JPH10279171A - Paper sheet center-bound book binding device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To bind a center-bound book using printed sheets of different sizes. SOLUTION: A necessary number of printed sheets are fed from necessary heaps of printed sheets A, B, C, D by a paper feeding device 12a. The printed sheets supplied from the paper feeding device 12 are received by respective trays 3a, 3b, 3c,... in a multi-stage tray part, and each printed sheet is position- regulated to the reference of patterns on the respective trays 3a, 3b, 3c,.... The position-regulated printed sheets are fixed on the trays 3a, 3b, 3c,... by fixing means 14. As receiving of sheets by the multi-stage tray part is completed, all the printed sheets in the multi-stage tray part are temporarily locked by a temporary lock means 15, and they are taken out. All the temporarily locked printed sheets are respectively bound, folded, and cut by a binding means, a folding means, and a cutting means.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sheet-fed saddle stitching apparatus for manufacturing catalogs and the like.

[0002]

Conventionally, printed materials such as catalogs have been produced in large quantities with the same contents. However, with the recent diversification of needs, personalized printed materials have been developed, Due to the practical use of printing, printed materials in which pages with different contents are inserted for each individual have come to be required.

In the case of producing personal prints, it is conceivable to combine outputs from a plurality of types of printing presses in view of cost and the like. It is difficult to bind this with a conventional automatic collating machine or automatic bookbinding machine.
The reason is as follows.

[0004] When collating sheet-fed papers, each sheet is discharged and stacked so that one corner thereof is aligned with a corner of a jogger or the like in a collating machine. When such collating is performed on the printing paper, the center is shifted between the sheet-fed printing papers, so that the wire binding becomes difficult. If you want to collate sheets of different sizes, you need to cut the other sheets to match the size of the smallest sheet and then put it on a collating machine. . However, such cutting is not preferable in terms of productivity.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide means capable of solving such a problem.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the invention according to claim 1 is characterized in that necessary sheets A, B, C,
A sheet feeding device 12 for feeding the required number of sheet printing papers A, B, C, and D from each pile of D, and a sheet printing paper A, B, C, and D sent from the sheet feeding device 12 to a multi-stage tray 3. Each tray 3a,
3b, 3c, 3d, one sheet at a time, and sheet-fed sheets A, B, C, D are adjusted on trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d with reference to pictures a1 to a16. Receiving means 13 and sheet-fed sheets A, B,
A fixing means 14 for fixing C and D on the trays 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d, and all the sheets A, B, C and D on the multi-stage tray 3 when the paper receiving by the multi-stage tray 3 is completed.
Is the center 11 between the left and right based on the pictures a1 to a16.
Temporarily fixing means 1 to take out the multi-stage tray 3 temporarily
5 and a binding means 1 for binding all the sheets A, B, C, D temporarily fixed by the temporary fixing means 15 at the center 11 between the left and right.
6, folding means 17 for folding the bound sheets A, B, C, D at a predetermined folding position;
3. A sheet-fed saddle stitching apparatus comprising cutting means 18 for finishing and cutting sheet-fed printing papers A, B, C, and D folded in the above-mentioned manner. All the sheets A, B, C and D on the tray 3 are placed in the trays 3a and 3
b, 3c, 3d a needle 4 for skewering, and a relief groove 5 formed in all trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d for allowing the needle 4 to penetrate and for releasing the needle 4 after skewing. And a sheet-fed saddle stitching apparatus according to claim 1.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

A sheet-fed saddle-stitched print 1 illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 is a booklet such as a catalog or a pamphlet, and a plurality of sheet-fed sheets A, B, C, and D as shown in FIG. Is temporarily fixed at the center while being aligned with reference to the patterns a1 to a16, and a binding tool 2 such as a wire is placed over the temporarily fixed portion.
And folded at a folding position as shown in FIG. Reference numeral 10 in FIG.
Numeral 11 denotes the center between the top and bottom and the center between the right and left on the basis of the picture pattern, respectively. The sheet printing papers A, B, C and D are overlapped so that the center 10 between the top and bottom and the center 11 between the left and right coincide.

