JPH0852691A - Cutting plotter and cutting sheet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prepare a sticker of multicolor constitution by one time operation, in a cutting plotter preparing a sticker of character or the like from a cutting sheet. CONSTITUTION:A depth of cut data table 32 is stored in a cutting control part 24 of a cutting plotter. A two-color vinyl sheet laminated on released paper is used in a cutting sheet. A data of character or the like and a depth of cut assigned data of each character data are input from a keyboard device 21, to execute cutting. For instance, cutting only a vinyl sheet in the first layer is performed by a shallow depth of cut in a character or the like, to perform cutting a frame line to a vinyl sheet in the second layer, and when the first layer vinyl sheet in a frame is removed except a character part, a sticker of multicolor constitution by the foundation of the second layer and by the character of the first layer is prepared by one time cutting.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cutting plotter and a cutting sheet, and more particularly to a cutting plotter and a cutting sheet capable of producing multicolor cutout characters.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, cutting characters obtained by cutting a cutting sheet such as vinyl chloride have been used for window displays, display boards and the like. A cutting plotter that creates this kind of cutting character is a sheet traveling mechanism that travels the cutting sheet back and forth in the longitudinal direction,
Cutting tool 3D driving of the cutting tool with respect to the cutting sheet by a carriage drive mechanism that drives the carriage in a direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the cutting sheet and a head elevating mechanism that elevates and lowers the tool head mounted on the carriage Cut the sheet.

An adhesive layer is provided on the back surface of the cutting sheet, and release paper is attached to the adhesive layer. The cutting plotter controls the cutting depth so that only the cutting sheet is cut and not the release paper. It And
After cutting out characters etc., remove the cutting sheet of unnecessary parts other than characters and symbols from the release paper, attach a transparent application sheet to the surface of the characters etc. and peel off the application sheet from the release paper, when cutting out characters etc. Transfer to the back surface of the application sheet while maintaining the positional relationship of. Then, the application sheet is attached to a target location, the front surface is rubbed with a squeegee to adhere the cut-out characters and the like on the back surface to the object, and only the application sheet is peeled off, so that the cut-out characters and the like are attached to the target location.

Further, when displaying a series of characters and symbols in multiple colors on a window display, a display board, etc., a plurality of types of cutting sheets of a desired color are prepared and the characters or the like are cut out from each cutting sheet. It is attached to each place separately to express a series of display contents.

It is also practiced to attach cut-out characters or the like of a cutting sheet of a color different from the base color to the base cutting sheet, cut the base cutting sheet into an appropriate size, and attach the cut sheet to a display board or the like. .

[0006]

Conventionally, when a series of display contents are displayed in multiple colors by cut-out characters of a cutting sheet, the cutting work and the sticking work are performed for each color, and the work is troublesome. An error may occur in the attachment position of characters, etc., resulting in a poor quality finish.

Therefore, there arises a technical problem to be solved in order to facilitate the above-mentioned series of operations and improve the accuracy of the sticking position to improve the workability. The present invention solves the above problems. The purpose is to

[0008]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention is proposed in order to achieve the above-mentioned object, and is a cutting plotter for cutting out characters and figures from a cutting sheet such as vinyl chloride by computer control. The cutting controller of the plotter is provided with means for inputting cutting depth designation data for each line segment data unit or character data unit, and means for controlling the drive amount of the Z-axis actuator according to the cutting depth designation data. And a cutting sheet for use in the cutting plotter in which a plurality of cutting sheets having different colors are laminated on the surface of a release paper.

