JPH03182460A - Tape sticking device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically stick a tape by providing a lifting mechanism which relatively lifts or lowers a guide drum and an object to be stuck on a pedestal and presses and sticks the lead end section of the tape of the guide drum to the upper face of the object to be stuck and a mechanism which relatively moves the guide drum and the object to be stuck to the sticking direction of the tape. CONSTITUTION:An object to be stuck W is set on a pedestal 2, a clamp body 19 performs a clamp action to a guide drum 11 arranged on the pedestal 2, and a tape T is clamped. The guide drum 11 and the object to be stuck W on the pedestal 2 are lifted or lowered in the approaching direction to each other by a lifting mechanism 8 which the lead end section of the tape T is drawn immediately below the guide drum 11. The lead end section of the tape T is pressed and stuck to the upper face of the object to be stuck W. The guide drum 11 and the object to be stuck W are relatively moved by a moving mechanism while the clamp body 19 of the guide drum 11 performs an unclamping action, and the tape T is stuck on the object to be stuck W in sequence.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a tape pasting device for pasting a tape such as a double-sided adhesive tape onto the pasting surface of a material to be pasted, such as a side molding for a vehicle. It is something.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, for example, the work of applying a tape to the adhering surface of a side molding for a vehicle has generally been carried out manually.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] By the way, manually applying a tape to the application surface of a material to be adhered, such as a side molding for a vehicle, not only has low productivity and high costs, but also reduces the amount of material to be applied. It is difficult to apply the tape to a predetermined position on the application surface of the adhesive material, and there are problems in that the position δ of the tape applied to the application surface varies.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a tape application device that can mechanically apply a tape to the application surface of a material to be applied.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, this invention is a tape application device δ for pasting a tape on the application surface of a material to be pasted, which includes a receiver on which the material to be pasted is set. a base; a guide drum disposed above the pedestal and having a clamp body movably attached to the outer periphery and pulling out the tape in a state in which the tape is clamped in cooperation with the clamp body; an elevating and lowering mechanism that raises and lowers the tape on the table E relative to the material to be adhered, and presses the tape drawer end of the guide drum against the upper surface of the material to be adhered; a transfer mechanism that sequentially affixes the tape onto the material to be affixed by moving the material relatively to the material in the affixing direction of the tape; The structure includes a cutter mechanism for cutting.

[For illusion] In the tape pasting device configured as described above, the material to be pasted is set on the pedestal, and the clamp body is clamped against the guide drum disposed above the pedestal to apply the tape. While being clamped, the tape is lifted and lowered by a lift mechanism in a direction in which the guide drum and the material to be adhered on the pedestal approach each other with the drawn end of the tape pulled out directly below the guide drum. As a result, the drawn end of the tape is pressed against the upper surface of the material to be pasted.

Thereafter, while the clamp body of the guide drum is unclamped, the guide drum and the material to be adhered are relatively moved in the tape application direction by the transfer mechanism, and the material to be adhered is moved. tape is applied sequentially. Then, after a predetermined length of the tape has been pasted onto the material to be pasted, the tape is cut by the cutter mechanism, thereby pasting the tape of a desired length onto the material to be pasted.

[Example] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In Figures 1, 2, and 3, in the longitudinal direction of the top surface of the machine stand 1 (on the left side in Figure 3), there is a pedestal 2 on which the material to be adhered W is set on the -1 side. arranged and said machine stand 1
A guide rail 3 is arranged parallel to the pedestal 2 on the rear side of the upper surface.

A unit base 5 made of a rodless cylinder (a unit base 5 that is reciprocated along the guide rail 3 by a drive cylinder 4) is assembled on the guide rail 3, and a gate-shaped unit is mounted on the front side of the upper surface of the unit base 5. A support frame 6 is erected.

As shown in FIG. 4, a pair of left and right guide shafts 7 extending in the upper direction are disposed between the upper frame rod 6a of the support frame 6 and the unit base 5. An elevating plate 8 is assembled. The elevating plate 8 is coupled to a rod 9a of an elevating cylinder 9, which is a dual stroke cylinder assembled to the lower surface of the unit base 5, and is moved up and down along the guide shaft 7.

The lifting plate 8 is provided with a drum shaft 10 as shown in FIG.
is rotatably supported, and at the front end of the drum shaft 10, a hollow cylindrical guide drum 11 is located above the adhered material W on the pedestal 2 and is aligned on the same center line as the drum shaft 10. It is provided. Further, the rear end of the drum shaft 10 protrudes from the back surface of the lifting plate 8 by a predetermined length, and is connected to the rotary actuator 1 by a coupling 12.
It is coupled to the drive shaft 13a of No. 3. Furthermore, by the operation of the rotary actuator 13, the guide drum 11 is rotated integrally with its drive shaft 13a in the forward and reverse directions within a range of about 90 degrees.

