JPH07112498A - Label machining device and label printing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To form labels whose dimensions are different from each other with radius parts at four comers by setting variable an interval between a radius cutter which forms comer radius of adjacent labels to each other provided at both ends of a band-shaped material and a cutter for cutting along both side edges, and making variable a cutting pitch between the radius cutter and a cutter for cutting in the width direction. CONSTITUTION:Cuts 3 of V shape corresponding to the abutting parts of comer radius parts of adjacent labels 2, 2 are formed at prescribed intervals in a band-shaped label material 1 with a radius cutter 4. Linear cuts 5 parallel to the feed direction of the material 1 are formed with a straight line cutter 7, and linear cuts parallel to the orthogonal direction to the feed direction are formed with a straight line cutter 8. The intervals between the straight line cutters 7, 7 and the radius cutters 4, 4 are made variable, and a pitch between the V-shaped cut 3 and the cut 6 by the straight line cutter 8 is made variable. It is thus possible to change the height and width of the label 2.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a label processing device and a label printing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to obtain a rectangular label from a band-shaped label material, conventionally, it is necessary to cut labels of various sizes, and therefore, it has been proposed to arrange linear cutters which are orthogonal to each other. ing.

However, in the label 2 obtained by using such a label processing apparatus, as shown in FIG. 12 (a), in order to cut out a rectangular portion from the label material 1, the rounded portions are formed at the four corners. However, the label 2 has a drawback that it does not look good.

Further, as shown in FIG. 12 (b), in order to form the rounded portions at the four corners, there is also a label processing apparatus configured to cut out the label 2 with a mold matching the shape of the label 2. Although proposed, this case has a drawback that the size of the label 2 cannot be changed.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above drawbacks and has various sizes.
Moreover, it aims at providing the label processing apparatus A which can obtain the label provided with the rounded part in four corners.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the above object is to perform a label processing for processing a label material 1 in a band shape into a label 2 having four corners as shown in FIG. 1 corresponding to an embodiment. A label cutter 1 and a label material 1 in which substantially V-shaped cuts 3 corresponding to the abutting parts of the corners R of the adjacent labels 2 and 2 are formed at a predetermined pitch on the opposite side edges of the label material 1. First linear cutter 7 in which linear cuts 5 and 5 are formed at predetermined intervals along the width direction edge of the
And a second linear cutter 8 which inserts linear cuts 6 orthogonal to the linear cuts 5 by the first linear cutter 7 at a predetermined pitch in the label material 1, and between the first linear cutters 7, 7. , And the radius cutters 4 and 4 are variable, and the pitch of the V-shaped notch 3 and the linear notch 6 by the second linear cutter 8 is also variable so that the size of the label 2 can be changed. This is accomplished by providing a processing device.

[0007]

In FIG. 1A, the label material 1 is conveyed from the left side to the right side of the drawing, and first, as shown in FIG. 1B, the V-shaped cuts 3 are formed at predetermined intervals by the are cutter 4. Can be inserted. The V-shaped notch 3 has a shape corresponding to the abutting portion of the corner rounded portion of the adjacent label 2, and thereafter, is linearly parallel to the feeding direction of the label material 1 by the first linear cutter 7. The second linear cutter 8 makes linear cuts 6 parallel to the feed direction of the label material 1.

The first linear cutter 7 and the earl cutter 4 are movable as shown by arrows in FIG. 1A, and by moving these, various labels having different height dimensions can be obtained. it can.

Further, the pitch between the linear cuts 6 and 6 by the second linear cutter 8 and the pitch between the V-shaped cuts 3 by the are cutter 4 are variable, and the width dimension is changed by changing these. Various labels can be obtained.

In the invention according to claim 4, the first
And the linear cuts 5 and 6 by the second linear cutters 7 and 8 cross the V-shaped cut 3, and the shape of the obtained label 2 is hatched in FIGS. 6B and 8B. As shown by applying, it has a rectangular shape having rounded portions at the four corners. Align the linear cuts 5 and 6 with the linear cutters 7 and 8 not at the tangent position of the V-shaped cut 3
By arranging at a position slightly deviated in the inner area, when arranged at a tangential position, the positional deviation of the cutting position by the linear cutter increases the probability of occurrence of the defective label 2 shown in FIG. On the other hand, the probability of occurrence of the defective label 2 is extremely low.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 10 shows a label printing apparatus according to the present invention. The label printing device is controlled by a control device 12 such as a personal computer and the like, and a printer device 10 for sequentially printing necessary label information on the label material 1 wound in a roll shape, and a printing device ejected from the printer device 10. A label processing apparatus A for obtaining a label 2 having a predetermined shape from the finished label material 1, and a control unit 1 for controlling each part of the label processing apparatus A in synchronization with the operation of the printer apparatus 10.
It consists of 1.

