JPH08207229A - Tape printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a tape printer in which a cartridge can be easily attached or detached and a sufficient pressing force to a thermal stencil printing plate original sheet can be obtained. CONSTITUTION: A thermal stencil printing plate original sheet cartridge 1 winds a tapelike thermal stencil printing plate original sheet 118 in a rolled state and so contains as to deliver it. The thermal head set lever 24 of a plate making unit 2 is shifted to the 'release' side to release the pressed state of a thermal head 116, and mounts the cartridge 1 at a bed 29 for the cartridge. Then, the lever 24 is shifted to the 'set' side to so set the pressing state that the head 116 brings the sheet 118 into pressure contact with a platen 117 and to perforate a desired character at the sheet 118.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a tape printer which prints desired characters and symbols with a thermal head.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a stamp device, a stamp device S ₂ as shown in FIG.
No. 226778). The heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 applied to the stamp device S ₂ is configured by laminating a thermoplastic film, which is a heat-meltable resin, and a porous support. Both ends of the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 have the first
A heat-sensitive stencil sheet stamp cartridge 110 wound on a roll and a second roll is used. That is, inside the heat-sensitive stencil sheet stamp cartridge 110, the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 is arranged so as to be fed from the original winding roll 112 and wound on the winding roll 113, and the platen 117, the original winding guide roller 114, and The ink pad 120 and the winding side guide roller 115 are interposed.

Heat-sensitive stencil stamp cartridge 11
Reference numeral 0 indicates a state in which the plate making apparatus 1 is mounted on the plate making apparatus 1
The thermal head 116 provided at 11 is pressed against the platen 117 via the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118. Image data for performing desired punching is sent from the control unit (not shown) to the thermal head 116, and each dot of the thermal head corresponding to the image data is heated. In this state, as the platen 117 rotates in the direction of arrow A, each dot of the thermal head 116 corresponding to the perforated image generates heat, so that the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 is perforated to make a stamp plate. Further, by rotating the take-up roll 113 in the direction of the arrow B, the stamp plate is pulled out to the front surface (the lower surface in the drawing) of the ink pad 120 and set in a stampable state.

In this set state, the heat-sensitive stencil sheet stamp cartridge 110 is removed from the plate making device 111. Then, the ink impregnated in the ink pad 120 is held by holding the handle 119 and pressing the surface of the plate-made heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 so as to face the printing paper (not shown). Ink is transferred to the printing paper by bleeding from the perforated portion of the stencil sheet.

[0005]

However, in the means shown in FIG. 3, since the thermal head is fixed, if the thermal head is installed so as to obtain sufficient pressing force to the heat-sensitive stencil sheet. It is difficult to attach / detach the cartridge. On the other hand, if a thermal head is installed so that the cartridge can be easily attached / detached, there is a drawback that sufficient pressing force cannot be applied to the heat-sensitive stencil sheet.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and provides a tape printer in which a cartridge can be easily attached and detached and a sufficient pressing force to a heat-sensitive stencil sheet can be obtained. The purpose is to provide.

[0007]

In order to achieve this object, a tape printer according to a first aspect of the present invention is a tape-shaped heat-sensitive device for printing desired characters, symbols, etc. by a thermal head. A heat-sensitive stencil sheet cartridge in which the stencil sheet is wound into a roll and stored so that it can be carried out to the outside, a cartridge storage section for storing the heat-sensitive stencil sheet cartridge, and the thermal head is pressed against the heat-sensitive stencil sheet The thermal head can sufficiently press the heat-sensitive stencil sheet to reliably heat and perforate characters and the like.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the tape printer, the pressing means includes a platen provided on the opposite side of the thermal head with the heat-sensitive stencil sheet sandwiched therebetween, and the thermal head and the platen. The thermal stencil sheet is composed of a thermal headset lever that can set and release the pressed state of the stencil sheet, so that the pressed state is released when the heat-sensitive stencil sheet cartridge is attached to or detached from the cartridge storage section. It is possible to easily heat and perforate characters and the like by setting the pressing state and sufficiently pressing the thermal head onto the heat-sensitive stencil sheet when heating and perforating. it can.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1A shows a side view of the stamp device S ₃ of the present invention, and FIG. 1B shows a perspective view of the stamp device S ₃ . In addition, the same reference numerals are given to the portions described in FIG. 3, and duplicate description will be omitted.

