JP2005179042A - Paper feeding device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper feeding device for stably feeding a fan-fold paper sheet to a printer, allowing the setting of the fan-fold paper sheet on the rear side of the printer on a plane where the printer is placed without taking it out of a storage box while prevenitng paper jamming. <P>SOLUTION: The fan-fold paper sheet placed on a placement part arranged on the rear side of the printer 30 on the plane where the printer 30 is placed is guided by a carrying roller 16 which is arranged in parallel to the placement face of the printer 30 at a height almost the same as that of a paper feed opening of the printer 30. The carrying roller 16 can be moved in parallel to the feeding direction of the fan-fold paper sheet and fixed onto the lateral perforated line of the fan-fold paper sheet stored in the fan-fold paper storage box placed on the placement part, in opposition to the printer 30. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a paper supply device that supplies fanfold paper to a printer, and more particularly, to a paper supply device that supplies fanfold paper stored in a fanfold paper storage box to a printer.

  Generally, fanfold paper, which is a continuous paper having feed holes and horizontal perforations, is distributed and stored in a cardboard storage box with the horizontal perforations folded, and there is a space below the printer. In this case, the fanfold paper is set in the lower side of the printer while being stored in the storage box, and the fanfold paper is supplied to the printer from the lower side (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

However, when there is no space for setting the fanfold paper on the lower side of the printer, the fanfold paper must be set on the rear side of the printer on the plane on which the printer is placed. When fanfold paper is set on the rear side of the printer on the flat surface, it is necessary to take out the fanfold paper from the storage box. There is a possibility of shifting. If the fanfold paper bundle is misaligned and supplied to the printer, the paper running will become unstable and the fanfold paper will be twisted and supplied to the printer, causing paper jams. there were.
Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 58-48452

  The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to set fanfold paper at the rear side of the printer on the plane on which the printer is mounted without taking out the fanfold paper from the storage box. It is an object of the present invention to provide a paper supply device that can stably supply fanfold paper to a printer and prevent paper jamming.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has the following configuration.
The gist of the invention described in claim 1 is a paper supply device for supplying fanfold paper to a printer, which is disposed on the rear side of the printer on a plane on which the printer is placed, and the fanfold paper is A mounting portion on which the stored fanfold paper storage box is mounted; a connecting means for connecting the mounting portion and the printer; and a sheet of the printer parallel to the mounting surface of the printer A sheet supply apparatus including a conveyance roller disposed at substantially the same height as the supply port.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, the transport roller is movable in parallel to the feeding direction of the fanfold paper, and is stored in the fanfold paper storage box placed on the mounting portion. 2. The paper supply device according to claim 1, wherein the fanfold paper can be fixed on a horizontal perforation facing the printer.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pair of guide plates for positioning the fanfold paper storage box by center distribution, and a longitudinal direction through which the conveying roller passes is a feed direction in the pair of guide plates. The sheet supply apparatus according to claim 2, wherein long holes parallel to each other are formed.

  The paper supply device according to the present invention is configured so that the fanfold paper placed on the placement part and placed on the rear side of the printer on the plane on which the printer is placed is parallel to the placement surface of the printer, and The fanfold paper is moved from the storage box to the rear side of the printer on the plane on which the printer is placed by being guided by a conveyance roller arranged at substantially the same height as the paper supply port of the printer. It can be set without being taken out, fanfold paper can be stably supplied to the printer, and paper jams can be prevented.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing the configuration of a fanfold paper storage box placed on the paper supply device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the unfolded state of the fanfold paper storage box shown in FIG. It is a schematic perspective view shown.