On the outer peripheral surface of the guide drum 11, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, two tape guiding protrusions 14 having approximately the same width as the tape T are provided at a predetermined interval in the width direction of the drum 11. It is installed protrudingly. Furthermore, semicircular tape guide plates 15 that are in contact with both side surfaces of the tape guiding protrusions 14 and protrude by a predetermined amount in the radial direction are attached to support members 16 that protrude from the front surface of the lifting plate 8, respectively. Fixed. A protrusion is formed on the opposing surface of the tape guide plate 15 to prevent the tape T from floating up. and,
A tape guide groove 20 is formed, with the outer circumferential surface of the tape guide protrusion 14 serving as a bottom surface and the tape guide plate 15 serving as a side wall.

A clamp cylinder 18 is assembled in the inner chamber of the guide drum 11, as shown in FIG. It protrudes a predetermined length. A clamp body 19 is assembled to the tip of the rod 18a of the clamp cylinder 18. This clamp body 19
At both ends of the cylinder B' 19 is fitted into the 7-piece guide groove 20 of the guide drum 11 and clamps and clamps the °C tape T by coming into contact with and separating from the bottom surface of the guide groove 20.
a are formed respectively.

A cutter mechanism 21 for cutting each of the two tapes T pulled out by a predetermined length along the tape guide groove 20 of the guide drum 11 is attached to the T-I drop plate 8. The cutter mechanism 21 is mainly composed of a tape cutter 22, a cutter @ 23, and a cutter cylinder 24, as shown in FIGS. 4, 5, and 7.

The cutter shaft 23 is fitted into the elevating plate 8 at a position close to the outer circumferential surface of the guide drum 11 so as to be able to move back and forth, and a disc-shaped tape cutter 22 is attached to the front end thereof. Further, on the axis of the cutter shaft 23, a connecting plate 25 is provided integrally with the circumferential cutter @23 on the front side of the elevating plate 8 that supports this.

On the other hand, a cutter cylinder 24 is provided on the back side of the lifting plate 8.
The rod 24a of this cutter cylinder 24 passes through the lifting plate 8, and the tip of the rod is connected to the upper part of the connecting plate 1-25.

By moving the cutter shaft 23 forward and backward by the cutter cylinder 23, the tape cutter 22 at the front end of the cutter shaft 23 is inserted into and removed from the tape guide groove 20 through the insertion groove 15a formed in the shape of a notch in each tape guide plate 15. By doing so, the tape T is cut.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a presser cylinder 27 is attached downward to the bracket 26 fixed to the outer surface of the support frame 6 of the unit base 5, and the tip of the rod 27a of the presser cylinder 27 A presser foot [l-ra 28] is attached to press down the tape T applied to the application surface of the material W to be applied.

Further, on one side of the upper part of the elevating plate 8, as shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. A pair of guide rollers 29 are the same roller 44
It is rotatably supported around 30.

A branch 31 erected at one end of the machine stand 1 has a tape support shaft 32 that rotatably supports the tape T wound into a roll at its center hole, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. is installed protrudingly.

This embodiment is constructed as described above. Therefore, the first
As shown in the figure and FIG. 2, the unit stand 5 is moved to the original position A on one side of the machine stand 1, the elevating plate 8 is at the upper end position d, the clamp body 19 is at the unclamping position, and the tape When the cutter 22 is at the retreat end, the pedestal 2
The adhered material W is placed on top.

Further, the drawn end of each tape T attached to the tape support shaft 32 is passed through a guide roller 29 and into the tape guide groove 20 of the guide drum 11 as shown in FIG. It is pulled out to the position of the groove 15a.

As described above, the material to be adhered W is set on the pedestal 2,
Once the tape T is set on the guide drum 11, the apparatus is rotated.

First, the clamp body 19 is clamped by the clamp cylinder 18, and the tape T is clamped between the clamp piece 19a and the bottom surface of the tape guide groove 21.

Then, the guide drum 11 is rotated by the rotary actuator 13 by approximately 90'' in the direction of arrow P in FIG. , the guide drum 11 is lowered together with the elevating plate 8 by the elevating cylinder 9. When the guide drum 11 is lowered to the bottom dead center, the adhesive surface on the lower surface of the drawn-out end of the tape T is attached to the adhered material W. is pressed against the adhesion surface of the tape T, whereby the drawn end of the tape T is affixed to the adhesion surface of the material W to be adhered.

After that, the clamp body 19 is moved by the clamp cylinder 18.
After the unclamping operation is performed, as shown in FIG. 9, the guide drum 11 together with the lifting plate 8 is raised to a standby position where it is slightly (approximately 5 cm) away from the upper surface of the tape T on the material W to be adhered by the lifting cylinder 9. Being stomached.

