JPH0656111A - Mount-enclosing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enclose a mount with an envelope automatically and smoothly by the push operation of roller and pressure plate. CONSTITUTION:The folded piece 7 of an envelope 1 positioned and supported on an envelope support table 3 is pressed to open by an air cylinder 5 and the opening 11 and its vicinity in the reverse side of the envelope 1 are adsorbed by adsorption member 9 so that the opening 11 is expanded. Then, a mount 19 positioned and supported on a mount support table 21 is pressed in the direction of the envelope by the contact part 39 of a pressure mechanism 30. When the advancing side end of the mount 19 reaches the folded piece 7, a roller 13 is lowered and rotated while the roller 13 is pressed downward. When the contact part 39 reaches the folded piece 7 and its vicinity, the contact part 39 is caused to retreat and the mount 19 is pressed into the envelope 1 only by the torque of the roller 13.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mount mounting device for automatically mounting a mounted mount such as a telephone card in an envelope.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, a telephone card (hereinafter referred to as a card) is mounted on a mount as a gift and is housed in an envelope (hereinafter referred to as a card enclosure).
Is widely used. This card enclosure is commercialized through a process of mounting the card by means such as fitting it on the mount, a process of storing the mount with the card mounted in an envelope, and a process of sealing the envelope. Conventionally, each of the above steps has been performed manually by an operator, but in recent years, automation of the above series of steps (-) has been strongly demanded in order to save labor.

[0003]

Among the above steps, an apparatus for achieving automation of the steps is shown in FIGS.
A device as shown in FIG. In this device, a pressure plate (53) is attached to an air cylinder (51), etc.
3) Mount the mount (57) placed on the support (55) with the envelope (5
9) It is designed to be pushed in.

By the way, when the mount (57) is pushed in,
As shown by the solid line in the figure, it is necessary to open the folding back piece (61) for sealing. However, when the folding piece (61) is opened, the pressing plate (53) is moved forward as the pressing plate (53) moves forward.
The lower end portion of the sheet and the front end edge of the folded piece (61) are in contact with each other. Therefore, the pressing plate (53) cannot move forward from the position P, and the mount (57) cannot be completely stored in the envelope (59).

Further, if the pressing plate (53) is simply pushed in, the pushing direction tends to be unstable. That is, in the above configuration, only the rear end of the mount (57) is supported when being pushed, and the front end is free, so the mount (57)
The front end of the is easy to shift to the left and right. If such a shift occurs, the corner portion of the mount (57) is caught on the inner surface of the envelope (59), and the forward movement of the pressing plate (53) becomes impossible.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a mount storage device capable of automatically and completely enclosing a mount in an envelope.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the apparatus of the present invention has an envelope support base for positioning and supporting an envelope having a folded piece with its back surface facing upward, and a forward and backward movement above the envelope support base. An opening member that is freely provided and presses the folded back piece of the envelope in the opening direction to be in close contact with the envelope support base at the time of advancing, and is connected to the intake source and is provided so as to be able to move up and down above the envelope support base, A suction member that comes into contact with the vicinity of the opening on the back surface of the envelope when descending, and a mount support base that is provided adjacent to the envelope support base and positions and supports the mount on substantially the same plane as the envelope, and the mount support base. A pressing mechanism that has a contact portion that comes into contact with one end of the backing sheet supported above, presses the backing sheet into the envelope by applying a pressing force to this contact portion, and directly above the folded piece closely attached to the envelope support table. Free to rotate and lift Provided, comprising a roller that rotates the mount during descent in the direction of pushing the mount while pressed downward into the envelope.

[0008]

First, the opening member is advanced to bring the folded piece of the envelope positioned and supported on the envelope support base into close contact with the envelope support base. Next, the suction member is lowered to suck the vicinity of the opening on the back surface of the envelope, and the suction member is raised. This enlarges the opening of the envelope. After that, the mount which is positioned and supported on the mount support by the contact portion of the pressing mechanism is pushed into the envelope. When the end of the mount on the advancing side exceeds the position directly below the folding piece, the roller is lowered and the mount is pressed downward. Next, the roller is rotated and the backing sheet is pushed into the envelope in cooperation with the pushing operation by the pressing mechanism. After the contact portion reaches the vicinity of the folded piece, the backing sheet is completely pushed into the envelope only by the rotational force of the roller.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

The envelope (1) is placed on the envelope support base (3) with the back side facing upward. Holes (not shown) are formed at a plurality of locations on the envelope support base (3), and an air intake body (not shown) formed in the holes in a cup shape with rubber or the like and connected to an air intake source. Is stored with the intake surface facing upward. Due to the intake operation of the intake body, the envelope support base (3)
The envelope (1) placed on top is fixed.

