JP3142510B2 - Mount feeder and piece separator for jigsaw puzzle making machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mount feeding device and a piece separating device for a jigsaw puzzle forming machine, and more particularly to printing on each piece by combining a photograph of a user's face with another image previously converted into data. In addition, the present invention relates to a jigsaw puzzle making machine in which the pieces are supplied in a separated state so as to generate an interest in assembling the pieces.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As an apparatus for combining and printing a photograph of a user's face and another image, for example, a "video print supply apparatus" proposed in Japanese Utility Model Registration No. 3014733 is known. . As described in paragraph 0003 of the specification of the above publication, this video print supply device “makes a desired image while visually recognizing combined information of video information and title information of a desired subject on a monitor. With a configuration that can be recorded and printed and reproduced in poses and compositions, the composition and poses are not limited to the subject, and can be used in various genres such as business, entertainment, and education. "

However, in the print supply machine disclosed in the above publication, the above-mentioned image is merely supplied in the form of a sticker, and the sticker can only be pasted somewhere. In other words, prints formed by this conventional print supply machine could not be used very usefully.

[0004] For this reason, the inventor of the present invention has made various studies as to whether or not the printed matter can be made more useful, and as a result, has decided to print as a “jigsaw puzzle” instead of a “sticker”. I came up with it. That is, as shown in FIG. 10, for example, if the above-described printing is performed on each piece of blank paper formed into a mount and formed in a predetermined number, and these pieces are supplied in a state of being separated, the pieces are assembled and an image is formed. I realized that I could enjoy how it was made and how to enjoy it, such as decorating the assembled ones.

[0005] Based on the above ideas, we have started to study to make an actual jigsaw puzzle machine.
It turned out that the following points had to be developed and improved.

If the jigsaw puzzle pieces are cut out after printing, the size of the entire apparatus is increased. Therefore, it is necessary to supply a piece of backing paper to the printer in advance. Since the pieces are arranged by hand, they need to be thicker than a predetermined thickness, and the mount itself supporting the pieces has a certain thickness. In order to surely supply such a thick backing sheet one by one to the printer side, a device is naturally required. Each printed piece must be completely separated from the backing sheet and supplied to the user, and each piece must be 1
It must be ensured that no ko remains in the machine.
Then, it is necessary to prevent each piece from being deformed due to bending or the like. As shown also in FIG. 10, each piece of the jigsaw puzzle has a different shape, and a certain piece has a protrusion such as "Teltel shaven". This projection fits into the fitting part formed in the other piece when it fits in the slippery part.However, in order to mechanically remove them so that they do not lose shape, some means must be taken. Needless to say, it is necessary. In addition to supplying only the pieces, it is also possible to supply the user with a backing sheet, so that both of them must be provided.

[0007] The inventor of the present invention has conducted various studies on how to solve the above problems, and has completed the present invention.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made based on the above circumstances, and the problem to be solved is to make a blank piece of paper in order to ensure the operation of the jigsaw puzzle making machine. The purpose is to surely supply the mount to the printer, to separate the pieces printed by the printer from the mount, and to supply all the pieces to the user completely.

That is, first, the object of the invention according to claim 1 is to ensure the operation of the jigsaw puzzle making machine, and to make one piece (set) of each piece formed in advance on the mount together with the mount on the printer side. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mount feeding device that can supply a sheet one by one with a simple configuration.

Another object of the invention according to claim 2 is to ensure the operation of the jigsaw puzzle making machine and to reliably separate the pieces printed by the printer from the backing paper. An object of the present invention is to provide a piece separating device that can reliably supply one piece of the above-mentioned pieces to the user side with a simple configuration.