[0009]

When the data such as characters and the data designating the cutting depth for each unit data is input to the cutting plotter from the keyboard or the like, the Z-axis actuator controls the cutting pressure or the descending stroke in accordance with the cutting depth data when executing cutting. . Therefore, the number of layers to be cut can be controlled for a sheet in which a plurality of cutting sheets are laminated. For example, a character is cut on the surface layer of a cutting sheet having a two-layer structure in which two kinds of cutting sheets of different colors are laminated to form a frame. By cutting up to the second layer and removing the surface cutting sheet in the frame except for the character portion, a sticker in which characters of different colors are arranged on the lower ground of the second layer is created by one operation. Also, a series of character strings can be cut up to the second layer, and the surface layer of arbitrary characters can be peeled off to create character strings of two colors.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. For the convenience of description, conventionally known technical matters will be described at the same time. 1 and 2 show a cutting tool driving device 2 and a sheet feeding device 3 of a cutting plotter 1, the sheet feeding device 3 is built in a housing 4, and the cutting tool driving device 2 is arranged on an upper frame 5. . The upper frame 5 is pivotally attached to the housing 4 by a pin 6, and the lever 7 provided on the upper frame 5 is rotated to release the engagement between the hook portion 7a of the lever 7 and the stopper portion 4a of the housing 4. Then, by pulling the upper frame 5 upward, the upper surface of the sheet feeding device 3 is exposed.

The sheet feeding device 3 comprises a rotating roller 8 pivotally supported by the housing 4 and an X-axis motor 9, and the rotating roller 8
Is driven by the X-axis motor 9 via a pulley 10. Sprocket wheels 11, 11 are fitted to both end portions of the rotary roller 8, and as shown in FIG. 2, perforations 13, 13, ... Lined up in the advancing direction near both side edges of the cutting sheet 12 with release paper. The sprocket wheels 11 and 11 mesh with each other to move the cutting seat 12 forward and backward in the X direction.

A Y rail 14 of the cutting tool driving device 2 is fixed to the upper frame 5, and a tool carriage 15 is movably engaged with the Y rail 14. Y
The Y-axis motor 16 disposed in the rail 14 and the tool carriage 15 are connected via a belt (not shown), and the Y-axis motor 16 causes the tool carriage 15 to move in the Y direction.
Driven along rails 14. As shown in FIG. 1, a moving coil type Z-axis actuator 17 is built in the tool carriage 15, and a cutting tool 18 is attached to a head portion 17 a of the Z-axis actuator 17.

When the cutting sheet 12 is loaded on the cutting plotter 1, the upper frame 5 is pulled up to open the upper portion of the rotating roller 8 as described above, and the sheet roll storage portion provided on the side portion of the housing 4 is provided. 19 rollers 2
The roll-shaped cutting sheet 12 is placed on 0 and 20. Then, the front end of the cutting sheet 12 is pulled out to the position of the rotary roller 8 and the perforations 13, 13, ... Of the cutting sheet 12 are engaged with the claws of the sprocket wheels 11, 11 to close the upper frame 5. A keyboard device and an LCD, which are not shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, are provided on the front surface of the housing 4.

As shown in FIG. 3, the keyboard device 21 is connected to an input / output control device 23 via an interface 22, and the input / output control device 23 is a cutting control unit 24.
It controls the input / output of the data of and outputs a control signal to the LCD drive circuit 25, the X-axis motor drive circuit 26, the Y-axis motor drive circuit 27, and the Z-axis actuator drive circuit 28. The cutting control unit 24 includes a CPU 29, a RAM 30, and a RO.
The cutting depth data table 32 is stored in the ROM 31 and is composed of M31. In this embodiment, the cutting depth data of two stages is set.

FIG. 4 shows the cutting sheet 12 in which two vinyl chloride sheets 34 and 35 are laminated on a release paper 33. The two layers of vinyl chloride sheets 34 and 35 have different colors, and various cutting sheets are provided by combining two colors such as black, white, red, blue, and yellow to meet various color combinations. It can be so.

The Z-axis actuator 17 performs open-loop control of the drive current or feedback control of the descending stroke according to the cutting depth data during descending drive,
The cutting depth by the cutting tool 18 is controlled.
Then, when the shallow cutting depth is designated, only the vinyl chloride sheet 35 of the first surface layer is cut as shown in FIG. 4A, and when all layers are designated as the first layer as shown in FIG. 4B. The second layer vinyl chloride sheets 35, 34 are cut.

