JPH10245150A - Paper binding machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow to connect both a bookbinding machine and a paper binding machine to a printing machine or the like in a simple structure. SOLUTION: In this binding machine, the first paper carrying-in port 3 is formed at the upper part, and the second paper carrying-in port 4 is formed at the lower part, and a conveyer roller 6 which is set near the first paper carrying-in port 3, and feeds the papers 15 carried in from the first carrying-in port 3 to a binding position by a sticher 7, is also provided. And a conveyer belt 9 to feed to papers 15 carried in from the second paper carrying-in port 4 to the conveyer roller 6, and a conveyer belt 12 to feed the book covers 11 from a book cover feeding device 8 to the conveyer roller 6, are provided to compose this paper binding machine.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sheet binding machine for binding a central portion and an end portion of a sheet bundle in which a plurality of sheets are bound.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Sheets carried out from a printing machine or the like are collated to form a single sheet bundle, and the sheet bundle is bound. As a method of binding a sheet bundle, a method of gluing and binding to the back of the sheet bundle (hereinafter, a binding machine by this method is referred to as a "bookbinding machine"), a method of binding a central portion of the sheet bundle with a thread, a central portion of the sheet bundle And a method of binding an appropriate position of an end portion with a wire using a stitcher (a binding machine by this method is hereinafter referred to as a “paper binding machine”).

In general, a printing machine or the like (copier) prints a required number of copies for each page. When a sheet bundle printed for each page is collated by a collating machine to form a sheet bundle for each book, and the sheet bundle is bound, a bookbinding machine or a paper binding machine is provided for the sheet bundle. The paper is transported to a position, and is appropriately bound by a bookbinding machine or a paper binding machine. Generally, a sheet bundle of one book is bound by a bookbinding machine for a thick sheet bundle, and a sheet bundle of a relatively thin sheet is bound by a sheet binding machine.

[0004] In recent years, a printing machine has been developed which prints and carries out one sheet at a time in page order. In such a case, it is possible to collect one sheet of paper delivered from the printing press and bind the bundle of paper collected for one book. The development of doing that is being attempted.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a paper binding machine capable of connecting a bookbinding machine and a paper binding machine to a printing machine or the like with a simple structure.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a paper sheet comprising a first paper carry-in port and a transport roller for delivering a sheet carried in from the first paper carry-in port to a binding position by a stitcher. In the binding machine, a second paper carry-in port is provided at a position spaced from the first paper carry-in port, and a transport unit that transports the paper carried in from the second paper carry-in port to the transport roller is provided. It is achieved by the feature that it has.

According to the above solution of the present invention, since the paper binding machine is provided with the first paper carry-in port and the second paper carry-in port, the first paper carry-in port is connected to the paper carry-out port of the printing machine. When a bookbinding machine is connected to the printing machine, a conveyor belt is installed at the bottom of the bookbinding machine, and it is installed at the unloading section of the conveyor belt. Second
Can be positioned, thereby enabling connection of both the bookbinding machine and the paper binding machine to the printing machine with a simple structure.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a paper binding machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an overall schematic configuration diagram when the paper binding machine shown in FIG. 1 is arranged with a bookbinding machine, and FIG. It is a flowchart of.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a printing machine for carrying out sheets printed one by one in page order, 2 denotes a paper binding machine, and in the example shown in FIG. Paper binding machine 2
Is provided with a first paper carry-in port 3 at an upper portion and a second paper carry-in port 4 at a lower portion separated from the first paper carry-in port 3. Inside the sheet binding machine 2, a roller 5 for receiving the sheet 15 carried in near the first sheet carrying-in port 3 is arranged, and subsequently, a rotation drive for sending the carried-in sheet 15 to a binding position by the stitcher 7. Transport rollers 6 are provided.

[0010] Further, there is provided a conveying means comprising a belt 9 which extends near the second paper carry-in port 4, receives the paper carried in, and conveys the received paper to the carry roller 6. The belt 9 is wrapped around a roller 10 and a transport roller 6 installed near the second paper carry-in port 4, and moves around by driving the transport roller 6.

