JP2947561B2 - Cutting equipment for marking fabrics, etc. - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cutting device for a mark fabric or the like, and more particularly, to a moving mechanism that can be displaced in two axes of a rectangular coordinate system along a mounting table. A cutting means such as a heat cutter is attached to the moving mechanism, and a cleaning means comprising a sponge body or the like is provided. The cleaning means automatically cleans the cutting means to efficiently remove a desired mark from the cloth or the like. The present invention relates to a cutting device for a mark fabric or the like that is configured to be able to be cut.

[Background of the Invention] Conventionally, markings, numbers, and the like have been generally applied to various uniforms for the purpose of clarifying their own workplace and team, or for recognizing individuals. As this kind of mark, a crimping mark is generally widely used. That is, a pre-laminated adhesive is provided on the back side of the mark fabric, a desired mark is cut out from the fabric according to a mold, and the mark is positioned on an object to be crimped such as a uniform. The mark is engaged by melting the adhesive with a container or the like.
Here, the following method has conventionally been used to cut out a predetermined mark from a cloth.

First, as shown in FIG. 1a, the cloth 4 is placed on the arrangement plate 2, and then the backing paper 6 having a desired mark shape is prepared in advance.
And the mount 6 is arranged on the cloth 4 (see FIG. 1B). Further, as shown in FIG. 1c, as a cutting means, for example, a heat cutter (heat fusing device) 8
Is moved along the backing paper 6 to thermally melt a desired mark from the cloth 4 and remove the mark from the arrangement plate 2.

However, in the above-described conventional method, the mount 6 corresponding to the mark shape must be prepared in advance, and when the shape of the mark is various, the manufacturing operation itself of the mount 6 becomes considerably complicated. I will. In addition, the mark cutting operation requires the operator to substantially move the heat cutter 8 along the backing sheet 6, which tends to cause variations in the shape of the mark to be cut. It is pointed out that it is not possible to carry out the task.

Therefore, there is a demand for a cutting device for automatically performing a mark cutting operation, but at this time, particularly, a cleaning operation of the cutting means has become a problem. That is, as described above, if the thermal cutting operation of the fabric 4 is performed by the heat cutter 8, a welded material composed of the fabric 4 itself and the adhesive is easily formed at the tip of the heat cutter 8. For this reason, the operation of removing the deposit from the heat cutter 8 must be performed relatively frequently, and in practice, it is necessary to stop the driving of the cutting device and clean the heat cutter 8 by the operator himself. . Therefore, the mark cutting operation is often interrupted, so that the mark cutting operation cannot be efficiently performed, and it is difficult to achieve the mark cutting operation automation.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made to overcome the above-mentioned inconvenience, and a moving mechanism such as a heat cutter, which can be two-dimensionally displaced on an arrangement plate detachably fixed to a mounting table, is provided. Attaching a cutting means, and arranging a cleaning means at a corner at one end of the placement plate placed on the mounting table and near an original position of the cutting means, and recording by the cutting means. A desired mark is cut along the cut shape read from the medium, and after the work is completed or after a predetermined time has elapsed, the cutting means is moved, and the tip of the cutting means is automatically cleaned by the cleaning means. This allows the cleaning operation to be performed without interrupting the mark cutting operation,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a cutting device for a mark fabric or the like which is capable of automatically and efficiently cutting out a desired mark from the fabric.

[Means for Achieving the Object] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a mounting table,
An arrangement plate for removably fixing a cloth or the like to be cut and fixed on the mounting table, a movement mechanism displaceable in two axial directions of a rectangular coordinate system along the arrangement plate, and mounted on the movement mechanism. Cutting means for cutting out a desired mark from the cloth or the like, washing means for automatically washing the cutting means by displacing the cutting means under the action of the moving mechanism, control means for controlling the moving mechanism, Key input means for driving the cutting means via the control means, wherein the cleaning means is disposed at one end corner of the arrangement plate and near the original position of the cutting means, The key input means is provided at a corner at the other end of the arrangement plate, and is stored in the mounting table in order to give cut information of the cloth or the like to the control means using the key input means. Opening for inserting media Is provided.