When character or symbol data, format data such as character size, and cutting depth designation data are input from the keyboard device 21, the CPU 29 develops data such as characters into vector data by the cutting control program of the ROM 31 and cuts depth data. The corresponding cutting depth data is read from the table 32 and the vector data and the cutting depth data are stored in the RAM 30. Further, the input content is displayed on the LCD 36 via the LCD drive circuit 25.

For example, as shown in FIG. 5, when a sticker consisting of a white base 34W and black characters 35B, 35B, ... Is attached to the display plate 37, the white vinyl chloride sheet 34 and the black are placed on the release paper 33. The cutting sheet 12 in which the vinyl chloride sheet 35 is laminated is used. Then, the shallow cutting depth data is added to the character data and input, and the deep cutting depth data is added to the frame data, and the cutting is executed. As described in the conventional example, after the cutting is completed, the unnecessary portions of the cutting sheets 34, 35 around the frame are removed, and the characters 35B, 35B,
When the black vinyl chloride sheet 35 on the surface layer other than the portion is peeled off, a sticker of black characters 35B is created on the white base 34W. Transfer this sticker to the application sheet, or remove the release paper 33 to directly display the display board 37.
The display plate 37 shown in FIG. On the contrary, if the black vinyl chloride sheet 35 on the surface layer is peeled off only on the character portion, a sticker of white character 34W is created on the black base 35B.

Further, after adding deep cutting depth data to characters and symbols as shown in FIG. 6 and cutting up to the second layer vinyl chloride sheet 34, the cutting sheets 34 and 35 of unnecessary portions other than the characters and symbols are cut. By removing and removing the vinyl chloride sheet 35 of the first layer only in the character portion, a sticker composed of white characters 34W, 34W, ... And black symbol 35B is prepared. If this sticker is transferred to an application sheet, a series of multicolored character strings can be attached to a desired place without causing positional displacement.

It should be noted that the present invention should not be limited to the above-mentioned one embodiment, but the number of cutting depth setting steps, the number of cutting sheets laminated, and the like can be modified in various ways. It goes without saying that

[0021]

As described in detail in the above one embodiment, the present invention provides the cutting plotter with the function of setting the cutting depth for each character or symbol. You can create a sticker with a single operation. Therefore, unlike the conventional one, it is not necessary to perform a cutting operation for each color-specific cutting sheet, which significantly improves workability and
It is effective in preventing the deterioration of the finished quality without causing a positional deviation during application.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of essential parts showing a sheet feeding device and a cutting tool driving device of a cutting plotter.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the portion shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of the cutting plotter of this embodiment.

FIG. 4 shows a cutting sheet and a cutting tool, and (a) is an explanatory view of a state at the time of cutting the first layer,
(B) is an explanatory view of a state at the time of cutting the second layer.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of a display board having a multicolored structure.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing another embodiment of the display plate having a multicolor structure.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Cutting plotter 2 Cutting tool drive device 3 Sheet feeding device 9 X-axis motor 12 Cutting sheet 16 Y-axis motor 17 Z-axis actuator 18 Cutting tool 21 Keyboard device 24 Cutting control device 28 Z-axis actuator drive circuit 29 CPU 31 ROM 32 Cutting depth Data table 33 Release paper 34 White vinyl chloride sheet 35 Black vinyl chloride sheet

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A cutting plotter that cuts out characters and figures from a cutting sheet such as vinyl chloride by computer control, and cutting depth designation data for each line segment data unit or character data unit for the cutting control unit of the cutting plotter. A cutting plotter provided with means for inputting and means for controlling the drive amount of the Z-axis actuator according to the cutting depth designation data. 2. The cutting sheet for use in a cutting plotter according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of cutting sheets having different colors are laminated on the surface of the release paper.