[0011]

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, first, means according to the first aspect of the present invention will be described with reference numerals used in the following description of embodiments. "One sheet of the backing sheet 41 on which each piece 42 of the jigsaw puzzle is formed is sent to the printer 30 by the backing sheet feeding device 10, and each piece 42
A jigsaw puzzle forming machine 100 having a predetermined image printed thereon and provided with a piece separating device 20 which is located at the next stage of the printer 30, separates the pieces 42, and collectively sends the pieces 42 to an outlet 51. , The backing sheet feeding device 10 is connected to a storage box 11
An extruding plate 12 located below the storage box 11 and opposite to the printer 30 and moving back and forth toward the printer 30; and an extruding plate provided on the surface of the storage box 11 on the printer 30 side. A supply roller 13 for supplying one sheet of base material 41 extruded by the printer 12 to the printer 30;
The mounting sheet feeding device 10 "is provided with a driving device 14 for driving the supply roller 13 and the push plate 12 in conjunction with each other.

That is, the backing sheet feeder 10 according to the first embodiment is used in the jigsaw puzzle forming machine 100 shown in FIG. 1, and is arranged at the front stage of the printer 30 as shown in FIG. In this case, the mounts 41 as shown in FIG. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, the mount feeding device 10 stores a large number of mounts 41 stacked one above the other in the storage box 11, and the bottom of the mounts 41. Just like "Dharma drop",
The printer 30 is supplied to the printer 30 in order. For this purpose, a portion corresponding to the bottom mount 41 is
It has an extruding plate 12 for extruding this to the printer 30 side, and a supply roller 13 for sending out the backing paper 41 extruded from the storage box 11 to the printer 30 side.

The push plate 12 and the supply roller 1
Reference numeral 3 is driven by the driving device 14. In the mount feeding device 10 of the embodiment described below, the following is performed. That is, when a command to send one mount 41 to the printer 30 is issued to the mount feeding device 10, the drive motor 14 a constituting the drive device 14 is driven.
Starts to rotate, and the rotational driving force is, as shown in FIG.
To the rotating shaft 14b via a gear device, and to the chain 14c.
Is transmitted to the supply roller 13.

The push plate 12 described above is connected to the rotating shaft 14b via a reciprocating link 15 shown in FIG. 6 and the like. As a result, the extruding plate 12 is reciprocated once. In the embodiment, the reciprocating movement of the extruding plate 12 is performed at a distance of about half the width of the mount 41 (upper and lower dimensions in FIG. 10). This is provided on the printer 30 side of the storage box 11. A certain supply roller 13 is
Is based on the examination result that it is not necessary to press the backing sheet 41 if a part of is grasped. Of course, during the reciprocation of the push plate 12, the push plate 12 must be kept moving in a horizontal state, which is achieved by the guide rails 16 shown in FIGS.

Since the above-mentioned extruding plate 12 must extrude only one sheet of the backing sheet 41, its cross-sectional shape should be smaller than the thickness of the backing sheet 41 perpendicular to the flat surface supporting the lower surface of the backing sheet 41. It has a stepped shape having an extruded surface. As a result, the extruding plate 12 hooks only one mount 41 on the extruded surface lower than the thickness of the mount 41 and sends it forward.

As shown in FIG. 3, a pinch roller 13a is arranged below the supply roller 13, so that the backing sheet 41 pushed out by the push plate 12 and having its front end out of the storage box 11 is It is gripped by the supply roller 13 and the pinch roller 13a. The supply roller 13 is
Since it is rotationally driven by the drive motor 14a, the mount 41 is sandwiched by the pinch roller 13a on the lower side, and is sent to the next printer 30 side. The pinch roller 13a according to the embodiment is provided with a detection switch for detecting the thickness of the pinch roller 13a. If two or more mounts 41 are pinched, the supply roller 13 is rotated in the reverse direction to return the pinch roller 13a to the original. To return to.

