JP2011195263A - Booklet processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a booklet processing device having improved booklet pick-out workability while keeping on booklet processing operation without interrupting it during pick-out and enabling stack of booklets more than those which can be pushed up by an elevator.SOLUTION: The booklet processing device includes a preliminary stack part 25 and a main stack part 24 arranged in sequence from a booklet receiving position A to the upper side, supporting hooks 37, 38 arranged on the lower part sides of the preliminary stack part 25 and the main stack part 24, respectively, for receiving and supporting the booklets 3 being carried by the elevator 20, and a backup 40 provided inside the preliminary stack part 25 for holding the upper face parts of the booklets 3 being carried by the elevator 20 when moved up together with the elevator 20, and for cancelling the hold thereof right before delivered to the supporting hook 37 of the main stack part 24 when evacuated to the outside of the preliminary stack part 25. The elevator 20 carries and stacks the booklets 3 received at the booklet receiving position A to and on the main stack part 24 and then carries and stacks them on the preliminary stack part 25.

Description

  The present invention relates to a booklet processing apparatus that creates a booklet such as a bank passbook.

  This type of booklet processing apparatus includes a booklet supply unit on the upper side in the apparatus body, and the booklet supplied from the booklet supply unit is opened from the upper side toward the lower side along the conveyance path. There are some which are transported, subjected to processing such as printing on the transported booklet, and then folded and transported from a discharge port.

  In this booklet processing apparatus, the booklet carried out from the discharge port is received by the elevator at the booklet receiving position, and the received booklet is transported by the lift of the elevator and collected in the stacking unit. When the booklet is fully accumulated in the accumulating unit, the booklet is taken out from the accumulating unit.

  A support hook as a support member is provided on the lower end portion side of the stacking portion so as to be rotatable only upward in a horizontal state, and this support hook is pushed upward by the upper surface portion of the booklet conveyed by the lift of the elevator. It is turned and retracted, and the elevator is allowed to pass through. And when an elevator passes and a support hook removes from the upper surface part of a booklet, a support hook will rotate below and will return to a horizontal state. After the support hook returns to the horizontal state in this way, the elevator descends and passes through the support hook so that the booklet on the elevator is hooked on the support hook and accumulated (see, for example, Patent Document 1). .)

JP-A 61-1973329

  By the way, the processed booklet discharged on the elevator has an open flaw, and when the elevator is lifted from the booklet receiving position, if the booklet opens wide by 90 degrees or more, it jams by hitting the support hook and causes the accumulation failure. It becomes.

  Therefore, the distance from the booklet receiving position to the support hook is shorter than the dimension from the closed side of the booklet to the end of the booklet so that the booklet does not open more than 90 degrees when the elevator is raised. Yes.

  However, if the distance from the booklet receiving position to the support hook is shortened, the position of the support hook is lowered, and the stacking position of the booklet is lowered. For this reason, when the operator takes out the booklet, the operator has to have a low posture, and the workability is poor.

  Further, when the booklet is accumulated on the support hook and the booklet is already accumulated on the support hook, the elevator needs to temporarily push up the already accumulated booklet.

  However, the lifting ability of the elevator is determined by the driving force of the driving motor, and there is a problem that the amount of booklet accumulation cannot be increased beyond that driving force.

  Further, when taking out a fully collected booklet from the stacking unit, the processing operation of the booklet on the upstream side of the stacking unit must be interrupted until the operator finishes taking out the booklet, and the processing efficiency decreases. There was a problem.

