JPS59199410A - Bundling device for paper sheets stacked at every arbitray number - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] This invention relates to a device for bundling sealed letters, etc., and its purpose is to securely and easily bundle the paper sheets using a bundling tape without disturbing the accumulated state of the paper sheets. There it is.

Conventionally, postal letters, etc. are sorted by postal code using postal calligraphy automatic sorting devices and automatically stacked at will. This was a problem and became a bottleneck for automation.

For this reason, the present applicant and others previously developed an automatic bundling device (Japanese Patent Application No. 181087/1987) to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, but the take-off means in the above device moves the paper sheets. As a result, since the bundling chives, which are stretched vertically through the conveyance path of paper sheets, are engaged with the paper sheets and pulled out, when pulling out the paper sheets, the stacked There was a risk that paper sheets would be misaligned and the engagement of the tape would become inaccurate.

The present invention provides a bundle that is movable parallel to the top and bottom surfaces of the paper sheets and across the top and bottom surfaces of the paper sheets while holding the paper sheets in a predetermined position without moving them. One of the items to be packaged is
A binding tape is applied to the side, top, and bottom surfaces, and the binding part side of the binding tape is cut in one piece using a sealing device to seal the paper sheets and further tighten the bundle. An embodiment of the present invention, which is shown in the accompanying drawings and which enables stable and reliable operation, will be described in detail.

5 is a tape tensioning device for bundles, which includes a pair of upper and lower tape tensioning arms 4 whose base ends are fixed to a guide block 3 that can be freely slid onto guide rods 2 and 2' fixed to the machine frame 1;
, 4'. Reference numerals 5 and 5' denote tape guide rollers attached to the tip of the tape tensioning arm 4°4'; 6, the guide block 30 is actuated, and the shaft 7 is set as a fulcrum by an appropriate drive mechanism (not shown); It is designed to be swung back and forth. Reference numeral 8.8' denotes upper and lower binding tapes for binding randomly accumulated paper sheets W, and in this embodiment, these tapes are made of a roll-wound plastic film that can be heat-soled. It is something. 9
10 is a well-known feed roller with an electromagnetic clutch brake for fixed-size feed; 10 is a pressure roller pressed against the feed roller 9 by a spring 11; 12 is a pressure roller mounted coaxially with the feed roller 9 for fixed-size feed with an electromagnetic clutch brake. An endless chain 13 is stretched around the sprocket 12, which is a sprocket. 14 is a tension ring for the endless chain 13, and 15 is a tension ring for the same tension frame. A portion of the endless chain 13 is tied to the operating rail <-6 of the tape tension arm 4, 4', and as the operating lever 6 rotates, the sprocket 12 is moved in the forward and reverse directions. The sprocket 12 is configured to rotate.
An electromagnetic clutch (not shown) is actuated by an electric signal generated by an actuation mechanism (not shown) of the actuation lever 6 when the binding tape 8' is pulled out by the ZOL0 tension arm 4°4'. It is rotatable and can feed out a predetermined amount of the pre-station binding tape 8', and when the tape tensioning arm 4°4' returns to its original position, a brake (not shown) is used. is activated so that the binding tape 8' is not fed out.

