JPH0977334A - Continuous paper sheet cutting and treating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically discharge a large quantity of unit paper sheets accumulated on the paper sheet placing mount of a down stacker device, outside the device, when continuous paper sheets are massively treated by a continuous paper sheet cutting and treating device. SOLUTION: While transferring a continuous paper, it is cut at a unit paper sheet by cutting devices 15a, 15b, 16a, 16b, 17a, 17b, and 18, and these unit papers are accumulated in order on the elevation-possible paper sheet placing mount 25 of a down stacker device 24 to lower the paper sheet placing mount 25 in accordance with accumulated quantity; and when the paper sheet placing mount 25 is lowered to the utmost lowered position, the accumulated unit papers are separated from the placing surface of the paper sheet placing mount 25 to be placed on the discharging and transferring members 51a-51e of a discharge device 50 provided in accordance with the utmost lowered position. Then the unit papers, accumulated by the discharging and transferring member 51a, are transferred in a horizontal direction to be discharged outside the device.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention cuts each unit sheet by a cutting device while transporting continuous sheets, and sequentially deposits the unit sheets on a down stacker device equipped with a sheet mounting table capable of moving up and down. Then, the present invention relates to a continuous sheet cutting device that discharges the unit sheets accumulated on the sheet mounting table by the discharging device to the outside of the apparatus when the sheet mounting table of the down stacker device descends to a predetermined position.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various continuous paper cutting and processing devices using a down stacker device have been known, but in the conventional device of this type, unit sheets accumulated on a paper mounting table of the down stacker device. Has reached a predetermined amount, and when the paper placing table is lowered to a predetermined position, the stacked unit paper sheets are taken out manually.

[0003]

For this reason, there is no particular problem when the amount of accumulated unit sheets is small, but when a large amount of continuous sheets are processed, the accumulated amount becomes large, so that unit sheets stacked high It is difficult to manually remove the sheet from the sheet stacking table of the down stacker device. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a continuous paper cutting processing device capable of automatically discharging the unit paper accumulated on the paper mounting table of the down stacker device. .

[0004]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a continuous sheet cutting apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention is a cutting apparatus for cutting continuous sheets while transporting the continuous sheets, and this cutting apparatus. Corresponding to the down stacker device equipped with a stackable paper stack that can be moved up and down according to the accumulated amount of the unit paper, and the stack path of the paper stack of this down stacker device. When the sheet placing table is lowered to a predetermined position, the accumulated unit sheets are placed on the discharging / transporting member away from the placing surface of the sheet placing table, and the unit sheets accumulated by the discharging / transporting member. It is characterized in that it is configured by an ejecting device for horizontally transferring.

Further, a continuous sheet cutting apparatus according to a second aspect of the present invention is a cutting device that cuts each continuous sheet while transporting the continuous sheet, and a placement unit that has a penetrating portion for the unit sheet transferred from the cutting apparatus. A down stacker device having a stackable sheet stacking table that is sequentially stacked on the surface and that descends and descends according to the accumulated amount of a unit sheet, and the down stacker device is located corresponding to the lifting path of the sheet stacking table. When the sheet stacking table is lowered to a predetermined position, the transfer surface of the belt conveyor is projected from the penetrating portion, and the transport surface of the belt conveyor is located above the unit sheet stacking surface of the sheet stacking table. Away from the loading surface of the paper loading table,
The present invention is characterized by comprising a discharge device for horizontally transferring the unit sheets accumulated by the belt conveyor.

[0006]

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Here, FIG. 1 is a side view schematically showing the entire apparatus, and FIG. 2 is a plan view of the same.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which the mounting table of the down stacker device reaches the lowest position, and FIG. 4 is a perspective view schematically showing a part of continuous paper to be processed.

First, the continuous paper to be processed will be described. As shown in FIG. 4, the continuous paper 1 has lateral perforations 3 for folding and cutting which form the unit paper 2 at predetermined intervals, and transfer holes 4a and 4b are equally spaced on both sides in the width direction. It has the provided marginal portions 5a and 5b. In addition, when the continuous paper 1 is printed or printed before the continuous paper cutting process, appropriate information is displayed on each unit paper 2.