[Embodiment] Next, a preferred embodiment of a cutting device for a mark fabric or the like according to the present invention will be described, and the cutting device will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 10 denotes a device for cutting a mark cloth or the like according to the present embodiment. The cutting device 10 is a mounting table
12 and a housing attached to one end of the mounting table 12 in the short direction.
And 14 inclusive. A control unit, which will be described later, is accommodated in the mounting table 12, and a floppy disk insertion port 16 is formed at the other end of the mounting table 12 corresponding to the housing. A sheet key (key input means) on one end of the upper surface of the mounting table 12
At the same time, a relatively thin concave portion 20 is formed substantially at the center of the upper surface of the mounting table 12, corresponding to the shape of an arrangement plate described later. The mounting table 12 is located at a position close to the insertion port 16 and is cut into the mounting table 12 more inwardly than the recess 20 to form an opening 22. A part of the opening 22 is
Communicate with 20. Here, an arrangement plate 24 having a rectangular shape and made of a glass plate is placed in the recess 20.

Further, a cleaning means 26 is mounted on the mounting table 12 in the vicinity of the casing 14 and at the original position of the cutting means, which will be described later, in the vicinity of one end corner of the arrangement plate 24. As is easily understood from FIG. 2, the sheet key 18 is arranged near the other end corner of the arrangement plate 24. As shown in FIG. 5, the washing means 26 has a casing 28, an upper portion and one side of the casing 28 are cut out to form an opening 30, and a sponge body 32 is loaded into the opening 30. . A slit groove 34 is formed in the sponge body 32 from an upper portion to a predetermined depth, and the slit groove 34 substantially extends in the arrow Y direction. Note that the sponge body 32 is supplied with cleaning water in advance.
Further, a guide rail 36 extending to both ends in the longitudinal direction and bending by approximately 90 ° is fixed to the mounting table 12 at one edge of the insertion port 16 (see FIGS. 2 and 3).

Next, the cutting device 10 uses a cutting table to
2 axes direction of the orthogonal coordinate system for 12 (arrow X and Y directions)
And a moving mechanism 38 for displacing it. The moving mechanism
Reference numeral 38 denotes a first moving means 40 which is disposed on the housing 14 side and is capable of moving forward and backward in the longitudinal direction (the direction of arrow X) of the mounting table 12. That is,
As shown in FIG. 3, a holding member 42 is fixed in the housing 14 so as to extend a predetermined length in the arrow X direction, and a rotation drive source 46 is fixed to one end of the holding member 42. A pulley 48 is mounted on a rotary drive shaft 46a extending from the rotary drive source 46, and one end of a grooved belt 50 is stretched over the pulley 48, while the other end of the grooved belt 50 is It is stretched around a roller 52 supported on the other end side. The holding member 42 has a grooved belt.
A guide rail 54 is bridged above the guide 50, and the first moving body 56 is supported on the guide rail 54, and the end of the grooved belt 50 is engaged with the first moving body 56.

One end of a pair of guide bars 58a and 58b is engaged with the first moving body 56 in the short direction of the mounting table 12, that is, in the direction of the arrow Y perpendicular to the direction of the arrow X. The movement assisting body 60 is fixed to the other ends of the 58a and 58b. In this case, a plurality of guide rollers 62 that roll on the upper and side surfaces of the guide rail 36 are supported by the movement auxiliary body 60.