Therefore, according to the mount feeding device 10,
A relatively thick backing sheet 41 with each piece 42 attached,
Each sheet can be reliably supplied to the printer 30 side, and the operation of the jigsaw puzzle forming machine 100 having the mount feeder 10 is ensured.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the means according to the second aspect of the present invention provides a method similar to that described above, wherein "one piece of the backing sheet 41 on which each piece 42 of the jigsaw puzzle is formed is sent by the backing sheet feeding device 10. A piece separation device 20 which sends the image to the printer 30, prints a predetermined image on each piece 42 by the printer 30, is located at the next stage of the printer 30, separates the pieces 42, and collectively sends the pieces 42 to the outlet 51. In the jigsaw puzzle making machine 100 provided with: the main body frame 21 disposed on the outlet side of the printer 30, and the pressing device mounted on the main body frame 21 and positioned above and below the outlet of the printer 30. A roller 22 and a first driving roller 23a, and a second driving roller 23b located at a next stage of the first driving roller 23a and in contact with the pressing roller 22 And a pair of guide plates 24 attached to the inner surface of the main body frame 21 to form guide paths for the mount 41 around both ends of the second drive roller 23b. 20 ".

That is, the piece separating apparatus 20 according to the second aspect receives the mount 41 with the pieces 42 printed by the printer 30 incorporated therein, and separates the pieces 42 from the mount 41 into the jigsaw puzzle. It is configured to be discharged into an outlet 51 provided in a front door 50 of the machine 100. For this purpose, as shown in FIGS. 7 to 9, the piece separating device 20 includes a pressing roller 22 and a first driving roller 23 a for pinching an end of the mount 41 coming out of the printer 30. This is provided with a second drive roller 23b and a guide plate 24 that bend the received mount 41 into a wave shape.

As described above, each piece 42 of the backing sheet 41 has a complicated shape, and some of the pieces cannot be separated from each other. It cannot be separated unless the vertical difference is positively formed by such means as making the vertical difference. In addition, the projections on a part of the piece 42 are easily broken at the neck of the "teltel shaven", and if this is not avoided, the value of the jigsaw puzzle as a product will be impaired.

In order to avoid the above problems, in the piece separating device 20 of the present invention, first, the pressing roller 22 is formed as a sponge-like member formed of a synthetic resin foam.
The diameter of the pressing roller 22 is about several cm. Thereby, each of the drive rollers 23a
In addition to enabling the drive rotation with respect to b, the protrusion of the piece 42 protruding from the mount 41 can be embedded in the pressing roller 22.

On the other hand, 2 below the pressing roller 22
First drive roller 23a and second drive roller 23b
Is for supporting the lower surface of the backing sheet 41 which does not directly contact each piece 42, so that it is not necessary to use a soft material like the pressing roller 22, so that the driving of the backing sheet 41 can be performed satisfactorily. For this purpose, it is configured as a so-called rubber roller.

As shown in FIG. 9, guide plates 24 for forming guide paths for the end portions of the mount 41 are provided on the inner surface of the main body frame 21 located at both ends of the second drive roller 23b. However, by doing so, each piece 42 is prevented from contacting each guide plate 24. That is, each guide plate 24 only guides the end of the mount 41, and a space is formed between the two guide plates 24 where each piece 42 falls freely.

In the embodiment described later, a total of 3 around the end portions of the pressing roller 22 and the second driving roller 23b.
A plurality of guide disks 27 are shown. These guide disks 27, together with the guide plate 24 forming the guide path at the end of the mount 41, are provided so that the mount 41 is not caught and This is to prevent the piece 42 from being cut into the guideway.

Referring to FIG. 9, the operation of the piece separating device 20 according to the second embodiment will be described. Referring to FIG. Is sent from the printer 30 with the printing surface facing up from the right side in the figure. At this time, since the first drive roller 23a and the second drive roller 23b have already been rotationally driven by the drive device 25, the pressing roller 22 that is in contact with them is as shown in FIG.
It is driven and rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow in the middle. Therefore,
The backing sheet 41 sent from the printer 30 has its ends sandwiched by the pressing roller 22 and the first driving roller 23a, and is drawn into the piece separating device 20.