  The present invention has been made paying attention to the above circumstances, and the object of the present invention is to improve the workability of taking out the collected booklet, and at the time of this takeout, the booklet processing operation can be continued without intermediate steps. In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide a booklet processing apparatus that can accumulate more than the amount of booklets that can be pushed up by an elevator.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention according to claim 1 is provided on the upper side in the apparatus main body, and a booklet supply unit for supplying a booklet and a booklet supplied from the booklet supply unit are opened. In the state, the conveying means for conveying from the upper side to the lower side along the conveying path, the printing means for printing on the booklet conveyed by the conveying means, and the booklet closing for closing the booklet printed by the printing means Means, an elevator that receives the booklet closed by the booklet closing means and is carried out from the conveyance path at the booklet receiving position, and conveys the booklet by ascending, and is sequentially disposed upward from the booklet receiving position. The preliminary stacking unit and the main stacking unit, and the support unit disposed on the lower side of the preliminary stacking unit and the main stacking unit for receiving and supporting the booklet conveyed by the elevator And is held inside the preliminary stacking unit, holds the upper surface of the booklet conveyed by the elevator, rises together with the elevator, and releases the holding immediately before delivering it to the support member of the main stacking unit. A holding member that retracts to the outside of the preliminary stacking unit, and the elevator transports and collects the booklet received at the booklet receiving position to the main stacking unit, and then transports and stacks the booklet to the preliminary stacking unit.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to improve the workability of taking out the collected booklet, and at the time of this takeout, the booklet processing operation can be continued without interruption, and more than the amount of booklets that can be lifted by the elevator can be accumulated. Make it possible.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating a booklet processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The schematic block diagram which shows the stacking device of the booklet of FIG. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a drive control system of the integrated device of FIG. 2. The figure which shows the state which the elevator which mounted the booklet of FIG. 2 rose in the preliminary | backup accumulation | storage part. The figure which shows the state which the elevator of FIG. 4 rose to the upper side in a preliminary | backup accumulation | storage part. The figure which shows the state which the elevator of FIG. 5 rose in the main accumulation | storage part. The figure which shows the state which the elevator of FIG. 6 fell to the booklet receiving position. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a state in which booklets are fully accumulated in the main accumulation unit in FIG. 7 and booklets are accumulated in the preliminary accumulation unit. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a plurality of booklets are accumulated in the preliminary accumulation unit of FIG. 8. The figure which shows the state by which the booklet was fully accumulated in the preliminary | backup collection part of FIG.

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

  FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a booklet processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  The booklet processing apparatus has an apparatus main body 1, and a booklet supply unit 2 is provided on one upper side in the apparatus main body 1. A plurality of booklets 3 are stored in the booklet supply unit 2 in a closed state. The booklet 3 in the booklet supply unit 2 is taken out one by one from the lower side by the take-out roller 4 and is conveyed along the upper horizontal conveyance path 5. In the upper horizontal conveyance path 5, an OCR unit 6 that reads specific information of the booklet 3 and a page turning unit 7 that turns over a specific page of the booklet 3 are arranged in order along the booklet conveyance direction.

  In the lower part of the upper horizontal conveyance path 5, an inclined conveyance path 9 is provided in an inclined state. The inclined conveyance path 9 is provided with a printing unit 10 as printing means. The printing unit 10 is operated based on print information input from the external terminal 17 to the control processing unit 16.

  A lower horizontal conveyance path 11 is provided below the inclined conveyance path 9. An inspection unit 13, an IC-RW unit 14, and a booklet folding unit 15 as a booklet closing unit are disposed along the booklet transport direction in the lower horizontal transport path 11. The inspection unit 13 inspects whether the printed contents printed on the booklet 3 and the contents inputted by the external terminal 17 are correctly printed.

  The discharge end of the lower horizontal conveyance path 11 is connected to a discharge port 21, and the booklet 3 is discharged through the discharge port 21 to the stacking device 19 described in detail later.

  The stacking device 19 is provided in the lower part of the booklet supply unit 2 along the vertical direction.

  Note that the upper horizontal transport path 5, the inclined transport path 9, and the lower horizontal transport path 11 are provided with a pair of transport rollers 8 serving as transport means, with a predetermined interval between each.

  Next, the processing operation of the booklet processing apparatus described above will be described.

  The booklet 3 stored in the booklet supply unit 2 is taken out one by one from the lower side by the take-out roller 4 and fed and conveyed. After the booklet specific information is read by the OCR unit 6, the booklet 3 is opened by the page turning unit 7. The booklet 3 with the page opened is reversely fed and fed into the lower inclined conveyance path 9. The booklet 3 is transported along the inclined transport path 9 and print information is printed by the printing unit 10.

  Then, the printed booklet 3 is sent to the lower horizontal conveyance path 11 below and conveyed with the page being opened, and the printed contents printed on the booklet by the inspection unit 13 and the contents inputted by the external terminal 17 Are checked to determine whether or not they match.

