JP5482990B2 - Cutting paper receiving member and paper discharge tray - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a cutting device that cuts a printing paper on which a plurality of printing sections are printed into a desired size, and in particular, a paper discharge tray for discharging and stacking the cut paper (cut paper), and paper discharge The present invention relates to a cut paper receiving member mounted on a tray.
For example, the cutting device cuts the conveyed paper (printing sheet) with a cutter in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction, and cuts with a slit along the conveying direction, from one sheet of paper (printing sheet). Used when creating multiple business cards and postcards.

As a cutting device, a printed sheet of a predetermined size on which a plurality of business cards are printed is cut with a cutter at the upper and lower edges of each printed business card, and the left and right side edges are cut and separated from each other with a slit. The structure to be performed is described in Patent Document 1, for example. That is, according to this cutting apparatus, a plurality of business cards are printed in a matrix on a single sheet of paper, and then the upper and lower edges and left and right side edges of each business card printed on the printing sheet are cut, and the business cards are individually cut. Separate and discharge.
In the cutting apparatus having such a structure, the bottom surface of the paper discharge tray is inclined so that the cut paper is neatly stacked on the paper discharge tray so that the printing surface is on the same side when discharged. Things were going on. Further, when it is desired to increase the number of sheets to be stored in the paper discharge tray, the depth of the paper discharge tray has been increased.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-76495.

According to the above cutting apparatus, when the narrow width direction of the business card size to be cut is the transport direction, and when the paper discharge tray is deeper than the width size, the cut paper to be discharged falls on the front and rear walls of the paper discharge tray. In some cases, it may have been loaded or upside down.
For this reason, there is a problem that it is impossible to maintain an organized loading state, which causes paper clogging.

  The present invention has been proposed in view of the above circumstances. When cutting sheets are stacked on the discharge tray of the cutting apparatus, the sheets are stacked in an orderly manner regardless of the shape of the cutting sheets and even when the number of stacked sheets is large. An object of the present invention is to provide a cutting paper receiving member that can be used, and a paper discharge tray on which the cutting paper receiving member is mounted.

In order to achieve the above object, a cutting paper receiving member according to claim 1 of the present invention is a cutting device for cutting a printing paper (printing sheet) on which a plurality of printing sections are printed so as to separate the printing sections. A member mounted on the paper discharge tray includes the following configuration.
The cutting paper receiving member is integrally formed of a flexible material.
The cut paper receiving member includes a slope portion having an inclined surface on which the cut printing paper is placed, and a leg portion that bends with respect to the inclined surface, and has a rectangular shape that opens downward in the center of the inclined portion. By providing the missing portion, an elastic force corresponding to the size of the missing portion is applied to the inclined portion and the leg portion.

A paper discharge tray according to claim 2 of the present invention is a paper discharge tray of a cutting device that cuts the print sections so as to separate the print sections on a print sheet on which a plurality of print sections are printed,
Provided at the bottom of the paper discharge tray is an inclined portion having an inclined surface that receives the cut printing paper carried out from the cutting machine;
A leg portion is provided that changes the inclination angle of the inclined surface according to the number of sheets of printing paper cut into the inclined portion ,
The inclined portion and the leg portion are integrally formed of a deformable material and arranged at the bottom of the paper discharge tray,
By providing a square-shaped defect portion that opens downward in the center of the inclined portion, an elastic force according to the size of the defect portion is applied to the inclined portion and the leg portion, and
A slit having a part opened in the defect portion is formed at a position where the defect portion of the paper discharge tray faces .

  According to the cut paper receiving member of the present invention, since the cut paper receiving member is integrally formed of a flexible material, the cut printing paper (cut paper) is placed on the inclined surface of the inclined portion. If the number of sheets increases, the inclined portion can be bent by the weight of the cutting paper due to the presence of the leg portion having elastic force with respect to the inclined surface.

  According to the discharge tray of the present invention, when the cut printing paper (cut paper) is placed on the inclined surface of the inclined portion and the number of sheets increases, due to the presence of the elastic portion having elastic force with respect to the inclined surface. Since the inclined portion is lowered by the weight of the cutting paper and the inclined surface approaches the bottom surface of the paper discharge tray, the depth of the paper discharge tray can be secured and a necessary amount of cutting paper can be stacked.

It is a perspective explanatory view of the cutting device equipped with the paper discharge tray of the present invention. It is structure explanatory drawing which shows schematic structure of a cutting device. It is a plane explanatory view showing an example of a printing sheet cut by a cutting device. (A) (b) shows an example of embodiment of the cutting paper receiving member of this invention, (a) is plane explanatory drawing, (b) is front explanatory drawing. FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional explanatory view of a paper discharge tray equipped with the cut paper receiving member of FIG. 4. (A) (b) shows the other example of embodiment of the cutting paper receiving member of this invention, (a) is a perspective explanatory drawing, (b) is front explanatory drawing. FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional explanatory view of a paper discharge tray equipped with the cut paper receiving member of FIG. 6. FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional explanatory view showing another example of the embodiment of the discharge tray.

