JPH05105300A - Device for supplying plastic card or metal plate processed on punch to collecting container - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To aim at downsizing of a feeding device with a mechanism in which plastic cards or metal plates issuing from an apparatus in the upstream of the feeding device are fed by an inclined means in a supporting structure and are pushed up by a carrying means after changing a direction, and are retained in stacks in a collecting container. CONSTITUTION: This feeding device has a supporting structure 11, a box of housing element 12 which is extended in the central areas of the surface of the supporting structure 11, and a collecting container 13 mounted on the supporting structure 11 at free positions. The supporting structure houses inclined members consisting of the pair of plate members to be rotated by conduction mechanism due to operations of a motor 19. Plastic cards 14 are issued from a device provided in the upstream of the feeding device into a plurality of positioning seats formed in rotating plates. The plastic cards 14 are pushed up by a tooth 61 through rotation of a conveyor belt 60 after deciding a position by a cum wheel 40, and are inserted into the collecting container 13 through an inlet opening 17. A plurality of sheets of cards 14 are retained in stacks under pressure by elastic stack-retaining elements 16.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a feeding device for feeding a plastic card or a metal plate processed on a punching machine to a collecting container. In the following, the term "punching machine" is understood to mean a device used for personalizing plastic cards or metal plates. The process of personalization involves the transfer of alphanumeric data on a support made of plastic or metal material by means of punched characters or other descriptive techniques, or by the transfer of characters encoded as recorded magnetic or electrical information. Composed.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION A punching machine is a plastic card or a metal plate which has been processed once, where the term "plastic card" includes those made of other materials, and
It is understood to include cards to be punched or processed for use in a variety of different applications, such as "cards", "credit cards", etc., which are correctly placed in the collection container and are plastic cards in the container. Alternatively, metal plates are known to be stacked and stored in parallel with each other. The supply to the inside of the collecting container usually comes from a device belonging to the punching machine which is perfectly aligned with the inlet opening of the collecting container. A device configured to supply treated plastic cards or metal plates usually corresponds to a simple pressing device, which in turn delivers the card or metal plate ... Arriving from an upstream processing device ... into the collection container. It is transported and stacked and stored in parallel inside each other.

[0003]

In some new punching machines with a particularly compact construction, it is now necessary to feed individual punched cards or metal plates that have been processed and punched into a collecting container downstream of the feeding device. ing. There, the collecting container is arranged in different directions with respect to the direction of its inlet opening, or simply the inlet opening of the collecting container is rotating at an angle to the feed area of the upstream feeding device, or It exists on a plane different from or perpendicular to the plane containing the angle.

An object of the present invention is to provide a feeding device for feeding a plastic card or a treated metal plate to a device forming a part of a punching machine. This feeding device makes it possible to change the traveling direction of the card or label sent out from the device, so that the treated card or metal plate can be rotated at an angle, and the card or metal plate can be rotated in different planes. Can be placed at Such equipment must be such that it can be used on any punch machine,
It must be possible to change the direction, which is directly related to the flexibility of the punching machine or the compactness of the overall structure of the punching machine.

[0005]

The object of the present invention is achieved by providing a feeding device for feeding plastic cards or treated metal plates to a collecting container. That is, according to the invention, this supply device essentially comprises the collecting container means on which the individual plastic cards or metal plates processed in this collecting container are receiving / grip units. A support structure, which is sequentially collected by the device and stacked in the collection container, a first transport unit for placing the processed plastic card or metal plate received in the apparatus in a correct position, and the processed A tilting means provided therein with at least two positioning seats for the plastic card or the metal plate, and the plastic card or metal plate collecting the plastic card or the metal plate from a first position at which the tilting means receives the plastic card or the metal plate. After being rotated to a position where it can be supplied to the container means, the treated plastic car is treated. Or pick up a metal plate,
A second transport unit for taking out the plastic card or the metal plate from the positioning seat and carrying it into the collecting container means in correspondence with the external pressing means, and at least for driving various means which are parts of the supply device. Is also composed of one motor means. The structural, functional features and advantages of the device of the present invention can be readily understood from the following exemplary, non-limiting disclosure of the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring to FIGS. 1 to 3, a feeder according to the invention for feeding a plastic card or a metal plate processed in a punching machine to a collecting container is essentially constituted by a support structure 11 on which An elongated box-shaped housing element 12 is extended. The housing element 12 is located in the central region of the upper surface of the support structure 11. The device is capable of receiving a collection container means indicated by the reference numeral 13 corresponding to the free position of its upper surface. Inside the collecting container means is a plastic card or metal plate 14
Are sequentially collected to produce a stack.