First, the fanfold paper storage box 1 placed on the paper supply device of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.
The fanfold paper storage box 1 is a rectangular parallelepiped cardboard box for storing the fanfold paper 2, and is cut into one side of the bottom surface, diagonal lines on both side surfaces connected to the one side, and one side surface of the upper surface connected to the diagonal line. By cutting one side of the bottom surface on which processing 3 has been performed, by cutting off one side of the bottom surface on which cutting processing 3 has been performed, the bottom surface and the front surface are separated, and by cutting off diagonal lines on both side surfaces on which cutting processing 3 has been performed, Both side surfaces are separated by diagonal lines, and the upper surface and the back surface are separated by cutting out one side of the upper surface on which the cutting process 3 is performed. Accordingly, the fanfold paper storage box 1 is separated into a paper storage portion 4 including a bottom surface and a back surface and a lid portion 5 including a top surface and a front surface by cutting out all portions where the cutting process 3 is performed. The In addition, as the cutting process 3, the perforation process in which the cardboard is partially cut, the opening tape is attached to the inside of the cardboard, and the cardboard can be cut by pulling the opening tape from the outside. It is possible to employ processing, tape sealing processing that seals the state that has been cut in advance with tape or the like.

  As shown in FIG. 1B and FIG. 2A, the fanfold paper 2 has a handle at the bottom with a horizontal perforation (fold) located on the front side that is released by removing the lid 5. 8 is wrapped in a plastic bag 7 and stored in a fanfold paper storage box 1.

  2A, the plastic bag 7 has a fan so that the opening faces the lower side, that is, the bottom surface side of the paper storage portion 4, and the handle 8 formed on the bottom portion is located on the upper surface side. The fold paper 2 is wrapped, and the user can easily remove the plastic bag 7 from the fanfold paper 2 by grasping the handle 8 and pulling it upward.

  First, the fanfold paper storage box 1 is opened by cutting off one side of the bottom surface and diagonal lines of both side surfaces connected to the one side at a location where the cutting process 3 is performed, as shown in FIG. The lid 5 is rotated upward around one side where the cutting process 3 is performed. In addition, the cutting process 6 for holding | pressing is given to the part connected to the one side of the bottom face to which the cutting process 3 was given, and both sides are formed by pressing the part of the cutting process 6 for pressing with a finger and making a hole. It is the structure which can cut off easily the cutting process 3 given to.

  Next, one side of the upper surface is cut out at a place where the cutting process 3 is performed, and the cover 5 is removed from the paper storage unit 4 and the handle 8 is pulled to cover the fanfold paper 2 as shown in FIG. Remove the plastic bag 7. As a result, as shown in FIG. 2B, the fanfold paper 2 is placed on the paper storage unit 4 so that the horizontal perforation (fold) is located on the front side, and will be described later in this state. It is set in the paper supply device 10.

  In the present embodiment, the cutting process 3 is configured to be performed on the diagonal lines on both side surfaces connected to one side of the bottom surface to which the cutting process 3 has been performed. A curved line may be used as long as it is connected to one side of the applied bottom surface and connects the diagonals of both side surfaces.

Next, the paper supply apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.
3 is a schematic perspective view showing the configuration of the present embodiment of the paper supply apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 4 is a schematic side view showing the configuration of the paper supply apparatus shown in FIG. 3, and FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view showing the configuration of the conveyance roller shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 6 is a schematic top view showing the configuration of the paper supply device shown in FIG. 3, and FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the paper supply device shown in FIG. It is a schematic perspective view which shows the state in which the fanfold paper storage box from which the cover part was cut off was mounted.

  Referring to FIG. 3, the sheet supply device 10 is disposed on the rear side of the printer 30 on the plane on which the printer 30 is placed, and includes a bottom plate 11, two side plates 12, and two sheets. A mounting portion including a guide rod 13 that connects the side plates 12 is fixed to the rear surface of the printer 30 by four connecting rods 14. The fanfold paper storage box 1 (paper storage section 4) with the lid 5 cut off is placed on the placement section (bottom plate 11), and the fanfold paper storage box 1 (paper storage with the lid section 5 cut off) is placed. The fanfold paper 2 is supplied to the printer 30 from the section 4). Hereinafter, the direction in which the fanfold paper 2 is supplied to the printer 30 is referred to as a feeding direction, and the direction parallel to the plane on which the printer 30 is placed and orthogonal to the feeding direction is referred to as a width direction.