As shown in detail in FIGS. 1 and 2, the label processing apparatus A includes the arel cutter 4, the first and second linear cutters 7 and 8, and the label material 1 from the side of the arel cutter 4 to the second.
And a paper feed roller 13 for conveying to the linear cutter 8 side.

The radius cutter 4 is a push-cutting cutter having a blade shape having a shape corresponding to a substantially V-shaped portion corresponding to an abutting portion of a corner radius portion of the adjacent label 2, and the top portions 4a thereof face each other. In this state, the label material 1 is arranged at positions corresponding to both side edges.

1, 14 and 14 are sprocket holes which are formed in the side edge of the label material 1 at a predetermined pitch and are formed in the printer device 10 and the paper feed roller 13 of the label processing device A. The small protrusions of the sprocket wheel (not shown) are sequentially captured to carry the sheet.

The R cutter 4 is movable up and down, and is biased upward by a spring (not shown) or the like. Furthermore, on the upper surface of the are cutter 4,
The first cam 16 which is rotationally driven by the first cam drive motor 15 abuts, and below the R-cutter 4,
A cutter receiver 4b is arranged.

In FIG. 2, the are cutter 4 and the first cutter
As for the cam 16 and the like, and the linear cutters 7 and 8 described later, only those corresponding to one side edge of the label material 1 are shown, but the other side edge of the label material 1 is also configured similarly. Will be placed.

The first linear cutter 7 is a circular cutter having a blade on its outer periphery which is driven to rotate by a cutter driving motor 17, and a cutter receiver 7a is arranged below the first linear cutter 7. . As shown in FIG. 1, the first linear cutter 7 is set on the tangent line of the V-shaped notch 3 which is pushed by the ear cutter 4.

Further, an interlocking arm 9 is arranged between the first linear cutter 7 and the earl cutter 4. The interlocking arm 9 keeps the relative position between the first linear cutter 7 and the areal cutter 4 constant, and always keeps the first linear cutter 7 constant.
The linear cut 5 by the arrow is a tangent line of the V-shaped cut 3 by the are cutter 4, and the shaft 9a rotated by the position correcting motor 18 and the are cutter 4 and the first linear cutter 7 are contacted with each other. The operating portion 9b which comes into contact with and moves back and forth in the direction of the arrow in FIG.
Composed of and.

The second linear cutter 8 is a linear push-cutting cutter arranged behind the first linear cutter 7,
A second cam 20 which is rotationally driven by a second cam drive motor 19 is in contact with the upper end surface thereof, and a cutter receiver 8a is disposed below the second cam 20.

On the other hand, the label material 1 has a label paper 1a having an adhesive film on the back surface and a back surface whose surface is appropriately treated so that the label paper 1a can be easily peeled off, as shown in the cross section in FIG. The first and second linear cutters 7, which are made of paper 1b,
8 and the descending stroke of the earl cutter 4 are adjusted so that only the label paper 1a can be peeled off into a predetermined shape for use.

Next, the structure of the control unit 11 is shown in FIG. 4 and its operation flowchart is shown in FIG. First, the control device 1
The printer device 10 is driven based on the command from
When the label 2 is printed on the label material 1, the control device 12 outputs the print start information together with the label size information to the sorting unit 22 via the processing delay unit 21.

The label size information is output only once when printing the label 2 of the same type, and the processing delay unit 21 becomes active upon receiving the print start information from the control device 12, and when the label size information is received, the new type label information is received. The first cam drive motor 15 and the like so as to delay the operation timing of the earl cutter 4 and the like by a time that considers the paper feeding time of the label material 1 from the print header of the printer device 10 to the earl cutter 4 and the like. The first cam drive motor 15 and the like are controlled at a predetermined timing until the label size information is received.

The sorting unit 22 uses the label size information to determine the widthwise dimension (length of the label material 1 in the paper feed direction) of the unit label 2 and the heightwise dimension (length in the direction orthogonal to the width direction). The height-direction dimension information, which is configured to be separated from the information, is output to the calculation unit 23, and the width-direction dimension is output to the row calculation unit 24, and the calculation unit 23 that receives the height-direction dimension information. Then, the rotation amount and the rotation direction of the position correction motor 18 for moving the R cutter 4 and the first linear cutter 7 by a size corresponding to the height direction size information are calculated and controlled.

