JPH0116093Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a photo card processing apparatus, and more particularly to a photo card processing apparatus that continuously performs development processing and lamination processing.

Conventionally, authentication cards such as various driver's licenses, membership cards, student ID cards, and credit cards have been laminated with plastic to prevent defacement and tampering, and laminating devices for this purpose are also known. .

In the generally used processing equipment mentioned above, a cut authentication card is inserted between a pair of rollers that face each other with a slight gap in order to convey the upper and lower laminate materials, and the cards are stretched vertically. The method used was to laminate the bags into a bag-like shape using laminate materials. However, with this method, if the photo card, e.g., the authentication card, is made of a material that tends to curl, such as photographic paper, or if the card is thin and flexible, the card cannot be smoothly inserted between the upper and lower laminates. Insertion was difficult and it was often difficult to obtain insertion position accuracy. In order to improve this and improve the insertion position accuracy, it has the disadvantage that a complicated mechanism is required.

Moreover, in the conventional lamination method, the photo-processed photo cards were cut one by one into sheets and then laminated.
In addition to the above-mentioned disadvantages, this method requires a lot of manual work and is not suitable for mass processing.

Therefore, the first purpose of the present invention is to improve the above-mentioned drawbacks, to provide a processing device that has good lamination position accuracy and can perform large-scale processing. To provide a processing device capable of consistently and automatically laminating photo cards.

According to the present invention, there is provided a photo card processing device that functionally integrates an automatic developing machine that automatically processes reversal photographic paper or reversal film for creating an authentication photo card, and a roll laminating device. It has been found that the above object of the present invention can be achieved by applying the above.

The present invention will be explained in detail below according to the embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the photo card processing apparatus of the present invention.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a magazine that stores photographed reversal photographic paper or reversal film 2. Reference numeral 7 denotes a development processing section, which consists of transport rollers 3, 4, and 5 for transporting the long roll film or photographic paper 2, and processing baths 6.
A rolled film or photographic paper 2 that has been developed by a known method reaches a drying section 8 by a transport roller 5, and is dried by air blowing from a heater 9 and a fan motor 10. The dried film or photographic paper 2 is then conveyed to the feed adjustment section 12, where the film continuously conveyed from the automatic developing machine is subjected to a cutting process to be carried out in the laminating section as described later. Adjustments are made to time the feed to allow intermittent conveyance. Therefore, the roller 13 housed in the feed adjustment section 12 operates to remove the sagging of the conveyed object by moving up and down.

The rolled film or photographic paper is conveyed at the timing in the feed adjustment section 12.
It enters the lamination processing section, first reaches the detection section 14, and after the position is confirmed by holes or marks made in advance on the film or photographic paper 2, the cutter upper blade 15, cutter lower blade 16, and cutter holder are detected. 22, and is stopped.

In the card cutter section, the lower laminate material 19 is placed with the surface of the adhesive layer heated and melted by the preheating heat roller 20 facing upward, and the detection section 21
The rolled film or photographic paper 2 is cut into a card by the downward movement of the upper blade of the card cutter, and at the same time the film or photographic paper 2 is cut onto the adhesive surface of the laminate 19. The photo card is pressed onto the laminate 19. Then, the unnecessary portion cut by the cutter portion is wound around the shaft 18 by the conveyance roller 17.

The film or photographic paper 2 and the laminate material 1
9 are in an overlapping state with each other and are subjected to the action of the card cutter upper blade 15 in the stopped state,
When this cutter operation is performed, the cutter device is designed so that although the photographic paper 2 and the like are cut into a predetermined size, the laminate material 19 is not cut.

In addition, adhesion of photographic paper, etc. to the laminate material is carried out by pressing with a part of the member (reference numeral omitted) that supports the upper blade of the cutter. This configuration is described in Utility Model Registration Application No. 36521 filed in 1982 by the same applicant.

Furthermore, if necessary, the preheating heat roller 20 may be used as a mere guide roller, and the flat surface of the cutter holder 22 may be used as a heating section for the laminate material.

On the other hand, the photo card adhered to the laminate material 19 is heated by a heat roller 24 and conveyed to a die cutter section consisting of a die cutter upper blade 25 and a die cutter lower blade 26, and the adhesive surface is similarly heated by the heat roller 24. The photo card is overlapped with the upper laminate material 23 and punched out using a die cutter 25 leaving a necessary margin around the photo card. The laminate is adhered to the upper surface of the photo card by pressure during punching, and the laminated photo card is stored in the storage box 27 at the same time as the lamination process is completed. The punched laminate waste is either shredded by the exit cutter 28 and discarded, or, since it remains long even after passing through this punching process, it is wound up on a winding roll (not shown) and then discarded. . Note that 11 indicated by a broken line in the figure is a means for winding up the temporarily developed roll film or photographic paper 2 when a failure occurs in the laminating section.

In some cases, the heater roller 24 may be a mere guide roller, and instead, it may be separately provided at a location further forward (as viewed from the direction of movement of photographic paper, etc.) than the heater roller 24, for example, closer to the die cutter. . Furthermore, it would be more convenient if the heater roller could be configured to be able to respond to processing operations for each sheet and be evacuated from the moving surface of the laminate, etc. Also, if an abnormal situation occurs, it would be more convenient to From the standpoint of safety, it is advantageous to cut off the power to the heating element (not shown) or to release the heater roller from contact with the laminate material, etc., as described above.

As explained above in detail and specifically, the photo card processing device of the present invention includes a detection unit for positioning the photo card and the laminated material, a card cutter that can simultaneously cut and press the laminated card, and a card cutter that can simultaneously cut and press the laminated card. By installing a die cutter, etc. for punching, it became possible to use strip-shaped photo cards and long laminate materials.From this, we went further and integrated a functional device with an automatic processor. Due to the measurement, the conventional manual type has been completely improved,
It has become possible to carry out a completely automatic continuous process from developing the film or photographic paper used for making photo cards to laminating it, and it has become possible to easily perform large-scale lamination processing.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 shows a photo card processing device of the present invention. 1... Magazine, 2... Reversal film or photographic paper, 7... Development processing section, 8... Drying section,
12... Feed adjustment section, 14... Detection section, 15...
Card cutter upper blade, 16...Card cutter lower blade, 19...Lower laminate material, 20...Heat roller, 21...Detection section, 22...Card cutter holder, 23...Upper side Laminate material, 24
...Heat roller, 25...Die cutter upper blade, 26...Die cutter lower blade, 27...Storage box.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A developing tank for developing strip-shaped photographic materials, a drying section for drying the developed photographic materials, and an intermittent conveyance of the continuously conveyed dried photographic materials to the next process. a feed adjustment section for determining the timing of the feed adjustment, a detection section for detecting the length of the photographic material conveyed from the feed adjustment section, and a detection signal from the detection section to temporarily stop the conveyance after the feed adjustment section. a card cutter section for cutting the photographic material into a predetermined length and crimping it onto the elongated laminate material; a pressure contact device for crimping the upper and lower laminate materials; and a margin around the laminated photographic card. A photo card processing device consisting of a die cutter section for cutting into a predetermined shape while leaving a blank.