JPH0789260A - Automatic page-turning device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a low cost and simple-structured automatic page-turning device capable of automatically turning pages of a book or a magazine regardless of the size of the page. CONSTITUTION:A page separation device 2, a right setting guide 4, a bottom setting guide 5, and a page-turning device 6 are arranged in such a manner that these components move, and are fixed freely in accordance with the size of a book or a magazine whose pages are to be turned.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic page turning apparatus for automatically turning pages of books and magazines page by page.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an image processing apparatus such as a copying machine or a scanner, when processing sheet-like originals separated one by one, a well-known automatic document feeder (ADF) is used.
It can be processed at high speed, but when processing documents bound with books, magazines, staples, etc., it is necessary to process them while flipping the document pages one by one or removing the staples. Therefore, there is a problem that it takes much time and effort to handle the original, and a lot of time during image processing is wasted in handling the original. Further, when reading a book or magazine when the hand is inconvenient due to illness or injury, it is very inconvenient because the page turning operation is difficult.

Conventionally, as a device for smoothly processing a document bound with such a book, magazine, staple (stapling), etc., conventionally, pages of a book, magazine, etc. are automatically turned page by page. Various automatic page turning devices have been developed. As a conventional automatic page turning apparatus of this type, there are "a document processing apparatus" described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 63-49743, "a page turning apparatus" described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-67192, and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-1741.
"Document Copying Mechanism of Electronic Copier", and
"Book original reading method and apparatus" described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-48867 are known.

[0004]

By the way, the conventional automatic page-turning device has a very complicated structure and is expensive, and lacks reliability for the page-turning (page separation) and page breakage. If the page-turning means is located on the document surface, the page-turning means covers a part of the document surface, leaving an unreadable part, or specifying the size of the page-turnable document. There was a problem that it was limited to the size of. The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned points, and an object thereof is an automatic page turning apparatus having a simple structure which is capable of automatically turning pages of books, magazines and the like regardless of size. To provide.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a page separating means for separating the pages of a book, a magazine, etc. automatically, page by page, In an automatic page-turning device having guide means for setting the book and magazine, and page-turning means for turning the pages, each of the page-separating means, the guide means, and the page-turning means is a page. The structure is such that it can be moved and fixed according to the size of books and magazines to be turned over.

Further, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has a structure in which the page separating means is arranged at a corner portion of the book or magazine.

Further, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has a page separating portion of the page separating means having one or more convex tongue pieces at its central portion, and both end portions thereof having the convex tongue pieces. The structure is made of a material having a smaller friction coefficient than the piece.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has a structure in which the page turning lever of the page turning means is made of a transparent material.

[0009]

According to the configuration of claim 1 of the present invention, each of the page separating means, the guide means, and the page turning means is moved / fixed in accordance with the size of a book or a magazine for turning pages. .

According to the configuration of claim 2 of the present invention, the page separating means is arranged at the corner portion where the pages of a book, a magazine and the like can be easily separated.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the page separation is performed by the convex tongue at the center of the page separating portion of the page separating means, and the material having a smaller friction coefficient than the convex tongue. Pages other than the pages separated by the both end portions configured by are pressed.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the characters of the read page located below the page-turning lever of the page-turning means are transmitted.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of an automatic page turning apparatus according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, a main body base 1 has a right set guide 4 for setting a right end portion of a book,
A page turning device 6 for turning pages of the set book, a pair of upper and lower page separating devices 2 for sorting the books page by page, and the like are mounted.

The right set guide 4 is configured to be movable in the left-right direction in FIG. 1 with respect to the main body base 1 in accordance with the size of the book to be turned over, using the guide pin 4a fitted in the elongated hole 4c as a guide. The right set guide 4 is fixed at a predetermined position according to the size of the book on the main body base 1 by tightening a fixing screw 4b fitted in another elongated hole 4d.

Further, on the upper part of the right set guide 4,
A lower set guide 5 for setting the lower end of the book is mounted, and the lower set guide 5 uses the guide pin 5a fitted in the long hole 5c as a guide to match the size of the book to be turned over. 1 is configured to be movable in the vertical direction with respect to the right set guide 4 in FIG. 1, and the lower set guide 5 can be adjusted according to the size of a book by tightening a fixing screw 5b fitted in another elongated hole 5d. The right set guide 4 is fixed at a predetermined position.