The plastic card or metal plate 14 is pressed by the plate-shaped element 15 which acts as an internal pressing element, and is appropriately forced in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 1 by the presence of the elastic element 16. Due to the presence of this elastic element 16, the stack of plastic cards or metal plates 14 corresponding to the lower inlet opening 17 provided in the collecting container means 13 is maintained properly. Further, a flat curved end spring 18 is provided corresponding to the opening. In its rest position, the flat spring 18 keeps the lower inlet opening 17 closed.

Inside the container 13, a flat elastic element 118 is provided. This elastic element 118 stops the treated plastic card or metal plate 14 inserted corresponding to the inlet opening 17 and at the same time is already inserted against the inner plate-like pressing element 15 and the collecting container means 1
Anti-force the card or metal plate stack that is completely stacked and maintained in 3.

The feeding device according to the invention is provided with associated motor means arranged outside the support structure 11.
This motor means is partly shown at 19, which is for example a stepper motor. The drive shaft 20 extends inside the support structure 11, and a first toothed pulley 21 is key-fixed to this shaft. The toothed pulley 21 drives the rotation of the first toothed belt 22, and the rotation of the belt 22 causes the second toothed pulley 23 to rotate. Pulley 2
Reference numeral 3 is key-fixed or pin-locked on a second shaft 24 rotatably supported inside the support structure 11.

The second shaft 24 also has a first pinion gear or gear wheel 125 keyed thereon, and a second pinion gear or gear wheel 126 and a first bevel gear wheel 27 at the other end.

The first pinion gear 125 meshes with a second pinion gear or gear wheel 126. The gear wheel 126 is appropriately supported on the small shaft 127 together with the third toothed pulley 25. The third toothed pulley 25 transmits the rotational movement to the second toothed belt 28. The second toothed belt 28 is a special type of belt and comprises tooth / pressing elements 29 extending from its outer surface.
The second toothed belt 28 runs around a plurality of return rollers composed of two toothed rollers 30 and another roller 31. The return roller determines the proper trajectory of the toothed belt 28. The toothed belt 28 and its toothed body 29 constitute a first conveying unit. As will be understood from the following description, the first conveying means receives the plastic card or the metal plate 14 from the upstream device in the horizontal portion between the toothed rollers 30, and installs it in parallel with the first conveying means. Co-operate to insert into the inclined means. The tilting means delivers the plastic card or metal plate 14 to the second downstream carrier means and feeds the plastic card or metal plate into the collecting container 13 as will be explained in more detail below.

The second pinion 26 meshes with the lateral gear 32. The lateral gear 32 is stably connected to the third shaft 33 and is rotationally driven by the shaft. The third shaft 33 is rotatably supported on a support 34, which is also used to support the tilting means described in detail below. The third shaft 33 also has a fourth pinion gear 35 keyed thereon, which gear 35 is connected via an intermediate idle gear wheel 36 to a gear wheel 37.
To rotate. The gear wheel 37 further idles on a fourth shaft 38. The shaft 38 is the support 3
4 is rotatably supported.

