JP2006044207A - Desktop information-communication medium manufacturing equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide information-communication medium manufacturing equipment which prevents the displacement and protrusion of a pressure-bonding film, and which has a small, simple and inexpensive constitution. <P>SOLUTION: A sheet carrying means for sequentially carrying a sheet S for the information-communication medium, where a pseudo-bonding medium G is pre-formed, to a prescribed sheet carrying passage from a cassette 1 of a feeding part, a sheet folding means, and a sheet pseudo-bonding means are arranged on a passage line of the sheet S. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing an information communication body in which a plurality of leaf pieces are folded into a plurality of layers and are detachably stacked, although the appearance is ordinary direct mail, postcards, reciprocal postcards, sealed letters, and the like.
More specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing an information communication body that folds a sheet composed of a plurality of leaf pieces in which a pseudo-adhesive medium is formed in advance on a pseudo-adhesion planned surface, and finishes an information communication body that is bonded and integrated so that the opposing leaf pieces can be separated.

Recently, as postal items such as postcards, information that can be sent a large amount of information by folding multiple leaf pieces displaying information connected via fold lines and by separating and adhering the opposing leaf pieces together Many communication bodies are used.
As an apparatus for manufacturing an information communication body as described above, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-38894 and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-76665 disclose paper conveying means in which a plurality of leaf pieces are connected via a folding line. And a sheet folding means for folding the sheet on the sheet conveyance path, and a two-layer transparent film bonded in a peelable manner, and an adhesive layer that generates adhesiveness by heating and pressing is formed on the front and back surfaces. In the crossed area of the pressure-sensitive film supply means that sequentially supplies the pressure-bonded pressure-sensitive adhesive film along a predetermined pressure-sensitive film supply path, and the paper conveyance path downstream of the paper folding means and the pressure-sensitive film supply path. A pressure-sensitive film insertion means for inserting a pressure-sensitive adhesive film between any leaf pieces facing each other, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive film on a paper conveyance path downstream of the pressure-sensitive film insertion means A paper cutting means for cutting the inserted paper into a predetermined size, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive film under pressure and heating between the two leaf pieces inserted and cut into the predetermined size on the paper transport path downstream of the paper cutting means There has been proposed one having a basic structure consisting of a sheet press-bonding means for releasably adhering via a sheet.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-38894 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-76665

  The information communication body obtained by the manufacturing apparatus is opened between the two leaf pieces that have been pressure-bonded as described above, whereby the two transparent films of the pressure-bonded film sandwiched between the leaf pieces are peeled off. Thus, the information communication body is developed in a state where the information display surface of each leaf piece is covered with the transparent film and the information on each leaf piece can be seen through the transparent film.

In the information communication body, the information on each leaf piece is not visible from outside until it is peeled and deployed on the recipient side, so it is excellent in confidentiality such as privacy protection, and much more information than a single leaf letter. Can be transmitted at a normal charge, the transmission cost for the amount of information is greatly reduced, and the information on each leaf piece is covered with a transparent film, so it has excellent information storage, water resistance, stain resistance, etc. It also gives an aesthetic appearance and promotes information transmission.
However, all of the manufacturing apparatuses are generally mass-produced, and are suitable for cases where large companies such as mail-order sales and correspondence education regularly notify a large number of members. When notifying only a necessary time to a small number of people at home, etc., using a large-scale manufacturing device as described above causes the unit price of the information communication body to rise extremely, so it is realistic to support the production of small lots. It was impossible.

In particular, the information communication body manufacturing apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-38894 requires a continuous form printing machine as paper, and is generally used for output of a personal computer, for example, in small and medium offices and homes. The printer has a problem that it cannot cope with the printing of the continuous form paper.
Moreover, in the information communication body manufacturing apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-76665, since the discontinuous cut paper that is conveyed one by one is used as the paper, the above-mentioned problem relating to paper printing is solved. In the pressure-sensitive film insertion means in this manufacturing apparatus, a difficult operation of continuously inserting the pressure-sensitive film between the opposing leaf pieces of the paper while supplying the pressure-sensitive film at the same speed as that of the paper during the folding of the conveyed paper. It was what I needed.

  As a result of intensive research, the present inventor simplified the adhesive film supply means, which is one of the above-mentioned problems, by adopting a method for forming a pseudo-adhesive medium that can be easily produced even in a small amount of production and omitting it in advance. Highly accurate information communicators can be manufactured at low cost from a small number of copies by integrating the opposing surfaces of the information communicator paper that has been formed and folded by pseudo bonding under pressure or heating and pressure. I discovered that there is.