When each mount 41 enters between the pressing roller 22 and the first drive roller 23a, the mount 41 is first bent so as to be convex upward, and the separation between the pieces 42 with respect to the mount 41 is performed. I do. Each piece 42 has a backing 41
It is formed by cutting a sheet on the top into a predetermined shape by a Thompson blade, and may be stuck to the backing paper 41 side, so that the pressing roller 22 and the first driving roller 23a The separation is performed first.

A second drive roller 23b is provided next to the first drive roller 23a.
Since the pressure roller 22 is partially embedded between the second drive roller 23b and the second drive roller 23b, each piece 42 separated from the mount 41 by the pressure roller 22 and the first drive roller 23a is located immediately below the pressure roller 22. The parts are now separated from one another. In other words, immediately below the pressing roller 22, the mount 41 is bent so that the lower side is convex due to the presence of the other first driving roller 23a and the second driving roller 23b, and the pressing roller 22 is made of a sponge-like soft material. Therefore, the pieces 42 are separated from each other while preventing the projections of the pieces 42 from being bent or crushed.

At this time, a force is applied to each piece 42 by a bending force projecting downwardly from the mount 41, and the force may cause a part of the piece 42 to jump. The upper part of each piece 42 is covered by the soft pressing roller 22 so to speak, so that the separation of each piece 42 is performed quietly and without any jumping. For more completeness, the entire piece separating device 20 may be covered with a cover.

As described above, each of the pieces 42 separated from each other and separated from the mount 41 is attached to both the guide plates 24.
It is sent together with the backing paper 41 into a space between the outlet 51 and the lower opening completely opened. Each guide plate 24 is shown in FIG.
The guide 41 guides both right and left edges of the mount 41, on which the pieces 42 are not formed, so that each piece 42 can be dropped to the exit 51 side.

That is, as shown in FIG. 9, each guide plate 24 is attached to the inner surface of the body frame 21 located at both ends of the second drive roller 23b. A guide path for guiding only the end of the backing paper 41 is formed at both ends of the second drive roller 23b. Therefore, the mount 41 sent out to the guide plate 24 side by the pressing roller 22 and the second drive roller 23b is guided only by both end edges without the piece 42 by the respective guide plates 24. It is bent in a convex state. On the other hand, since each piece 42 has nothing to support it, it falls below the second drive roller 23b as shown in FIG.

Therefore, according to the piece separating device 20, each piece 42 is completely separated from the backing sheet 41 without being partially bent or folded, and the piece separating device 20 All the pieces 42 are discharged to the outlet 51 side. And
The operation of the jigsaw puzzle forming machine 100 having the piece separating device 20 is ensured.

[0032]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a jigsaw puzzle making machine according to a first embodiment of the present invention; 1 and a piece separating device 20 according to claim 2.

As shown in FIG. 1, the jigsaw puzzle forming machine 100 is of a size suitable for the user to stand and operate in front of the machine. There is provided a monitor for displaying in combination with the background image registered in. In addition, a camera for imaging the face of the user is built in the back of this monitor,
The data from the camera and the background image data are converted into composite image data by a computer (not shown) and output as data from the printer 30.

In the middle of the jigsaw puzzle making machine 100, various switches for selecting a background image and giving a jigsaw puzzle making command to the jigsaw puzzle making machine 100 are provided. Exit 5
A front door 50 having 1 is provided. When the front door 50 is opened as shown in FIG. 1, the backing sheet feeding device 10 and the piece separating device 20 inside are pulled out together with the printer 30 so that consumables can be added and each part can be maintained. . In other words, the front door 50 is located on the right side of FIG. 2, and a jigsaw puzzle composed of a set of pieces 42 thrown into the outlet 51 by the piece separating device 20 is attached to the front door 50. The user can take it out from the outlet 51 which is open at the front. The front door 50 is provided with a bag for holding a set of jigsaw puzzles, so that the user can take it out freely.