First, the stamp cartridge 1 will be described.

As shown in FIG. 1A, the stamp cartridge 1 contains a roll-shaped heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 wound around an original roll 112. Further, the stamp cartridge 1 is provided with a platen 117, a delivery roller 4, a pressure contact roller 5, and an intermediate gear 10 for interlocking with the platen 117 to deliver a rotational force to the roller 4. The stamp cartridge 1 constitutes the heat-sensitive stencil sheet cartridge of the present invention.

The plate making apparatus 2 includes a thermal head 116,
A cutter blade 11 for cutting the plate-made heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 is provided, and the cutter blade 11 is attached to the plate-making device 2 via a cutter lever 12. The plate making device 2 constitutes the tape printer of the present invention.

Next, the operation of the portion shown in FIG. 1A will be described.

The plate making apparatus 2 controls the energy application pattern to the thermal head 116 in order to obtain a desired perforation pattern on the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 and the rotation control of a motor (not shown) for rotating the platen 117. To do. The desired punching pattern is previously input as a sentence from a character input device I (see FIG. 1B) provided in the plate making device 2 described later and stored.

The platen 117 is driven by the rotating force of the motor.
However, while pressing the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 against the thermal head 116, the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 is rotated in the direction of arrow C and is fed by a predetermined amount. Energy corresponding to the perforation pattern is applied to each dot of the thermal head 116 to generate heat. The heat generation of each dot is synchronized with the feeding of the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118. The heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 is heat-perforated by the heat generated by the dots to form a desired perforation pattern (for example,
Characters, symbols, etc.) are formed. The rotational force of the platen 117 is transmitted to the delivery roller 4 via the intermediate gear 10. The rotation of the delivery roller 4 causes the delivery roller 4 to rotate.
The perforated heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 sandwiched between the press roller 5 and the pressure contact roller 5 is sent out from below by frictional force,
After the plate making is completed, a margin for mounting on a simple stamp device described later is fed. Thus, the plate making operation is completed.

Next, the detailed construction of the plate making apparatus 2 is shown in FIG.
A description will be given based on (B).

The character input device I includes a character selection dial 21.
And a display 22 and function buttons 23. Characters and symbols are printed on the upper surface of the character selection dial 21 along the outer peripheral direction. For example, when the character selection dial 21 is rotated to select and specify a desired character and the input button, which is one of the function buttons 23, is pressed, the desired character code is taken into the internal input control unit (not shown). After being stored and edited, the corresponding character is displayed on the display 22 such as an LCD. After the input buttons are sequentially repeated to create a sentence, the detailed setting of the pattern for punching the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 is performed by using the editing functions such as insertion / deletion / conversion / scrolling in the function buttons 23.

After this editing is completed, the thermal headset lever 24 is set to the "released" state, the stamp cartridge 1 is placed on the cartridge bed 29 in this state, and after the thermal head set lever 24 is placed " The thermal head 116 is set so as to press the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 to the platen 117 with the thermal head 116 pressed. The cartridge bed 29 constitutes the cartridge housing portion of the present invention, and the thermal headset lever 24 and the platen 117 constitute the pressing means. The platen drive gear 25 is rotated by a motor (not shown) built in the plate making device 2 side, and is rotated so as to rotate the platen 117 (FIG. 1A) in the direction of arrow C. . The cartridge detection bar 27 is
Whether the stamp cartridge set in the cartridge bed 29 is a heat-sensitive stencil sheet stamp cartridge 110 (see FIG. 3) having a conventional ink pad,
The stamp cartridge 1 according to the present invention is detected. That is, in the case of the conventional stamp cartridge 110, the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 after plate making is used as the ink pad 12.
In the case of the stamp cartridge 1 according to the present invention, it is fed to a position where it is set on the front surface of 0, and after the plate making, the margin portion for feeding to the simple stamp device 40 (see FIG. 2) described below is fed.