Therefore, a linear solenoid 64 constituting the displacement means 63 is engaged with the first moving body 56, and one end of the swing member 66 is engaged with a rod 64a which is a moving element extending vertically upward from the linear solenoid 64. (See FIG. 4). The swing member
The other end of 66 is slidably fitted with a guide bar 58a, and a mounting plate 68 is engaged with the swing member 66 so that the mounting plate 68
A tension spring 70 is stretched between the first moving body 56 and the first moving body 56. Further, one end of a support rod 72 is fixed to the mounting plate 68. The support rod 72 has a length corresponding to the displacement range of the second moving means in the direction of the arrow Y described later and extends parallel to the guide bar 58a, and the other end of the support rod 72 is connected to the guide bar 58a. It is engaged with a mounting member 74 that swingably engages with the edge.

A rotary drive source 76 is fixed to the first moving body 56 in parallel with the linear solenoid 64, and a pulley 78 is mounted on a rotary drive shaft 76a extending vertically upward from the rotary drive source 76. . On the other hand, an auxiliary roller 80 is supported by the movement auxiliary body 60, and a grooved belt 82 is stretched between the auxiliary roller 80 and the pulley 78.

Next, the second moving means 83 is attached via the guide bars 58a, 58b and the grooved belt 82 so as to be able to advance and retreat in the arrow Y direction. The second moving means 83 is substantially provided with each guide bar 58.
a and 58b are slidably fitted and the end of the grooved belt 82 is engaged with the second moving body 84;
And an arm member 94 that is swingably supported through the arm member 94. The arm member 94 actually swings at a predetermined angle from the vertically upward direction toward the guide bar 58b, and both ends of the tension springs 96a and 96b are stretched between the arm member 94 and the second moving body 84, The arm member 94 is urged vertically downward via the tension springs 96a and 96b. The arm member 94
A gripping part 98 made of a resin-based material is attached to the, and a cutting unit, for example, a heat cutter 100 is attached to the gripping part 98.

The heat cutter 100 substantially includes a main body 102 held by a gripper 98, a holder 104 attached to the main body 102, and thermally cuts a fabric formed at a distal end of the holder 104 and described later. A cord 108 extending from the main body 102 is connected to a power supply (not shown). Here, a flexible cord support 110 that is spirally wound is provided on the housing 14 that constitutes the cutting device 10, and the cord 108 is held by the cord support 110.

FIG. 6 shows a control unit (control means) 120 of the cutting apparatus 10. That is, the control unit 120 is substantially the CPU 122
A ROM 124 in which information such as the original position of the heat cutter 100 and a system program is input in advance, a RAM 126 for capturing information corresponding to the shape of a mark described later, and an FD
Interface 128 and sheet key interface 129
And a transfer mechanism interface 130, which are bus lines including a data bus and a control bus.
They are interconnected by 132.

The cutting device according to the present embodiment is basically configured as described above, and its operation and effect will be described next.

First, desired information of marks A, B, and C is written on the floppy disk 134 by an FDD (not shown). On the other hand, the power is turned on in the cutting device 10 and the cloth 136 to be cut is placed on the arrangement plate 24. In this case, the cloth 136 may be a single piece of cloth provided with a laminated adhesive on the back side, or a mark cloth and a base cloth may be superimposed and laminated on the surface of the base cloth on the object to be pressed. One provided with the provided adhesive can be used.

Therefore, when the floppy disk 134 is inserted into the insertion slot 16 formed in the mounting table 12, the mark information written on the floppy disk 134 is taken into the RAM 126. Therefore, by operating the sheet key 18, the cutting device 10 is driven and controlled by the system program and the like recorded in the RAM 126 and the ROM 124.

That is, in order to transfer the heat cutter 100 in the original position to the cutting start position of the cloth 136, the rotary drive sources 46 and 7
6 is driven. When the rotary drive shaft 46a is rotated in a predetermined direction under the driving action of the rotary drive source 46, a pulley 48 pivotally mounted on the rotary drive shaft 46a rotates, and a groove stretched between the pulley 48 and the roller 52. The first moving body 56 moves in the direction of the arrow X via the attached belt 50. On the other hand, when the pulley 78 is rotated in a predetermined direction through the rotary drive shaft 76a under the driving action of the rotary drive source 76, the pulley 78 is similarly extended by the grooved belt 82 stretched between the pulley 78 and the guide roller 62. The two moving bodies 84 move in the arrow Y direction. Therefore, the heat cutter 100 moves substantially in two directions of the orthogonal coordinate system to reach the cutting start portion of the cloth 136. At that time, the drive of the respective rotary drive sources 46 and 76 is stopped.

