JP3102553U - Manual pad printing device - Google Patents

Abstract

Pad printing can be easily performed on all printed materials of various sizes and various properties and forms, and printing can be performed irrespective of a place where a printed material is arranged. Provided is a manual pad printing apparatus which can be made simple and inexpensive.
A first arm (3) and a second arm (4) rotatably supported by a column (2) are moved to a position facing a plate (7) or a printing substrate (10), and a pad (5) is moved in some cases. By removing from the arm 3 side, printing on the print substrate 10 at an arbitrary position can be performed. Note that the first arm 3 and the second arm 4 can rotate vertically while tilting. Thereby, high quality and high precision printing can be performed.
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Description

  The present invention relates to pad printing, and in particular, printing on a printing material at an arbitrary place is performed by a simple manual operation, and desired printing is shortened regardless of the size of the printing material and its printing content. The present invention relates to a manual pad printing apparatus that can clean up time and cleanly.

Conventionally, various types of pad printing apparatuses have been employed. As a printing method, a pattern such as a printed character or a pattern formed on a printing plate is transferred by an elastic pad, and this is pressed against a printing material to perform printing. There are various types of ink used in this case, and UV ink is also used. There are many known techniques as the pad printing apparatus described above, and for example, Patent Document 1 is cited.
JP-A-11-123810 (FIG. 1)

  In the pad printing machine disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-123810 of "Patent Document 1", a transfer pad is pressed against a printing plate (plate) to which ink is applied, and the ink constituting a predetermined pattern is adhered to the pad. Printing is performed by pressing against a printing substrate. The feature of this method is that the transfer pad is heated before pressing against printing to improve transfer quality. Further, as shown in FIG. 1 (FIG. 1), the transfer pad is movable in the XZ direction, but it is not rotatable and its arrangement is limited, so that at least only the printing material mounted on the base can be printed. There is a problem. Further, the transfer pad is pressed only along the simple Z direction. Further, there are various types of plate materials having various shapes, but no measures have been taken to deal with these.

  The present invention has been devised in view of the above circumstances, and is capable of printing not only on the base of the apparatus but also around the apparatus or on a printing material that is moved away from the apparatus, and printing involves rotation of the pad. A manual pad printing device that can perform reliable printing, has a simple device structure, is easy to handle, can use plate materials of various materials and shapes, and can easily clean and maintain each part. The purpose is to provide.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is directed to a first aspect of the present invention, wherein a first support is provided on a base and an elongated first arm is pivotally supported at a base end of the first support and elastically supported in a vertical direction. And a second arm, a pad removably supported by the first arm, and an ink feeding squeegee and a doctor blade mechanism removably supported by the second arm. It is characterized in that it has a support base that can be held as much as possible, and a mounting base for a printing material.

  The invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that the printing plate is made of various materials, and an adhesive means corresponding to the material of the printing plate is interposed between the printing plate and the support. And

  The invention according to claim 3 is characterized in that the elastic support members of the first arm and the second arm are made of leaf springs.

  According to the manual pad printing apparatus of the first aspect of the present invention, after filling the concave groove on the printing plate in the rotation range of the second arm with ink, the first arm is rotated to that position and the ink is rotated. Is transferred and pressed against the printing material in the rotation range of the first arm, thereby printing on the printing material of various sizes and materials at an arbitrary position. Further, since the pad is detachably supported by the first arm, the pad can be detached from the first arm so that printing can be performed on an object at any position. Further, since the arm structure is used, the whole structure is simple. In addition, even when the ink is squeegeeed and when the ink is printed on the pad, the first and second arms are elastically supported about the pivot point (base end) on the support column side because these are elastically supported. It is possible to rotate by the amount of bending, and squeegees and transfer of good quality are performed.

  According to the manual pad printing apparatus of claim 2 of the present invention, by providing a corresponding bonding means between the printing plate and the support base for printing plates of various materials, the printing plate of any material can be used. The plate can be easily attached and detached, and the ink can be transferred to the pad with high precision.