A cover feeder 8 is provided above the first paper carry-in entrance 3, a conveyor belt 12 for conveying the cover 11 of the cover feeder 8 to the conveyor roller 6 is provided, and binding by the stitcher 7 is performed. A folding blade 13 and a nip roller 14 for folding the central portion of the binding position (saddle stitch) of the sheet bundle bound after the position are provided.

The paper binding machine 2 configured as described above has a first
When the paper carry-in port 3 of the printing press 1 is set so as to match the carry-out port of the printing press 1, the paper 15 from the printing press 1 is received by the roller 5, guided to the transport roller 6, and sent out to the binding position by the stitcher 7 by the transport roller 6. . Although not shown, a stopper for stopping the sheet 15 conveyed to the binding position of the sheet bundle or a position corresponding to the size of the sheet 15 is provided at the binding position, and the sheet 15 is stopped by contacting the stopper. By doing so, the sheets 15 sequentially sent are stacked while being aligned, and when one book is stacked, the central portion of the sheet bundle is bound by the stitcher 7.

When attaching the cover 11 to the sheet bundle 16,
The cover sheet supply device 8 supplies the cover sheet 11 following the last page of one book carried out of the printing press 1, and is placed on the sheet bundle 16 accumulated at the binding position, and the stitcher 7 together with the sheet bundle. Bind.

The sheet bundle bound by the stitcher 7 is sent to the folding position in the case of saddle stitching as shown in the figure, and the binding portion of the sheet bundle is positioned at the tip of the folding blade 13 (this case is also not shown). Is provided with a stopper, which is positioned by the stopper.) Here, the folding blade 13 is protruded toward between the nip rollers 14 to bend the sheet bundle.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a case where this sheet binding machine is connected to a printing machine in a state where it is arranged side by side with a bookbinding machine. FIG. 3 shows a flow of sheets in this case. Reference numeral 20 denotes a bookbinding machine, which is arranged near the printing machine 1, and a paper binding machine 2 is arranged near the bookbinding machine 20. In FIG. 3, the same reference numerals are given to portions corresponding to FIG.

The bookbinding machine 20 connects the paper loading port 21 to the printing machine 1.
A switching gate 22 is provided in accordance with the carry-out port, and switches the conveying direction of the paper carried in near the paper carry-in port 21. An accumulating unit 23 for accumulating the paper conveyed to one of the subsequent stages of the switching gate 22 is installed.
A transport unit is provided for holding a bundle of sheets 28 of a single book stacked in the subsequent stage with the clamp plate 24 and inserting the bundle of sheets 28 into the clamp plate 25 which moves the bookbinding process.

At the other end of the switching gate 22, there is provided a conveyor belt 26 extending substantially vertically to the bottom, and from the bottom end of the conveyor belt 26 substantially horizontally along the bottom surface of the bookbinding machine 20. A conveyor belt 27 extending to the back of the camera is provided. A paper outlet for discharging the paper conveyed by the conveyance belt 27 is formed at an end position of the conveyance belt 27 on the back surface of the bookbinding machine 20. The paper outlet and the second paper inlet 4 of the paper binding machine 2 are aligned.

When the paper binding machine 2 is connected to the printing machine 1 side by side with the bookbinding machine 20 as described above, one sheet of paper printed by the printing machine 1 is bound by the paper binding machine 2 or the bookbinding machine 20.
When the binding is performed by the binding gate 22 and the binding is performed by the paper binding machine 2, the switching gate 22 is opened toward the transport belt 26 so that the paper 15 carried out from the printing press 1 is sent to the paper binding machine 2. . The paper 15 carried out of the printing press 1 is sent to a paper carry-out port by a transfer belt 26 and a transfer belt 27, carried out to the second paper carry-in port 4 of the paper binding machine 2, and transported by the belt 9 of the paper binding machine 2. It is sent to the roller 6.

