cutting position information detection, and the ticket to the package are bundled as described above. Packing and serial number information is added and transferred to the mounting device 7, and at the same time, a replenishment waiting area 13 is provided in the replenishment waiting area 11 with serial number information corresponding to the serial number information of the packed ticket bundle. Transfer to the mounting area 9. Next, according to the serial number information of the packaging ticket bundle 22, the packaging device bundle 22 is placed on the placement shelf 21 that has not been placed. The rack 13 on which the package 22 of the missing ticket has been placed is transferred to the carry-out area 12, and the package 22 is stored in the outer box 32 by the package storage device 14, and sealed as necessary. Number information. The emptied rack 13 is transferred to the placement standby area 10.

  If a missing ticket is generated again in the missing ticket replenishing step, the replenishing step is repeated, and finally packing of all outer boxes is completed.

  In the present invention, defective products are eliminated and missing number tickets are replenished in units of packing ticket bundles, and packing ticket bundles are stored in outer boxes in units of racks. Therefore, the number of tickets to be packed in the packing ticket bundle and the number of packing ticket bundles to be stored in the outer box may be appropriately set in consideration of the occurrence frequency of defective products, the efficiency of reprinting, and the like. In addition, the number of mounting shelves provided in a single rack can be freely set. However, it is necessary to prevent the packing ticket bundle stored in the same outer box from being placed over two racks.

  The serial number information according to the present invention can be easily read and managed using a barcode reader, for example, by giving it as a barcode. For detecting the printing position information and the cutting position information, for example, a light receiving element and a detector using image analysis can be used.

  Further, in the above description, an example in which a predetermined number of packaged ticket bundles containing a predetermined number of consecutively numbered tickets are stored in an outer box is described as a shipping form. However, the present invention eliminates defective products and missing numbers. If the replenishment is performed in units of packing ticket bundles and the packing ticket bundles are stored in the outer box in units of racks, the other configurations are not particularly limited. For example, a form in which a plurality of outer boxes storing packing ticket bundles are stored in a large box is also preferably applied.

  In addition, when placing a bundle of packing vouchers on each mounting shelf of the rack, the stacking ticket bundle is incorrectly placed by combining the serial number information of each area of the mounting shelf with the sequential number information of the packing ticket bundle. It is also a preferred form to prevent this.

It is a figure which shows the flow of the automatic processing packing line of this invention. It is a plane schematic diagram of one embodiment of the automatic processing packing line of the present invention. It is a front schematic diagram which shows the state which mounted the packing ticket bundle in the rack used for the automatic processing packing line of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows an example of the packing form by the automatic processing packing line of this invention. It is a figure which shows the specific form of the packing ticket bundle concerning this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Print sheet 2 Cutting apparatus 3 Detection apparatus 4 Ejection apparatus 5 Ticket storage apparatus 6 Packing ticket bundle standby area 7 Loading apparatus 8 Rack transfer apparatus 9 Loading area 10 Loading standby area 11 Replenishment waiting area 12 Unloading area 13 Rack 14 Packing Ticket bundle storage device 21 Loading shelf 22 Packing ticket bundle 32 Outer box 41 Ticket 42 Banding 43 Exterior 44 Inner box

Claims (1)

A cutting device that continuously prints consecutively numbered tickets, and that cuts the printing sheet that has detected the printing position information of the tickets to be excluded in advance;
A detection device for detecting the cutting position information of the ticket to be excluded from the cutting position of the cut ticket;
Exclusion device that collectively excludes a ticket included in a packaged ticket bundle including a ticket to be excluded as a packaged ticket bundle in a state where a predetermined number of tickets are packed by the printing position information and the cutting position information. When,
A ticket storage device that packs a predetermined number of tickets after a predetermined number of tickets are excluded according to a serial number into a packaged ticket bundle, and assigns the serial number information of the packed ticket to the packaged ticket bundle,
A plurality of movable racks having a plurality of mounting shelves on which a predetermined number of packing ticket bundles are mounted, and assigned serial number information corresponding to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundles to be mounted;
A mounting device for sequentially mounting the packing ticket bundle on each mounting shelf of the rack transferred to the mounting area according to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundle;
The empty racks were transferred from the placement standby area to the placement area, the racks in which the packaging ticket bundles were placed on all the placement shelves were transferred from the placement area to the unloading area, and all the packaging ticket bundles were carried out. The empty rack is transferred from the carry-out area to the placement standby area, and the rack having the placement shelf on which the bundle of missing tickets is not placed is transferred from the placement area to the replenishment standby area. Corresponding to the supply of the printed printing sheet, a rack transfer device that transfers a rack having a mounting shelf on which a bundle of missing numbered packages included in the printing sheet is mounted from the replenishment standby area to the mounting area;
In the carry-out area, a predetermined number of packing ticket bundles are unloaded from the rack, stored in the outer box according to the serial number information of the packing ticket bundle, and the serial number information corresponding to the serial number information of the stored packing ticket bundle is stored in the outer box. A packing ticket bundle storage device to be provided;
An automatic processing and packing line for serial numbered tickets, characterized by comprising:

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