  According to the manual pad printing apparatus of the third aspect, since a leaf spring is used as the elastic support member, the arrangement space can be reduced, the spring force can be set arbitrarily, and the assemblability is improved. I can do it. Further, cost reduction is also possible.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the manual pad printing apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a schematic structure of a manual pad printing apparatus according to the present invention. The manual pad printing apparatus 1 is roughly divided into a column 2 erected on a base 11, an elongated first arm 3 and a second arm 4 pivotally supported by the column 2 at the base end thereof, A pad 5 detachably attached to the arm 3, an ink feed squeegee and a doctor blade mechanism 6 detachably attached to the second arm 4, and a support table 8 detachably holding a plate 7. And a mounting table 9 for detachably holding the printing material 10. Hereinafter, the detailed structure of each of the above components will be described.

  The base 11 is formed of a relatively thick flat plate, and is disposed substantially horizontally on the ground side via a cushion member 12. The base plate 11 may be fixed to the ground side as the thick plate, but a type that is mounted on the ground side is adopted because it is better to exhibit mobility. At the time of printing, a force in a substantially horizontal direction also acts on the base 11, so that the base 11 is used as a heavy object to prevent free movement during printing.

  The column 2 may have any shape as long as it is a rigid rod, but it is necessary to pivotally support the base end of the first arm 3 or the second arm, and A structure that allows movement of the first and second arms 3 and 4 along the longitudinal direction is preferable. In this embodiment, an elongated round bar is used. It should be noted that since a large force acts via the first and second arms 3 and 4 during printing, a relatively rigid one is desirable.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the first arm 3 includes a support plate 13 a fixed to an annular body 13 pivotally supported by the support column 2, and a first arm 3 supported by a pin on the distal end side of the support plate 13 a. A rod 14, a gripper 15 fixed to the distal end of the first rod 14, a spring support plate 16 fixed to the support plate 13 a, and a base end and a spring support plate 16 and / or a distal end side of the support plate 13 a. And / or a leaf spring 17 or the like as an elastic member to be sandwiched.

  The pad 5 includes, for example, a pad body 5a made of silicon and having elasticity, and a pad mounting plate 18 fixed to the base end side thereof. It is detachably fixed to the rod 14. With the above structure, the first arm 3 is rotatable about 360 ° about the column 2 and the leaf spring 17 is bent by pressing the grip portion 15, and the first rod 14 is moved up and down by the amount of the bending. Can be rotated. Therefore, the lower end of the pad body 5a also moves up and down with inclination. When it is necessary to remove the pad 5 from the first arm 3, the holding of the first rod 14 of the threaded bar 19 may be released, and the pad 5 can be transported to a remote place.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the second arm 4 has a support plate 20 a fixed to an annular body 20 pivotally supported by the support column 2, and a second arm 4 supported by a pin on the distal end side of the support plate 20 a. A second rod 21, a second rod 21, and a handle 22 for moving and rotating the second rod 21 substantially vertically. Further, a spring support plate 23 is fixed to the support plate 20a. A leaf spring 24 is provided on the distal end side of the spring support plate 23 and / or the support plate 20a as an elastic member for fixing and / or holding the base end thereof.

  The structure of the ink feed squeegee and the doctor blade mechanism 6 will be described with reference to FIGS. The mechanism 6 includes an ink feed squeegee 25a and a doctor blade main body 26a, which are supported on both sides of the second rod 21 with their base ends fixed and suspended. A flat squeegee 25 is rotatably supported by the ink feed squeegee 25a, and a doctor blade 26 is fixed to the doctor blade main body 26a. The squeegee 25 and the doctor blade 26 are both formed of thin plates, and the lower end is formed of a sharp blade.

  The support base 8 is a base mounted on the base 11 and provided with a flat member 27 on the surface thereof. On the other hand, the printing plate 7 is a plate-like plate having various patterns 28 that need to be transferred recessed on the surface side. In order to detachably fix the printing plate 7 to the flat plate member 27 of the support 8, for example, an adhesive member 29 suitable for the material of the printing plate 7 is provided between the flat plate member 27 and the lower surface of the printing plate 7. It is necessary to provide. In addition, a well-known technique is adopted as the bonding member 29, and the description thereof is omitted. In FIG. 1, the support base 8 is placed on the base 11, but may be at any place around the base 11.

  The mounting table 9 is mounted on a base 11 in FIG. 1, and has a support surface 30 on the upper surface of which the substrate 10 can be removably mounted. The mounting table 9 is not limited to the base 11 but may be disposed around the mounting table 9.

