JPH11221792A - Label preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform the shaping work of various shapes by mounting a cutting base for cutting a sheet material into the desired shape by driving and controlling a pen carriage and a sheet driving part. SOLUTION: A controller controls a driving mechanism of a driving roller 36, a vertical motion mechanism of a holder 32 and a driving mechanism of a carriage 33 on the basis of the cutting data, to cut a sheet material 40. That is, the sheet material 40 is moved forward and backward in the feeding direction by the forward and backward rotations of the driving roller 36, and simultaneously a cutting pen 31 is moved in the two-dimensional direction relatively to the sheet material 40 by the vertical motion of the holder 32 and the movement of the carriage 33 in the direction perpendicular to the feeding direction of the sheet material 40. Further by moving the holder 32 in the vertical direction, the holder 32 is lowered, and the cutting pen 31 is pressed to the sheet material 40, whereby the sheet material 40 is cut.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for producing a label from a sealing material comprising a backing sheet and an adhesive sheet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a device for producing a label on which a management code, a product type, a bar code, etc. are printed in order to be attached to a product or a managed article, a printing machine, a laminating machine, and an external machine (a stamping machine) have been used. Punching machine, die cutting machine)
It was constituted by. That is, in a printing machine, an image such as a desired character or a bar code is printed on the surface of a sealing material made of an adhesive sheet and a backing sheet by a method such as thermal transfer, laser, or ink jet, and the image printed on the sealing material surface is printed. The surface of the sealing material printed by the laminating machine is laminated with a thin film material such as a transparent film so that the surface of the sealing material is not faded or discolored due to friction, light exposure or the like. Next, the printed and laminated sheet material is subjected to external processing by punching or the like, so that the printed labels can be individually removed from the backing paper. That is, in this outer shape processing, an individual label is created by punching only the adhesive sheet portion of the sealing material into a predetermined shape by a punching machine, a die cutting device, a press machine, or the like. When using the labels created in this way, the user removes the individual labels on which the printing, lamination, and external processing have been performed from the backing paper, and affixes the labels to goods or articles.

[0003]

The above-described conventional label producing apparatus is very suitable when mass production of the same label is performed at a low cost.
When producing many kinds of labels little by little, it is necessary to prepare punching blade dies for outer shape processing individually according to the shape of the label to be created, and these must be replaced every time. However, there has been a problem that the operation for producing the label becomes very complicated, and the production cost is significantly increased. Further, a punching machine, a die-cutting machine, a press machine, and the like for processing the outer shape are very large-scale devices, and therefore, there is a problem that the entire label producing device becomes large.

The present invention has been made to solve these problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a label producing apparatus capable of performing various shapes of outer shapes.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in a label producing apparatus according to the present invention, a sheet material is sandwiched between a recording section and a laminating section on a downstream side of a sheet conveying path. A sheet drive unit that moves forward and backward with respect to the conveyance direction, and a pen holder that holds the cutting pen and moves the cutting pen up and down so as to press and separate the sheet material against the sheet material are provided, and a pen holder is provided in a direction perpendicular to the sheet material conveyance direction. A pen carriage movably provided, and a cutting unit for cutting the sheet material into a desired shape by controlling the driving of the pen carriage and the sheet driving unit.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a label producing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a label producing apparatus according to the present invention, which is mainly composed of a recording unit 1, a laminating unit 2, and a cutting unit 3. Reference numeral 4 denotes a sealing material as a sheet material formed by laminating the backing sheet and the adhesive sheet, and is wound in a roll shape and stored and held in the recording unit 1. The recording unit 1 in the illustrated embodiment is a so-called thermal transfer type printer including a thermal head unit 11, a platen roller 12, an ink ribbon 13, and a ribbon winding unit 14. The laminating unit 2 includes a laminate film roll 23 formed by winding the adhesive transparent film and the backing into a roll, a peeling member 25 for peeling off the laminating film from the backing, and a backing for winding the backing from which the laminate film has been peeled off. It comprises a take-up part 24, a cylindrical pressure roller 21 for pressing the laminated film peeled from the backing onto the entire surface of the sheet material 40, and a cylindrical transport roller 22. Further, the laminate film roll 23 is rotatably held by the apparatus main body. The cutting machine unit 3 includes a cutting pen 31 having a blade portion provided at a tip end thereof,
Carriage 33 provided with holder 32 holding 1
And two pairs of pinch rollers 35 and a driving roller 36 which respectively hold both ends of the sheet material 40 as shown in FIG. The holder 32 is moved by a vertical movement mechanism (not shown) provided in the carriage 33.
The holding cutting pen 31 is configured to be pressed against and separated from the sheet material 40. Also, the carriage 3
Numeral 3 is slidably mounted on a rail member 34 spanned in a direction orthogonal to the conveying direction of the sheet material 40, and is provided to be moved by a drive mechanism including a motor, a belt member, and the like (not shown). The sheet material 40 whose both ends in the direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction are pinched by the pinch roller 35 and the drive roller 36 is rotated in a forward / reverse direction by a drive control device (not shown) in a single direction (sheet material). In the same direction as the transport direction of

