JP2010208663A - Apparatus and method for mounting sheet - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control a failure in mounting a sheet on an item to be mounted such as a bottle. <P>SOLUTION: This sheet mounting apparatus 10 includes stocking means 11 for laminating and stocking a plurality of sheets S, feeding means 12 for feeding the sheets S from the means 11, and mounting means 13 for delivering the sheets S fed out from the means 12 and for mounting the sheets S on bottles B. The sheet S is so formed that the outside edge of a front side sheet S1 can be provided with a catching portion S5 able to catch the bottle B by folding a part of a back side sheet S2. The means 13 mounts the sheet S on the bottle B after the catching portion S5 is formed by folding the sheet S. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a sheet mounting apparatus and a mounting method, and more particularly to a sheet mounting apparatus and a mounting method capable of mounting a sheet on a mounted body such as a container.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for products in containers such as PET bottles and bottles, a sheet describing product information, campaign information, and the like is often attached to the neck of the container when displayed or sold in a store or the like. An apparatus for mounting such a seat on a neck is disclosed in Patent Document 1, for example. The mounting apparatus disclosed in this document includes a sheet conveying unit that conveys a stocked sheet to an attachment position, a container conveyance unit that conveys a container to the attachment position, and a sheet insertion hole in a neck of the container conveyed by the container conveyance unit. And mounting means for inserting the. The attachment means includes a bending member capable of bending the sheet, and after the sheet is bent by the bending member, the sheet is attached to the container.

JP 2001-2036 A

  However, in the apparatus of Patent Document 1, when a sheet is used that forms a hook portion that can be hooked on a cap of a container or the like by bending a part thereof, there is no means for forming the hook portion. Since it does not exist, a hook part cannot be formed. For this reason, the mounting failure in which the hook of the hook portion is incomplete with respect to the neck of the container frequently occurs, and there is a disadvantage that the sheet is easily dropped from the container.

[Object of invention]
The present invention has been devised by paying attention to such inconveniences, and an object of the present invention is to provide a sheet mounting apparatus and a mounting method capable of suppressing a defective mounting of a sheet to a mounted body. .

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises a stock means for stacking and storing a plurality of sheets, a feed means for feeding out the sheet from the stock means, a sheet fed by the feed means, and conveying the sheet, In a sheet mounting apparatus including a mounting means for mounting a sheet on a mounted body,
The sheet is provided such that a hook part that can be hooked on a mounted body by being partly bent is formed on the outer edge,
The mounting means is configured to be provided so that the sheet can be mounted on a mounted body after the hook is formed by bending the sheet.

  In the present invention, the mounting means includes first and second conveying units that can be nipped and conveyed from both sides in the thickness direction of the sheet, and the first and second conveying units convey the sheet. Accordingly, it is preferable to adopt a configuration in which the hook is provided so as to be relatively displaceable in the direction in which the hook is formed.

Further, the mounting method of the present invention includes a step of feeding out the sheets stacked and stored in the stock means by the feed means,
A step of folding a part of the sheet by the mounting unit and forming a hooking portion that can be hooked on the mounted body on the outer edge during conveyance of the sheet fed by the feed unit, and then mounting the sheet to the mounted body. The method of doing is taken.

Furthermore, in the mounting method of the present invention, the mounting means includes first and second transport units that can be sandwiched and transported from both sides in the thickness direction of the sheet,
As the sheet is conveyed, the first and second conveying units may be relatively displaced to form the hooking unit.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to fold a part of the sheet by the mounting means to form the hooked portion on the outer edge, and to hook the hooked portion on the cap of the container to be mounted. Thereby, it is possible to securely attach the sheet to the neck of the container, and it is possible to prevent the sheet from dropping from the container.

  In addition, the first and second conveyance units can bend the sheet at the same time as the conveyance of the sheet, and the sheet mounting ability per unit time can be improved.

1 is a schematic front view of a seat mounting apparatus according to an embodiment. The A arrow view of FIG. 1 of a mounting means. (A)-(C) are BD arrow direction end views in FIG. Explanatory drawing of the state which attached the sheet | seat to the bottle.

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

  1 to 4, a sheet mounting apparatus 10 according to the embodiment includes a stock unit 11 that stores a plurality of sheets S, a feed unit 12 provided below the stock unit 11 in FIG. 1, and a sheet S. 1 is mounted on a bottle B as a body to be mounted, and is arranged at the upper side in FIG. 1 of a conveying means 15 comprising a belt conveyor or the like for conveying the bottle B in the left direction in FIG. .

