JPH03227695A - Manufacture of postcard with label or the like - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce a printing cost per one sheet by continuously conducting a series of operations of sticking a plurality of labels at predetermined positions to a sheet of a regular shape to be conveyed, cutting them between labels into a plurality of sheets with labels, stacking them in a predetermined order and conveying them. CONSTITUTION:After a plurality of labels are stuck at predetermined positions on a plurality of sheets of a regular shape such as postcards, etc., they are cut to a plurality of sheets with labels to continuously manufacture postcards with labels, etc. A sheet conveying passage 1 holes sheets P to be fed one by one by a pickup roller 3 from a sheet stack 2 and conveys them substantially horizontally. Label sticking means 19 sticks four labels R on the sheets P to be conveyed on the passage 1 one by one on four regions split laterally and longitudinally of the sheet P. A cutter 35 of cutting means 34 has upper and lower swingable blades so arranged as to traverse the passage 1 to cut the lateral central position of the sheet P longitudinally. Then, conveying means 45 is arranged at the end of the passage 1.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Industrial Field of Application) The present invention provides a method for pasting a plurality of labels in a fixed arrangement on a standard sheet of paper having the size of a plurality of postcards, and then attaching a plurality of sheets of the standard sheet of paper. The present invention relates to an apparatus for continuously manufacturing labeled postcards, etc. by cutting the label paper into sections.

(Prior art and its problems) There is a known manufacturing device for labeling postcards, etc., which is configured to send out postcards with necessary information printed one by one and automatically attach a label to each postcard, etc. When using a manufacturing device such as It is necessary to prepare cut pieces to be divided into postcards, etc.

If paper of the final size is used from the initial printing process as in the former case, the printing cost per sheet will be extremely high, so the latter method will be adopted. When implementing this, a printing device with a cutting function and a label pasting device must be used together, which not only increases equipment costs, but also requires transferring the printed and cut paper from the printing device to the label pasting device. Since it takes time and effort to do so, the problems caused by the former method cannot be definitively resolved.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the conventional problems as described above, the present invention has the following features:
A paper conveyance path, a label pasting means for pasting a plurality of labels in a fixed arrangement on the standard size paper conveyed on the paper conveyance path, and a label pasting means for cutting the labeled standard size paper on the paper conveyance path between each label. We propose an apparatus for producing labeled postcards, etc., which comprises a cutting means that divides the paper into a plurality of labeled sheets, and a carrying means that stacks the plurality of labeled sheets sent out from the cutting means in a predetermined order and carries them out. It is something to do.

(Example) An example of the present invention will be described below based on the attached illustrative drawings.

In FIG. 1, ■ is a paper conveyance path, which conveys A4 size paper P one by one from the paper stacking section 2 by a pickup roller 3, sandwiching it therebetween.
It includes drive rollers 4-8 and press rollers 9-13. Reference numeral 14 denotes a loading table provided in the paper stacking section 2, and the pickup roller 3 is moved so that the uppermost sheet P comes into contact with the pickup roller 3 with a substantially constant pressure.
It is driven upward as the paper is fed out. 15 is a means for preventing two sheets of paper P from being sent out from the pickup roller 3 while being overlapped, and is composed of a lower reverse rotation drive belt 16 and an upper side rotation drive roller 17. 1
8 are paper guide plates, respectively.

Reference numeral 19 denotes a label pasting device, which temporarily attaches labels to a stacking section 21 for continuous mount paper 20, a guide roller 22 and a braking presser plate 23, a drive roller 24 for feeding the mount paper and a press roller 25, a mount reversing guide 26 for label peeling, Label pressing roller 27, drive roller 28 for drawing backing paper
and a press roller 29, a guide roller 30, a press roller 31, a dancer roller 32, and a winding drive shaft 33.

34 is a cutting means, which includes a cutter 3 for cutting in the left and right lateral directions;
5 and a slitter 36 for longitudinal cutting.

As shown in FIG. 2, the cutter 35 of the cutting means 34
consists of an upper swinging blade 35a arranged to cross the paper conveyance path 1 and a lower fixed receiver blade 35b, and a drive protruding from the drive shaft 37 of the upper swinging blade 35a. A lever 38 is pivotally attached via a support shaft 41 to the upper end of a vertically swinging arm 40 whose lower end is loosely fitted into an eccentric rotating body 39, and a drive shaft 39a of the eccentric rotating body 39 is rotated by a motor 42. As a result, the upper swinging blade 35a swings up and down within a certain angle range, and the lower fixed receiver cuts the paper P in the horizontal and horizontal directions between it and the blade 35b. An electromagnetic clutch is interposed in the transmission system to the eccentric rotating body 39, and the vertically swinging blade body 35
a is stopped every reciprocating swing. The cutting means 3
The slitter 36 of No. 4 consists of a lower drive rotary blade body 36a that is driven by a motor 43 via a transmission timing belt 44, and an upper driven rotary blade body 36b.
Cut at the center position in the left and right horizontal directions in the front and back vertical direction (paper transport direction).