The sheet-fed saddle-stitch print 1 is a booklet having pages p1 to p16 as shown in FIG. 2, where p1 is a front cover, p16 is a back cover, and p2 to p15 are contents pages. . The number of pages can be freely increased or decreased by increasing or decreasing the sheet-fed paper. Each page of p1 to p16 has various characters,
Pictures such as figures and photographs are printed. All or some of these pages contain personal information, and sheet-fed printing sheets having personalized pages are output individually by, for example, electrophotographic printing. Sheets of general information without personal information are printed by a normal printing method such as offset printing.

The sheet-fed saddle-stitch printed matter 1 is manufactured by a sheet-fed saddle-stitching apparatus described below. The sheet-fed saddle stitching apparatus has a main part configured as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, and sheet-fed printing papers A, B, and B necessary for forming a booklet.
A sheet feeding device 12 for feeding a required number of sheet printing papers A, B, C, and D from the respective piles of C and D, and a multi-stage tray for feeding sheet printing papers A, B, C, and D sent from the sheet feeding device 12; 3 each tray 3
a, 3b, 3c, 3d, one sheet at a time, and sheet-fed printing sheets A, B, C, D are adjusted on trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d with reference to pictures a1 to a16. Printing paper receiving means 13;
A fixing means 14 for fixing B, C, D on the trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, and when the paper receiving by the multi-stage tray 3 is completed, all the sheets A, B,
Temporarily fix C and D at their center 11 and set the multi-stage tray 3
The temporary fixing means 15 to be taken out, and all the sheets A, B, C and D temporarily fixed by the temporary fixing means 15
, A sheet binding means 16 for binding sheets A,
Folding means 1 for folding B, C, and D at predetermined folding positions
7 and sheet-fed printing papers A, B,
And cutting means 18 for trimming C and D.

The paper feeder 12 is composed of, for example, a collator or a multi-shelf paper feeder. The collator stacks the sheets A, B, C, and D (see FIG. 3) on the respective paper trays, and inputs the sheet necessary for constructing the booklet from the computer to the computer. It is a device that picks up one by one by vacuum suction soccer based on the data and transfers it to a belt conveyor.
In the multi-shelf paper feeder, the paper trays are arranged in multiple stages in a shelf shape, and sheet-fed printing papers A, B, C, and D are placed on respective shelves, and sheets necessary for forming a booklet are stored. This is a device in which leaf printing paper is taken out from each shelf by soccer or the like based on data input to a computer and delivered to a belt conveyor.

The sheet printing papers A, B, C, and D are placed on each paper table or each shelf of the collator or the multi-shelf paper feeder, and are sequentially sent out from a discharge portion 12a of FIG. Thus, the sheet is transferred to the next sheet-fed printing paper receiving means 13.

The sheet-fed printing paper receiving means 13 is a multi-stage tray 3 in which a plurality of trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d are stacked in multiple stages.
And first and second regulating plates 6 and 7 and a jogger 8 facing the first regulating plate.

Each of the trays 3a, 3b, 3 of the multi-stage tray 3
c and 3d are superimposed in the vertical direction with a predetermined gap therebetween. The trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d are preferably all the same size, and the sheets A, B, C, D
It has an area that can receive the largest of them. As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the trays 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d have an X-axis and a Y-axis set at fixed positions, and the X-axis is a sheet of paper A, B and C. , D, and the Y axis extends in the left-right direction orthogonal to the X axis. Each of the trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d is provided with a relief groove 5 on the X axis for allowing a needle 4 to be described later to penetrate and allowing the needle 4 to be released, and a first regulating plate 6 and a jogger on the Y axis. The notches 19 and 21 into which the 8 enters and the notches 20 into which the second regulating plate 7 enters are formed. Tray 3a, 3
b, 3c and 3d are vertically overlapped so that the X axes are parallel to each other and the Y axes are parallel to each other.

The multi-stage tray 3 is integrally movable vertically by a feed screw (not shown) in a direction perpendicular to the XY plane, and each of the trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d independently moves in the Y direction. It is fed by a Y-direction feed screw (not shown) so that it can be carried out.

The first regulating plate 6 is provided for each of the trays 3a, 3
The left and right positions of the sheet printing papers A, B, C and D are regulated by relative movement along the Y-axis between the sheet printing papers b, 3c and 3d. It is mounted vertically and all trays 3a, 3b, 3c,
3d.