Next, a label producing operation by the label producing apparatus of the present invention will be described. Prior to the label producing operation, the operator operates the thermal head 11 of the recording unit 1 from the platen 12, the pressing roller 21 of the laminating unit 2 from the transporting roller 22, and the pinch roller 35 of the cutting unit 3 to the driving roller 36. From each other. Next, the sheet material 40 is pulled out to the transport roller 22 and the thermal head 11 is pressed against the platen 12 via the ink sheet rewound from the ink ribbon 13, and the pressure roller 21 is pressed against the transport roller 22 and pulled out. The laminated sheet film and the laminated sheet material 40 are sandwiched. In this state, the transport roller 22 is rotationally driven by a drive mechanism (not shown) in the direction of the arrow in the figure to transport the sheet material 40 to a position where the leading end of the sheet material 40 reaches the pinch roller 35 and the drive roller 36 of the cutting unit 3. The roller 35 is pressed against the drive roller 36 to hold both ends of the sheet material 40 (in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction). Thus, the label producing apparatus is in a standby state.

In the label producing operation, a control device (not shown) rotates the transport roller 22 to transport the sheet material 40 based on the recording data transmitted from the host device such as a computer, and forms the sheet material 40 on the thermal head 11. The plurality of generated heating resistance elements are selectively driven to generate heat. Thus, the ink applied on the ink sheet is melted and transferred onto the surface of the sheet material 40, and a desired image is formed. The recorded ink sheet is sequentially wound up by the ribbon winding unit 14, and the sheet material 40 on which the recording has been performed is transported to the laminating unit 2.

The sheet material 40 on which recording has been performed by the recording unit 1 is pressed against the transport roller 22 by a pressure roller 21 via a laminate film, and is rotated by a drive mechanism (not shown). The sheet material 40 is sequentially conveyed, and at the same time, a laminate film is pressed on the entire surface of the sheet material 40 to be laminated. The sheet material 40 on which recording and lamination have been performed is conveyed to the cutting unit 3.

The control device controls the drive mechanism of the drive roller 36, the vertical movement mechanism of the holder 32, and the drive mechanism of the carriage 33 based on the cutting data (such as the outline data of each label recorded by the recording unit 1). Under control, the sheet material 40 (the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet portion subjected to the laminating process) is cut. That is, by rotating the drive roller 36 forward and reverse to move the sheet material 40 forward and reverse in the transport direction, and simultaneously moving the holder 32 up and down and the carriage 33 in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the sheet material 40, The cutting pen 31 is moved in a two-dimensional direction relative to the sheet material 40. Further, by moving the holder 32 up and down, the holder 32 is lowered and the cutting pen 31 is pressed against the sheet material 40, whereby the sheet material 40 is cut. As described above, by controlling the movement of the sheet material 40 (in the first direction) and the movement of the cutting pen 31 (in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction), the recording and the laminating process can be performed. The applied sheet material can be cut into a desired shape. As described above, the sheet material 40 on which recording and lamination processing have been performed is sequentially passed through the buffer unit 32 to the cutting machine unit 3.
, And subjected to external processing in the cutting machine unit 3 to create individual labels.

In the label producing apparatus according to the present invention, a mechanism for moving a cutting section as an external shape processing machine in a forward / reverse direction with respect to a conveying direction of a sheet material, and a cutting means for moving the sheet material in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the sheet material. With this configuration, it is not necessary to prepare punching dies individually according to the label to be created, labels of various sizes and shapes can be created on one sheet material, and It can be created at low cost. Further, in the label producing apparatus of the present embodiment, a thermal transfer type recording apparatus is described as a recording unit, but the present invention is not limited to this, and various types of recording methods such as a thermal recording apparatus and an inkjet recording apparatus are used. Apparatus can be applied.

[0012]

As described above in detail, in the label producing apparatus of the present invention, the sheet material is sandwiched on the downstream side of the sheet transport path with respect to the recording section and the laminating section, and the transport direction is reversed. A pen driving unit, a pen holder for holding the cutting pen and moving the cutting pen up and down so as to press and separate the cutting pen against the sheet material, and a pen provided movably in a direction perpendicular to the sheet material conveying direction; A cutting machine for cutting the sheet material into a desired shape by controlling the drive of the pen carriage and the sheet driving unit. To play.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a label producing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a cutting machine unit of the label producing apparatus of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Recording part 2 Laminating part 3 Cutting machine part 4 Sealing material

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A recording section for forming a desired image on a surface of a sheet material conveyed in a first direction, and a surface of the sheet material recorded by the recording section with a thin film material such as a transparent film. A laminating section for laminating the top, a sheet driving section provided on the downstream side of the sheet conveying path with respect to the recording section and the laminating section, for nipping a sheet material and moving forward and backward in the conveying direction, A pen carriage is provided which holds the cutting pen and moves the cutting pen up and down so as to press and separate the cutting pen from and against the sheet material, and a pen carriage which is provided so as to be movable in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction of the sheet material, A cutting machine that drives and controls the pen carriage and the sheet driving unit to cut the sheet material into a desired shape. Label producing apparatus, characterized in that it consists, when.