Each of the drive rollers 4 to 8 of the paper conveyance path 1, the lower reverse rotation drive belt 16 and the upper normal rotation drive roller 17 of the means 15, and the pickup roller 3 are provided with a timing belt for transmission to the lower drive rotary blade body 36a. An electromagnetic clutch is interposed in the transmission system to the pickup roller 3.

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, a discharging means 45 is provided at the end of the paper conveying path l.

This delivery means 45 includes a delivery drive roller 46 and a press roller 47 disposed at the terminal end of the paper transport path l.
, a high-speed belt conveyor 48, a medium-speed belt conveyor 49, and a pressing roller 5 on each conveyor, which are arranged in series in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the end of the paper conveyance path 1.
0.51, a low-speed belt conveyor 52 connected to the tip of the high-speed belt conveyor 48 at a level one step lower, a pressing roller 53 on the low-speed belt conveyor 52, and a postcard stand disposed at the end of the low-speed belt conveyor 52. The drive roller 46 for sending out, which is composed of a guide plate 54,
Similarly, a pair of left and right rollers are attached to a common drive shaft, and the drive rollers 8 and 8 are connected to each other via the final stage drive roller 8 and a transmission timing heald 55 so that they rotate at a slightly higher speed than the drive rollers 4 to 8 of the paper conveyance path 1. Linked together. Further, similarly to the press rollers 9 to 13 on the paper conveyance path 1, the press rollers 47 are connected to drive rollers 4 to 13, 46, respectively.
A pair of left and right are provided to correspond with each other. Reference numeral 57 denotes a vertically swinging arm that separately supports each of the presser roller shafts 10a to 13a and 47a, and is biased by a spring 58 in a direction in which each of the presser rollers 10 to 13.47 moves downward. Reference numeral 58 denotes a press roller disposed on the terminal end of the high-speed belt conveyor 48, and like the press roller 53 on the low-speed belt conveyor 52, it comes into contact with the conveyor belt by gravity.

The high speed belt conveyor 48 and the medium speed belt conveyor 49
The low-speed belt conveyor 52 is operatively connected to a motor 59 via a transmission timing belt 60, and the low-speed belt conveyor 52 is operatively connected to a motor 61 via a transmission timing belt 62. Further, the holding rollers 50, 51 are vertically swinging arms that are interlocked and connected via links 67, 68 to eccentric positions of rotary plates 65, 66, which are rotated forward and backward within a certain angle range by rotary solenoids 63, 64, respectively. 69.70, rotary solenoid 63.6
4 to move the vertically swinging arm 69, 70 upward against gravity or the biasing force of the spring,
It can be moved upwardly away from belt conveyors 48, 49 as shown by imaginary lines in FIGS. 1, 2, and 4.

Next, the method of use and operation of the manufacturing apparatus for labeling postcards, etc. configured as described above will be explained.The labeling means 1
9, the label tacking on the stacking section 21 is performed by pulling out the continuous mount 20 and attaching it between the guide roller 22 and the braking press plate 23, between the mount feed drive roller 24 and the press roller 25, and between the mount for label peeling. At the tip of the reversing guide 26, between the mount drawing drive roller 28 and the press roller 29, the guide roller 30 and the press roller 31
By rotationally driving each of the drive rollers 24, 28 and the winding drive shaft 33 with the tips thereof being locked to the winding drive shaft 33 via the dancer roller 32, When the continuous mount 20 passes through the tip of the label peeling mount reversing guide 26 and is reversed, the label is peeled off while peeling off the label temporarily attached to the continuous mount 20 and which is harder than the mount from the continuous mount 20. The sheet can be sent forward from the tip of the sheet reversing guide 26.

On the other hand, on the paper conveyance path 1, the sheets P, which are sent out one by one from the paper stacking section 2 by the pickup roller 3, can be conveyed at regular intervals by the drive rollers 4 to 8 and the press rollers 9 to 13. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 5, four labels R are temporarily attached to each continuous A4 size area 20a on the continuous mount 20, and the A4 size paper P is the label of the label pasting means 19. By activating the label pasting means 19 when passing under the peel-off mount reversing guide 26 and moving the continuous mount 20 by the length of the A4 size area 20a at the same speed as the paper P, each sheet Four labels R, front, rear, left, and right, which are sent out from the tip of the label peeling mount reversing guide 26, can be automatically pasted onto P by the label pressing roller 27. The specific structure and labeling action of the labeling means 19 are described in, for example, Utility Model Application Publication No. 1-1999.
Since these are well known in the art from, for example, Japanese Patent No. 91714, detailed explanation thereof will be omitted.