  Next, a printing method using the manual pad printing apparatus of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 4 (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f). As shown in FIG. 4A, the ink 31 is supplied onto the plate 7 (this ink 31 may be any ink, but in the case of UV ink, a heating means is required). By rotating the second arm 4, the ink feed squeegee and the doctor blade mechanism 6 are moved in the direction of arrow A along the plane of the printing plate 7, and the ink 31 is sandwiched between the printing plates as shown in FIG. The squeegee 25 and the doctor blade 26 are moved in the direction of the arrow A while being brought into contact with the surface of 7. Thus, the ink 31 is filled in the pattern 28 of the plate 7 as shown in FIG.

  Next, after rotating the second arm 4 to separate it from the plate 7, the first arm 3 is rotated to place the pad 5 on the upper surface of the pattern 28 as shown in FIG. After the positioning, the pad 5 is pressed against the pattern 28 by pressing the grip portion 15. In this case, as described above, the pad 5 moves up and down while being inclined due to the presence of the leaf spring 17. For this reason, the pattern 28 is more easily transferred to the pad 5 than when the pad 5 is simply moved only in the vertical direction.

  The pad 5 to which the pattern 28 has been transferred is moved to a position corresponding to the printing substrate 10 on the mounting table 9 by the rotation of the first arm 3. Here, as shown in FIG. 4E, by pressing the pad 5 against the print substrate 10, the pattern 28 is transferred to the print substrate 10 as shown in FIG. 4F. Also in this case, the pad 5 moves up and down while being inclined due to the presence of the plate spring 24, so that the transfer to the printing substrate is performed accurately, and high-quality printing can be performed.

  Although the structure and method of the manual pad printing apparatus of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described contents, but is applicable to apparatuses belonging to the same category. Further, the present apparatus is not limited to the above-described printing contents, but is applied to various materials, forms, and printing materials, and the size of the pattern can be freely changed. For example, it is applied to a human nail. It should be noted that there are known techniques for nails, but there are no nails symmetrical. In addition, although the pattern of the known technique is limited, in the case of this apparatus, a personal computer can be attached to easily produce a printing plate having an arbitrary pattern, and this arbitrary pattern is transferred to an arbitrary object. can do. For this reason, the use range of this device is extremely wide, and it is applied to all printable devices. Further, since the device structure is simple, it can be manufactured and implemented at relatively low cost.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the overall schematic structure of the manual pad printing device of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a front view showing the elastic support structure of the first arm and the second arm of the manual pad printing device of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a front view showing the structure of the ink feed squeegee and the doctor blade mechanism in the present invention and the engagement state with the plate. 4A to 4F are schematic views for explaining a printing direction by the manual pad printing apparatus of the present invention.

Explanation of reference numerals

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Manual pad printing apparatus 2 Support | pillar 3 1st arm 4 2nd arm 5 Pad 5a Pad main body 6 Ink feed squeegee and doctor blade mechanism part 7 Plate 8 Support base 9 Mounting base 10 Printed material 11 Base 12 Cushion member 13 Ring Body 13a Support plate 14 First rod 15 Grasping part 16 Spring support plate 17 Plate spring 18 Pad mounting plate 19 Screw rod 20 Ring body 20a Support plate 21 Second rod 22 Handle 23 Spring support plate 24 Plate spring 25 Squeegee 25a Ink feed squeegee 26 Doctor blade 26a Doctor blade main body 27 Flat member 28 Pattern (concave groove)
29 adhesive member 30 support surface 31 ink

Claims (3)

  A column standing upright on a base, first and second elongated arms which are pivotally supported at the base end thereof and elastically supported in the vertical direction, and which are detachably supported by the first arm in a detachable manner; A pad, an ink feed squeegee and a doctor blade mechanism detachably supported by the second arm, a support table for detachably holding a plate, and a mounting table for a printing material. And manual pad printing device.   The manual plate according to claim 1, wherein the printing plate is made of various materials, and an adhesive unit corresponding to the material of the printing plate is interposed between the printing plate and the support. Pad printing device.   The manual pad printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the elastic support members of the first arm and the second arm comprise leaf springs.

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