Further, the presser roller 28 is lowered by the presser cylinder 27 to the bottom dead center where it contacts the adhesive surface of the material W to be adhered.

Here, the guide drum 11 is moved forward to the right in FIG. 9 together with the unit I, the stand 5, and the gastrointestinal plate 8 by the unit drive cylinder 4, so that the adhered material W on the pedestal 2 is moved forward to the right in FIG.
Tape T is sequentially pasted on the pasting surface of.

When the unit drive cylinder 4 moves the unit base 5 to the tape cutting position 1iffB, which is a predetermined distance before the pasting end position C at the forward end, the unit base 5 is temporarily stopped at this position 1iB. Further, while the unit stand 5 is being moved to the tape cutting position ff1B, the guide drum 11 is reversed to its original position by the rotary actuator 13.

When the unit stand 5 is stopped at the tape cutting position IB, the clamp body 19 is first moved by the clamp cylinder 18.
is clamped, and the tape T in the tape guide groove 20 of the guide drum 11 is clamped. Next, the tape cutter 22 is advanced to the forward end position together with the cutter shaft 23 by the cutter cylinder 24, and the tape T in the tape guide groove 20 of the guide drum 11 is cut. Thereafter, the tape cutter 22 is moved back together with the cutter shaft 23 by the cutter cylinder 24 to the original standby position.

When the tape cutter 22 has been retreated to the standby position,
The unit driving cylinder 4 advances the pasting of the roadside in front of the unit stand 5S toward the end position C. Then, the presser roller 28 passes through the cut end of the tape T while successively pressing the tape T onto the adhesion surface of the adhered material W.
A tape T of a predetermined length is pasted where the material to be pasted W is pasted.

When the pressing roller 28 passes the cut end of the tape T and the unit stand 5 is advanced to the pasting end position C, the unit stand 5 stops. Here, the elevating plate 8 is raised by the stomach descent cylinder 9 to the original ascending end position.

Further, the presser cylinder 27 moves the presser roller 28 to its original raised end position.

Thereafter, the unit driving cylinder 4 moves the unit to the position i! Moved to A. While the unit stand 5 is moved from the pasting end position C to the attitude IA, the clamp body 19 of the guide drum 11 is kept in the clamped state. The rolled tape T on the support shaft 32 is pulled out.

When the unit stand 5 has been moved to the position fWA, the workpiece W on the pedestal 2 is taken out, and one cycle of the process of applying the tape to the workpiece W is completed here.

In the above embodiment, the unit base 5 is reciprocated with respect to the material W on the pedestal 2 to affix the tape T to the surface of the material W to be adhered. It is not limited. For example, the unit base 5 may be fixed to the machine base 1 and the pedestal 2 may be moved back and forth, and the material to be adhered may be placed on the pedestal 2.
A structure may be adopted in which a moving mechanism is provided to move only the adhered material W relative to the guide drum 11 of the unit base 5.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, the tape can be mechanically applied to the adhesion surface of the material to be adhered.
Not only can productivity be improved, but also variations in the position of the tape on the adhesive surface of the material to be adhered can be prevented.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an example of a blind screen according to the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a front view showing the entire tape pasting device, FIG. 2 is a plan view, and FIG. 3 is a cross section taken along the line ■-■ in FIG. Figure 4 is an enlarged front view of the main parts, Figure 5 is a plan view, Figure 6 is a sectional view taken along line VI-Vl in Figure 4, and Figure 7 is a -■-■ in Figure 4. Line sectional view, Figure 8 is a front view showing the state in which the drawn end of the tape is pressed against the material to be adhered on the pedestal. FIG. 6 is a front view showing a state in which tapes are sequentially pasted thereon. 2... Receiver 5... Unit base 8... Elevating plate 9... Elevating cylinder 11... Guide drum 18... Clamp cylinder 19... Clamp body 21... Cutter! ! ! Structure W...Subject material T...Tape

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A tape application device for applying a tape to the application surface of a material to be pasted, comprising: a pedestal on which the material to be affixed is set; a guide drum that has a clamp body that can be moved into and out of contact with the clamp body and pulls out the tape in a clamped state in cooperation with the clamp body; and a guide drum that relatively raises and lowers the guide drum and a material to be adhered on a pedestal. Also, an elevating mechanism that presses the drawn-out end of the tape of the guide drum against the upper surface of the material to be affixed and affixes the tape, and a mechanism that moves the guide drum and the material to be affixed relative to each other in the direction in which the tape is applied. A tape comprising: a transport mechanism for successively pasting the tape onto a material to be pasted; and a cutter mechanism for cutting the tape after a predetermined length of the tape has been pasted onto the material to be pasted. Pasting device.