On the other hand, similarly to the right set guide 4 described above, the page turning device 6 uses the guide pin 6a fitted in the elongated hole 6c as a guide to match the size of the book on which the page turning is performed, and the main body base 1 On the other hand, in FIG. 1, the page turning device 6 is configured to be movable in the left-right direction, and the page turning device 6 can be adjusted according to the size of the book on the main body base 1 by tightening the fixing screw 6b fitted in the other long hole 6d. Fixed in place.

Further, one of the pair of upper and lower page separating devices 2 (lower side in this embodiment) is mounted on the upper part of the separating table 3, and the separating table 3 is arranged under the above-mentioned lower part. Similar to the set guide 5, the guide pin 3a fitted in the elongated hole 3c is used as a guide so as to be vertically movable in FIG. 1 with respect to the main body base 1 in accordance with the size of the book to be turned. It is fixed at a predetermined position on the main body base 1 according to the size of the book by tightening the fixing screw 3b fitted in the other elongated hole 3d.

Next, a procedure for turning a page of a book in the automatic page turning apparatus configured as described above will be described step by step. In this embodiment, first, the page to be turned is set to the page separating device 2 side, the book is set, and only the first cover of the set book is set to the right set guide 4 side.

FIG. 2 shows the structure of a page separating device 2 for separating the pages of a set book one by one. In FIG. 2, the book B to be turned over is the page separating device. The corners of the book B are arranged so that the corners of each page of the book B hit the guide portion 2a provided inside the sheet guide 2a. FIG. 3A shows a cross section of a corner portion of each page of the book B thus set.

2 and 3, the separation roller 2e is
It is composed of a member having a low friction coefficient with respect to the page of book B, and is configured to rotate in the arrow direction around the shaft 2c. Further, the separation roller 2e is mounted with a separation member 2d made of an elastic member having a high friction coefficient such as rubber having an uneven portion protruding in the normal direction of the shaft 2c, and the separation member 2d is also separated. It is designed to rotate with 2e.

The rotating mechanism of the separating roller 2e includes a bearing 2b for rotatably supporting the shaft 2c, an encoder 2f for detecting the rotational position of the shaft 2c, a sensor 2n of the encoder 2f, and a shaft 2c. A pulley 2g for transmitting rotation, a motor 2j as a drive source, a support base 2k for supporting the motor 2j, and this support base 2k.
2p for fixing the motor, a drive pulley 2i fixed to the output shaft of the motor 2j, a belt 2h for transmitting the rotation of the drive pulley 2i to a pulley 2g fixed to the shaft 2c, and a sensor of the encoder 2f. It is composed of a control panel 2m and the like for controlling the rotation of the motor 2j based on the output of 2n and the like.

2 and 3, when the separation roller 2e starts to rotate from the state of FIG. 3 (a), the separation roller 2e becomes
Since the book B is composed of a member having a low friction coefficient with respect to the page, the book B is rotated while sliding on the upper surface of the page. Then, as shown in FIG. 3B, when the convex portion of the separating member 2d comes into contact with the end portion of the page, the convex portion of the separating member 2d is deformed along the page as shown in FIG. 3C. At the same time, the top page of book B is gradually turned up from the bottom page.

From this state, FIG. 3 (d) and FIG. 3 (e)
As shown in FIG. 3, when the separating roller 2e rotates, the leading end of the uppermost page turned up from the lower page as described above enters the concave portion of the separating member 2d, and FIG.
The state shown in (f) is obtained. When the separation roller 3e is further rotated from the state shown in FIG. 3 (f), as shown in FIG. 3 (g), the leading end of the uppermost page is lifted upward while remaining in the recess of the separation member 2d. , Then Fig. 3
As shown in (h), only the lifted uppermost one page is guided to the upper side of the separation roller 2e and separated from other pages, and the separation member 2d reaches the initial position. The rotation of 2e is stopped.