Above the envelope support base (3), a pair of open members (5) and (5) inclined with respect to the horizontal plane, for example, an air cylinder, are arranged. This air cylinder (5)
It is provided at a position where the folded piece (7) of the envelope (1) can be pressed in the opening direction when the piston rod advances.
By this pressing operation, the folded piece (7) is opened and brought into close contact with the upper surface of the envelope support base (3).

Between the air cylinders (5) and (5), a pair of adsorbing members (9) and (9) formed of rubber or the like in a cup shape and connected to an intake source (not shown) are arranged. . The adsorbing member (9) is connected to an elevating mechanism (not shown) so as to be able to move up and down, and is provided at a position where it comes into contact with the vicinity of the opening (11) on the back surface of the envelope (1) when descending. Therefore, when the suction members (9) and (9) are lowered to suck the back surface of the envelope (1) and the suction members (9) and (9) are further raised by a slight distance, the opening (11) of the envelope (1) is Expands vertically.

A roller (13) made of rubber or the like is disposed above the envelope support base (3). This roller (13)
Is located immediately above the central portion (the central portion in the XY direction) of the folded piece (7) when opened (when the folded piece is brought into close contact with the envelope support: shown by the solid line in FIG. 1). And is rotationally driven in the direction of the arrow by a rotational drive source (15) such as a motor. In addition, this rotary drive source (15) is a lifting drive source (1) of an appropriate structure arranged on one side of the envelope support base (3).
It is linked to 7). When the elevation drive source (17) is activated, the roller (13) ascends and descends, and when it descends, presses a mount, which will be described later, downward. The bottom surface of the roller (13) is
It is located on the same plane as or below the lower surface of the rotary drive source (15).

The mount (19) stored in the envelope (1) is placed on a mount support (21) provided adjacent to the envelope support (3). The mount support base (21) is formed to be slightly smaller than the mount (19), and two rows of long holes (23) (23) are formed along the lateral direction of the mount (19). Also,
A rotary shaft (25) connected to a drive source (not shown) is connected to the base end of the mount support (21). When the drive source is driven in the forward and reverse directions, the rotary shaft (25) swings 180 °, and accordingly the mount support (21) is reversed between the solid line position and the alternate long and two short dashes line position. Furthermore, a pair of holes (27) and (27) are provided at the tip of the mount support (21). In this hole (27)
An intake body (29) made of rubber or the like and connected to an intake source (not shown) is housed with its intake surface facing the surface of the mount support (21) (referred to as the contact surface with the mount).

When the mount (19) is placed, the mount support (2
Position 1) at the position indicated by the chain double-dashed line in the figure. Mount (1
After placing 9), mount the backing sheet (1
9) is sucked, and the mount support (21) is inverted in the counterclockwise direction and moved to the solid line position. At this time, the folded piece (7) of the envelope (1) is sandwiched between the end of the mount (19) and the envelope support base (3) so that the envelope support base (3) and the mount support base (21) are The positional relationship is set in advance.

The pressing mechanism (30) for the mount (19) includes a pair of air cylinders (31) (31) arranged in parallel with each other, and a pressing member mounted on the tip of the piston rod of the air cylinder (31). The plate (32) is the main component. The piston rods of the air cylinders (31) (31) are slidably inserted into a support plate (33) attached to the base end of the mount support base (21). A round bar-shaped fixing member (35) is fixed to the support plate (33), and both air cylinders (31) and (31) are fixed to the fixing member (35) via connecting members (37) and (37). Has been done. Contact portions (39) (39) are formed on both sides of the lower end of the pressing plate (32) and project through the elongated holes (23) (23) toward the surface side of the mount support (21). With such a structure, when the air cylinder (31) is advanced, the pressing plate (32) moves leftward in the drawing, and the contact portion (39) pushes the mount (19) into the envelope (1).

The mount mounting device according to the present invention is constructed as described above. The procedure for enclosing the mount (19) by this device will be described below with reference to FIG.

First, the envelope (1) is placed at a predetermined position on the envelope support base (3), and the placed envelope (1) is positioned and fixed by an intake operation of an intake body (not shown). Similarly, the mount (19) is placed at a predetermined position on the mount support base (21), and the mounted mount (19) is positioned and fixed by the intake operation of an intake body (not shown).

The piston rod of the air cylinder (5) is advanced, the folded piece (7) of the envelope (1) is opened at the tip of the piston rod, and the folded piece (7) is brought into close contact with the envelope support base (3). Let Further, the mount support base (21) is inverted in the counterclockwise direction, and the folded piece (7) is sandwiched between the end of the mount (19) and the envelope support base (3).

