JPH042926Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to an aperture card accumulating and discharging device in an aperture card utilization device such as a microfilm printer or reader.

[Conventional technology]

In the conventional aperture card utilization device as described above, a large number of aperture cards are stored in a storage/supply device in a desired order, and these aperture cards are sequentially supplied from the storage/supply device and passed through an optical scanning device. The information recorded on the aperture card is read by the aperture card, and the aperture card that has passed through the optical scanning device is stacked in the stacking and discharging device. In this case, the aperture card accumulating and discharging device includes an aperture card stopping device that stops the aperture card transferred on the transfer path from the optical scanning device at a predetermined position, and an aperture card stopping device that stops the aperture card that has been stopped by the stopping device. It has a moving device for moving the card to the card collection location.

The aperture card collection area consists of a tray that is arranged obliquely below the aperture card discharge port of the collection and discharge device, and the tray has a box-shaped structure with an open upper part. The tray receives the aperture cards that are sequentially discharged from the discharge port and falls, and accumulates them on the inclined bottom surface of the tray.

[Problem that the invention attempts to solve]

In the conventional aperture card stacking device as described above, the leading edge of the aperture card falling from the ejection port is inserted into the perforated hole of the aperture card already accumulated in the tray or around the microfilm mounting window. This may cause the aperture cards to be stacked unevenly on the tray.
There were some inconveniences such as the aperture card jumping out of the tray.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to eliminate the drawbacks of the conventional aperture card accumulating and discharging apparatus as described above, and to provide an aperture card accumulating and discharging apparatus that is simple in structure and easy to manufacture.

[Means for solving problems]

According to the present invention, the aperture card is moved diagonally across the transfer path of the aperture card to contact the lower portion of the aperture card and deflect the aperture card laterally with respect to the transfer path. a deflecting member disposed in the card ejection section; and an aperture card accumulation tray disposed to receive and accumulate the surface portion of the aperture card deflected and ejected from the aperture card ejection section; The card accumulation tray includes a bottom wall portion that supports and accumulates the surface portion of the aperture cards, a front wall portion formed at the front end of the bottom wall portion to receive the front ends of the accumulated aperture cards, and the front wall portion. an upper wall portion extending in the direction in which the bottom wall portion extends from the top wall portion to a central position of the bottom wall portion with a space between the bottom wall portion and the bottom wall portion; and a receiving plate portion that extends and crosses a falling path of the aperture card discharged from the discharge section.

[Effect]

With the above configuration, the aperture card falling into the aperture card accumulating tray is received by contacting the receiving plate part of the tray at its front end, and in this state, the aperture card is almost parallel to the bottom wall part. guided by the bottom wall section or onto the aperture cards already accumulated thereon. Therefore, the falling aperture card is stacked on top of the aperture card already stacked on the bottom wall portion without its front end catching on the aperture card.

〔Example〕

The illustrated embodiment is an example in which the present invention is applied to a microfilm printer, in which an aperture card storage and supply device 2 is provided on one side of the machine body 1, and this device 2 stores a large number of aperture cards therein. 3 are stored upright in the desired order. The aperture card storage device 2 itself has the structure of a conventional device, and the aperture card 3 is elastically pressed upward within the device 2 as seen in FIG.
The first or uppermost aperture card 3' is fed to the right by a suitable feeding device (not shown) and passed between rollers 4 and 5 to the optical scanning device 6. It is held by the scanning body 7.

The optical scanning device 6 has a light source 8, a lens 9, a slit member 10, and a lens 11, and the aperture card held on the scanning body 7 while the scanning body 7 moves rightward at a predetermined speed is exposed to the light source 8. The information recorded on the aperture card at this time is optically read by the reading device 12.

The aperture card scanned by the scanning body 7 is received by rollers 13 and 14, moves away from the scanning body 7, is transported to the right in the transport path 15, and is received by rollers 16 and 17.

An aperture card deflection member 18 is provided downstream of rollers 16 and 17. Deflection member 18
has the shape of a relatively thin elastic plate made of synthetic resin or metal material, and is fixed to the fuselage 1 at one end 19. The deflection member 18 has its end 1
9 and diagonally crosses the aperture card transfer path laterally, and the other end of the deflecting member 18, that is, the free end 20 is located rearward, that is, to the right of the end 19, and It is close to the aperture card outlet 21 formed on the other side, that is, the right side.

The aperture card transported by rollers 16 and 17 contacts the inclined surface of deflection member 18 with its leading end. As shown in FIG. 2, the deflection member 18 has a shape with a relatively small width in the vertical direction, and deflects the aperture card below the horizontal center line of the aperture card being transported upright. placed in contact with the part. As the aperture card is further transported by rollers 16 and 17, it is deflected downwardly from its tip, as seen in FIG. The lower part of the aperture card that is in contact with the deflection member 18 is larger than the upper part of the aperture card, and the degree of this deflection is larger than that of the upper part of the aperture card, and the force that tends to force the aperture card to fall upward is applied to the aperture card. act. In addition, code 30
is a static eliminating brush for removing static electricity from the aperture card.