Next, the continuous paper cutting processing device will be described.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the continuous paper 1 (not shown, see FIG. 4) is folded in zigzag shape at each horizontal perforation 3 and pulled out upward from a state of being placed in a predetermined state to support the machine body 10. The tractor devices 13a, 13b are guided to a pair of left and right tractor devices 13a, 13b driven by a drive motor (not shown) via a guide plate 11 fixed to the plates 10a, 10b.
b transfer pin 4b, transfer holes 4a of marginal parts 5a, 5b,
4b is engaged and it is configured to transfer to the right in FIG. The facing distance between the tractor devices 13a and 13b can be adjusted by driving the motor 12 according to the width of the continuous paper 1. Then, the tractor device 13
Slitters 14a and 14b for cutting the marginal portions 5a and 5b of the continuous paper 1 are provided at the ends of the a and 13b in the transfer direction.

A cutting device is provided following the slitters 14a and 14b. This cutting device consists of four pairs of upper and lower transfer rollers.
5a, 15b, a pair of upper and lower low speed rollers 16a, 16b,
It is composed of a pair of upper and lower high speed rollers 17a and 17b, and a blade 18 disposed between the low speed rollers 16a and 16b and the high speed rollers 17a and 17b. Each transfer roller 1
5a, 15b, low speed rollers 16a, 16b and high speed rollers 17a, 17b are the tractor devices 13a, 13b.
The same driving motor as the driving motor of FIG. 2 is connected to each other via a rotational force transmission system, the transfer rollers 15a and 15b and the low speed rollers 16a and 16b rotate at the same speed, and the high speed roller 1
7a and 17b are transfer rollers 15a and 15b and a low speed roller 1.
It is configured to rotate at a higher speed than 6a and 16b.

The transfer rollers 15a and 15b always sandwich and transfer the continuous paper 1, but the low speed rollers 16a and 16b and the high speed rollers 17a and 17b have upper and lower rollers in standby (when not cut). They are located separately from each other, and are contacted by the drive of the motor 19 at the time of cutting to sandwich the continuous paper 1. Then, tension is applied to the continuous paper 1 due to the difference in transfer speed between the low speed rollers 16a, 16b and the high speed rollers 17a, 17b during the sandwiching, and the blade 18 is brought into contact with the horizontal perforations 3 to make the continuous paper 1 a unit paper. It is cut into two.

Although not shown, the high speed roller 17
A leading edge detection sensor for detecting the passage of the leading edge of the sheet is disposed between the blades a and 17b and the blade 18, and the motor 19 is driven after a predetermined time based on the leading edge detection signal to drive the low speed rollers 16a and 16b and the high speed roller 17a. , 17b are brought into contact with upper and lower rollers to sandwich and cut the continuous paper 1.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the high speed roller 1
7a and 17b, followed by four large diameter parts 21
Two transfer rollers provided with b and 22b, and transfer rollers 21a and 22a that rotate in cooperation with each of the large diameter portions 21b and 22b of the transfer roller are provided. The large diameter portions 21b,
A transfer roller provided with 22b and the transfer rollers 21a, 2
Reference numeral 2a is connected to the same drive motor as the drive motors of the tractor devices 13a and 13b described above via a rotational force transmission system so as to be rotationally driven in a pair of upper and lower sides. Further, the motor 23 moves the transfer rollers provided with the transfer rollers 21a and 22a and the large diameter portions 21b and 22b in a direction orthogonal to the transfer direction to change the transfer path of the unit sheet 2. It is used when the unit sheets 2 are sorted and transferred to a down stacker device described later.