The fourth shaft 38 has a pair of plate-like elements key-fixed on it in its rotation. This plate-like element is generally designated by the reference numeral 39 and constitutes a tilting means with its axis of rotation oriented essentially parallel to said second conveyor belt 28. The tilting means elements 39 are spaced parallel to one another and are provided with four seats 71 arranged substantially along the chords of a circular plate-shaped element.
These seats 71 preferably have an enlarged entrance 72 for facilitating receipt of the plastic card or metal plate 14.

The gear wheel 37 and the tilting means 39
A first freewheel means or intermittent unidirectional mechanism is incorporated between the first elements of the. Such free wheel means is constituted by a first cam 40 which is integrated with the gear wheel 37 and a first bell crank 41 which oscillates around a pivot 42 which is constrained by the first element of the tilting means 39. There is. The first cam 40 is a plate having an escape recess 43 formed substantially on its surface, and a follower 44 supported at one end of the bell crank 41 is disposed inside the escape recess 43. The other end of the bell crank 41 is restrained by the spring 46 at the 45th portion. The spring 46 is constrained at its other end by the first tilting means 39 during its rotation.

The fourth shaft 48 has a second tilting means 39 and a second freewheel means extending from the support 34 and constrained at its opposite end. The freewheel means can rotate exactly in the opposite direction to the direction of rotation of the first freewheel means described above.

The second freewheel means comprises a second cam 48 which is substantially similar to the first cam 40. However, as can be seen from the same side of the device, there is a relief recess 49 arranged exactly opposite to the relief recess 43. The follower 50 further enters the escape recess 49. The follower 50 is rotatably supported on the free end of the second vibrating bell crank 51. The central portion of the bell crank 51 is pivotally supported around the pivot 52. The pivot 52 is integrally supported by a support body 53 which is constrained by the support structure 11. The other end of the bell crank 51 is restrained by a spring 55 at 54. The spring 55 is constrained by a pivot 56 extending from the support portion 53 during its rotation.

The first bevel gear 27 integrally formed with the second shaft 24 described above meshes with the second bevel gear 57 in its rotation. The second bevel gear 57 is the support structure 1.
It is rotatably supported on a shaft 58 that is integrally formed with the shaft 1. The shaft 58 is provided with a toothed pulley 59 which is keyed coaxially therewith. The toothed pulley 59 drives the third toothed pulley 60. This third toothed pulley 60 is of a special type and has tooth bodies or pressing elements 61 protruding from its surface.

The third toothed pulley 60 also runs around a further toothed pulley 64 which is rotatably supported inside the box-shaped housing element 12. The box-shaped housing element 12 is hollow and is connected at its bottom to the support structure 11. At least a portion of the third toothed pulley 60, for example, a portion facing the inclining means is arranged vertically.
The plastic container or the metal plate 14 is picked up from one of the seats 71 of the tilting means 39, and the plastic card or the metal plate 14 is run through the upper wall 67 of the support structure 11 and the respective openings 69 supplied to the collection container. It is conveyed to the inside of 13.

A set of return rollers 130 are suitably supported within the support structure 11 and the elongated box-like housing element 12 to allow the third toothed pulley 60 to travel properly with its teeth and to provide the rest of the machine with the rest of the apparatus. Avoid contact.

The box-shaped housing element 12 has an elongated vertical opening 65 in the side wall facing the container means 13, from which the free end of the tooth body 61 projects with the possibility of free sliding. The wall of the box-shaped housing element 12 and the wall of the collecting container means 13 facing the box-shaped housing element 12 have openings 100 through which a pair of small wheels 74 pass. The small wheel 74 has a shaft 76 that supports the toothed pulley 64.
It is freely rotatable around the pivot of the non-concentric element 75 located at. Such a small wheel 74 cooperates with the associated non-concentric element 75 to form an external pressing means provided on the part corresponding to said collecting container means 13. Such external pressing means realize the pressing / laminating movement of the plastic card or metal plate 14 which is blocked by the flat elastic element 118. This pressing / laminating motion is caused by the elastic element 11
8 towards the stack of plastic cards or metal plates 14 behind 8.