As shown in Fig. 3, the outlet 2 is located outside the fuselage 1.
A substantially rectangular aperture card accumulating tray 22 is attached to the lower part of the machine body 1 by screws 23 so that one long side thereof is in contact with the machine body 1.
The tray 22 is biased relative to the aperture card transport path in the direction in which the aperture card is deflected by the deflection member 18, and is arranged to be inclined downward in the deflection direction. The tray 22 has a bottom wall portion 24 on which the aperture cards 3'' are accumulated, and the bottom wall portion 24 is inclined so that its front end 25 is located below its rear end 25'. Further, the tray 22 has a front wall portion 26 projecting upwardly from the front end 25 of the bottom wall portion 24, the front wall portion 26 being connected to the front end of the aperture card 3″ integrated on the bottom wall portion 24. is supported by contact.
The front wall section 26 connects to its upper end a lower end 28 of a top wall section 27, which is arranged to extend substantially parallel to the bottom wall section 24 and whose upper end 28' is formed to terminate above the intermediate portion of the bottom wall portion 24. Further, the tray 22 extends upwardly from an upper end 28' to the upper wall portion 27 at an angle of about 60° with respect to the upper wall portion 27, and has a fall path for the aperture card 3 falling from the discharge port 21 to the tray 22. A receiving plate portion 29 disposed in a direction crossing the is integrally formed.

The longitudinal length between the front end 25 and rear end 25' of the bottom wall portion 24 of the tray 22, ie, the long side A, is longer than the longitudinal length, ie, the long side B, of the aperture cards 3'' to be accumulated on the tray 22. Large and tray 2
The lateral length of the aperture card 3'', that is, the short side C, is larger than the lateral length of the aperture card 3'', that is, the short side D, but smaller than 2D.

With this configuration, the aperture card 3 deflected and ejected from the ejection port 21 falls onto the tray 22 as shown in FIG. In this state, the aperture card 3 is guided almost parallel to the bottom wall portion 24 along the receiving plate portion 29 and falls onto the aperture card 3, and furthermore, the aperture card 3 has its front end aligned with the front wall. It moves on the aperture card 3'' until it abuts on the section 26.The tip of the aperture card discharged into the tray first abuts on the receiving plate section 29, and then moves on the other aperture cards accumulated on the bottom wall section. Because it moves in a direction almost parallel to the surface of the card, the tip or corner of the ejected aperture card collides with the surface of other aperture cards that have already been accumulated in a perpendicular direction, thereby holding the film of the card. It gets caught in the frame or punched hole,
This solves the conventional problem of not being able to align and accumulate cards. In this way, a large number of aperture cards are stacked on the tray 22 in the order in which they are supplied and in a fixed orientation.

In the above example, the deflection member 18 is made of an elastic plate with the upstream end fixed, but instead, a rigid plate or rod with the upstream end pivotably supported is used, and this is attached to the aperture with a torsion spring or the like. It may be configured such that it is biased in a direction that resists the advance of the card. In such a configuration, in order to determine the stop position of the deflection member, a stopper such as a pin is provided on the upstream side of the deflection member so as to be able to come into contact with it.

[Effect of idea]

With the configuration described above, the present invention has an extremely simple structure, does not cause any malfunction during the transfer of aperture cards, and is capable of stacking a large number of aperture cards in a fixed direction in the order of transfer without error. It has excellent effects such as:

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cutaway top view of a microfilm printer incorporating an example of the aperture card accumulating and discharging device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a cutaway perspective view of the microfilm printer of FIG. 1;
The Figure is a cross-sectional view of another portion of the apparatus of Figure 1; 1... Airframe, 3, 3', 3''... Aperture card, 15... Transfer path, 18... Deflection member, 22...
...Aperture card accumulation tray, 24...bottom wall portion, 26...front wall portion, 29...receiving plate portion.

Claims (1)

[Claims for Utility Model Registration] A device that diagonally traverses the transfer path of an aperture card that is being transferred upright, contacts the lower portion of the aperture card, and deflects the aperture card laterally with respect to the transfer path. a deflection member disposed in the aperture card ejection section; and an aperture card accumulation tray disposed to receive and accumulate the surface portion of the aperture card deflected and ejected from the ejection section; The aperture card accumulation tray includes: a bottom wall portion that supports and accumulates the surface portion of the aperture cards; a front wall portion formed at the front end of the bottom wall portion to receive the front ends of the accumulated aperture cards; an upper wall portion extending in the direction in which the bottom wall portion extends from the front wall portion to a central position of the bottom wall portion with a space between the bottom wall portion; and a top wall portion spaced apart from the bottom wall portion from the tip of the top wall portion. An aperture card accumulating and discharging device comprising: a receiving plate portion extending in the direction and crossing a falling path of the aperture card discharged from the discharge section.