  The sheet S has a two-layer structure including two front sheets S1 and a back sheet S2 laminated on the back surface of these front sheets S1. As shown in FIG. 4, each front sheet S <b> 1 and back sheet S <b> 2 are bonded to each other with an adhesive region S <b> 3 having a predetermined width along the left and right ends of the back sheet S <b> 2, and other regions are not bonded. Further, an insertion hole S6 is formed in the center in the surface of the back sheet S2. Therefore, by bending the left and right sides of the back sheet S2 together with the adhesive region S3, the butting edge of each front sheet S1 is displaced upward as the hook portion S5, and at the same time, the insertion hole S6 provided in the back sheet S2 is upward. It comes to express. As shown in FIG. 4, the hook portion S5 is urged toward the neck portion B2 by the force of the folded back sheet S2 to be restored, and is hooked on the lower portion of the cap portion B3 so as to be attached to the bottle B. It has become. Although not particularly limited, commodity information, campaign information, etc., not shown, can be printed or printed on the surface of each front sheet S1.

  The bottle B has a cylindrical body part B1, a neck part B2 provided in a shape that gradually decreases in diameter from the upper end of the body part B1, and a diameter larger than that of the neck part B2 attached to the tip of the neck part B2. And a cap portion B3.

  The stock means 11 is positioned below the front guide 17, the rear guide 18, and the front and rear guides 17, 18 provided so as to be accommodated in a state where a plurality of sheets S are stacked. The lower guide 19 is configured to support the sheets S supplied one by one from the lower portions of the guides 17 and 18.

  The feed means 12 includes a linear motion motor 21 and a slide plate 22 movable along the upper surface of the lower guide 19 via the linear motion motor 21, and the lower guide is operated by operating the linear motion motor 21. The sheet S supported at 19 is fed out to the mounting means 13 by the slide plate 22.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the mounting means 13 is provided above the first round belt 25 and the first round belt 25 as a pair of left and right first transport units, and the first round belt 25. And a second round belt 26 as a pair of left and right second conveyance units that can sandwich the sheet S from both sides in the thickness direction.

  Each of the first round belts 25 is wound around a driving pulley 29 adjacent to the left side of the lower guide 19 in FIG. 1 and a driven pulley 30 positioned on the lower left side of the driving pulley 29 in FIG. The drive pulley 29 is configured to rotate the first round belt 25 in the direction of the arrow in the drawing via a drive source (not shown).

  Each of the second round belts 26 is wound around a driving pulley 31 adjacent to the left side of the lower guide 19 in FIG. 1 and a driven pulley 32 positioned on the lower left side of the driving pulley 31 in FIG. The drive pulley 31 is configured to rotate the second round belt 26 in the arrow direction in FIG. 1 via a drive source (not shown). As a result, the sheet S fed out by the feed means 12 is conveyed in the lower left direction in FIG. 1 by the rotation of the round belts 25 and 26 while being sandwiched between the first and second round belts 25 and 26. ing.

  Here, as shown in FIG. 3A, the first and second round belts 25 and 26 sandwich the sheet S from above and below in the initial conveyance stage of the sheet S, and the sheet S in the late conveyance stage of the sheet S. So as to be sandwiched from the right and left sides, and relative displacement is performed according to the conveying stage of the sheet S to change the sandwiching direction. Accordingly, the first and second round belts 25 and 26 can gradually bend the left and right sides of the back sheet S2 together with the adhesion area S3 in accordance with the stage of transporting the sheet S to form the hooked portion S5. It has become.

  Next, a method for mounting the sheet S by the sheet mounting apparatus 10 will be described.

  First, a plurality of sheets S are accommodated in the stock unit 11, and the bottle B is conveyed by the conveying unit 15 in a state where the sheet S positioned at the lowermost part is supported on the lower guide 19. When it is detected by a sensor (not shown) that the bottle B has reached a predetermined position, the linear motion motor 21 is operated to move the slide plate 20, and the sheet S on the lower guide 19 is moved to the first and second sheets. It pays out between the round belts 25 and 26. Accordingly, the sheet S is sandwiched between the first and second round belts 25 and 26 and is conveyed at the same speed as the conveyance speed of the bottle B. When the sheet S is removed from the lower guide 19, the next sheet S is dropped and supplied from the stock means 11.