Next, the linear solenoid 64 constituting the displacement means 63 is driven to displace the rod 64a vertically downward against the tensile force of the tension spring 70. For this reason, the swinging member 66 engaged with the rod 64a swings vertically downward, and the support rod 72 held by the swinging member 66 and the guide bar 58a swings vertically downward. Dynamically displaces. In this case, in a state where the linear solenoid 64 is deenergized, the support rod 72 engages with the arm member 94 and the tip portion 1 of the heat cutter 100.
06 is held above the cloth 136 (see the two-dot chain line in FIG. 4). Accordingly, as described above, when the support rod 72 swings vertically downward, the arm member 94 swings vertically downward under its own weight and the tensile action of the extension springs 96a and 96b, and the heat cutter 100 Tip part 106 is cloth 13
6 (see the solid line in FIG. 4). by this,
The tip portion 106 heated to a predetermined temperature thermally cuts the cutting start portion of the cloth 136.

Therefore, under the driving action of the control unit 120, the rotary drive sources 46, 76
, And the tip section 106 of the heat cutter 100 is moved two-dimensionally along a desired trajectory, thereby performing a thermal fusing operation of desired marks A, B and C (see FIG. 7). Here, when the tip portion 106 reaches the non-blown portion, the linear solenoid 64 is deenergized to swing the rocking member 66 vertically upward under the tension action of the tension spring 70,
The support rod 72 bridged integrally with the swing member 66 and the mounting member 74 is moved vertically upward. Therefore, the support rod 72 swings the arm member 94 vertically upward, and the tip portion 106 of the heat cutter 100 held by the arm member 94 via the grip portion 98 is separated from the cloth 136. .

After the desired marks A, B, and C are thus thermally blown, the respective rotary drive sources 46 and 76 are driven while the tip portion 106 of the heat cutter 100 is separated from the cloth 136, and the heat cutter 100 is cut. Is moved to the cleaning means 26 side.
Further, the rotation driving source 76 is driven to move the second moving means 83 to the arrow Y.
When the tip portion 106 is moved along the direction to the cleaning means 26 side, the tip portion 106 enters the slit groove 34 of the sponge body 32, and the tip portion 106 containing the washing water is used for cleaning the tip portion 106. (See FIG. 5). Next, the rotation drive source 76 is driven to displace the second moving body 84 in a direction away from the casing 14 along the arrow Y direction, so that the tip portion 106 is separated from the sponge body 32 and the heat cutter 100 is moved. Is moved to a predetermined original position.

On the other hand, the cloth obtained by cutting the desired marks A, B and C
136 is removed from the arrangement plate 24, and a new cloth 136 is placed on the arrangement plate 24. At this time, the fabric 136 may be attached to the arrangement plate 24 by an adhesive provided on the back surface of the fabric 136. At this time, the operator's finger is inserted into the opening 22, and the arrangement plate 24 is attached to the cloth 136 after the completion of the cutting operation.
The mounting table 12 is removed from the mounting table 12
A new placement plate 24 is placed on the new placement plate 20, and a new cloth 136 is placed on the new placement plate 24. When a desired cutting operation is performed on the new cloth 136, as described above, the cloth 136 from the placement plate 24 to which the cut cloth 136 has been attached is attached.
It is only necessary to carry out the work of removing.

In this case, according to the present embodiment, the cleaning means 26 is mounted on the mounting table 12 near the original position of the heat cutter 100 as the cutting means. For this reason, after a predetermined mark cutting operation is completed by the heat cutter 100 under the driving action of the moving mechanism 38, the heat cutter 100 is moved to the cleaning means 26 side via the control unit 120. The tip portion 106 can enter the slit groove 34 of the body 32 and be automatically cleaned. Then heat cutter
By moving 100 to a predetermined original position, the next mark cutting operation can be quickly performed.