The second regulating plate 7 is provided with each of the trays 3a, 3
b, 3c, and 3d regulate the top and bottom positions of the sheet-fed printing papers A, B, C, and D by relative movement along the X-axis. It is designed to be driven by a directional feed screw (not shown).

The jogger 8 has trays 3a, 3b,
The sheets A, B, C, and D on the sheets 3c and 3d are vibrated so as to align the sheets A, B, C, and D. A Y-direction feed screw (not shown) ) Enables the sheet-fed printing paper to move in the Y-axis direction and reliably hit the first regulating plate 6.

The fixing means 14 is provided with a clamp piece 9 formed of a leaf spring or the like by means of an air cylinder or the like (not shown) for sheet-fed printing sheets A, B, C, 3D on trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d.
When the position adjustment of the sheet printing paper is completed, the sheet printing papers A, B, C and D are pressed and fixed on the trays 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d. ing. The fixing means 14 is provided for each tray 3a, 3b, 3
c, 3d.

All the sheets A, B, C and D received by the sheet-fed printing paper receiving means 13 and fixed by the fixing means 14 are temporarily fixed by temporary fixing means 15 as follows. The tray is taken out of the multi-stage tray 3.

The temporary fixing means 15 includes sheet-fed printing papers A, which are directed below the multi-stage tray 3 in a direction perpendicular to the XY plane.
A plurality of needles 4 for piercing B, C, and D, and the uppermost sheet of paper A is pressed toward the needle 4 when the needles 4 are pierced into sheet-fed papers A, B, C, and D. Holding member 22 for
And a relief groove 5 for the needle 4 formed in each of the trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d.

The plurality of needles 4 are fixed to the tip of the rod of the air cylinder 23, and extend through the relief groove 5 of all the trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d by the extension operation of the rod, and each tray 3a, All sheets A, B, C and D on 3b, 3c and 3d are skewered. The air cylinder 23 is reciprocated between the multi-stage tray 3 and the binding means 16 by an endless transport chain 25 driven by a motor 24.

The holding member 22 is a plate fixed to the tip of a rod of an air cylinder (not shown). When the needle 4 pierces the sheets A, B, C, and D, the rod of the air cylinder is pressed. Is lowered by the stretching operation of the sheet, and presses the sheet printing paper A. This holding member 22
Can be replaced with the fixing means 14 and omitted.

The X-direction feed screw (not shown), Y
The directional feed screw is driven by a servo motor or a stepping motor, and the motor drives the size and pattern of the sheet A, B, C, and D each time the sheet is fed from the sheet feeding device 12. It is controlled by a computer based on information such as the position. In addition, the air cylinder 23, the motor 24 for transporting the needle 4, and the like are also controlled by the computer.

The binding means 16 comprises, for example, two stitchers 26 as shown in FIG.
It is located on an extension of the shaft. When the sheets A, B, C, and D temporarily fixed by the needle 4 move to the position of the stitcher 26, the stitcher 26 transfers the plurality of temporarily fixed sheets A, B, C and D are bound by a binding tool 2 such as a wire at a center 11 between the right and left sides.

It is desirable that the stitchers 26 are provided corresponding to the positions where the respective needles 4 are pushed up, and that the binding holes 2 are used to hide the needle holes.

The folding means 17 is a sheet-fed printing paper A, B, C, D bound by the binding device 2 by the binding means 16.
Is folded in two along the binding 2 at the center 11 thereof.

The cutting means 18 is constituted by a cutting machine (not shown) as in a normal bookbinding machine. The sheet printing paper A, B, C, D folded by the folding means 17 is turned upside down and edged. Is to be cut. Through this cutting means, the sheet-fed printing papers A, B, C, D are finished as finished products such as catalogs and booklets.

Next, a bookbinding method using the sheet-fed saddle stitching bookbinding apparatus will be described.

The sheet printing papers A, B, C, and D constituting the sheet-fed saddle-stitch print 1 are printed as shown in FIG.
The sheet A has a pattern a2 and a15 on its front and a16 and a16 on its back.
a1 has the patterns a4 and a13 on the front side of the sheet printing paper B, the patterns a14 and a3 on the back side, and the pattern a4 and a3 on the back side of the sheet printing paper C.
6 and a11, the pictures a12 and a5 are printed on the back, and the sheet a is printed with the pictures a8 and a9 on the front and the pictures a10 and a7 on the back. The pattern on the front and back of each sheet of paper A, B, C, and D is the center 10 between the top and bottom and the center 11 between the right and left on the basis of the pattern.
Is printed so as to match between the front and back sides. Sheet-fed printing paper for personal information is printed on an individual basis by, for example, an electrophotographic printing machine. For example, when personalizing the sheet printing paper A, the sheet printing paper A is printed one by one for each individual, and the other sheet printing papers B, which do not need to be personalized, are printed.
C and D are printed by an offset printing machine or the like. The sheet printing papers A, B, C, and D printed in this manner are stacked in a pile for each sheet printing paper A, B, C, and D so as not to be mixed.

