JPH06134956A - Delivering device for roll to be printed between bright room and dark room - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a delivering device for a roll to be printed between a bright room and a dark room to deliver the roll between the bright room and the dark room and to shut OFF invasion of an ultraviolet ray from the bright room to the dark room in this case. CONSTITUTION:A box-shaped apparatus case 10 is so provided in a lower part in a boundary wall between a bright room and a dark room as to protrude toward the bright room and the dark room, a sliding door 11 and an opening-out door 12 for cutting an ultraviolet ray are provided at the bright room side, an opening-out door 13 is provided at the dark room side, and a roll chuck rocking unit 20 for rocking a roll R to be printed to a position deviated as prescribed to the bright room side and a position deviated as prescribed to the dark room side by chucking both ends is provided in the case 10.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a stencil roll between a light chamber and a dark chamber for delivering a stencil roll between a handling robot in a bright chamber and a stacker crane in a dark chamber in a stencil factory. Delivery device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventional plate making operations have been automated except for photosensitive film coating and exposure printing. That is, a plating device, a developing device, an etching device, and a resist stripping device are arranged in a line, and a cassette-type hollow roll automatic desorption device (Japanese Patent Publication No. 57-36995; Patent No. 1278544) handles the plate-making rolls between the devices. It is designed to perform a series of processing. This line could not be installed in a bright room because it included a developing device, and was installed in a dark room where ultraviolet rays were cut. After that, the applicant of the present application, for the photosensitive film coating apparatus, a method and an apparatus which do not require manpower by rubbing the photosensitizer from a device requiring manpower by cross roll contact (Japanese Patent Application No. 1-246049, Japanese Patent Application No.
1-246050), the developing device was abolished and the brush roll immersed in the developer in the mini tank was brought into contact with the plate-making roll for scanning to perform pseudo dry development. Method and device (Japanese Patent Application No. 1-24
No. 6049, Japanese Patent Application No. 2-136494, Japanese Patent Application No. 2-136495) was developed, and as for the exposure printing device, a device requiring manpower (Japanese Patent Publication No. 63-58351; Japanese Patent No. 1507251) was used. Exposure equipment (Japanese Patent Application No. 63-94963, Japanese Patent Application No. 63-120169)
A stacker crane equipped with a roll hand device, which is equipped with a roll coater and a photosensitive film coating device, a developing device, and a laser exposure device in a dark room.
No. 65) was developed so that plate-making rolls could be handled between these devices. On the other hand, by removing the developing device that was installed in parallel with the conventional plating device from the line, it is possible to install the plating device, the etching device and the resist stripping device in a bright room. 57-36995; Japanese Patent No. 1278544) handles the plate-making roll between the devices. Then, in order to transfer the plate-making roll between the device inside the light chamber and the device inside the dark chamber, both ends of the plate-making roll horizontally chucked at the device inside the light chamber or the dark chamber are grasped. By developing a robot equipped with a robot hand (Practical application No. 3-73880) that can be delivered to and from the device, the plate-making rolls can be delivered between the robot and the cassette type hollow roll automatic desorption device. However, it is not possible to directly transfer the plate-making roll between the robot and the stacker crane in the dark room. The reason for this is that the ultraviolet light from the outside will enter the dark room during delivery.

[0003]

Therefore, as the next stage of automation, the plate-making rolls can be delivered by interposing between the robot in the dark room and the stacker crane in the dark room, and at that time, the external rolls can be delivered. There was a demand for the development of a delivery device that can block the penetration of UV light into the dark room.

The present invention has been devised in view of the above-mentioned points, and it is possible to deliver a plate-making roll by interposing between a robot in a light room and a stacker crane in a dark room.
At that time, it is an object of the present invention to provide a device for delivering the plate-making roll between the bright room and the dark room, which can prevent the ultraviolet light from entering the dark room from the bright room.

[0005]

As a means for solving the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has a box-like shape that protrudes toward the bright room side and the dark room side at the lower part of the boundary wall between the bright room and the dark room. The device case 10 is provided, and the upper part of the case front wall on the bright room side of the device case 10 serves as a sliding door 11 capable of cutting ultraviolet light that can descend so as to overlap the lower part of the case front wall 10a.
The device case is such that the light chamber side upper surface wall and the dark room side case upper surface wall are swingingly opened so that the indoor side edge is lifted, and the dark room side case upper surface wall overlaps with the boundary wall. Opening door 13 that can cut open ultraviolet light
Further, in the apparatus case 10, a roll chuck swinging device capable of chucking both ends of the plate making roll R by the chuck cones 21 and 22 and swinging it to a position biased to the bright chamber side and a position biased to the dark chamber side. The present invention provides a plate-making roll delivery device between a bright chamber and a dark chamber, which is provided with 20.