As described above, since the heat cutter 100 is automatically cleaned by the cleaning means 26 before the heat cutter 100 is moved to the original position, the efficiency of the entire mark cutting operation can be improved without interrupting the mark cutting operation. The effect of being achieved is obtained. In addition, there is no need for the operator to clean the heat cutter 100 himself, which can reduce the burden on the operator, and has the advantage that the mark cutting operation can be easily automated.

Here, the cleaning operation of the heat cutter 100 may be performed every time a predetermined time elapses, or may be performed for each character, specifically, each time the heat fusing operation of each of the marks A, B, and C is completed. You can also.

In the present embodiment, the heat cutter 100 is used as the cutting means. However, for example, a gas torch can be adopted. In this case, the gas torch may be remotely controlled by radio or the like.

Further, in an XY plotter generally used for drawing a line drawing or the like on a sheet, the cutting device can be configured by mounting a cutting means such as a heat cutter instead of a pen.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, information read from a storage medium and a cloth or the like placed on a placement plate by a cutting means such as a heat cutter under the urging action of a control means are used. Marks such as desired letters and numbers can be automatically cut out. After the cutting operation is completed, the deposited material and the like attached to the cutting means can be automatically and easily removed by the cleaning means. Therefore, a mark of a desired shape can be continuously cut out by the cutting means, and it is not necessary to interrupt the mark cutting work for a long time for the cleaning work of the tip of the cutting means. As a result, the cleaning operation can be performed more quickly than when the operator directly cleans the cleaning operation. As a result, the effect that the efficiency and automation of the entire mark cutting operation can be easily achieved is obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a procedure of a mark cutting operation according to the prior art, FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of a cutting device for a mark fabric or the like according to the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a partially omitted side view for explaining displacement means constituting the cutting device, FIG. 5 is a perspective view of cleaning means constituting the cutting device, and FIG. 6 constitutes the cutting device. FIG. 7 is a partially omitted perspective view showing the operation of the cutting device. 10 cutting device, 12 mounting table 24 mounting plate, 26 cleaning means 32 sponge, 34 slit groove 38 moving mechanism, 40 moving means 56 moving body, 60: Moving auxiliary body 64: Linear solenoid, 72: Support rod 83: Moving means, 84: Moving body 94: Arm member, 100: Heat cutter

Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A mounting table, an arrangement plate on which a cloth or the like to be cut and fixed is detachably fixed on the mounting table, and displaceable along the arrangement plate in two axial directions of a rectangular coordinate system. A mechanism, cutting means mounted on the moving mechanism and cutting out a desired mark from the cloth or the like, washing means for automatically cleaning the cutting means by displacing the cutting means under the action of the moving mechanism, Control means for controlling a moving mechanism, and key input means for driving the cutting means via the control means, wherein the cleaning means is located at one end corner of the arrangement plate and the cutting means The key input means is provided at the other end corner of the placement plate, and the key input means is used to inform the control means of the cutting shape information of the cloth or the like. To provide the storage medium A cutting device for a mark fabric or the like, characterized in that it has an opening for inserting a mark. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said cleaning means has a sponge body substantially containing washing water, and said cutting means includes a slit formed in said sponge body and displaced under the action of a moving mechanism. A cutting device for a mark cloth or the like, wherein the cutting device is washed by entering a slit. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the moving mechanism includes a first moving means which is movable in one direction along the mounting table, and a moving mechanism which is disposed on the first moving means and which is orthogonal to the one direction. A cutting device for marking cloth or the like, characterized by comprising a second moving means capable of moving forward and backward and mounting the cutting means. 4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said cutting means substantially comprises a thermal fusing device. 5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said cutting means substantially comprises a gas torch.