  In order to achieve the above object, a desktop information communication device manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention uses a cut sheet of paper in which a plurality of leaf pieces are connected via a folding line and a pseudo-adhesive medium is formed on a pseudo-adhesive planned surface. A sheet conveying unit that sequentially conveys the sheet from the sheet supply unit along a predetermined sheet conveying path, a sheet folding unit that folds the sheet on the sheet conveying path, and an arbitrary leaf piece that is folded on the sheet conveying path downstream from the sheet folding unit It is characterized by comprising a sheet press-bonding means for adhering in a releasable manner under pressure or heating and pressurization.

There is no particular limitation on the material and configuration of the pseudo-adhesive medium formed on the pseudo-adhesive planned surface of the cut paper-like paper.
For example, a film or sheet in which a pseudo-adhesion layer is formed on the surface of the support may be formed by coating and laminating the pseudo-adhesive surface. When the pseudo-adhesive planned surface is folded, the pseudo-adhesive layers are opposed to each other, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is subjected to pressure or heating and pressurization treatment in this state. It can adhere | attach in a peelable manner between a pseudo-adhesion layer and a support body.
In that case, the support is not particularly limited, and preferably a relatively strong film or sheet such as polyethylene terephthalate, polyester, stretched polypropylene, acetate, or nylon can be applied.
The pseudo adhesive layer is not particularly limited, for example, polypropylene, polyethylene, polyester, ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, ethylene acrylic acid copolymer, ethylene ethyl acrylate copolymer, ionomer, polyamide, poly Vinyl chloride-based, polyvinylidene chloride-based, ABS resin-based, methacrylic resin-based, polyvinyl alcohol-based, poly-4-methylpentene-1-based, thermoplastic elastomer, cellulose-based plastic, etc. can be used suitably by mixing alone or in combination. .
In addition, tackifiers, various waxes, fillers, antiblocking agents, coupling agents, roll release agents, lubricants, antioxidants, and the like may be added to the support and pseudo adhesive layer. Further, surface treatment such as corona discharge, plasma treatment, anchor coating or the like may be performed on both surfaces of the support or any one of the surfaces.

The pseudo-adhesion layer is not necessarily required, and the film or sheet having a configuration that is not originally intended for pseudo-adhesion is controlled by adjusting the heating temperature and pressure with the pseudo-adhesion execution means in the desktop information communication device manufacturing apparatus described later. Even if it is in a pseudo-adhesive state, there is no problem.
It is also possible to omit the support and form the pseudo-adhesive layer as it is on a single film or sheet and use it as a pseudo-adhesive medium.

The pseudo-adhesive medium configured as described above is laminated on the pseudo-adhesive planned surface of the information communication body by a known laminating technique.
Laminating methods include dry laminating, which covers and laminates the surface to be pseudo-adhered on information communication media paper while applying an adhesive on the surface opposite to the pseudo-adhesive layer formed on the support, or on the support. It is possible to use a known laminating means such as a thermal laminating method in which a heat-sensitive adhesive layer is formed in advance on the surface opposite to the pseudo-adhesive layer, and coating and laminating is performed while heating and pressing with a heat roller or a heat press. it can.
In particular, in the thermal laminating method, when a known small fully automatic laminator can be used, coating lamination can be easily performed, and therefore, it can be effectively used for making a postcard of other varieties and small lots.

Other pseudo-adhesive media can be applied with overprint varnish, medium, etc. Among them, resin with various additives added to ultraviolet (UV) curing system or solvent evaporation drying type transparent ink or glossy varnish. A coating can be used. In addition, as another pseudo-adhesive medium, a weakly adhesive adhesive or a weakly sticky pressure-sensitive adhesive that does not usually feel so much adhesiveness can be used.
Since these pseudo-adhesive media can be easily formed on the surface of a sheet by using a known small roll coater, they can be effectively used for making postcards of other varieties and small lots.

The information communication body paper on which the pseudo adhesion medium is formed on the pseudo adhesion planned surface is collectively stored in a dedicated cassette or the like, and is fed out one by one from the cassette to the conveyance path by a feed roller, a suction pad or the like.
The information communication medium sheet fed to the conveyance path passes through the sheet folding means composed of a plurality of rollers to fold its pseudo-adhesion planned surface, and as a result, the pseudo-adhesive medium faces to the sheet crimping means while facing each other. It is transported to the subsequent transport path.
The paper crimping means is provided with a roller or a panel having a configuration corresponding to the pseudo-adhesion forming conditions (pressing or heating / pressing) of the pseudo-adhesive medium. The peelable adhesion is completed.