This jigsaw puzzle making machine 100 is shown in FIG.
2 is sent to the next printer 30 by the mount feeding device 10 shown on the left side of FIG. 2, and a predetermined amount of paper is attached to the surface of each piece 42 by the printer 30. Is sent to the piece separating device 20 located at the next stage of the printer 30, and the pieces 42 are completely separated by the piece separating device 20.
To be discharged.

As shown in FIG. 10, the mount 41 used in the jigsaw puzzle forming machine 100 has a large number of pieces 42 cut into a predetermined shape by a Thomson blade on its surface side in an assembled state. Each piece 4
A margin is formed around the circumference of the piece 2 to facilitate the operation of the piece separating device 20. In the mount 41 shown in FIG. 2, a cutout is formed in a part of the margin, and the cutout allows the storage box 1 of the mount feeder 10 to be cut.
1, so that the directionality when storing it in the housing 1 is ensured.

Now, as shown in FIGS. 2 to 6, the backing sheet feeding device 10 located at the front stage of the printer 30
, An extrusion plate 12 located below the storage box 11 and on the opposite side of the printer 30 and moving back and forth toward the printer 30, and a storage box 11 on the printer 30 side of the storage box 11. A supply roller 13 that is provided on the surface and supplies one sheet 41 of the base material 41 extruded by the extruding plate 12 to the printer 30 side, and a driving device 14 that drives the supply roller 13 and the extruding plate 12 in conjunction with each other. It is provided with.

Since the storage box 11 is seen at the back in FIG. 1, a large number of mounts 41 are stored as shown in FIG. An extruding plate 12 is provided on a surface of the storage box 11 opposite to the printer 30, and a supply roller 13 is provided on a surface of the storage box 11 on the printer 30 side. These extruding plates 12 and the supply roller 13 are driven. The driving device 14 is mounted on the other surface of the storage box 11.

As shown in FIG. 3 and the like, the extruding plate 12 faces the lowermost mount 41 in the storage box 11 and has a flat surface for supporting the lower surface of the mount 41 and a vertically rising surface. And a vertical surface that comes into contact with the outer end surface of the backing paper 41.
5 are connected. The reciprocating link 15
The push plate 12 is attached to the tip of a rotating shaft 14b supported by the storage box 11, and when the rotation shaft 14b is rotated once by a drive motor 14a constituting the driving device 14, the pushing plate 12 is moved to the storage box 11 Is reciprocated one time below. In the present embodiment, the reciprocating distance of the extruding plate 12 is about half the width of the mount 41 in the traveling direction.

Of course, since the reciprocating motion of the pushing plate 12 by the reciprocating link 15 must be such that only the lowermost mount 41 is sent forward, the pushing plate 12 is provided below the storage box 11. Are guided by the two guide rails 16.
Numeral 6 converts the rotational movement of the reciprocating link 15 into the reciprocating movement of the push plate 12.

The front end of the backing paper 41 which has been taken out of the storage box 11 by the pushing plate 12 is grasped by being sandwiched between the supply roller 13 and a pinch roller 13a provided thereunder. By driving the pinch roller 13a, the paper is fed to the printer 30 located at the next stage of the mount feeding device 10. That is, as shown in FIG. 2 and FIG.
The push plate 12 is connected to the drive motor 14a of the drive device 14 via a line c, and rotates simultaneously with the start of reciprocation of the push plate 12.

As described above, for one mount 41 sent from the mount feeder 10 to the printer 30, predetermined printing by the printer 30 is performed on each piece 42 on the front side. Is applied. This printer 30 is a general printer, and combines each of the pieces 42 by combining the above-described user face data and background data.
Fig. 1 shows a picture to be printed on a jigsaw puzzle
It is drawn as illustrated in FIG. When the printing is completed, the printer 30 sends out the backing paper 41 to the next-stage piece separation device 20 with the pieces 42 assembled. At the time of sending out, a signal for activating the piece separating device 20 is transmitted to the piece separating device 2.
Emitted to 0.