As shown in FIG. 7, the sheet printing papers A, B, C, and D are taken out one by one from each pile of the sheet printing papers A, B, C, and D, and the trays 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d. In the case of this embodiment, first, as shown in FIG. 8 and FIG. The tray 3a receives it.

The tray 3a is moved in the Y direction by the rotation of the Y-direction feed screw before receiving the sheet printing paper A, and when the sheet printing paper A hits the first regulating plate 6, the center 11 between the left and right sides thereof.
Stops so as to match the X axis. For example, regarding the movement in the Y direction, the distance y between the center 11 between the left and right and the left end
The Y-direction feed screw rotates so that 1 becomes equal to the distance y2 between the first regulating plate 6 and the X axis. Further, the second regulating plate 7 for regulating the top and bottom is moved by the rotation of the X-direction feed screw, and is slightly larger than the top and bottom size of the sheet A (5 mm).
(To 10 mm) in the X direction (FIGS. 6 and 7).
(I), see FIG. 8).

Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 9, the sheet printing paper A is fed from the sheet feeding device 12 onto the tray 3a. Then, the second regulating plate 7 for regulating the top and bottom is moved in the direction of the arrow by the rotation of the X-direction feed screw, and hits the top and bottom of the sheet A.
Thereby, the center 10 between the top and bottom of the sheet-fed printing paper A coincides with the Y axis. In addition, the jogger 8 moves in the direction of the arrow by the rotation of the Y-direction feed screw, and hits the right end of the sheet A. As a result, the center 11 between the left and right sides of the sheet-fed printing paper A coincides with the X axis (see FIGS. 7 (I) and 9).

When the adjustment of the position of the sheet A on the tray 3a is completed, the fixing means 14 is operated to fix the sheet A on the tray 3a.

When the fixing of the sheet-fed printing paper A on the tray 3a is completed, all the trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d are raised by the rotation of the feed screw, and the next tray 3b is moved to the discharge section 12a of the sheet feeding device 12. To face. The position of the tray 3b is adjusted in the same manner as in the tray 3a, and the position of the second regulating plate 7 is adjusted in the same manner. Then, the paper feeding device 12
Feeds the sheet B from the discharge section 12a onto the next tray 3b. Thereafter, the second regulating plate 7 and the jogger 8 adjust the position of the sheet printing paper B in the same manner as in the case of adjusting the position of the sheet printing paper A, and perform the center adjustment between the left and right sides.
1 is matched with the X-axis and the center 10 between the top and bottom is matched with the Y-axis (FIG. 7 (II)).

Thereafter, the position of the sheet printing papers C and D is adjusted on each tray in the same manner as described above (FIG. 7).
(III) (IV)).

Each tray 3 of all sheets A, B, C, D
When the position adjustment on a, 3b, 3c, 3d is completed, all the trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d move in the Y direction so that their X axes are included in one plane perpendicular to the XY plane. . Thus, the center 11 between the left and right sides of all the sheet printing papers A, B, C, and D and the escape groove 5 of all the trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d are also included in the vertical plane. ,
The center 10 between the top and bottom of B, C, and D is also included in the vertical plane orthogonal to the vertical plane, and the alignment of all the sheets A, B, C, and D is completed.

Thereafter, the pressing member 22 descends and presses the sheet printing paper A onto the tray 3a. Next, the needle 4 is raised by the driving of the air cylinder 23, penetrates vertically through all the relief grooves 5, and skews all the sheet printing papers A, B, C, D at the center 11 between the left and right sides thereof. Printing papers A, B, C, D
Temporarily fix them so that they do not shift from each other. Thereafter, the needle 4 is detached from the escape groove 5 with the sheet printing papers A, B, C and D by the driving of the motor 24. As a result, all the sheets A, B, C, and D are integrated into the trays 3a, 3b, 3c, 3
d.