In the information communication body folding means, variations in the form of folding include bi-folding (including the case where both leaf pieces coincide with each other when folded), tri-folding (Z-folding and winding), Or there are more than four folds (winding folds, bellows folds, double-fold folds and combinations thereof) and the like.
In any form, the pseudo-adhesive medium is formed, and the pseudo-adhesion is reliably ensured only at the portion where the pseudo-adhesive medium coincides and overlaps between the opposing leaf pieces. Therefore, there is no concern about the positional deviation or protrusion of the pressure-bonding film as compared with the case where the pressure-bonding film is inserted.

The pseudo-adhesion of the information communication body paper may be performed by, for example, providing a pair of upper and lower pressure rollers when the pseudo-adhesion condition is pressure. Further, in the case of heating and pressurization, for example, the pair of pressure rollers may be changed to heat rollers so as to apply pressure and heat at the same time, and heating means such as a heater panel is provided on the upstream side of the pressure roller. In addition, it may be pressurized after heating the passing paper.
In any case, the specific methods of the paper conveying means, the paper folding means, and the paper pressure-bonding means are not limited to the above methods, and other known means can be used.

According to the desktop information communication device manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, since the information communication body paper on which the pseudo adhesive medium is formed in advance on the surface to be pseudo bonded is used, the pressure-bonding film is displaced as in the above-mentioned reference. Without sticking out, only the part where the opposing leaf pieces coincide and overlap with each other in a state where the pseudo-adhesive medium is formed is securely pseudo-adhered.
In addition, the configuration of the paper transport means, paper folding means, and paper crimping means is extremely simple and small, and since all these means are integrated as a single system, almost no space is required, so information communication is easy. A body can be created from a small number of copies.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described based on examples with reference to the drawings.
FIGS. 1-8 is a conceptual side view of an essential part for explaining the operation over time in an example of a desktop information communication device manufacturing apparatus of the present invention. FIGS. 9A, 9B and 9C are a side view before and after pressure bonding of the information communication body paper on which the pseudo adhesive medium is formed, and a perspective view of the completed information communication body. 10 and 11 are conceptual side views of main parts of a modification. 12 and 13 are conceptual side views of the main part for explaining a variation of the information communication body paper passage line over time.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the desktop information communication device manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is provided with a cassette 1 containing a plurality of information communication material sheets S at the top. The uppermost surface of the information communication body paper S in the cassette 1 is in contact with the feed roller 2 at the lower left portion. Folding rollers 3, 4 and 5 are arranged diagonally to the left of the feed roller 2, a stopper 7 provided with an opening 6 serving as a guide for feeding the paper on the left side, and a guide 8 on the lower right side thereof. Has been. On the right side of the guide 8, a pair of pressure rollers 9, 10 (not necessarily a pair and not necessarily in the form of a roller) are arranged, and the completed information communication bodies are sequentially stacked at the bottom. Conveyor 11 (not necessarily required but may be replaced with another loading method) is installed.

In order to use the desktop information communication device manufacturing apparatus configured as described above, it is necessary to first store the information communication material sheet S on which the pseudo adhesive medium is formed in the cassette 1.
As shown in FIG. 9 (A) as an example, the pseudo-adhesive medium in this example forms a pseudo-adhesive layer 22 of an ethylene acrylic acid copolymer system on the surface of a support 21 made of biaxially oriented polypropylene, and its Although the pseudo-adhesive sheet G formed by forming the known heat-sensitive adhesive layer 23 on the opposite surface is used, it is not limited to this configuration as described above.
The pseudo adhesive sheet G is coated and laminated on the surface of the information communication body paper S by melting the heat-sensitive adhesive layer 23 with heat by a thermal laminating method. At that time, multiple information communication bodies are printed with the arrangement of the pseudo adhesion planned surfaces aligned, and the pseudo adhesion adhesion surfaces of the plurality of information communication bodies are efficiently laminated at a stretch, and then a known guillotine method etc. If it cuts into the sheet for individual information communications bodies with this cutting machine, work will progress very efficiently.
The information communication medium sheets S prepared as described above are collected in a certain quantity and stored in the cassette 1. In addition, although the information communication body paper S in the figure is all coated and laminated with a pseudo adhesive sheet G, the surface is omitted for convenience.