An example of an embodiment of a cutting apparatus equipped with a paper discharge tray of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 1, the cutting apparatus 1 includes a paper feeding unit 2 on one end side, and a printing sheet supplied from the paper feeding unit 2 is cut inside and cut in a direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction and in the conveyance direction. The paper is discharged by the paper discharge rollers 3 and 4 and stacked in a paper discharge tray 10 mounted on the other end side.

For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the printing sheet 100 has a plurality of business cards (printing units) N, N... In the longitudinal direction (vertical direction in the drawing) in the A4 size paper. The fifth column L5) is printed in two rows in the left-right direction (first row M1 and second row M2).
Around the print sheet 100, an upper margin portion 102, a lower margin portion 103, a left margin portion 104, and a right margin portion 105 are formed, and a vertical margin portion 106 is formed between the first row M1 and the second row M2. The horizontal margin portions 121 to 124 are formed between adjacent rows.
Each business card (printing portion) is an area surrounded by the left edge 107 and the side edge 108, the side edge 109 and the right edge 110, and the upper edge 111 or the edges 112 to 120, and the vertical margin portion 106 and the horizontal margin portion. 121 to 124 are adjacent to the side edges 108 and 109 or the end edges 112 to 119 of each business card N, and prevent the letters, graphic printing inks, and colorants of each business card from protruding onto the adjacent business cards. A position mark 101 is printed on the upper side (conveyance destination side) in the vertical margin portion 106. The upper edge of the position mark 101 is aligned with the upper edge 111 of the business card in the first row L1 of the print sheet 100.

The paper discharge tray 10 has an upper opening and two slits 11 and 11 formed from the front surface to the bottom surface. On the bottom surface of the paper discharge tray 10, a cut paper receiving member 20 for arranging the stack of the cut cut paper is arranged, and the inner wall along the paper discharge rollers 3 and 4 has an angle in the discharge direction of the cut paper. A guide plate 30 for adjusting the angle is mounted.
The control panel unit 5 inputs various information for cutting the print sheet 100 at a desired position, and has a numeric keypad.

  In the cutting apparatus 1, as shown in FIG. 2, a paper feed roller 61 that picks up a print sheet from the paper feed unit 2, a pair of upper and lower separation rollers 62 and 63 that convey the print sheet, and a position of the print sheet are detected. Position sensor 80, a leading edge sensor (not shown) for detecting the leading edge of the fed printing sheet and the cut chips remaining, and a position mark 101 for the fed printing sheet. A straight blade unit having a mark sensor (not shown) for detecting a print sheet, a pair of upper and lower pre-cutter transport rollers 64 and 65 for transporting a print sheet, and a reciprocable straight blade for cutting the print sheet in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction 66, 67, a pair of upper and lower post-cutter transport rollers 68, 69 for transporting the print sheet, a slitter unit (upper blade) 71 for cutting the print sheet in the transport direction, and a slide Ttayunitto (lower blade) 72 is provided.

The plurality of print sheets supplied onto the paper base 2a of the paper supply unit 2 are arranged at the center position of the paper base 2a by adjusting the positions of the pair of side plates 2b, and are picked up by the paper supply roller 61 and paired up and down. Are conveyed between a pair of upper and lower conveying rollers 64, 65 and supplied to straight blade units 66, 67.
Then, by detecting signals from various sensors (position sensor 80, leading edge sensor, mark sensor), the upper edge of the first row of business cards in the printing sheet supplied to the straight blade units 66, 67 is detected, and an upper edge detection signal is generated. The straight blade units 66 and 67 are controlled by the upper edge detection signal, and the straight blade units 66 and 67 cut the print sheet along the upper edge of the first row of business cards.

Next, the lower edge of the first row of business cards is cut by the straight blade units 66 and 67, and then the upper edge and the lower edge of each row are sequentially cut, whereby the rows of the business cards are sequentially cut and separated.
Subsequently, the post cutter cutter rollers 68 and 69 sequentially supply each row of business cards cut and separated by the straight blade units 66 and 67 to the slitter units 71 and 72, and the slitter units 71 and 72 have a plurality of sets of circular upper blades. In addition, the right and left edges of each business card in each row supplied from the post-cutter transport rollers 68 and 69 are cut by the circular lower blade, and the business cards are individually separated into cut paper. To the discharge tray 10.