  Information obtained from the external terminal 17 is written by the IC-RW unit 14 to the IC of the booklet 3 that has been determined that the contents match and there is no problem, and the IC writing block process is performed. The IC-RW unit 14 does not write information to the booklet IC that is determined to have a problem because the contents do not match, and only the IC closing process is performed.

  After this processing, the booklet 3 is folded by the booklet folding unit 15 and discharged from the discharge port 21. If there is no problem in the booklet to be discharged, the booklet is discharged onto the elevator 20 at the booklet receiving position A of the stacking device 19, and if there is a problem, the elevator 20 moves upward from the booklet receiving position A. As a result, it is dropped and accumulated in the exclusion stacking portion 26 below the elevator 20.

  By the way, the above-described stacking device 19 is configured as shown in FIG.

  That is, the stacking device 19 has a vertically long casing 23 along the vertical direction, and an exclusion stacking section 26 is provided on the lower end side in the casing 23. An elevator 20 is provided at an upper portion of the exclusion stacking portion 26 so as to be movable up and down. The elevator 20 receives the booklet 3 discharged from the discharge port 21 at the booklet receiving position A. In the housing 23, a preliminary stacking unit 25 and a main stacking unit 24 are sequentially arranged from the booklet receiving position A upward.

  A driving belt 29 is connected to the elevator 20 via a connecting member 28, and the driving belt 29 is arranged on the driving pulley 31 of the elevator driving motor 30 provided outside the housing 23 and on the upper and lower sides of the housing 23. It is stretched between the driven pulleys 32 and 33 provided. In addition, a guide rail 35 for guiding the elevator 20 to move up and down is provided in the housing 23. The elevator 20 is located between the booklet receiving position A and the booklet receiving position B on the lower end side of the preliminary stacking unit 25 or between the booklet receiving position A and the booklet receiving position C on the lower end side of the main stacking unit 24 described above. It goes up and down between.

  A support hook 38 as a support member is provided at the booklet receiving position B of the preliminary stacking unit 25, and a support hook 37 as a support member is provided at the booklet receiving position C of the main stacking unit 24.

  The support hooks 37 and 38 are provided so as to rotate only upward from the horizontal state and retract outward. At the corners of the elevator 20, notches are formed so as to avoid the support hooks 37, 38 so that the support hooks 37, 38 can pass through.

  Further, a presence / absence detection sensor 46 for detecting the presence / absence of the booklet 3 is provided on the lower side in the main stacking unit 24, and a fullness detection sensor 47 for detecting the booklet 3 that is fully stacked on the upper side. Is provided. Further, a backup 39 as a holding member that presses and holds the upper surface portion of the booklet 3 is provided in the main stacking portion 24.

  Further, on the upper side in the preliminary stacking unit 25, a stacking fullness detection sensor 48 for detecting a booklet that is fully packed is provided. Further, a backup 40 as a holding member for pressing and holding the upper surface portion of the booklet 3 is provided in the preliminary stacking unit 25.

  The backup 40 is formed in an L-shape, and one end side is inserted into the preliminary stacking unit 25 and the other end side protrudes to the outside. A guide roller 42 is attached to the other end side of the backup 40, and this guide roller 42 is inserted into a guide hole 44 of a guide body 43 provided on the outer side of the housing 23. The guide hole 44 is formed in a straight shape along the vertical direction, and is curved outward on the upper side.

  The backup 40 presses and holds the upper surface portion of the booklet 3 that is pushed up by the lift of the elevator 20 and is lifted as the elevator 20 is lifted. When the backup 40 reaches the upper side of the pre-stacking portion 25 due to this rise, the guide roller 42 is guided outwardly on the upper side of the guide hole 44 and is rotated to release the pressure holding and retract. It has become.

  The housing 23 is provided with opening / closing doors 50 and 51 for opening and closing the main stacking unit 24 and the standby stacking unit 25.

  The main stacking unit 24 and the preliminary stacking unit 25 each have a capacity capable of stacking a booklet amount that can be pushed up by the elevator 20. Therefore, the stacking device 19 can stack a booklet amount that is twice the booklet amount that the elevator 20 can push up.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a control system for controlling the driving of the elevator 20 of the integrated device 19.