At the time of starting the apparatus, only one sheet of the uppermost information communication body paper S is fed to the lower left side in the drawing by the rotation of the feed roller 2 as shown in FIG. The fed sheet S is sandwiched between the folding rollers 3 and 4 and is guided to the opening 6 of the stopper 7 as it is. As shown in FIG. 3, the information communication body paper S is fed to the back of the stopper 7 by the folding rollers 3 and 4, but the feed roller 2, the folding rollers 3 and 4 are used for the information communication body paper S. Continues to rotate after hitting the back. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 4, the information communication body paper S that has lost its place is bent from about the center of the paper and is pushed out between the lower right folding rollers 4 and 5. Then, as shown in FIG. 5, the folding rollers 4 and 5 pick the bent portion and further pull it out in the lower left direction. The pulled out information communication body paper S is folded in two as shown in FIG. 6, passes through the guide 8, and is further guided between the lower left pressure rollers 9 and 10, where pressure treatment is performed. By doing so, the pseudo adhesive layers facing each other on the inner surface side are detachably bonded and integrated as a whole.
Finally, the information communication body X is discharged onto the conveyor 11 as shown in FIG. 7, and is sequentially stacked as shown in FIG.
The conveyor 11 is not necessarily required, and may be replaced with other known stacking means.

As shown in FIG. 9B, the information communication body X manufactured in this way is detachably bonded between the pseudo adhesive layers 22 of the pseudo adhesive sheet G. In the case where the information communication body X is a postcard as shown in FIG. 5C, the recipient uses the step formed along the left edge to start the leaf piece 24 from the portion where the pseudo adhesive layers 22 face each other, 25 can be peeled off to check the internal information.
As shown in FIG. 5A, the step that is the beginning of the opening can be easily formed by slightly shifting the folding line 26 from the center of the information communication body paper S. You may cut and form the corner of any confectionery piece.

In addition, this invention is not limited to the said Example.
For example, as shown in FIG. 10, the insertion plate 30 is inserted between the upper folding rollers 3 so that the paper S that has lost its place travels between the folding rollers 4 and 5 without stress, and the folding rollers are forced. You may lead to 4,5.
If the pseudo-adhesion process requires pressure and heating, heater panels 40 and 41 are provided on the upstream side of the pressure roller as shown in FIG. You may make it heat.
Furthermore, the passing line of the information communication body paper S is not necessarily a line that flows downward. For example, as shown in FIG. 12, the information communication medium sheet S once pushed downward in a folded state from the folding rollers 4 and 5 is sent upward by reversing the rollers 4 and 5 as shown in FIG. It doesn't matter. In the figure, the heat rollers 50 and 51 finally pulling up the information communication body paper S simultaneously pressurize and heat the pseudo-bonding conditions.

  It is a principal part conceptual side view explaining the operation | movement temporally in an example of the desktop type information-communication body manufacturing apparatus of this invention.   It is a principal part conceptual side view explaining the operation | movement temporally in an example of the desktop type information-communication body manufacturing apparatus of this invention.   It is a principal part conceptual side view explaining the operation | movement temporally in an example of the desktop type information-communication body manufacturing apparatus of this invention.   It is a principal part conceptual side view explaining the operation | movement temporally in an example of the desktop type information-communication body manufacturing apparatus of this invention.   It is a principal part conceptual side view explaining the operation | movement temporally in an example of the desktop type information-communication body manufacturing apparatus of this invention.   It is a principal part conceptual side view explaining the operation | movement temporally in an example of the desktop type information-communication body manufacturing apparatus of this invention.   It is a principal part conceptual side view explaining the operation | movement temporally in an example of the desktop type information-communication body manufacturing apparatus of this invention.   It is a principal part conceptual side view explaining the operation | movement temporally in an example of the desktop type information-communication body manufacturing apparatus of this invention.   (A), (B), and (C) are a side view before and after pressure bonding of a sheet for information communication body on which a pseudo adhesive medium is formed, and a perspective view of the completed information communication body.   It is a principal part conceptual side view of the modification in this invention.   It is a principal part conceptual side view of the modification in this invention.   It is a principal part conceptual side view explaining the modification of the paper passage line for information communications bodies over time.   It is a principal part conceptual side view explaining the modification of the paper passage line for information communications bodies over time.

Explanation of symbols

S Information Communication Body Paper G Pseudo Adhesive Sheet X Information Communication Body 1 Cassette 2 Feed Roller 3, 4, 5 Folding Roller 6 Opening 7 Stopper 8 Guide 9, 10 Pressure Roller 11 Conveyor 21 Support 22 Pseudo Adhesive Layer 23 Heat Sensitive Adhesive layer 24, 25 Leaf piece 26 Folding line 30 Insertion plate 40, 41 Heater panel 50, 51 Heat roller

Claims (1)

  Paper conveyance in which a plurality of leaf pieces are connected via a fold line and cut paper-like paper having a pseudo-adhesive medium formed on a pseudo-adhesive surface is sequentially conveyed from the paper supply unit along a predetermined paper conveyance path Means, paper folding means for folding the paper on the paper conveyance path, and paper crimping means for adhering between any leaf pieces folded on the paper conveyance path downstream from the paper folding means so as to be peeled off under pressure or heating and pressure A desktop information communication device manufacturing apparatus characterized by comprising:

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