As shown in FIGS. 7 to 9, the piece separating device 20 includes a main body frame 21 disposed on the discharge port side of the printer 30 and an upper and lower part of the discharge port of the printer 30 attached to the main body frame 21. And the second drive roller 23b which is located next to the first drive roller 23a and abuts against the pressure roller 22.
And a pair of guide plates 24 attached to the inner surface of the main body frame 21 to form guide paths for the mount 41 around both ends of the second drive roller 23b.

The pressing roller 22 is capable of sufficiently burying a part of each piece 42 and can be driven to rotate with the rotation of the first driving roller 23a and the second driving roller 23b. Is in the form of a sponge made of a foamable synthetic resin. On the other hand, both the first drive roller 23a and the second drive roller 23b have to firmly support the lower surface of the mount 41, and therefore are so-called rubber rollers in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, each of the first driving roller 23a and the second driving roller 23b is stably driven in the same direction as indicated by an arrow in FIG. 9 by a driving device 25 such as an electric motor. Therefore, it is completely supported by the main body frame 21. On the other hand, the pressing roller 22 has a sponge-like surface as described above in order to prevent the pieces 42 from being broken, and also has the same structure as the first driving roller 23a and the second driving roller 23b. It is supported so as to float freely, and the first springs 26 attached to both ends of the first
The driving roller 23a and the second driving roller 23b are always in contact with each other.

As shown in FIG. 9, a pair of left and right guide plates 24 are arranged outside the second drive roller 23b and at both ends of the second drive roller 23b. The second drive roller 23b is mounted on the inner surface of the body frame 21 that supports the second drive roller 23b. As shown in FIG. 9, each of the guide plates 24 is
A guide path for bending and mounting the mount 41 is formed at both outer end portions of the mount 3b. The guide path is formed to be thinner than the width of the blank portion so as to guide only the blank portions shown on the left and right of FIG. It is.

In the piece separating device 20 of this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 9, a total of three guide disks 2 are provided around the end portions of the pressing roller 22 and the second driving roller 23b.
The guide discs 27 guide the mount 41 and the pieces 42 together with the guide plate 24 forming the guide path at the end of the mount 41. That is,
The guide disk 27 provided behind the pressing roller 22 prevents the mount 41 from being caught in the guide path formed by the guide plate 24.
Each guide disk 27 provided on the lower side around the end of b serves to prevent each piece 42 from biting into the guide path or the like.

In particular, the guide plate 24 of the present embodiment is
As shown in FIG. 9, a circular recess for forming the above-mentioned guide path is sufficiently large so that 1 is guided horizontally below the second drive roller 23b and the first drive roller 23a. There is. As a result of each of the guide plates 24 having the above-described shape, as shown in FIG. 9, each piece 42 is completely separated from the mount 41 immediately below the second drive roller 23 b and directed toward the outlet 51. It will fall,
The mount 41 without the piece 42 is transferred to another portion by the rotation of the second drive roller 23b and the guide of each guide plate 24.

The jigsaw puzzle forming machine 100 of the present embodiment
Then, as described above, only the jigsaw puzzle composed of a set of pieces 42 is supplied to the user from the outlet 51. However, the user wants the mount 41 on which the pieces 42 are attached. Some users have requested it. In such a case, if the outlet 51 inside the piece 42 is made larger to cover up to the drop point of the mount 41 in the piece separating device 20, the above-mentioned demand can be easily met. Things.

When the pieces 42 are separated from the backing paper 41 by the piece separating device 20, the pieces 42 do not jump in a new direction by the pressing roller 22, but the entire piece separating device 20 is moved downward. Such a concern can be completely eliminated if the cover is opened from above with a cover that opens.