The needle 4 moves toward the next stitcher 26 while holding the sheets A, B, C and D. At the same time that the sheets A, B, C, D are sandwiched by the stitcher 26, the needle 4 releases the sheets A, B, C, D by the contraction operation of the air cylinder 23, and at the same time, the sheet paper A, B, C, and D are bound by a binding tool 2 such as a wire by a stitcher 26 at a center 11 between the right and left sides.

The stitchers 26 are desirably provided corresponding to the positions where the needles 4 are pushed up, and the binding holes are used to hide the needle holes.

Sheet-fed printing papers A, B,
C and D are then sent to the folding means 17 by a conveyor, folded in two along the stapled portion, and cut by the cutting means 1.
8 cuts the top and bottom and the edge. As shown by broken lines in FIG. 3, the cutting margin differs among the sheet-fed sheets A, B, C, and D due to differences in sheet-fed sheet size, picture position, and the like.

Thus, the sheet-fed printing papers A, B, C and D are finished as finished products such as catalogs and booklets.

The bending at the center 11 between the left and right may be performed after cutting.

[0044]

According to the present invention, even when sheet printing paper of different sizes from each other is used, or when a sheet of paper whose picture is not printed at the center of the paper is used, the sheet Saddle stitching can be performed with proper alignment between printed sheets. Therefore, even when using sheet-fed paper with a different printing method, a saddle-stitched printed matter can be obtained properly,
For example, a personal print can be made by appropriately inserting a sheet of paper output by a printing machine capable of printing personalized information.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a sheet-fed saddle-stitched printed matter manufactured by the sheet-fed saddle-stitching bookbinding apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing each page of the sheet-fed saddle-stitched printed matter.

FIG. 3 is a front view and a back view of each sheet-fed printing paper for producing the sheet-fed saddle-stitch printed matter.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of sheet-fed printing paper bound through the above-described collating step.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view schematically showing the sheet-fed saddle stitching apparatus.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a main part of the sheet-fed saddle stitching apparatus.

FIG. 7 is a plan view showing a collating process performed by the sheet-fed saddle stitching apparatus.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing a state immediately before a single sheet of printing paper is supplied into the sheet-fed saddle stitching apparatus.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a state immediately after one sheet of paper has been aligned in the sheet-fed saddle stitching apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A, B, C, D ... sheet-fed paper a1 to a16 ... pattern 3 ... multi-stage tray 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d ... tray 4 ... needle 5 ... escape groove 11 ... center between left and right 12 ... paper feeder 13 ... sheet Leaf-printed paper receiving means 14 ... fixing means 15 ... temporary fixing means 16 ... binding means 17 ... folding means 18 ... cutting means

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Toru Takehara 1-1-1, Ichigaya-Kagacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Inside Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (72) Michio Kawano 1-chome, Ichigaya-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo No. 1-1 Inside Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Kazunari Iyoda 1-1-1, Ichigaya Kagacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo In-house Dainippon Printing Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Toshiyuki Sato Tokyo 1-1-1, Machida, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor, Naohiko 1-1-1, Ichigaya Kagacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A sheet feeding device for feeding a required number of sheet printing papers from each pile of necessary sheet printing paper, and receiving the sheet printing paper sent from the sheet feeding device one by one in each of the multi-stage trays. A sheet receiving means for adjusting the position of each sheet on each tray on the basis of a pattern, a fixing means for fixing the sheet having been adjusted on the tray, and the multi-stage tray. When the paper receiving is completed, all the sheets printed on the multi-stage tray are temporarily fixed at the center between the left and right based on their patterns, and are temporarily stopped by the temporary fixing means to be taken out of the multi-stage tray. Binding means for binding the entire sheet-fed printing paper at the center between the left and right sides, folding means for folding the bound sheet-fed printing paper at a predetermined folding position, and finishing and trimming the sheet-fed paper folded by the folding means. And a cutting means for cutting the sheet. Binding machine. 2. The temporary fixing means comprises a needle for skewing all the sheets printed on the multi-stage tray together with the tray, and a needle for allowing the needle to penetrate at the time of skewing and allowing the needle to be released after skewing. The single-sheet saddle stitching apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a relief groove formed in the tray.