As shown in FIG. 4, the page separated from other pages while being placed on the separation roller 2e in this manner, as shown in FIG.
4 is rotated in the order of A-B-C in FIG. 4 and enters the gap between the separated page and the other page, so that the page is turned to the other page side. Here, 1 of book B
The page-turning lever 6e, which has finished the page-turning operation for the number of pages, is stopped at the position C in FIG. 4 and serves to press the turned-up page so as not to return to the original position. In addition, the page turning lever 6e allows the characters below the page turning lever 6e to be read even when the page turning lever 6e is stopped above the character to be read. It is desirable to use a transparent material that allows the characters of the read page located below the page turning lever 6e to pass through. This is not the case when the page turning lever 6e is located at the end of the book B as in this embodiment.

The page turning lever 6e of the page turning device 6 is a page turning lever 6 as shown in FIG.
Set screw 6f for fixing e, encoder 6g for detecting the rotational position of page turning lever 6e, drive motor 6h for rotating page turning lever 6e, motor fixing screw 6i for fixing drive motor 6h , And a lever rotation device including a sensor 6j of the encoder 6g and the like, and the rotation is controlled.

Further, as shown in FIG. 6, on the main body base 1 of the automatic page-turning device in the present embodiment, the page to be turned-over of the book B is pressed against the separating roller 2e of the page-separating device 2 with a certain load. A push-up plate 10a for pushing up the cover of B and a push-up spring 10b for applying the above-mentioned load to the push-up plate 10a.
And a leaf spring 10c for pushing up the other cover of the book B so as to press the flipped page against the page turning lever 6e with a predetermined pressure so that the flipped page does not return to the original page side. It is arranged.

[0027]

According to the constitution of claim 1 of the present invention,
Since each of the page separating means, the guide means, and the page turning means is moved / fixed in accordance with the size of the book, the magazine, etc. on which the page is turned, it is possible to supply an automatic page turning apparatus corresponding to various books.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the pages of the books and magazines can be easily separated, and the page separating means is arranged at the corners where there are relatively many blanks. The page surface is easy to read and stable page separation is possible.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the page separation is performed by the convex tongue piece (separating member) at the center of the page separating portion of the page separating means, and the friction is higher than that of the convex tongue piece. Both ends (separation roller) made of material with small coefficient
Since pages other than the pages separated by are suppressed, the pages can be separated without damaging the turning pages.

According to the structure of claim 4 of the present invention, the characters of the read page located below the page turning lever for turning the pages of the page turning means are transmitted, so that the characters to be read can be read. Even when the page turning lever is stopped at the upper side, the characters and the like below the page turning lever can be read.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view showing an overall configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial cross-sectional view showing a configuration of a page separation device in the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a page separation process diagram for explaining a page separation operation in the above embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view for explaining a page turning operation in the above embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing the configuration of the page turning device in the above embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a central portion when a book is set in the automatic page-turning device of the above embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Main body base 2 Page separation device 2a Guide part 2d Separation member 2e Separation roller 3 Separation table 3a, 4a, 5a Guide pin 3b, 4b, 5b Fixing screw 3c, 3d, 4c, 4d, 5c, 5d Long hole 4 Right set guide 5 Lower set guide 6 Page turning device 6e Page turning lever 10a Push-up plate 10b Push-up spring 10c Leaf spring

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A page separating means for automatically turning the pages of a book or magazine page by page, for separating the pages, a guide means for setting the book or magazine, and the page. In an automatic page-turning device having a page-turning means for turning pages, each of the page separating means, the guide means, and the page-turning means can be moved / fixed in accordance with the size of a book or magazine for turning pages. An automatic page turning device characterized by the fact that there is. 2. The page separating means is arranged at a corner of the book or magazine.
Automatic page turning device as described. 3. The page separating portion of the page separating means has one or more convex tongue pieces in the central portion, and both ends are made of a material having a smaller friction coefficient than the convex tongue pieces. The automatic page-turning device according to claim 1, wherein: 4. The automatic page-turning device according to claim 1, wherein a lever for turning a page of the page-turning means is made of a transparent material.