As described above, by the label pasting means 19, the paper conveyance path l
Four labels R are pasted on each sheet of paper P conveyed above, one each in four areas (1) to (4), which are divided into two parts of the sheet P vertically, as shown in FIG. 6A. However, the center position of the length of the labeled paper P in the transport direction, that is, the front half (regions (1) and (3)) and the rear half (regions (1) and (3)) of the labeled paper P shown in FIG. When the horizontal cutting position PX between areas (2) and (4)) reaches the cutting action position of the cutter 35 in the cutting means 34, each driving roller 4 to 8 of the sheet conveying means 1 is activated. Then, as shown in FIG. 7, the motor 42 causes the vertically swinging blade 35a of the cutter 35 to reciprocate once. As a result, the label-attached paper P is moved between the vertically swinging blade 35a and the fixed receiver by the blade 35.
b, and the labeled paper P is sheared between the first half (areas (1) and (3)) P as shown in FIG. 6B.
13 and the latter half (areas (2) and (4)) P24.

Once the cutter 35 completes cutting the labeled paper P in the left and right lateral directions, the drive rollers 4 to 8 of the paper transport path 1, the pickup roller 3, etc. are driven again to feed the paper P from the stacking section 2. , attaches a label R to the paper P, and conveys the label-attached paper P divided into two parts, front and rear, toward the carrying-out means 45 .

By repeating the above action, the first half P13 and the second half P24 of the paper, each having the label R attached to the left and right two places and divided into the front and back, pass through the slitter 36 one after another. The lower driving rotary blade 36a and the upper driven rotary blade 36b of the slitter 36 move the right half (areas (1) and (2)) and the left half of the labeled sheet P shown in FIG. 6A. The longitudinal cutting position py between (areas (3) and (4)) is cut, and the first half P13 and the second half P24 of the labeled paper are further divided into two left and right parts, and the sixth Each label R as shown in Figure C.
4 labeled postcards P1 to P4 with one affixed to each
becomes.

Next, two labeled postcards PI are placed side by side in the left and right direction.
, P3 and P2. P4 is a delivery drive roller 4 of the delivery means 45 located at the end of the paper conveyance path l as shown in FIG.
6 and press roller 47, the belt is sequentially conveyed onto the next high-speed belt conveyor 48 and medium-speed belt conveyor 49. At this time, both belt conveyors 48 and 49 are stopped, and the press rollers 50 and 51 are retracted upward as shown in the figure by the Low Clean Renoite 63, 64, and the labeled postcards Pi, P3, P2. P4, high speed belt conveyor 4
8 and the press roller 50, and between the medium speed belt conveyor 49 and the press roller 50, respectively. Also, at this time, since the delivery drive roller 46 rotates at a slightly higher speed than the drive rollers 4 to 8 of the paper conveyance path 1, the paper is sent out while being held between the drive roller 8 and the presser roller 13 as shown in FIG. Subsequent labeled postcard P2. Gap between P4 (cutting point)
are spread back and forth, and there is no risk that the rear end of the labeled postcard PIP3, which is sent out in advance, and the front end of the subsequent labeled postcard P2P4 will collide with each other, as shown in Figure 6 and Figure 9. After the preceding labeled postcards PI and P3 are transferred onto each belt conveyor 4849, these labeled postcards P='l,
Subsequent labeled postcard P2. on top of P3. They are transferred so that P4 overlaps.

As described above, the labeled postcards PI and P2 are transferred onto the high-speed belt conveyor 48 in an overlapping manner, and the labeled postcards P3. If the P4s are overlapped and transferred, each holding roller 50 is moved by the rotary solenoid 63°64 as shown in FIG.
．． 51 and lower both belt conveyors 48.4.
9 at predetermined speeds by the motor 59, each of the two labeled postcards PL, P2 and P
3. P4 is conveyed horizontally at right angles to low speed belt conveyor 5.
However, due to the difference in conveying speed between both belt conveyors 48 and 49, as shown in FIG. Pasted postcard P3. The gap (cutting point) between P4 and P4 will be widened. Therefore, the trailing ends of the preceding labeled postcards PI, P2 and the following labeled postcards P3. The front ends of P4 are sent to the low-speed belt conveyor 52 without fear of collision with each other. By setting the conveyance speed of this low-speed belt conveyor 52 to be sufficiently low compared to the conveyance speed of both belt conveyors 48 and 49, as shown in FIG. 6E and FIG. After the postcards PL, P2 are transferred onto the low-speed belt conveyor 52, the subsequent labeled postcards P3. Most of P4 will be transferred so that they overlap. Once the labeled postcards P1 to P4 have been sent onto the low-speed belt conveyor 52 by both belt conveyors 48, 49, both belt conveyors 48, 49 are stopped, and the press rollers 50, 51 are moved upward and retracted, and the next label is transferred. The recipient of pasted postcards P1 to P4 is prepared to be picked up.

By repeating the above action, four labeled postcards P1 to P4 are transferred onto the low-speed belt conveyor 52 in a bundled state, but as described above, the conveyance speed of the belt conveyor 52 is sufficiently At a low speed (possibly, the front edges of the four subsequent bundles of labeled postcards 21 to 24 overlap each other on the trailing edges of the preceding four bundles of labeled postcards 21 to 24, so that they are moved one after another). Therefore, as shown in FIG. 4, at the end of the low-speed belt conveyor 52, each bundle of labeled postcards P1
~P4 can be scooped up by the postcard raising guide plate 54 and raised one by one while remaining in an overlapping state.

According to the above embodiment, the four areas (1) to (4) set on each A4 size paper P include No.
1-No, 4. No on the second page, 5-No
, 8, etc., if consecutive numbers are printed in the order of the areas (1) to (4), the low speed belt conveyor 5
At the end of No. 2, labeled postcards are obtained that are lined up in the order of the printing numbers.

(Operations and Effects of the Invention) As described above, according to the apparatus for manufacturing labeled postcards, etc. of the present invention, standard paper having a size that is an integral multiple of the labeling paper to be finally obtained is placed on the paper conveyance path. By sequentially supplying the paper, a plurality of labels are affixed in a fixed arrangement by a label affixing means to the standard paper being conveyed on this paper conveyance path,
This standard paper with labels pasted on it is cut between each label by a cutting means to divide it into a plurality of label pasting papers, and the plurality of label pasting papers sent out from the cutting means are stacked in a predetermined order by a delivery means. It can be carried out.

Therefore, even if it is necessary to print each label sheet in advance, it is possible to print on the front side of a standard sheet of paper that is an integral multiple of the size of the final label sheet. , the printing cost per sheet is lower (compared to using paper of the final size from the initial printing process).
You can. Also, compared to the case where a printing device with cutting functions and a label pasting device must be used together, the series of operations of label pasting, cutting, stacking and transporting can be done in one step.
Since the process can be performed continuously by the device, not only the equipment cost is reduced, but also the effort and time required to transfer the printed and cut paper from one printing device to the label pasting device becomes unnecessary.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a schematic front view illustrating the overall configuration of the device, Figure 2 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional front view of the main parts, Figure 3 is a plan view of the main parts, and Figure 4 is a front view of the main parts.
5 is a schematic perspective view illustrating the label pasting action; FIG. 6 is a plan view illustrating the cutting procedure and stacking procedure for labeled sheets; and FIGS. FIG. 12 is a schematic longitudinal sectional view illustrating the operation of cutting, stacking and carrying out labeled sheets. ■... Paper transport path, 2... Paper stacking section, 3...
Pick-up roller, 4 to 8... Drive roller, 9
~13.47, 50, 51, 53.58... Pressing roller 19... Label pasting means, 20... Continuous mount for label temporary attachment, 26... Backing paper reversal guide for label peeling, 27. ...Label press roller, 34...
Cutting means, 35... Cutter for cutting in left and right horizontal directions, 35
a...Upper swinging blade body, 35b...Lower fixed cost is blade body, 36...Slitter for longitudinal longitudinal cutting, 36a...
・Lower part driven rotary blade body, 36b...Upper driven rotary blade body,
42. 43. 59. 61...Motor, 45.
... Carrying out means, 46... Drive roller for sending out, 48.
...High speed belt conveyor, 49...Medium speed belt conveyor, 52...Low speed belt conveyor, 54...Guide plate for postcard stand-up P...A4 size standard paper, R
···label.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] [1] A paper conveyance path, a label pasting means for pasting a plurality of labels in a fixed arrangement on standard paper sheets conveyed on the paper conveyance path, and label pasting on the paper conveyance path. A cutting means that cuts the finished standard paper between each label and divides it into a plurality of label sheets, and a carrying means that stacks the plurality of label sheets sent out from the cutting means in a predetermined order and carries them out. Manufacturing equipment for label-attached postcards, etc. [2] As the label pasting means, as the standard paper moves, two left and right labels are attached to the front and rear parts of the standard paper, respectively.
A label pasting means for pasting a sheet of label is used, and the cutting means includes a cutter for cutting horizontally in the left and right directions that divides the labeled standard paper into two halves, the first half and the second half of the divided paper. 2. The apparatus for producing labeled postcards, etc. according to claim 1, further comprising a slitter that divides the rear half into left and right halves as it moves.