  And the sheet | seat S will be conveyed, forming the hook part S5 which can be hooked on the bottle B in the outer edge of each front sheet | seat S1 by bending partially according to the conveyance step by the mounting conveyance means 13. FIG. . That is, when it is located on the side of the drive pulleys 29 and 31 that are the initial stage of conveyance, as shown in FIG. 3A, it is sandwiched between the first and second round belts 25 and 26 from both the upper and lower sides in the figure. It is conveyed by. Thereafter, as the conveyance proceeds, as shown in FIG. 3B, the second round belt 26 is relatively displaced so as to wrap around the outside of the first round belt 25, and the back sheet S2 of the back sheet S2 together with the adhesion area S3. The left and right sides are bent downward. And when it is located on the driven pulleys 30 and 32 side, which is the latter stage of conveyance, the hooking portion S5 of each front sheet S1 is displaced upward, and the insertion hole S6 is exposed upward.

  The sheet S1 on which the hook portion S5 is formed is mounted by inserting the insertion hole S6 into the neck portion B2 of the bottle B conveyed by the conveying means 15. As shown in FIG. 4, the mounted sheet S is urged by the elastic restoring force of the back sheet S2 so that the hook part S5 tightens the neck part B2, and is hooked on the lower part of the cap part B3, so that the bottle B It will be installed securely.

  Therefore, according to such an embodiment, the sheet S can be bent during conveyance to form the hooking portion S5 and the sheet S can be attached to the bottle B. It becomes possible to attach to. In addition, since the first and second round belts 25 and 26 can be folded at the same time as the conveyance, the entire apparatus can be simplified and the processing capacity for mounting the sheet S on the bottle B per unit time can be improved. .

As described above, the best configuration, method and the like for carrying out the present invention have been disclosed in the above description, but the present invention is not limited to this.
In other words, the present invention has been illustrated and described mainly with respect to specific embodiments, but without departing from the scope of the technical idea and object of the present invention, the shape, position, or With respect to the arrangement and the like, those skilled in the art can make various changes as necessary.
Therefore, the description limited to the shape disclosed above is an example for easy understanding of the present invention, and does not limit the present invention. The description by the name of the member which remove | excluded one part or all part is included in this invention.

  For example, as long as the sheet S can be formed on the edge of the sheet, the sheet S can be variously changed as long as the sheet S can be hooked on the mounted body such as the bottle B by bending.

  In addition, the bottle B as the mounted body can correspond to various bottles such as bottles, PET bottles, metal bottles, and other containers such as spray cans and various forms as long as the sheet S can be mounted. Goods may be used.

  Further, the direct acting motor 21 may be replaced with driving means such as an air cylinder or a hydraulic cylinder.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Sheet mounting apparatus 11 Stock means 12 Feed means 13 Mounting means 25 1st round belt (1st conveyance part)
26 Second round belt (second transport unit)
B bottle (attachment)
S sheet S5 hook

Claims (4)

Stock means for stacking and storing a plurality of sheets, feed means for feeding out the sheets from the stock means, and mounting means for transporting the sheet fed by the feed means and mounting the sheet on a mounted body In the seat mounting apparatus provided with
The sheet is provided such that a hook part that can be hooked on a mounted body by being partly bent is formed on the outer edge,
The mounting means is provided so that the sheet can be mounted on a mounted body after the sheet is bent to form the hook portion.   The mounting means includes first and second conveyance units that can be nipped and conveyed from both sides in the thickness direction of the sheet, and the first and second conveyance units are hooked according to the stage of conveying the sheet. The sheet mounting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the seat mounting apparatus is provided so as to be relatively displaceable in a direction in which the portion is formed. A step of feeding the sheets stacked and stocked on the stock means by the feed means;
A step of folding a part of the sheet by the mounting unit and forming a hooking portion that can be hooked on the mounted body on the outer edge during conveyance of the sheet fed by the feed unit, and then mounting the sheet to the mounted body. A seat mounting method characterized by comprising: The mounting means includes first and second transport units that can be sandwiched and transported from both sides in the thickness direction of the sheet,
The sheet mounting method according to claim 3, wherein the first and second transport portions are relatively displaced as the sheet is transported to form the hook portion.

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