[0006]

When the plate making roll R is delivered from the light chamber side, this action opens the sliding door 11 and the outer door 12 on the light chamber side, and the roll chuck of the roll chuck rocking device 20 is biased to the light chamber side. The plate making roll R, which is located in the above position and whose both end faces are held by the robot 30 or the stacker crane 40 on the bright room side and is accommodated in the device case 10, is held by the chuck cones 21 and 22 of the roll chuck rocking device 20 at both ends. Chuck. After that, the sliding door 11 and the outside sliding door 12 on the light room side are closed. Then, the plate-making roll R chucked by the roll chuck rocking device 20 is positioned at a position biased toward the dark room. Subsequently, the outer door 13 on the dark room side is opened, and when the robot 30 on the dark room side or the stacker crane 40 entering the apparatus case 10 grips both end faces of the plate making roll R, the chuck cone of the roll chuck swinging device 20 is opened. When the chucks 21, 22 on both sides are released and the robot 30 or the stacker crane 40 on the dark room side grips the plate making roll R and exits from the inside of the apparatus case 10, the outer door 13 on the dark room side is closed. When the plate-making roll R is delivered from the dark room side, the above operation is reversed. Therefore, when handing the plate-making roll R, either the sliding door 11 on the bright room side or the outer hinged door 12 or the outer hinged door 13 on the dark room side, which can cut off the ultraviolet light, is always closed, so that the external ultraviolet light can be emitted from the dark room. Does not break into.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a delivery device for a plate-making roll R between a bright room and a dark room according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In the device of this embodiment, a box-shaped device case 10 is provided below the boundary wall between the bright room and the dark room so as to project to the bright room side and the dark room side. The upper part of the front wall is made of a transparent plate that can block ultraviolet light, and the sliding door 11 can be lowered by the first air cylinder 14 so as to overlap the lower part 10a of the case front wall.
An open door that swings and opens by the second air cylinders 15 and 15 so that the case upper surface wall of the device case 10 on the bright room side and the case upper surface wall of the dark room side are made of a transparent plate that can block ultraviolet light and overlap with the boundary wall. 12 and 13, the tail side chuck cone 21 that reciprocates in the chuck direction by the first motor 21a and the drive side chuck cone 22 that is rotationally driven by the second motor 22a are used to make the plate in the apparatus case 10. A roll chuck oscillating device 20 is provided which chucks the roll R horizontally at both ends and can oscillate by a third motor 23 at a position biased toward the bright room and a position biased toward the dark room. The transfer of the plate-making roll R between the handling robot 30 provided at the stacker and the stacker crane 40 provided at the dark room side is succeeded. That.

The box-shaped device case 10 is provided with a partition plate 16 which rises from a substantially central portion of the upper surface of the case so as to coincide with a boundary wall between the bright room side and the dark room side. It has a box-like shape that is open, and the upper surface on the dark room side is open. The upper part of the front surface on the bright room side is closed by a sliding door 11 made of a transparent plastic plate that can block ultraviolet light. The upper surface on the side is closed by outer hinged doors 12 and 13 made of a transparent plastic plate that can block ultraviolet light. The sliding door 11 is obtained by reducing the first air cylinder 14 provided in the side of the device case 10 to reduce the rack 17 size.
To rotate the pinion 18 and to pay out the wire W whose proximal end is wound around the wire drum 19 which is coaxial with the pinion 18 and whose other end is connected to both lower end portions of the sliding door 11, The door is opened so as to overlap the inside of the lower part 10a of the front wall of the case. Further, each of the outer hinged doors 12, 13 has a partition plate side edge pivotally attached to a lower end portion of the partition plate 16, and a pair of second air cylinders 15, 15 provided on both sides in the device case 10. Is extended so that the end edges of the outer hinged doors 12 and 13 on the side away from the partition plate are lifted and rocked to open the door so as to overlap the boundary wall.