  The connecting rod 14 is a member for positioning the placement unit with respect to the printer 30, and regulates the position in the width direction and the distance between the placement unit and the printer 30. Note that the connecting rod 14 may be formed of a slide rod that can expand and contract, and the distance between the mounting portion and the printer 30 may be variable.

  Referring to FIG. 4, the two side plates 12 are formed with a transport roller through hole 15 at substantially the same height as the paper supply port 31 of the printer 30. Referring to FIG. It penetrates between the two side plates 12 through the through hole 15. Accordingly, the transport roller 16 is arranged in parallel to the plane on which the printer 30 is placed and at substantially the same height as the paper supply port 31 of the printer 30. The transport roller through hole 15 is a long hole whose longitudinal direction is parallel to the feed direction, and the transport roller 16 can be moved parallel to the feed direction. A scale 29 corresponding to the movable range of the transport roller 16 is provided on the upper surfaces of the two side plates 12.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the transport roller 16 includes a column 18 having screw holes 17 formed at both ends, and a cylindrical pipe column 19 that is attached to the column 18, and the column 18 and the pipe column 19. The pipe pillar 19 can be freely rotated by a ball bearing (not shown) provided between the two.

  Fasteners 20 are attached to both ends of the column 18 via two side plates 12, respectively. The fastener 20 is attached to the pillar 18 by screwing the screw part 21 provided on the fastener 20 into the screw holes 17 formed at both ends of the pillar 18, and the fastener 20 is attached to the screw part 21. Can be fixed between the two side plates 12 by rotating in the direction to be screwed into the screw hole 17 and narrowing the interval between the fasteners 20 attached to both ends of the column 18, On the contrary, by rotating the fastener 20 in the direction in which the screw portion 21 is screwed out from the screw hole 17, the interval between the fasteners 20 attached to both ends of the column 18 is widened, and the column 18 is formed on the side plate 12. It is configured so that it can be moved in parallel with the mounting surface of the printer 30 along the through-hole 15 of the conveying roller.

  Referring to FIG. 3, a pair of guide plates 22 each having a conveying roller through hole 23 and a guide rod through hole 24 are provided between two side plates 12, and the guide plate 22 passes through the conveying roller. As shown by the arrow in FIG. 6, the structure can be moved in the width direction along the conveying roller 16 penetrating the hole 23 and the guide rod 13 penetrating the guide rod through hole 24. ing. Further, the guide plate 22 is provided with a guide knob 25. By grasping the guide knob 25 and moving it in the width direction, the guide plate 22 can be easily moved in the width direction.

  A groove 26 is formed in the bottom plate 11 perpendicular to the feeding direction of the fanfold paper 2, and a pulley gear 27 is rotatably fixed at the center of the groove 26, and a pair of guide plates A rack 28 that meshes with the pulley gear 27 is fixed to the bottom surface of 22. As a result, the pair of guide plates 22 can be adjusted by the center distribution of the distance in the width direction by the slide mechanism including the rack 28 and the pulley gear 27, and the pair of guide plates 22 is moved in the width direction to By positioning the folded paper storage box 1 (paper storage part 4), the fanfold paper storage box 1 (paper storage part) placed on the center of the printing range in the printer 30 and the paper placement part of the paper supply device 10 is provided. The center of 4), that is, the center of the fanfold paper 2 can be aligned.

  Since the slide mechanism including the rack 28 and the pulley gear 27 is disposed in the groove portion 26, the fanfold paper storage box 1 (paper storage portion 4) is placed on the placement portion of the paper supply device 10, that is, the bottom plate 11. Even if is placed, the pair of guide plates 22 can be moved in the width direction.

Next, a procedure for setting the fanfold paper 2 in the printer 30 will be described.
First, the fanfold paper storage box 1 (paper storage portion 4) in the state shown in FIG. 2B is placed on the placement portion (bottom plate 11) so that the front side faces the printer 30 and a pair of guide plates 22 is placed. Are moved in the width direction, and the center of the printing range in the printer 30 and the center of the fanfold paper storage box 1 (paper storage section 4) placed on the placement section of the paper supply device 10, that is, the fanfold paper 2 Align with the center.