  The presence / absence detection sensor 46 of the main stacking unit 24, the fullness detection sensor 47, and the fullness detection sensor 48 in the standby stacking unit 25 are connected to a control unit 53 as a control unit via a detection circuit. Further, the elevator drive motor 30 and the display unit 54 are connected to the control unit 53 via a control circuit.

  The control unit 53 controls the drive of the elevator drive motor 30 based on the detection signals of the presence / absence detection sensor 46, the full detection sensor 47, and the full detection sensor 48, and causes the display unit 54 to display a message that prompts the user to take out the booklet. It is like that.

  Next, the booklet stacking operation of the stacking device 19 configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS.

  The completed booklet 3 is discharged from the discharge port 21 and placed on the elevator 20 located at the booklet receiving position A. After that, the elevator 20 is lifted by the elevator drive motor 30, and the booklet 3 pushes up the support hook 38 of the pre-stacking unit 25 to rotate and retract as shown in FIG. At this time, the upper surface portion of the booklet 3 is pressed and held by the backup 40 to prevent opening. After that, the elevator 20 is further raised and the booklet 3 is conveyed upward together with the backup 40 as shown in FIG. By this conveyance, when the backup 40 reaches the upper side of the preliminary stacking unit 25 and reaches the vicinity of the support hook 37, the guide roller 42 is guided in the guide hole 44 of the guide body 43 and retracts to the outside of the housing 23.

  After that, as shown in FIG. 6, the elevator 20 continues to rise and pushes up the support hook 37 of the main stacking portion 24 by the upper surface portion of the booklet 3. As a result, the backup 39 is pushed up together with the booklet 3 supported on the support hook 37. When the support hook 37 is pivoted upward by this push-up and removed from the booklet 3, it pivots downward and returns to the initial position.

  After this return, the elevator 20 descends and passes through the support hook 37. Through this passage, the booklet 3 is hooked on the support hook 38 and accumulated. The elevator 20 that has passed through the support hook 37 descends in the preliminary stacking portion 25 and descends to the booklet receiving position A as shown in FIG.

  Thereafter, the elevator 20 is moved up and down in the same manner, so that the booklet 3 on the elevator 20 is lifted up to the support hook 37 together with the booklet 3 and the backup 39, and then the booklet is hooked on the support hook 37 and stacked. Continue.

  Thus, when the booklet 3 is accumulated in the main accumulating unit 24 and becomes full as shown in FIG. When this is detected, a message prompting the user to take out the booklet is displayed on the display unit 54.

  The operator sees this display and takes out the booklet 3 by opening the door 50 of the main stacking section 24 as shown in FIG.

  Even when the booklet 3 is taken out, the processing of the booklet 3 is continued, and the booklet 3 is discharged from the discharge port 21. After the booklet 3 is received by the elevator 20, the booklet 3 is conveyed upward as the elevator 20 moves up, and the support hook 38 of the preliminary stacking unit 25 is pushed up to be moved above the support hook 38. At this time, the upper surface of the booklet 3 is pressed and held by the backup 40 that is stopped on the support hook 38. When the pushed-up support hook 38 is removed from the booklet 3, the support hook 38 rotates downward and returns to a fixed position. Thereafter, the elevator 20 descends, passes through the support hook 38, and the booklet 3 is accumulated on the support hook 38.

  If the presence / absence detection sensor 46 detects that there is no booklet on the support hook 37 by removing the full booklet 3 from the main stack unit 24, the booklet 3 is placed on the support hook 38 of the preliminary stack unit 25. The accumulated booklet 3 is lifted by the lift of the elevator 20 and is accumulated on the support hook 37 of the main accumulation unit 24.

  Note that the operator can always arbitrarily take out the booklet from the main stacking unit 24. In this case, the booklet 3 is stacked in the preliminary stacking unit 25 without stopping the processing of the booklet.

  Further, the booklet processing can be continued until the fullness detection sensor 47 and the fullness detection sensor 48 detect that the booklet is full.

  When both the full detection sensor 47 and the full detection sensor 48 detect fullness, the open / close door 50 and the open / close door 51 are opened as shown in FIG. 10, and the booklet processing is not resumed until the booklet 3 is removed. Keep.