The cutter unit accommodating portion 28 accommodates the cutter 11 including the cutter blade 11 and the cutter lever 12, and is operated by the manual force of the user. The discharge port 26 is a portion through which the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 is discharged when the stamp cartridge 1 is set and the plate is made.

Here, as described above, the plate making apparatus 2 in the present invention performs the conventional function without any change in using the conventional stamp cartridge 110. That is, when the conventional stamp cartridge 110 is applied, the cutter 11, the discharge port 26, etc. are not used, but the character input device I, the thermal headset lever 24, the platen 117, etc. may be used as they are.

Next, the simple stamp device 40 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 (A) and 2 (B). This stamp device 4
Reference numeral 0 is an apparatus for setting a stencil sheet prepared by the stamp cartridge 1 and performing a marking operation on the recording sheet.

As shown in FIGS. 2 (A) and 2 (B), a frame body 43 having an ink pad is inserted into an outer frame 42 having a U-shaped cross section. . The frame body 43 is adapted to be attracted to the inner surface vertical portion of the outer frame 42 by the urging force of the extension spring. A grip 41 is fixed to the center of the back surface of the outer frame 42. The plate-made heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118 is aligned with the stamp face 46, and then fixed to the frame body 43 by the stamp face fixing frame 45.

The heat-sensitive stencil sheet 11 thus prepared
After fixing 8, the user grips the grip 41 and pushes down the grip 41 with the marking surface 46 placed on the recording paper P.
The ink impregnated by the compression of the ink pad is transferred to the recording paper P through the perforated portion of the plate-made heat-sensitive stencil sheet 118.

If a simple stamp device having a horizontally long stamp surface is prepared as the simple stamp device, the horizontally long stencil sheet can be applied, and the horizontally long copy printing can be performed once.

[0026]

As is apparent from the above description, the tape printer according to claim 1 is a tape-shaped heat-sensitive stencil sheet intended for printing desired characters and symbols by a thermal head. And a heat-sensitive stencil sheet cartridge that is stored in a roll shape so that it can be carried out to the outside,
Since the cartridge housing portion for housing the heat-sensitive stencil sheet cartridge and the pressing means for pressing the thermal head to the heat-sensitive stencil sheet, the thermal head sufficiently presses the heat-sensitive stencil sheet. It is possible to reliably heat and punch characters and the like.

In the tape printer according to a second aspect of the present invention, the pressing means includes a platen provided on the opposite side of the thermal head with the heat-sensitive stencil sheet interposed therebetween, and the thermal head and the platen. The thermal stencil sheet is composed of a thermal headset lever that can set and release the pressed state of the stencil sheet, so that the pressed state is released when the heat-sensitive stencil sheet cartridge is attached to or detached from the cartridge storage section. It is possible to easily heat and perforate characters and the like by setting the pressing state and sufficiently pressing the thermal head onto the heat-sensitive stencil sheet when heating and perforating. it can.

[Brief description of drawings]

1A and 1B are a side sectional view and a perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

2A and 2B are an assembled perspective view and an exploded perspective view of a simple stamp device to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing an example of a conventional stamp device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Stamp Cartridge 2 Plate Making Device 24 Thermal Headset Lever 29 Cartridge Bed 116 Thermal Head 117 Platen 118 Thermosensitive Stencil Paper

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A tape printing apparatus for printing desired characters, symbols, etc. by a thermal head, wherein a thermosensitive stencil sheet is wound in a roll form and is stored so as to be carried out to the outside. A tape printer, comprising: a cartridge housing portion for housing the heat-sensitive stencil sheet cartridge; and pressing means for pressing the thermal head against the heat-sensitive stencil sheet. 2. The pressing means comprises a platen provided on the opposite side of the thermal head with the heat-sensitive stencil sheet sandwiched therebetween, and a setting state of the heat-sensitive stencil sheet pressed by the thermal head and the platen. The tape printer according to claim 1, further comprising: a thermal headset lever that can be released.