JPS583528B2 - Automatic printing and developing machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an improvement in an automatic printing and developing machine mainly used for automatically creating a secondary film original used in the production of print cards.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the figure, 1 is a rack in which an automatic calling elevator 3 for raising and lowering a plurality of cages 2 is housed, and each cage 2...
There is a guide block 6 provided at the inner bottom of the cassette 5 in which original films, raw films of four different sizes, and used original films 4 can be sorted and stored.
and a base plate 9 into which the cassette 5 is removably loaded with a stopper 7 and a pin 88' is erected on the upper surface of the cassette 5.
is fixed, and each film 4... is inserted into this.

Reference numeral 10 denotes an inlet/outlet for the cassette 5, to which an opening/closing door 11 is attached.

Reference numerals 12 and 13 are entrances and exits for the carrier head (rearly loaded) opened in the rack 1 as well as the cassette 5, and light shielding gates 14 and 15 are attached to each of these.

Numeral 16 is a light-shielding bellows, which makes the entire rack 1 a dark room structure.

17, a printer light source section 19 is placed below the glass plate 18;
It is also a part of an automatic printer equipped with a printing press 20 on the upper side, and has a darkroom structure although the details are not shown in the drawing.

Reference numeral 21 denotes a developing section, which receives the object to be developed from a part of the printer and receives it via a conveyor 22 and automatically converts it into an image.

23 is a predetermined cage in rack 1, printer part 1
7 and a carrier that reciprocates above the feed conveyor 22, and has a double independent structure adhesion mechanism (i.e., a suction hole arranged in the center for adsorbing the raw film) that adsorbs the raw film blade and the original film respectively. , a suction tube hole for suctioning a document is arranged on its outer periphery.

), and operates according to a predetermined process under program control.

Reference numeral 25 denotes a take-out tray, that is, in the description, first, the cage 2 in which the designated raw film 4 is stored is called out to a location corresponding to the entrance/exit 13 of the head 24 of the carrier 23, and a cassette is loaded into the base. At the same time, the suction head 24 suctions the topmost raw film in the cassette 5 (a large number of sheets have been stored stacked in advance) onto the suction head 24, and in the same way, calls up the cassette 5 in which original film is stored. The raw film and the original film are stacked and held in the suction head 24, and these are conveyed to the printer part 14 to be printed.
After that, the cassette 5 for storing the used original film is called up, the original film is dropped into it, and the next original film is suctioned to the suction head 24 in the same manner as described above, and remains suctioned to the same suction head 24. A certain raw film is printed, that is, the printing operation is repeated to overprint the raw film, and after this is completed, the film is fed and placed on the conveyor 22 and sent to the developing section 21, where it is developed and taken out. The liquid is discharged into a dish 25.

Since the present invention has the configuration as described above, it is of course possible to automatically, efficiently, and easily create a secondary film manuscript used in the production of print cards by performing the above-described overprinting, etc. However, as mentioned above, we constructed a rack equipped with an automatic calling elevator that raises and lowers multiple cages, and each cage is designed to store print originals, printed plates, etc. in a classified manner. This is advantageous in that the floor area required for installation can be reduced compared to a format in which cages for storing original plates, printing plates, etc. are arranged horizontally, and in particular in the present invention, each cage is equipped with a cage for storing printing plates. and a suction head for sorting and storing printing plates, and for reciprocating the printing original plates and printing plates above a predetermined cage in the rack, a part of the printer, and the feeding conveyor section. With the arrangement of the carrier, it is possible to superimpose the original printing plate and the printing plate very precisely at the desired location on the part of the printer by a predetermined process under program control as shown in the embodiment.

In addition, the suction head of the carrier has a suction mechanism with double independent grooves that suctions the original printing plate and the printing plate respectively, so that the suction parts of both the printing plates are concentrated in one place, and the structure can be simplified accordingly. I can do it.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The figures show an embodiment of the automatic printing and developing machine of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is an overall front view, Fig. 2 is a partially cutaway plan view of the same, and Fig. 2 is a partially cutaway plan view of the same.
FIG. 3 is a partially omitted enlarged sectional view taken along the line A--A in FIG. 1...Rack, 2...Cage, 3...Elevator, 4...
...Film, 5...Cassette, 6...Guide block, 7
... Fastener, 8, 8'... Pin, 9... Base plate, 10...
Exit/exit, 11... Opening/closing door, 12, 13... Entrance/exit, 14
, 15... Light-shielding gate, 16... Light-shielding bellows, 17... Part of the printer, 18... Glass plate, 19... Printer light source section, 20... Baking press, 21... Developing section, 22...
Infeed conveyor, 23...carrier, 24...base suction head, 25...take-out tray.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 A rack equipped with an automatic call elevator that raises and lowers a plurality of cages is constructed, and each cage is used to classify and store printing original plates, printed plates, etc., and the printers are partially fed to the printer by arranging them in the rack, and then the conveyor section and the developing section. In addition, a carrier is provided above a predetermined cage in the rack, a portion of the printer, and the feeding conveyor section to reciprocate between these, and the above-mentioned printing original plate and printing plate are placed on this carrier. An automatic printing/developing machine characterized by being equipped with a suction head having a suction mechanism with a double independent structure for suctioning each suction head, so that printing work is automatically performed by riding on the suction heads.