The shaft 77, on which one of the toothed rollers 30 described above is provided, further carries a fifth pinion 78.
The pinion 78 meshes with a seventh pinion 79 key-fixed to another shaft 80. The shaft 80 is provided with a series of O-ring-like rings 83 corresponding to a series of appropriately retracted annular seats 81 in at least two pulley-like enlarged sections 82. A second shaft 84 is incorporated in front of the shaft 80, and similarly to the shaft 80, an annular seat 86 and a ring 87 such as an O-ring are installed in the recess of the enlarged portion 85 thereof. ing.

The shaft 84 is rotatably arranged on the lever support 88, and one end of the lever support 88 is pivotally supported at 89 at a part of the support structure 11. The contact between the ring elements 83 and 87 mounted on opposite shafts 80 and 84 is ensured by a belt 90 which maintains this contact in place. The belt 90 may also have a circular cross section, for example. In particular, a seventh pinion gear 91 is installed at the end of the shaft 84. The pinion gear 91 is appropriately meshed with an eighth pinion gear 92 which is rotatably supported on a lever support 88 via another shaft 93. Further, a retracted annular seat 94 is accurately provided on the shaft 93, and the belt 90 is inserted into this. Therefore, the belt 90 has the shafts 93 and 80.
Between the pinion gears 91 and 92.
The rotary motion is transmitted to the shaft 84 via.

A flat spring 95, for example, is constrained on the lever support 88 and the plastic card or metal plate 14 passes between the opposed rings 83 and 87 inside the associated seat 71 of the tilting means. When the position is reached, it operates to prevent the plastic card or metal plate 14 from being ejected.

The rings 83 and 87, together with their corresponding support shafts and oscillating levers 88, implement a receiving / grip unit for receiving and gripping the plastic card or metal plate inside the feeder of the invention.

The operation of the supply device of the present invention will be briefly described below. The motor means 19 rotates the drive shaft 20 in the direction indicated by the arrow B in FIG. 3, thereby rotating the first toothed belt 22 counterclockwise. This belt 22 consequently rotates the second toothed belt 28 in the clockwise direction.

The interaction between the fifth pinion 78 and the sixth pinion 79 causes the rings 83 and 87 to oppose each other to rotate and to feed the rings closer by means of a device installed upstream of the feeding device of the present invention. A plastic card or a metal plate is drawn inside the device and enters the seat 71 of the tilting means. Due to the continuous rotation of the belt 28, the tooth body 29 moves upward to reach the second position from the first position shown in FIG. 3, and the plastic card or the metal plate is opposed to the rings 83 and 8.
The seat portion 7 of the tilting means is taken out from the area defined by 7.
It is brought exactly to the position located at the top and the bottom, which is removed from 1.

During this operation, the gear wheel 3
5, 36 and 37 cause the cam 40 to rotate clockwise, ie according to arrow C in FIG.
The tilting means are inactive because 4 is free to come out of the associated relief recess 43. Since the follower 50 is engaged in the recess 49, the second cam 48 integral with the shaft 38 prevents the shaft 38 from rotating.

Similarly, the drive shaft 20 is driven by the motor means 19.
3 in the direction indicated by the arrow B in FIG. 3, the pair of bevel gears 27 and 57 rotate the belt 60, which causes the tooth body 61 at its lowest position to rotate 90 ° relative to the previous seat. By engaging a plastic card or metal plate 14 contained in an angled seat 71, said plastic card or metal plate 14
Through the openings 69 and 17 to reach the interior of the collection container 13 in front of the flat elastic element 118.

Tooth body 61 for pressing a card or a metal plate
During the ascending movement of the small wheel 74, the small wheel 74 is free to rotate in the direction indicated by arrow D (FIG. 1), thereby opening 100
Enter and exit from there by the time the card or metal plate 14 enters those openings.

By reversing the rotation direction of the motor means 19,
The belts 22 and 28 rotate in opposite directions, so that the tooth body 29 returns to the initial position shown by the chain line in FIG. That is,
The rings 83 and 87 facing each other reverse their direction of rotation and do not move. The tooth 61 also returns to its original position shown in FIG.