The roll chuck rocking device 20 is provided with a movable bracket 21c which reciprocates in the chuck direction by rotating the ball screw 21b by the first motor 21a at one end of the rocking base 24. Has a fixed bracket 22b at the other end thereof, and a tail side chuck cone 21 rotatably provided on the movable bracket 21c, and a second motor rotatably provided on the fixed bracket 22b and attached to the fixed bracket 22b. The chuck cone 22 on the driving side, which is rotatably driven by the gear train 22c by 22a, is arranged so as to be uniaxially opposed so that the plate-making roll R can be horizontally chucked at both ends. The chuck cone 2 on the driving side by the second motor 22a
2 is driven to make the plate-making roll R rotatable because, for example, the robot hand 31 of the robot is detachable.
When the robot 30 removes the robot hand 31 and grips a spray nozzle (not shown) connected to a hose (not shown) and moves in the longitudinal direction of the plate making roll R while spraying washing water or degreasing liquid, the plate making roll R Is to rotate. In addition, the roll chuck swing device 20
A rocking drive shaft 28 is inserted into several pivot brackets 25, ... On the lower surface of the rocking base 24 and several fixing brackets 27 ,. The swing drive shaft 28 and the pivot bracket 2
5 is key-connected, and an input gear 28a fixed to one end of the swing drive shaft 28 is connected to a third motor 23, which is a forward / reverse motor with a brake, and a gear reducer 29 having a large reduction ratio.
Is engaged with the output gear 29b fixed to the output shaft 29a of the plate, and by driving the third motor 23, the plate-making roll chucked at both ends by the chuck cone 21 on the tail side and the chuck cone 22 on the drive side. R
Can be swung to a position biased to the bright room side and a position biased to the dark room side. Then, the roll chuck rocking device 20 opens the sliding door 11 on the bright room side and the outside opening door 12 at a position biased toward the bright room side to a plate making plate between the handling robot 30 located on the front outside. The roll R can be delivered, and at a position biased to the dark room side, the plate-making roll R can be delivered to and from the stacker crane 40 located above by opening the outer doors 12 and 13 on the dark room side. It is like this.

2A and 2B show a state in which the plate making roll R is delivered between the handling robot 30 and the roll chuck rocking device 20. As the handling robot 30, for example, a vertical scalar robot can be used. The robot hand 31 relates to a utility model registration application No. 73880 of 1991, and in brief, it is a bay-shaped cut avoiding the shaft hole of the plate making roll R which can be approached and separated by the hand driving motor 31a. Both end surfaces of the roll R can be crimped and clamped by the pair of clamping plates 31b, 31b having a notch. The pair of chuck cones 21 and 22 of the roll chuck swinging device 20 are fitted into the shaft holes of the plate making roll R through the bay-shaped notches of the plate 31b while the robot hand 31 holds the plate making roll R. obtain. The handling robot 30 uses one of the shaft holes of the plate making roll R to drive the chuck cones 21, 2 in order to cause the plate chuck roll R to be chucked by the roll chuck rocking device 20.
The robot hand 31 is moved so that the robot hand 31 is fitted in the position 2.
Then, the handling robot 30 uses the plate roll R
When the roll chuck oscillating device 20 is chucked, the pair of holding plates 31b, 31b of the robot hand 31 are held.
The robot hand 31 is separated from the plate-making roll R after a little interval. The handling robot 30 is not a constituent requirement of the present invention.

3 (b) and 3 (c) show a stacker crane 40 and a roll chuck swinging device 20 installed in a dark room.
2 shows a state in which the plate-making roll R is delivered to and from. The stacker crane 40 has a patent application No. 2531
It concerns No. 65. Briefly, the stacker crane 40 can travel on a line coating frame 41, which is suspended on the ceiling rail T and is movable, on a photosensitive film coating device, a developing device, and a laser exposure device (not shown) on the dark room side. A pair of vertical guides 42, 42 is provided on the traveling frame 41, and a slider guide 43 guided by the motor (not shown) to move up and down the vertical guides 42, 42 is horizontally movable by a first motor 44. A common slider 45 is provided, and a pair of arms 47, 4 which can be moved toward and away from the common slider 45 in the horizontal direction by a second motor 46 with the center of the interval as a reference.
7 are provided, and the lower portions of the pair of arms 47, 47 are chuck plates 47a, 47a having bay-shaped notches, and the pair of chuck plates 47a, 47a crimp both roll end faces of the plate making roll R. It is designed to be sandwiched. The transfer of the plate R to be processed between the stacker crane 40 and the roll chuck rocking device 20 is performed by the handling robot 30 and the roll chuck rocking device 20.
It is done in the same way as the delivery between and. The stacker crane 40 is not a requirement of the present invention.