Next, the cut paper receiving member disposed on the bottom surface of the paper discharge tray 10 will be described with reference to FIG.
The cutting paper receiving member 20 is integrally formed by cutting a part of a flexible flat plate such as a thin resin body and bending a desired position. That is, the cut paper receiving member 20 includes a pair of inclined portions 21 serving as inclined surfaces for placing printed paper cut by forming a square-shaped defect portion 24 at a substantially half portion of the flat plate. A leg portion 22 that bends about 135 to 145 degrees with respect to the inclined portion 21, and a support portion 23 that bends about 155 to 165 degrees with respect to the leg portion 22 and is installed at the bottom of the discharge tray 10. It is prepared for. The pair of inclined portions 21 serve as inclined surfaces on which the cut printing paper (cut paper) is placed. Since the cut paper receiving member 20 is flexible, when the tip of the inclined portion 21 and the support portion 23 are placed on the bottom of the paper discharge tray, elastic force is applied to the inclined portion 21 and the leg portion 22. Is granted. In addition, this elasticity can be adjusted by changing the size of the rectangular defect 24. The missing portion 24 has a function of facilitating taking a bundle of cut sheets from below when a plurality of cut sheets are stacked on the inclined portion 21.

The paper discharge tray 10 in which the cut paper receiving member 20 of FIG. 4 is arranged on the bottom surface will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 5.
The discharge tray 10 has an upper opening, and two slits 11 and 11 are formed from the front surface to the bottom surface, and the bottom portion is inclined downward along the discharge direction (the bottom portion is inclined about 20 degrees with respect to the horizontal plane). ) Structure. The support of the cut paper receiving member 20 is supported at the end of the paper discharge rollers 3 and 4 on the bottom surface of the paper discharge tray 10 so that the missing portions 24 of the two cut paper receiving members 20 correspond to the respective slits 11. By fixing the portion 23 with double-sided tape, the two cut paper receiving members 20 are mounted in the paper discharge tray 10.
At this time, the angle of the inclined portion 21 with respect to the horizontal plane is about 40 degrees (the inclination angle of the bottom portion of the paper discharge tray 10 + the inclination angle of the inclined portion 21 of the cut paper receiving member 20). The inclination angle of the inclined portion 21 from the horizontal plane is an inclination angle such that the cut paper that has fallen slides down in a state where the cut paper is not stacked, and varies depending on the thickness and size of the cut paper, but is about 35 to 45 degrees. preferable. In addition, the inclined portion 21 has an elastic force that the leg portion 22 bends each time the cut paper to be stacked increases and the weight increases.

Guide plates 30 and 30 for adjusting the discharge angle of the cut paper are mounted on the inner wall along the paper discharge rollers 3 and 4 of the paper discharge tray 10, and the leading edge of the cut cut paper is surely inclined portion 21. By placing the paper on the cut paper receiving member 20, the cut paper can be stacked on the cut paper receiving member 20.
In addition, guide pieces 40 and 40 are provided on the inner wall of the upright wall 15 sandwiched between the slits 11 of the paper discharge tray 10 to guide the discharged cut paper so as to be surely stacked on the left and right cut paper receiving members 20, respectively. Attached,

  According to the structure of the paper discharge tray 10 described above, the cut sheet is discharged in synchronism with the cutting by the slitter units 71 and 72 after the print sheet is conveyed by the post-cutter conveyance rollers 68 and 69 (FIG. 2). , 4, the upper and lower discharge directions of the cut paper are guided by the guide plate 30, and the left and right discharge directions are guided by the guide pieces 40. Therefore, even when the cutting paper discharge speed is slow or when the cutting machine is restarted after the cutting machine is stopped, the cutting paper is surely guided onto the cutting paper receiving member 20 and the cutting paper slides due to the presence of the inclined portion 21. Thus, the sheets can be stacked and stacked at the front position of the paper discharge tray 10. In the state where the number of sheets to be stacked on the inclined portion 21 is increased, the inclined portion 21 approaches the bottom surface of the discharge tray 10 by bending the leg portion 22, so that the depth in the discharge tray 10 is ensured. In addition, a necessary amount of cutting paper can be stacked.

Another example of the cut paper receiving member 20 will be described with reference to FIG.
The cutting paper receiving member 20 is configured by combining and combining two rectangular flat plates having flexibility such as a thin resin body.
The cut paper receiving member 20 is formed with a square-shaped defect portion 24 for facilitating a bundle of cut paper from below at a substantially half side of one flat plate, and the other portion of the flat plate is cut. An inclined extension 25 serving as an inclined surface on which printing paper (cutting paper) is placed is attached, and the leg 26 is bonded to the back side of the inclined extension 25 with an angle of about 135 to 145 degrees with another flat plate. And fix. On the opposite side of the leg portion 26, similarly to the cut paper receiving member 20 of FIG. 4, there is a support portion 27 that is bent about 155 to 165 degrees with respect to the leg portion 26 and installed at the bottom of the paper discharge tray 10. Is formed.
Since the cutting paper receiving member 20 is configured by combining flexible members, when the leading end of the inclined portion 21 and the support portion 27 are placed on the bottom of the discharge tray, the inclined portion 21 and the inclined extension are provided. Elastic force is applied to the portion and the leg portion 26. In addition, this elasticity can be adjusted by changing the size of the rectangular defect 24.