The transfer speed by the transfer roller 22a and the large diameter portion 22b is set to 1.3 to 1.5 times the transfer speed by the transfer roller 21a and the large diameter portion 21b. By setting the rotation torque of the diameter portion 22b to be extremely small or setting it so as to cause a slip with the unit sheet 2, the unit sheet 2 is simultaneously transferred by both the transfer rollers and the transfer rollers 21a and 22a. When the sheet is nipped and transported, the sheet is fed at a transportation speed by the transportation roller 21a and the large diameter portion 21b, and the unit sheet 2 is transported by the transportation roller 21.
a and the large diameter portion 21b, and the transfer roller 22a and the large diameter portion 2
When it is transferred only by 2b, it is configured to fast forward.

A down stacker device 24 is provided following the two transfer rollers provided with the large diameter portions 21b and 22b, and the transfer rollers 21a and 22a which rotate in cooperation with each of the large diameter portions 21b and 22b of the transfer rollers. ing. The sheet stacking table 25 of the down stacker device 24 is composed of a base portion 26 and a stacking portion 27 for accumulating the unit sheets 2, and as can be seen in FIG. 3, this stacking portion 27 has a rectangular through hole that is a penetrating portion. 28a, 2
8b, 28c, 28d, 28e are provided, while the base portion 26 is guided by guide rods 29a, 29b and can be moved up and down.

While the chain 61 is fixed to the base portion 26 through the angle 62, the worm wheel 30 is fixed to the shaft 31 of one of the pair of upper and lower sprockets 63 on which the chain 61 is stretched.
By meshing with the worm gear 32, the chain 61 is vertically reciprocally driven in response to the rotation of the worm gear 32, and the sheet loading table 25 is moved up and down. Although not shown, the mounting portion 27 of the sheet mounting table 25 is supported by a pair of support walls fixed so as to extend horizontally with respect to the base portion 26 via moving rollers, and the base portion 29. The handle 30 is configured to be movable in the contacting and separating direction with respect to (see FIG. 3).

Further, a belt conveyor stacker device 33 which is selectively used as an alternative to the down stacker device 24 is swingably provided around a rotary shaft 34 on one end side as a fulcrum, and the belt conveyor stacker device 33 is used when not in use. It is positioned vertically as shown by the solid line in FIG. 1, and is positioned horizontally when used as shown by the phantom line in FIG. This belt conveyor stacker device 33 includes four transfer belts 35a,
35b, 35c, 35d, and the transfer belts 35a, 35b, 3 from the drive shaft 36 via the rotary shaft 34.
5c and 35d are rotationally driven.

Further, 37 is a pair of expandable and contractible support rods provided for guiding the swinging movement of the belt conveyor stacker device 33, 38 is a removable guide plate for accumulating the unit sheets 2, and 39 is a belt. A pair of left and right stoppers are provided on the machine body 10 to support the conveyor stacker device 33 in a horizontal state. In this embodiment, since the belt conveyor stacker device 33 is not used, it is always in the vertical position shown by the solid line in FIG. When swinging the belt conveyor stacker device 33,
This is performed by opening the door body, and the door body is provided with a door 57 that moves up and down by a drive mechanism (not shown).

As shown in FIG. 1, the down stacker device 2
Six guide belts 44 (only one is shown) provided on the support 41, which is movable by being guided by the screw shaft 40, above the sheet mounting table 25 of No. 4, via the rotation rollers 42 and 43.
And a rotary solenoid 45. The rotary roller 42 is connected to a drive pulley 64 which is connected to the same drive motor as the drive motors of the tractor devices 13a and 13b via a rotational force transmission system. A rotary shaft 46 connected to the drive shaft of the rotary solenoid 45 has four support arms 47 (only one is shown) at predetermined intervals.
Of the guide stopper 4 is fixed to the rotary shaft 46.
8 is provided, while rider rollers 49 are rotatably provided at the free ends of the support arms 47, respectively.