By reversing the direction of rotation with respect to the direction of rotation indicated by arrow C, the gear wheels 35, 36
The kinematic transmission chain constituted by 37 and 37 actuates the follower 44 to move it into the recess 43, thus actuating the tilting means.

The card or metal plate 14 already contained in the seat 71 in the horizontal position is moved to the vertical position facing the vertical portion of the belt 60. A second cam 48 and associated follower 5 that has a relief action in the relief recess 49.
The presence of 0 allows shaft 38 to rotate freely.

A pair of wheels 74, which are rotating in the opposite direction to the direction of rotation of arrow D, are now introduced into the collecting container means 13 before overcoming the reaction of the flat elastic element 118 and the elastic element 16. Card or metal plate 1
Press 4 to contact the last card or metal plate in the stack.

Therefore, according to the feeding device of the present invention, the plastic card or metal plate introduced from the device to be received and gripped is located in the tilting means, and the plastic card or metal contained in the seat of this tilting means. The plate is at a constant angle, ie here 9 as an example
It is tilted at 0 ° and is better filled by the collecting means, which in this example is arranged in a substantially vertical direction.

By providing the tilt means with four seats 71 which are offset from each other by 90 °, the plastic card or metal plate introduced from the upstream device is received and held during the gripping period. It can be easily understood that the can be inserted into the seat portion 71 of the tilting means, and at the same time, the plastic card or the metal plate previously introduced into the adjacent seat portion can be removed and introduced into the container means 13.

During the successive drive steps of the tilting means, the movement of the wheel 74 simultaneously causes the final lamination of the plastic card or metal plate supported by the spring 112. Obviously, in terms of operating speed of the device according to the invention, it is advantageous to process two plastic cards or metal plates at the same time.

[0036]

According to the above-described feeding device of the present invention, it is possible to change the traveling direction of the card or label sent from the upstream device, rotate the processed card or the metal plate at a certain angle, and the above-mentioned card. Alternatively, the metal plates can be placed on different planes. Therefore, the supply device of the present invention is highly versatile in device configuration, and as a result, a compact device can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway front view of a supply device for a plastic card or a metal plate of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a rear view showing a part of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1 by cutting.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line III-III in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Support Structure 12 Housing Element 13 Collection Container Means 14 Plastic Card or Metal Plate 15 Plate Element 16 Elastic Element 17 Lower Entrance Opening 18 Flat Spring 19 Motor Means 20 Drive Shaft 21 Toothed Pulley 22 Toothed Belt 23 Toothed Pulley 24 Second axis 39 tilting means

Claims (12)

[Claims] 1. A supply device for performing the operation of supplying a plastic container or a metal plate to be processed on a punching machine to a collecting container means, wherein the supplying device essentially comprises the collecting container means thereon. A support structure in which the individual plastic cards or metal plates that have been installed and processed in this collection container are sequentially collected by a receiving / holding unit for them and stacked in the collection container, and are received by the device. A first transport unit for placing the treated plastic card or metal plate in the correct position, and a tilting means provided therein with at least two positioning seats for said treated plastic card or metal plate. From the first position where the tilting means receives the plastic card or the metal plate, After the metal plate or metal plate is rotated to a position where it can be supplied to the collecting container means, the treated plastic card or metal plate is picked up, and the plastic card or metal plate is taken out from the positioning seat and pressed by the outside. A supply device comprising a second transport unit for corresponding means into the collection container means and at least one motor means for driving the means which are parts of the supply device. 2. The tilting means is composed of a pair of plate-like elements that are integrally provided on a shaft supported on an associated support in the support structure and are spaced apart from each other in parallel. 2. Feeding device according to claim 1, characterized in that the plate element is provided with at least two seats which can receive the plastic card or the metal plate. 3. The seats are four, each 90 °
3. Feeding device according to claim 2, characterized in that it is offset and has an enlarged entrance. 4. The supply device according to claim 2, wherein the plate-shaped element has a circular shape, and the seat portion is provided along a chord of the plate-shaped element. 5. The second transfer means for picking up and taking out the treated plastic card or metal plate from the positioning seat is rotatably provided in the support structure and a box-shaped container element vertically extended from the support structure. A supported toothed belt having toothed bodies projecting from its outer surface, the outer surface of the toothed belt being vertically mounted in a box-shaped element of the container. 2. The feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the feeding device is capable of being conveyed on a wall facing the container means in the extended space. 6. The external pressing means comprises two non-concentric wheels arranged on a pulley operatively driven by the second conveying means, the wheels being the surface of the collecting container means. The said 5th aspect is arrange | positioned corresponding to the opening provided in the said.
The supply device described. 7. The first conveying means for accurately positioning the plastic card or the metal plate in the positioning seat of the tilting means is a toothed belt having tooth bodies protruding from the outer surface thereof. The feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the tooth belt has a horizontal portion parallel to the axis of the tilting means. 8. The first conveying means and the second conveying means are toothed belts having tooth bodies protruding from their outer surfaces, respectively, and at least an operating portion of the first toothed belt is A second toothed belt, parallel to the axis of the tilting means, is a position essentially perpendicular to the container means, opposite the container means, in the support structure of the first means, and to the first means with respect to the tilting means. Opposite the toothed belt along a direction perpendicular to the direction of the first toothed belt, the tilting means comprising a shaft supported on an associated support in the support structure. Is formed integrally with a pair of plate-like elements spaced apart in parallel to each other, each plate-like element is provided with four seats capable of receiving the plastic card or the metal plate, The first and second belts are A kinematic transport chain operatively driven by the tilting means and transmitting rotary motion to the shaft of the tilting means, the shaft of the tilting means having opposite rotational directions at both ends thereof. Having two freewheels arranged, said first freewheel means comprising said holding means and said first toothed belt, said first precise positioning transport means being said plastic card or metal plate When not feeding, the tilting means is rotated, the second freewheel means feeds the plastic card or metal plate into which the holding means and the first belt enter the feeding device, and positions them correctly, When the second belt moves and inserts a plastic card or a metal plate into the container means from one of the seats of the tilting means, Serial to prevent rotation of the tilting means, said external pressing means is further configured by said second two small non-concentric wheels disposed on a pulley operatively driven by the conveying means,
The small wheels are arranged opposite each other in an opening provided in the surface of the collecting container means, the small wheels are non-operatively biased when the tilting means is blocked, and when the tilting means rotate. A dispenser as claimed in claim 1 wherein the plastic card or metal plate is operatively pushed into the collection container means. 9. The two free wheel means respectively include a cam plate having a relief recess on one side surface thereof and a hinge lever having an engagement follower arranged in the relief recess on one side surface thereof and provided at one end thereof. 2. The feeding device according to claim 1, further comprising: a hinge lever connected to an elastic element that ensures mutual contact between the follower and the cam plate. 10. The collecting container means including the plastic card or the metal plate is provided inside itself with a plate-like element acting as an internal pressing means for pressing the plastic card or the metal plate toward the lower entrance direction. , Incorporating at least one flat spring co-operating to keep the plastic card or metal plate in the container in the inlet, and further blocking the plastic card or metal plate inserted in the inlet 2. The feeding device according to claim 1, further comprising a flat spring-like element that opposes the pressing action applied by the internal pressing element. 11. The receiving unit supports a plurality of rings, each of which is composed of a pair of shafts opposed to each other, which is incorporated in the first conveying means portion, and has a flexible contact between the rings of the pair of shafts. The supply device according to claim 1, further comprising an elastic element that secures 12. One of the pair of shafts is rotatably supported on a lever pivotally supported on the support structure at one end thereof, and is disposed between the first shaft and the other shaft. The supply device according to claim 1, wherein the contact is ensured by the elastic element.