The piston rod of the air cylinder (5) is retracted. Then, the suction member (9) is lowered to suck the back surface of the envelope (1), and further the suction member (9) is raised to enlarge the opening (11) of the envelope (1). Also,
The piston rod of the air cylinder (31) of the pressing mechanism (30) is advanced, and the mount (19) is pushed leftward in the drawing by the contact portion (39). When the end of the mount (19) on the advancing side exceeds the position directly below the roller (13), the roller (13) is lowered and the mount (19) is pressed against the folding piece (7).

The roller (13) is rotated in the direction of the arrow, and the backing paper (19) is pushed into the envelope (1) in cooperation with the pushing operation by the contact portion (39). When the contact part (39) reaches near the end face of the envelope support base (3), the air cylinder (3
The piston rod of 1) is retracted, and the mount (19) is completely stored in the envelope (1) only by the rotational force of the roller (13).
After the storage work is completed, the envelope (1) in which the mount (19) is enclosed is conveyed to the next step by an appropriate conveying device.

As described above, the device of the present invention has the pressing plate (32).
Not only that, but the roller (13) is used for the encapsulation work. Therefore, even after the contact portion (39) has reached the vicinity of the folded piece (7), the work of enclosing the mount (19) can be performed smoothly. Further, since the roller (13) rotates while pressing the mount (19) downward, the front end of the mount (19) is restrained. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, at the time of pushing, the mount (19) is supported by the roller (13) and the two contact portions (39) at three positions. For this reason, at the time of pushing in, the front end portion of the mount (19) is not displaced as shown in FIG. 5 (b), and the pushing direction is stabilized. Therefore, the mount (19) is smoothly stored in the envelope (1) without being caught on the inner surface of the envelope (1).

FIG. 4 shows a specific example of the mount (19) which is the object to be stored. This mount (19) is provided with a plurality of fitting holes (41a) to (41c) in two rows, and three fitting holes (41a) to (41c) are provided in the preceding step of the above-mentioned enclosing work. Telephone cards (43a) to (43c) and the like are fitted. Then, the mount (19) in which the cards (43a) to (43c) are fitted is placed on the mount support base (21) with the mounting surfaces of the cards (43a) to (43c) facing upward. In this embodiment, the surface of the mount (19) (card mounting surface) is covered with the envelope (1).
The mount support base (21) is turned over to store it toward the front side of the sheet, and then the push-in operation is performed, but it is not necessary to enclose the mount (19) by matching the front and back of the envelope (1). In some cases, it is not necessary to reverse the mount support (21).

[0024]

As described above, in the present invention, since the pushing operation is performed by the cooperation of the pressing mechanism and the roller, the backing sheet is enveloped by the pushing force of the roller even after the contact portion of the pressing mechanism reaches the vicinity of the folding piece. It is completely stored inside. In addition, since the roller rotates while pressing the mount downward, the mount is supported by the roller and the contact portion at the time of pushing. Therefore, the pushing direction is stabilized, and the mount is smoothly stored in the envelope without being caught on the inner surface of the envelope.

From this point of view, according to the present invention, the mount can be completely and smoothly automatically enclosed in the envelope.
The efficiency of the enclosing work, which was conventionally done manually, is greatly improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a mount sealing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a procedure for enclosing a mount by the device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a support state of a mount in the device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing a specific example of a mount.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view (a) showing the basic concept of the mount mounting device.
It is a plan view (b).

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Envelope 3 Envelope support 5 Release member 7 Folding piece 9 Adsorption member 11 Opening 13 Roller 19 Mount 21 Mount support 30 Press mechanism 39 Contact part

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An envelope support base for positioning and supporting an envelope having a folded back piece with its back surface facing upward, and an envelope support base that is movable above and below the envelope support base so that the folded back piece of the envelope is opened in the opening direction. An opening member that is pressed to be in close contact with the envelope support base, and an adsorption member that is connected to the air intake source and that is vertically movable above the envelope support base and that contacts the vicinity of the opening on the back surface of the envelope when descending. A mount support base provided adjacent to the envelope support base for positioning and supporting the mount on substantially the same plane as the envelope, and a contact portion for contacting one end of the mount supported on the mount support base. Then, a pressing mechanism that applies a pressing force to this contact part to press the mount into the envelope, and a foldable piece that is in close contact with the envelope support are rotatably and vertically movable, and press the mount downward when descending. While concerned Mount encapsulation apparatus characterized by comprising a roller which rotates in a direction to push the paper into the envelope.