The support arm 47 is used for the down stacker device 2.
4 is in a horizontal state (indicated by a solid line in FIG. 1), the guide belt 44 faces the placing portion 27 of the sheet placing table 25 at a slight interval, and a guide stopper 48 is provided.
Is in contact with the leading edge of the sheet in correspondence with the transfer path of the unit sheet 2. On the other hand, when the belt conveyor stacker device 33 is used, the support arm 47 is swung counterclockwise in FIG. 1 so that each rider roller 49 causes the transfer belts 35a, 35b, 35c of the belt conveyor stacker device 33 to move.
The guide stoppers 48 are oscillated counterclockwise in FIG.

Paper stacking table 25 of the down stacker device 24
An ejecting device 50 is provided at the lowest position corresponding to the ascending / descending path. As shown in FIG. 3, the discharging device 50 is
Each through hole 28a of the mounting portion 27 of the down stacker device 24,
Five conveyor belts 51a, 51b serving as discharge transfer members so as to be positioned corresponding to 28b, 28c, 28d, 28e.
It has 51c, 51d and 51e. As shown in FIG. 1, these conveyor belts 51a, 51b, 51c,
51d and 51e are configured to circulate around a driven roller 53 connected to the drive motor 52 and the guide rollers 54, 55, and 56 so as to circulate.

Then, when the sheet mounting table 25 of the down stacker device 24 is lowered to the lowest position, the through holes 28 are formed.
a, 28b, 28c, 28d, 28e corresponding conveyor belts 51a, 51b, 51c, 51d, 5
The transfer surface of 1e projects so that the conveyor belts 51a, 51 are located above the unit sheet mounting surface of the sheet mounting table 25.
The transfer surfaces b, 51c, 51d, 51e are located, and the unit sheets 2 accumulated on the mounting portion 27 of the sheet mounting table 25 are separated from the mounting surface to be received by the transfer surface, and each of the conveyor belts 51a. , 51b, 51c, 51d, 51e are driven to transfer the accumulated unit paper 2 in the horizontal direction. Then, at the time of transfer, the door 5 provided on the machine body 10
7 is slid upward, and the accumulated unit sheets 2 are transferred to an appropriate location outside the machine body 10 by the transfer conveyor 58. The transfer conveyor 58 is movable, but is fixed to the machine body 10 in advance before use.

Although the belt conveyor stacker device 33 is not used in the present embodiment, when it is used, the unit sheet 2 is transported in the horizontal direction and guided to the outside of the machine body 10 and follows the guide plate 38. The ejecting device 50 is not used because it is sequentially accumulated in a vertically stacked state. The belt conveyor stacker device 33 is suitable for processing when the unit sheet 2 is small.

Next, the operation of the sheet cutting apparatus constructed as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. First,
Information is appropriately printed or printed as needed, and the continuous paper 1 placed in a predetermined state is guided to the tractor devices 13a and 13b through the guide plate 11 and the tractor devices 13a and 1
The transfer pin 3b is provided with the transfer hole 4 of the marginal portions 5a, 5b.
Engage a and 4b. Here, drive motor (not shown)
1 is driven, the tractor devices 13a and 13b are rotationally driven to transfer the continuous paper 1 to the right in FIG. 1, and the unnecessary marginal portions 5a and 5b are cut and removed by the slitter 15.

When the continuous sheet 1 from which the marginal portions 5a and 5b have been cut and removed is transported and the leading edge detection sensor (not shown) detects the leading edge of the continuous sheet 1, the motor 19 is moved after a predetermined time.
Drive the low speed rollers 16a and 16b and the high speed roller 1
The upper and lower rollers of 7a and 17b are driven to contact each other, and the continuous paper 1 is sandwiched and tension is applied, and the blade 18 is brought into contact with the horizontal perforation 3 at the boundary between the two unit papers 2 to cut it.
Then, the cut unit sheet 2 has the large-diameter portions 21b and 22b.
The transfer rollers and the transfer rollers 21a, 22a provided with the transfer rollers 21a and 22a feed the paper to the sheet mounting table 25 of the down stacker device 24.

Then, the leading edge of the unit sheet 2 sent to the sheet placing table 25 is abutted against the guide stopper 48 by the guide belt 44, and is accumulated on the placing portion 27 of the sheet placing table 25 in a predetermined state. go. Here, the sheet mounting table 25 descends according to the accumulated amount of the unit sheets 2,
A new unit sheet 2 is always deposited on the same height surface.