[0051]

As described above, in the first aspect of the present invention, the jigsaw puzzle forming machine 100 is described as follows. "The mount feeding device 10 is provided with a storage box 11 for storing a large number of mounts 41, And an extruding plate 12 which is located on the opposite side to the printer 30 and moves back and forth toward the printer 30, and is provided on the surface of the storage box 11 on the printer 30 side and is extruded by the extruding plate 12. The configuration includes a supply roller 13 that supplies one sheet of mount paper 41 to the printer 30 side, and a driving device 14 that drives the supply roller 13 and the extruding plate 12 in conjunction with each other. " This makes it possible to ensure the operation of the jigsaw puzzle making machine and to make each piece pre-formed on the backing sheet together with the backing sheet (set) on the printer side. One it is possible to reliably provide with a simple configuration the mount feeding device capable of feeding.

Further, in the invention according to claim 2, the jigsaw puzzle forming machine 100 is described as follows: “The piece separating device 20 is attached to the main body frame 21 disposed on the discharge port side of the printer 30; The pressing roller 22 located above and below the discharge port of the printer 30 and the first
A driving roller 23a, and a second driving roller 2 which is located next to the first driving roller 23a and is in contact with the pressing roller 22.
3b and a backing paper 4 around both ends of the second drive roller 23b.
It is configured to include a pair of guide plates 24 attached to the inner surface of the main body frame 21 to form one guide path. "
There is a feature in its configuration, thereby ensuring the operation of the jigsaw puzzle, it is possible to reliably separate each piece printed by the printer from the backing,
It is possible to provide a piece separating device that can reliably supply all pieces to the user without leaving one by one with a simple configuration.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a jigsaw puzzle forming machine provided with a mount feeding device and a piece separating device according to the present invention in a state where pieces are opened.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a mounting sheet feeding device in the jigsaw puzzle forming machine together with a positional relationship with a printer and a piece separating device.

FIG. 3 is a left side view of the mounting sheet feeding device.

FIG. 4 is a right side view of the mounting sheet feeding device.

FIG. 5 is a front view of the mounting sheet feeding device.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged plan view of the mounting sheet feeding device.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a piece separating device constituting the jigsaw puzzle forming machine.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the piece separating device as viewed from another direction with one main body frame removed.

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view of the piece separating device taken along line 1-1 in FIG.

FIG. 10 is a plan view of a mount on which pieces used in the jigsaw puzzle forming machine are assembled and a part is taken out.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 100 Jigsaw puzzle making machine 10 Mount feeder 11 Storage box 12 Extrusion plate 13 Supply roller 13a Pinch roller 14 Drive device 14a Drive motor 14b Rotating shaft 14c Chain 15 Reciprocating link 16 Guide rail 20 Piece separating device 21 Main frame 22 Press roller 23a 1st drive roller 23b 2nd drive roller 24 Guide plate 25 Drive device 26 Spring 30 Printer 41 Mount 42 piece 50 Front door 51 Exit

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A sheet of backing sheet on which each piece of a jigsaw puzzle is formed is sent to a printer by a backing sheet feeding device, and a predetermined image is printed on each piece by the printer. In a jigsaw puzzle making machine provided with a piece separating device for separating pieces and sending them out to an outlet collectively, the backing sheet feeding device includes a storage box for storing a large number of the mounting sheets, and a lower part of the storage box. And an extruding plate located on the side opposite to the printer and moving back and forth toward the printer, and a sheet of paper provided on the printer side of the storage box and extruded by the extruding plate. It is characterized by comprising a supply roller for supplying to the printer side, and a driving device for driving the supply roller and the extruding plate in conjunction with each other. Mount feed device to. 2. A sheet of backing sheet on which each piece of jigsaw puzzle is formed is sent to a printer by a backing sheet feeding device, and a predetermined image is printed on each piece by the printer. In a jigsaw puzzle making machine equipped with a piece separating device that separates each piece and sends it out to an outlet collectively, the piece separating device is provided with a main body frame arranged on an outlet side of the printer and a main body frame. A pressing roller and a first driving roller which are mounted above and below a discharge port of the printer, a second driving roller which is located at a next stage of the first driving roller and abuts on the pressing roller, and a second driving roller A pair of guide plates attached to the inner surface of the main body frame so as to form guide paths for the mount around both ends of the roller. Over the scan separation device.