FIG. 7 shows the paper discharge tray 10 in which the cut paper receiving member 20 of FIG. 6 is arranged on the bottom surface, and parts having the same configuration as in FIG.
According to this example, since the inclined extension portion 25 is provided with respect to the inclined portion 21, the inclined portion 21 and the inclined extension portion 25 form an inclined surface. The area of the surface can be increased, and the cut paper can be more reliably guided to the inclined surface. In the case of this configuration, if the cutting paper discharge speed is increased to some extent, the cutting paper can be guided to the inclined surfaces of the inclined portion 21 and the inclined extension portion 25 even if the guide plate 30 is omitted.

FIG. 8 shows another structure of the paper discharge tray 10, and parts having the same configuration as in FIG.
5 and 7 has a configuration in which the cutting paper receiving member 20 is fixedly disposed on the bottom surface. However, FIG. 8 illustrates a cutting paper receiving portion 50 in which cutting paper is directly stacked on the bottom surface of the paper discharging tray 10. Is provided.
That is, the cut sheet receiving portion 50 is provided with fulcrum pieces 52 at both ends of the lower end position of the inclined portion 51 formed of a rectangular plate that is long in the width direction of the discharge tray 10, and the fulcrum pieces 52 are provided on the discharge tray 10. Is pivotally supported by a support piece 12 provided on the bottom surface. A hole 13 is formed in the bottom surface of the paper discharge tray 10 corresponding to the opposite side of the fulcrum piece 52 in the inclined portion 51, and a cylindrical storage body 14 is attached to the hole, and a coil spring is installed inside the storage body 14. 53 is arranged. The upper end of the coil spring 53 is brought into contact with the back surface of the inclined portion 51, and an inclined surface is formed by applying an elastic force to the inclined portion 51.

  According to the configuration of the cut sheet receiving unit 50 described above, the cut sheet discharged from the paper discharge rollers 3 and 4 and guided onto the inclined unit 51 slides on the inclined surface by the cut sheet. It can be stacked in a forward position. In a state where the number of sheets to be stacked on the inclined portion 51 is increased, the inclination angle of the inclined portion 51 is changed according to the number of sheets to be cut by the coil spring 53 contracting according to the weight of the coil spring 53. Thus, since the inclined portion 21 approaches the bottom surface of the paper discharge tray 10, a depth in the paper discharge tray 10 can be ensured and a necessary amount of cut sheets can be stacked.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Cutting device, 2 ... Paper feed unit, 3 ... Paper discharge roller, 4 ... Paper discharge roller, 10 ... Paper discharge tray, 11 ... Slit, 20 ... Cutting paper receiving member, 21 ... Inclined part, 22 ... Leg part, 23 ... Supporting part, 24 ... Defect part, 25 ... Inclined extension part, 26 ... Leg part, 27 ... Supporting part, 30 ... Guide plate, 50 ... Cutting paper receiving part, 51 ... Inclining part, 52 ... Supporting piece, 53 ... Coil spring, 100 ... printing sheet (printing paper).

Claims (2)

A member mounted on a paper discharge tray of a cutting device that cuts the print sections so as to separate the print sections on a print sheet on which a plurality of print sections are printed,
While integrally formed of a flexible material,
An inclined portion having an inclined surface on which the cut printing paper is placed; and a leg portion bent with respect to the inclined surface ;
An elastic force corresponding to the size of the defective portion is applied to the inclined portion and the leg by providing a square-shaped defective portion that opens downward in the center of the inclined portion. Cutting paper receiving member. A paper discharge tray of a cutting device that cuts the print sections to separate the print sections on a print sheet on which a plurality of print sections are printed,
Provided at the bottom of the paper discharge tray is an inclined portion having an inclined surface that receives the cut printing paper carried out from the cutting machine;
A leg portion is provided that changes the inclination angle of the inclined surface according to the number of sheets of printing paper cut into the inclined portion ,
The inclined portion and the leg portion are integrally formed of a deformable material and arranged at the bottom of the paper discharge tray,
By providing a square-shaped defect portion that opens downward in the center of the inclined portion, an elastic force according to the size of the defect portion is applied to the inclined portion and the leg portion, and
A paper discharge tray, wherein a slit that partially opens in the defective portion is formed at a position where the defective portion of the paper discharge tray faces.

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