When the binding is performed by the bookbinding machine 20, the switching gate 22 is opened so that the paper 15 carried out from the printing machine 1 is sent to the stacking unit 23. The sheet 15 carried out of the printing press 1 is sent to the stacking unit 23, where the sheet bundle 2 for one book is sent.
8, the sheet bundle 28 is pushed between the clamp plates 24 by the pusher 23a. The clamp plate 24 clamps the sheet bundle 28, rotates 90 degrees, and inserts the clamped sheet bundle 28 between the clamp plates 25 moving the bookbinding process with the back surface of the clamped sheet bundle 28 facing the level plate 29.

As shown in FIG. 3, the clamp plate 25 holding the sheet bundle 28 is in that state, as shown in FIG. A process of gluing the back of the aligned sheet bundle 28 by the gluing machine 31;
The back of the glued sheet bundle 28 is positioned above the nip plates (clamping plates) 32, 32 which are carried and positioned on the nip plates 32, 32, and the nip plates 32, 32 and the bottom plate 33 are slightly raised, and the cover 11 is Bottom plate 3 between nip plates 32, 32
3, the cover 11 is stuck on the back of the sheet bundle 28, and at the same time, the nip plates 32, 32 are moved and the vicinity of the rear edge of the sheet bundle 28 is tightened from both sides, and the cover 11 is folded. The bookbinding process is performed by moving the cover attaching process step of attaching the cover 11 along the sheet bundle 28.

[0021]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
Since the paper entrances are provided at two places above and below the paper binding machine, they can be arranged close to the printing press, etc., and the paper transportation belt is arranged using the empty space of the bookbinding machine to transport the paper. Since the paper conveyed by the belt can be carried in and the paper binding machine can be arranged close to the bookbinding machine, there is no need to provide a paper transporting unit outside, and the binding machine and the paper are installed in a printing machine or the like with a simple structure. The connection of both of the binding machines becomes possible.

Also, since the cover feeding device is installed in the paper binding machine, even when the cover is supplied by binding by the paper binding machine, a device for connecting the cover feeding device to the outside is required. And can be easily handled. Further, since the transport belt that transports the paper from the lower paper transport entrance is hung over the transport roller that feeds the paper to the binding position by the stitcher, the belt can prevent the paper fed by the roller from slipping.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a paper binding machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an overall schematic configuration diagram when the paper binding machine shown in FIG. 1 is arranged with a bookbinding machine.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the sheet of FIG. 2;

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 printing machine 2 paper binding machine 3 first paper carry-in entrance 4 second paper carry-in entrance 5, 10 roller 6 transport roller 7 stitcher 8 cover feeder 9, 12, 26, 27 transport belt (transportation means) 11 cover 13 Folding blade 14 Nip roller 15 Paper 20 Bookbinding machine 21 Paper carry-in port 22 Switching gate 23 Stacking unit 24, 25 Clamp plate

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on front page (72) Inventor Yoshinari Kuwahara 1601 Asahi Jinoshita, Shin-Asahi-cho, Takashima-gun, Shiga Prefecture Horizon International Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A sheet binding machine comprising: a first sheet carry-in port; and a conveying roller for feeding a sheet carried in from the first sheet carry-in port to a binding position by a stitcher.
A second paper carry-in port is provided at a position spaced from the first paper carry-in port, and transport means for transporting the paper carried in from the second paper carry-in port to the transport roller is provided. Paper binding machine. 2. A paper binding machine comprising: a first paper carry-in port; and a conveyance roller for feeding a sheet carried in from the first paper carry-in port to a binding position by a stitcher.
A second paper carry-in port is provided at a position spaced from the first paper carry-in port, and a belt that carries the paper carried in from the second paper carry-in port to the transport roller is passed over the transport roller. Paper binding machine characterized by the following. 3. A binding machine, comprising: a first sheet carry-in port; and a conveying roller for sending a sheet carried in from the first sheet carry-in port to a binding position by a stitcher. A second paper carry-in port is provided at a position spaced from the paper carry-in port, and a transport unit that transports the cover of the cover feeding device to the transport roller and a sheet carried in from the second paper carry-in port are provided. A sheet stitching machine provided with conveying means for conveying to a conveying roller.