  As described above, according to this embodiment, the preliminary stacking unit 25 and the main stacking unit 24 are sequentially arranged upward from the booklet receiving position A of the elevator 20 and are received on the elevator at the booklet receiving position A. Since the booklet 3 passes through the preliminary stacking unit 25 by the elevator 20 and is transported to the main stacking unit 24 to be stacked, and the booklet 3 stacked in the main stacking unit 24 is taken out, the operator takes a low posture. Therefore, it is possible to take out the booklet 3 and improve the workability.

  Further, since the booklet 3 is held by the backup 40 so that the booklet 3 is not opened, the elevator 20 can be transported satisfactorily without clogging the booklet 3 because the booklet 3 is not opened.

  Further, when the booklet 3 is fully accumulated in the main accumulating unit 24, the operator detects the fullness detection sensor 47 and displays a message prompting the user to remove the booklet on the display unit 54 based on this detection. The booklet can be taken out without fail.

  Further, when the booklet 3 is taken out from the main stacking unit 24, the booklet 3 is stacked in the spare stacking unit 25 on the lower side, so that the booklet process can be continued and the processing efficiency can be improved.

  Further, since backups 39 and 40 for holding the upper surface portion of the booklet 3 are provided in the main stacking unit 24 and the standby stacking unit 25, booklet stacking is stabilized and the stacking capacity can be increased.

  Further, support hooks 37 and 38 for supporting and collecting the booklets are provided at the lower ends of the main stacking unit 24 and the pre-stacking unit 25, respectively, so that the stacking can be performed in an amount larger than the booklet that can be pushed up by the elevator 20.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Apparatus main body, 2 ... Booklet supply part, 3 ... Booklet, 5 ... Upper horizontal conveyance path (conveyance path), 8 ... Conveyance roller pair (conveyance means), 9 ... Inclination conveyance path (conveyance path), 10 ... Printing part (Printing means), 11 ... lower horizontal conveyance path (conveyance path), 15 ... booklet folding part (booklet closing means), 20 ... elevator, 25 ... preliminary accumulation part, 24 ... main accumulation part, 37, 38 ... support hook (Supporting member), 39, 40 ... backup (holding member), 46 ... presence / absence detection sensor, 47, 48 ... full detection sensor, 53 ... control unit (control unit), 54 ... display unit (display unit), A ... booklet Receiving position.

Claims (4)

A booklet supply unit that is provided on the upper side of the apparatus body and supplies a booklet;
Transport means for transporting the booklet supplied from the booklet supply unit from the upper side toward the lower side along the transport path in an opened state;
Printing means for printing on the booklet conveyed by the conveying means;
A booklet closing means for closing the booklet printed by the printing means;
An elevator that receives the booklet closed by the booklet closing means and carried out from the conveyance path at a booklet receiving position, and conveys the booklet by ascending,
A preliminary stacking unit and a main stacking unit sequentially arranged upward from the booklet receiving position;
A support member disposed on a lower side of each of the preliminary stacking unit and the main stacking unit and receiving and supporting a booklet conveyed by the elevator;
The preliminary stacking unit is provided inside the preliminary stacking unit, holds the upper surface portion of the booklet conveyed by the elevator, rises together with the elevator, and releases the holding immediately before delivering it to the support member of the main stacking unit. A holding member that retracts to the outside of the stacking unit,
The booklet processing apparatus, wherein the elevator transports and collects the booklet received at the booklet receiving position to the main stacking unit, and then transports and stacks the booklet to the preliminary stacking unit.   The booklet processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a holding member that presses and holds an upper surface portion of the booklet pushed up by the elevator ascending in the main stacking unit. A full detection sensor for detecting when a booklet is fully stacked in the main stacking unit;
3. The booklet processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising display means for displaying a message for prompting removal of the booklet in the main stacking chamber based on the fullness detection of the fullness detection sensor. A presence / absence detection sensor that is provided in the main stacking unit and detects the presence or absence of a booklet in the main stacking unit;
Control means for controlling the drive of the elevator so that the booklet accumulated in the preliminary stacking unit is transported to the main stacking unit based on the presence or absence of the booklet detected by the presence / absence detection sensor. The booklet processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the booklet processing apparatus is a booklet processing apparatus.

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