In this embodiment, the height-direction dimension uses the height-direction dimension used in the previous process as a reference dimension, and if different, the position-correcting motor 18 is adjusted by an amount corresponding to the difference. The size information in the height direction from the sorting unit 22 is temporarily stored in the size memory 25.

On the other hand, the row calculation unit 24 calculates the feed amount of the label material 1 corresponding to the length of the label 2 from the sorting unit 22 based on the dimension information in the width direction, and the cutter drive motor 17,
And the drive timing of the second cam drive motor 19 is controlled. The control signal generated in the row calculation unit 24 is held until new label size information is output from the control device 12, and thereafter, the first and second control signals are output at the same timing.
The linear cutters 7 and 8 are operated.

Further, the paper feed information sent from the printer device 10 is sent to the paper feed control unit 26 via the sorting unit 22.
Is output to. The paper feed controller 26 drives the paper feed roller 13 in synchronization with the paper feed operation of the printer device 10 based on the paper feed information.

FIG. 5 shows another embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the first linear cutter 7 is displaced inward from the position in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, and the second linear cutter 8 is moved twice for each descending operation of the are cutter 4. The case where control is performed so as to lower it is shown.

By performing such an operation, the linear cuts 5 and 6 by the first and second linear cutters 7 and 8 are
As shown in FIG. 6 (b), the V-shaped cut 3 formed by the are cutter 4 is crossed. As a result, as shown in FIG. 7, it is possible to completely prevent the occurrence of a defective label due to the positional deviation between the earl cutter 4 and the first linear cutter 7 or the slight deviation of the descending timing of the second linear cutter 8. Is possible.

In this case, if the driving timing of the R-cutter 4 is advanced so that the V-shaped notches 3 approach each other to such an extent that they intersect each other, a vertically long label 2 can be obtained as shown in FIG. .

Further, in the above embodiment, the case where the label material 1 in one row is obtained in the width direction of the label material 1 has been shown. However, as shown in FIG. Is also possible.

Further, in the above description, the case where the label processing apparatus A is connected to the printer apparatus 10 to form the label printing apparatus is shown, but it is also possible to use only the label processing apparatus A alone. Of course.

Further, in order to protect the surface of the label 2, when a laminate film is applied to the surface of the label 2,
As shown in FIG. 11, it is also possible to sequentially supply the laminated film 27 wound and accommodated to the label processing apparatus A.

[0033]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, it is possible to form labels of various sizes with rounded corners.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an essential part showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a label material.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a control unit.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the control unit.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a defective label.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a modification of FIG.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a modified example of the label.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a label printing apparatus.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a modified example of the label printing apparatus.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A label processing device 1 label material 2 label 3 V-shaped notch 4 are cutter 5, 6 linear notch 7 first linear cutter 8 second linear cutter 9 interlocking arm 10 printer device 11 control unit

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A label processing apparatus for processing a strip-shaped label material (1) into a label (2) having corner radiuses at four corners, the abutting portion of the corner radiuses of adjacent labels (2, 2). The V-shaped notch (3) corresponding to the label material (1)
R-cutter (4) inserted at a certain pitch on the opposite side edge of
And a first linear cutter (7) in which linear cuts (5) are formed at predetermined intervals along the widthwise edges of the label material (1).
And a linear cut (6) perpendicular to the linear cut (5) by the first linear cutter (7) in the label material (1)
And a second linear cutter (8) which inserts at a predetermined pitch, the intervals between the first linear cutters (7, 7) and between the areal cutters (4, 4) are variable, and V-shaped The pitch (3) and the linear cut (6) by the second linear cutter (8) are variable and labeled (2)
Label processing device that can be changed in size. 2. The label processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first linear cutter (7) and the earl cutter (4) are connected by an interlocking arm (9) so that their relative positions are constant. 3. The first and second linear cutters (7, 8),
The label processing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the ear cutter (4) is driven at a predetermined timing to perform a cutting operation on the label material 1 fed at a predetermined speed. 4. The first and second linear cutters (7,
Labeling device according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the linear cuts (5, 6) according to 8) intersect the V-shaped cuts (3). 5. A printer device (10) for sequentially printing label information on a wound label material (1) and a label processing on a printed label material (1) discharged from the printer device (10). A label processing device (A) according to claim 1, 2, 3 or 4 for performing an operation, and a control unit (11) for controlling the operation of each part of the label processing device (A) based on an operation signal of the printer device (10). ) A label printing apparatus comprising: