JPH0613196Y2 - Collator - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial Application Field) This invention relates to a collator.

(Prior Art) As is well known, a collator is used to arrange printed sheets from the first page to the last page in order, collect them one by one, and collect them into one book. To do. For that purpose, a plurality of paper feed shelves are arranged side by side, and the paper is placed on each paper feed rack in order, and the paper fed from each paper feed rack is stacked in order to obtain a desired collation. Do.

When performing such collations consecutively, it is important to sort and stack each book, and if this is not sorted at all, sort each book after collation. The work is extremely troublesome.

Therefore, the receiving shelves that receive and stack the sheets that have been collected in the past are shaken to the left and right each time one sheet of paper is sent, so that the sheets are crossed and stacked one by one. . However, this requires a drive source and a drive mechanism for alternately driving the receiving racks, which makes the configuration extremely complicated and large.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) The present invention has a simple structure and aims to feed the collected sheets so that it is easy to sort one book.

(Means for Solving Problems) This invention provides a shelf main body on which a sheet to be collated is placed with a movable guide for regulating a reference position of a side edge of the sheet parallel to the sheet feeding direction. The guide of the paper feeding shelf for feeding the paper of the first or last page is characterized in that it is set at a position moved in a direction orthogonal to the paper feeding direction.

(Embodiment) An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Reference numeral 1 denotes a shelf main body on which sheets to be collated are placed, and a pair of side plates 2 (one side plate is omitted) facing each other.
It is rotatable about a fulcrum shaft 3 that straddles. Reference numeral 4 is a paper feed roller, and 5 is a reference plate that regulates the leading end position of the paper.

The sheets placed on the shelf body 1 are discharged from the shelf body 1 in the arrow P direction (paper feeding direction) by the rotation of the paper feed roller 4. As the paper feeding progresses, the tip end side of the shelf main body 1 is raised about the fulcrum shaft 3 by a spring (not shown) or the like. These configurations are not different from those of a normal paper feeding rack of this type, and a collating machine is configured by arranging a plurality of the paper feeding racks in the vertical direction, for example.

According to this invention, it is provided on the guide 6 that regulates the reference position of the side edge of the sheet placed on the shelf body 1 parallel to the sheet feeding direction. Then, when the sheet is placed on the shelf body 1, the leading end of the sheet is brought into contact with the reference plate 5, and one side edge of the sheet is brought into contact with the guides 6, respectively. As a result, the sheet is set at a predetermined position on the shelf body 1.

Further, the guide 6 is movable in a direction orthogonal to the paper feeding direction. For that purpose, a lever 7 extending in a direction orthogonal to the paper feed direction is connected to the guide 6, and the guide 6 is moved by pushing the lever 7. The lever 7 passes through the back surface of the paper feed shelf 1.

The same number of paper shelves as the number of sheets to be collated (the number of pages for one book) are arranged in, for example, the vertical direction, and the paper is placed in each of the shelves so that they are arranged in order from the top (or the bottom). Can be posted. At this time, the guide 6 of the shelf main body 1 is set by moving the guide 6 of the shelf main body 1 by the lever 7 as shown in the center line of the drawing for the paper feed shelf on which the last page (or the first page) of paper is placed. In the example of the figure, the set position is a position displaced inward from the guide of the paper feed shelf that feeds the paper of other pages, so the reference position of the side edge of the paper of the last page is The position is shifted inward from the reference position of the side edge of the sheet.

When the collation is started after this, only the sheet 8 of the last page will be collated with the side edges displaced from the sheets 9 of the other pages, as shown in FIG. Therefore, after collating, the sheets 9 between the sheets 8 and the one sheet 8 following the sheet 9 are sorted in order from the top, so that one sheet can be easily sorted. In that case, since the paper 8 is conspicuously present with respect to the other paper 9, the work is extremely easy.

Note that the above description is an example of collating one book by all the paper feed shelves of one collator, but when the number of pages for one book is small, one collator Depending on the machine, multiple volumes may be collated. Even in that case, the guide 6 of the paper feed shelf 1 for the last page may be moved as described above for each book, and even in that case, sorting after collation becomes easy.

(Effects of the Invention) As described in detail above, according to the present invention, a collating machine is constituted by a plurality of paper feeding shelves, and the shelves main bodies of the respective paper feeding shelves regulate the positions of the side edges of the paper. With a simple guide, the guides of the paper feed shelves that feed the first or last page of paper from each paper feed rack are moved, and the sorting for each book after collation is performed. It has an effect that it can be easily performed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a front view showing a stacked state of sheets after collation. 1 ... Shelf body, 4 ... Paper feed roller, 6 ... Guide, 7 ...
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Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A plurality of paper feeds, each of which has a shelf body on which sheets to be collated are placed in order from the first page to the last page, and which feeds the sheets from the shelf body in the order. In a collating machine including shelves, each of the paper feed shelves is provided with a guide that regulates a reference position of a side edge of the paper parallel to the paper feed direction, and the first or last of the paper feed shelves is provided. The paper feed rack guide for feeding the paper of page No. 4 is orthogonal to the paper feed direction so that the guide position is displaced from the control position of the guide of the paper feed rack for feeding the paper of another page. A collator that is set at the position moved in the direction.