Next, the operation of the delivery device for the plate-making roll R between the bright chamber and the dark chamber configured as described above will be described. When the plate making roll R is delivered from the bright room side, the first air cylinder is contracted and the second air cylinder on the bright room side is extended to open the sliding door 11 and the outer doors 12 and 13 on the bright room side. The roll chuck of the roll chuck oscillating device 20 is positioned at a position biased toward the bright room side, and the plate-making roll R held in the apparatus case 10 by gripping both end surfaces of the roll by the handling robot 30 on the bright room side. Once fitted to the drive side chuck cones 21 and 22, the first motor 21a of the roll chuck rocking device 20
Is driven to move the tail-side chuck cone 21 in the chuck direction to chuck the plate-making roll R [FIG.
(A), (b)]. After that, the handling robot 30
After releasing the chuck of the plate-making roll R and coming out of the apparatus case 10, the first air cylinder 14 is extended and the second air cylinder 15 on the bright room side is contracted, so that the sliding door 11 on the bright room side and the outside are removed. Close the hinged door 12 [Fig. 3
(A)]. Then, the third motor 23 is driven by a certain number of rotations to position the plate-making roll R chucked by the roll chuck rocking device 20 at a position biased toward the dark room. Then, by extending the second air cylinder 15 on the dark room side, the outer door 13 on the dark room side is opened, and the stacker crane 40 on the dark room side that enters the device case 10 from here.
Grips both end faces of the plate-making roll R [Fig. 3 (b),
(C)], the first motor 21a is driven to reverse, the chuck cone 21 of the roll chuck rocking device 20 releases the chuck of the plate making roll R, and the stacker crane 40 moves the shaft hole of the plate making roll R to the driving side. After separating from the chuck cone 22, the plate-making roll R exits from the inside of the apparatus case 10, the second air cylinder 15 on the dark room side is contracted to close the outer door 13 on the dark room side. When the plate-making roll R is delivered from the dark room side, the above operation is reversed. Therefore, when handing the plate-making roll R, either the sliding door 11 on the bright room side or the outer hinged door 12 or the outer hinged door 13 on the dark room side, which can cut off the ultraviolet light, is always closed, so that the external ultraviolet light can be emitted from the dark room. Does not break into.

[0013]

As described above, according to the plate-making roll delivery device between the bright room and the dark room of the present invention, it is interposed between the robot in the bright room and the stacker crane in the dark room. To deliver the plate-making rolls,
At that time, it is possible to prevent the ultraviolet light from entering the dark room from the bright room.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1A is a vertical cross-sectional front view of a plate making roll delivery device between a bright room and a dark room according to an embodiment of the present invention;
(B) is an Ib-Ib sectional view in (a).

2A is a vertical sectional front view showing a state where the apparatus of FIG. 1 is receiving a plate-making roll from a handling robot, and FIG. 2B is a sectional view taken along line IIb-IIb in FIG.

3A is a diagram showing a state in which the apparatus of FIG. 1 receives and chucks a plate-making roll, and FIG. 3B is a vertical sectional front view showing a state in which the plate-making roll is being delivered to a stacker crane; (c) is a IIIc-IIIc sectional view in (b).

[Explanation of symbols]

 R ... Plate making roll, 10 ... Device case, 10a ... Lower part of front wall of case on light room side, 11 ... Sliding door, 12 ... Opening door on light room side, 13 ... Dark room Side open door, 20 ... Roll chuck swinging device, 21, 22 ... Chuck cone,

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A box-shaped device case is provided below a boundary wall between a light room and a dark room so as to project to the light room side and the dark room side.
The upper part of the front wall of the device case on the bright room side is a sliding door capable of cutting ultraviolet light that can descend so as to overlap the lower part of the front wall of the case, and the case top wall on the bright room side of the device case and the case on the dark room side An outer hinged door that opens by swinging the upper surface wall so that the edge on the indoor side rises and that opens the case upper surface wall on the dark room side so that it overlaps with the boundary wall A bright chamber and a dark chamber characterized by comprising a roll chuck swinging device capable of swinging both ends of a plate making roll by chuck cones and swinging the roll to a position biased toward the bright chamber and a position biased toward the dark chamber. A device for handing plate-making rolls to and from.