In this way, the continuous paper 1 is changed to the unit paper 2
And cut the unit sheet 2 onto the placing section 27 of the sheet placing table 25.
When the accumulated amount reaches a predetermined amount, the cutting process operation is stopped and the sheet mounting table 25 is lowered to the lowest position. As a result, the sheet mounting table 25 is brought into the state shown in FIG. 3, and the mounting surface of the mounting portion 27 is positioned below the transfer surface of each of the conveyor belts 51a, 51b, 51c, 51d, 51e, and the mounting portion is placed. 27 through holes 28
a, 28b, 28c, 28d, 28e corresponding conveyor belts 51a, 51b, 51c, 51d, 5
The transfer surface of 1e projects.

Here, after the door 57 is lifted, the drive motor 52 is driven to separate the unit sheets 2 accumulated on the placing section 27 of the sheet placing table 25 from the placing surface and to move in the horizontal direction. It can be transferred, taken out of the machine body 10, and transferred to a predetermined position by the transfer conveyor 58.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and for example, the belt conveyor stacker device 33 may not be installed side by side. Further, the cutting device is not limited to one that utilizes the difference in transfer speed between the low speed rollers 16a and 16b and the high speed rollers 17a and 17b, and is a rotary blade provided with a cutting blade extending in the axial direction on the cylinder circumferential surface for each unit sheet 2. You may disconnect. Furthermore, the conveyor belt 5 of the discharge device 50
The projecting penetrating portions of 1a, 51b, 51c, 51d, 51e are not limited to the through holes 28a, 28b, 28c, 28d, 28e, and any projecting space portion may be present.

[0029]

As is apparent from the above description,
According to the present invention, since continuous paper can be cut into unit sheets and the accumulated unit sheets can be automatically taken out, the present invention is suitable for large-scale processing in which a large number of unit sheets are accumulated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view schematically showing the entire apparatus.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the same.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which the mounting table of the down stacker device has reached the lowest position.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view schematically showing a part of continuous paper to be processed.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Continuous paper 2 Unit paper 3 Horizontal perforations 4a, 4b Transfer holes 5a, 5b Marginal part 13a, 13b Tractor device 16a, 16b Low speed roller 17a, 17b High speed roller 18 Blade 24 Down stacker device 25 Paper loading table 26 Base 27 Part 28a, 28b, 28c, 28d, 28e Through hole 50 Discharge device 51a, 51b, 51c, 51d, 51e Conveyor belt

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A cutting device that cuts each continuous sheet while transporting continuous sheets, and a stackable sheet stacker that sequentially accumulates the transported unit sheets and that descends according to the accumulated amount of the unit sheets. The down stacker device provided with a loading table and the down stacker device are positioned corresponding to the ascending / descending path of the paper loading table, and when the paper loading table is lowered to a predetermined position, the accumulated unit sheets are loaded on the paper loading table. A continuous sheet cutting apparatus comprising: an ejecting device that is placed on a discharge / transport member away from a placement surface and horizontally transports unit sheets accumulated by the discharge / transport member. 2. A cutting device that cuts each continuous sheet of paper while transporting the continuous sheet of paper, and the unitary sheets transferred from the cutting device are sequentially deposited on a mounting surface having a penetrating portion, and the stacking amount of the unitary sheet is changed according to the accumulated amount. A down stacker device equipped with a vertically movable paper stacking table, and a down stacker device corresponding to the ascending / descending path of the paper stacking table, and when the paper stacking table descends to a predetermined position The transfer surface of the belt conveyor is projected, and the transfer surface of the belt conveyor is located above the unit sheet mounting surface of the sheet mounting table,
A continuous sheet cutting device, comprising: an ejecting device that separates the accumulated unit sheets from the placing surface of the sheet placing table and horizontally conveys the accumulated unit sheets by the belt conveyor.