  Next, the conveyance roller 16 is moved in parallel with the feed direction, and as shown in FIG. 6, the most folded fanfold paper 2 placed in the fanfold paper storage box 1 (paper storage unit 4). It is fixed on a position near 30, that is, on a horizontal perforation (fold) facing the printer 30 and perpendicular to the feed direction. The scale 29 provided on the upper surface of each of the two side plates 12 can be easily positioned so as to be perpendicular to the feed direction.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 7, the front end of the fanfold paper 2 is pulled out and set on the paper supply port 31 of the printer 30 through the conveyance roller 16. As shown in FIG. 4, the transport roller 16 is parallel to the placement surface of the printer 30 and is disposed at substantially the same height as the paper supply port 31 of the printer 30. The paper is supplied to the paper supply port 31 of the printer 30 parallel to the mounting surface of the printer 30 and can be supplied to the printer 30 without applying a load to the fanfold paper 2.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the fanfold paper 2 placed on the placement portion arranged on the rear side of the printer 30 on the plane on which the printer 30 is placed is replaced with the printer 30. The plane on which the printer 30 is mounted is configured to be guided by the conveyance roller 16 that is parallel to the mounting surface of the printer 30 and disposed at substantially the same height as the paper supply port 31 of the printer 30. The fanfold paper 2 can be set on the rear side of the upper printer 30 without taking it out of the fanfold paper storage box 1, and the fanfold paper 2 can be stably supplied to the printer 30. There is an effect that it can be prevented.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and it is obvious that the embodiments can be appropriately changed within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. In addition, the number, position, shape, and the like of the constituent members are not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be set to a suitable number, position, shape, and the like in practicing the present invention. In each figure, the same numerals are given to the same component.

It is a schematic perspective view which shows the structure of the fanfold paper storage box mounted in the paper supply apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a schematic perspective view which shows the structure of the unsealed state of the fanfold paper storage box shown in FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view illustrating a configuration of a sheet supply apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a schematic side view illustrating a configuration of the sheet supply device illustrated in FIG. 3. It is a schematic perspective view which shows the structure of the conveyance roller shown in FIG. FIG. 4 is a schematic top view illustrating a configuration of the sheet supply device illustrated in FIG. 3. FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view showing a state in which a fanfold paper storage box with a lid part cut off is placed on the paper supply device shown in FIG. 3.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Fanfold paper storage box 2 Fanfold paper 3 Cutting process 4 Paper storage part 5 Cover part 6 Pressing cutting process 7 Plastic bag 8 Handle 10 Paper supply apparatus 11 Bottom plate 12 Side plate 13 Guide bar 14 Connecting bar 15 Transport roller through hole 16 Conveying roller 17 Screw hole 18 Post 19 Pipe pillar 20 Fastener 21 Screw part 22 Guide plate 23 Conveying roller through hole 24 Guide rod through hole 25 Guide knob 26 Groove part 27 Pulley gear 28 Rack 29 Scale 30 Printer 31 Paper supply port

Claims (3)

A paper supply device for supplying fanfold paper to a printer,
A placement unit on which a fanfold paper storage box in which the fanfold paper is stored is placed on the rear side of the printer on a plane on which the printer is placed;
A connecting means for connecting the mounting portion and the printer;
A paper supply apparatus, comprising: a conveyance roller disposed parallel to the mounting surface of the printer and disposed at substantially the same height as the paper supply port of the printer.   The transport roller is movable in parallel with the fanfold paper feed direction, and the fanfold paper is stored in the fanfold paper storage box placed on the placement section. 2. The paper supply device according to claim 1, wherein the paper supply device can be fixed on the opposing horizontal perforations. Comprising a pair of guide plates for positioning the fanfold paper storage box by center distribution;
3. A sheet feeding apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the pair of guide plates are respectively formed with elongated holes whose longitudinal direction through which the conveying roller passes is parallel to the feeding direction.

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