Note that when the sprocket 12 rotates in the reverse direction, the sprocket J2 rotates idly. 16,
16' is a tension roller which normally applies a predetermined tension to the binding sole 08.8';
It is rotatably connected to the tips of arms 17 and 17' whose base ends are pivotally connected to the machine frame 1. Arm 17,
Cam plates 18 and 18' are fixed to the base end of the brake arm 17'.
, 19' are always pressed against rollers 20, 20' attached to the lower part of the rollers 20 and 19'. Brake shoes 21 and 21' are attached to the brake arms 19 and 19', and are brought into contact with the rotating shafts 22 and 22' of the binding tapes 8 and 8'. Reference numerals 23 and 23' designate pivot shafts that rotatably connect the upper ends of the brake arms 19 and 19' to the machine frame 1, and 24 and 24' designate springs. 2
5 and 25' are fixed tape guide rollers, and 26 is a roller for the sole, which is configured to be able to slide up and down within the guide member 27, and is constantly moved downward by its own weight to perform the required tasks. In addition to dissolving the amount of sol 0, the binding tape 8 is made to have tension. First, a sheet 1 for integrally seal-cutting the binding tape 8°8'. The device is reciprocated up and down by the operating mechanism (not shown) of the above-mentioned actuator 6. 028 is located in the upper sealer 30 as shown in @ above. Built-in cutter, soil, bottom sealer 30
, 30' are closed, the spring 31 is compressed to protrude from the groove 33, and the 71 round portion of the bundle tapes 8, 8' cant from the center. 34 is an elastic receiving member such as a silicone comb attached to the upper sealer 30; 35 is a heating element built in the lower sealer 30';
36 is a cutter receiving groove provided in the lower sealer 30'. Reference numeral 37 denotes a mounting table for paper sheets W, and a thin bundle tape 8 stretched on the tape tensioning arms 19 and 19' is placed at the bottom.
, 8' is formed. Further, when using a side plate 39 for positioning paper sheets W as shown in the first figure, it goes without saying that the side plate 39 is provided with a cavity (not shown) similar to the above. . Furthermore, the paper sheets W placed on the above-mentioned placement table 37 are manually folded (4) and are held in a predetermined position so as not to move using an appropriate holding device (not shown). 1 is a paper bill sealing device, in which an engagement plate 42 attached to the lower surface of the dobe sealer mounting body 29 in the sealing device described above is engaged with the lower surface of a mounting plate 41 to which a well-known heat/rubber 40 is attached. When the upper mounting body 29 is raised, the mounting body 4
1 rises together with the upper sealer attachment body 29, and when the upper solar attachment body 29 descends, it descends by its own weight, and the paper sheet W
The paper bill X (on which the postal code and other information is printed) placed on the top of the bag and the bundle tape 8 are heat-soled together. The upper and lower sealer mounting bodies 29, 29' and the heat solper mounting plate 41 are slidably supported by guide rods 43 and 43' which are erected on the machine frame 1.

Next, the effect will be explained.

The paper sheets W which have been arbitrarily piled up are placed on a predetermined position on the mounting table 37 as shown in Figures 1 and 2, held so as not to move, and the actuating lever 6 is actuated. The tape tensioning arms 4, 4' located at the positions indicated by the dashed-dotted lines in the figure are operated by the tap levers indicated by the solid lines. In such a case, the tape tension arm 4
, 4' are in the state shown in FIGS. 3(a) to 3(b), and are engaged with one side of the paper sheets W. Next, the upper and lower solar panels 30 and 30' for the sealing device are brought into contact with each other as shown in FIG. 8 and 8' are sealed together, and the cutter 28 is lowered to cut between the sealed portions. At this time, the mounting plate 4 in the paper bill sealing device
1 is also lowered, and the upper surface of the bundle tape 8 is pressurized by the heat sealer 40, and the bundle tape 8 and the paper bill X are heat-sealed together as shown in FIG.

When the paper sheets W are removed from the mounting table 37 after the bundling is completed, the upper and lower sealers 30° 30' for the sealing device and the heat sealer 40 of the paper bill sealing device Ω are operated by the actuating lever 6 mentioned above. Due to the action of a mechanism (not shown), the mounting body 29,
29', the mounting plate 41 is moved up and down, respectively, to return to its original position and release the binding tape, and the tape tensioning arms 4, 4' also move to the operating mechanism (not shown). Due to the action of
At this time, the binding tape 8 located on the upper side is stretched by the protrusion of the tape tensioning arm 4.

The pool roller 26 moves up inside the guide member 27 to feed out the pooled tape, but if the amount is insufficient, the arm 1 with the tension roller 16
7 is rotated upward by the tensile force of the binding tape 8, and the cam plate 1B-j)'-7'' at the base end is rotated upward.
Since the pressing force of the arm 19 is relaxed, the binding tape 8
The rotating shaft 22 of the brake shoe 2]J? : The brake is released and becomes free, and it can be easily pulled out. Also, at this time, the binding tape 8 located at the bottom
' is an electromagnetic clutch (see FIG. (not shown) is activated and the feed roller 9 is rotated in a positive direction, so the feed roller 9 can be rotated via the endless chain 13 and the men's rocket 12 to easily pull out a predetermined amount. be.

As mentioned above, when applying tape to the accumulated paper sheets, the present invention is capable of holding the paper sheets in a predetermined position so as not to move, and applying tape to the upper and lower surfaces of the paper sheets. On the other hand, a tape tensioning arm provided so as to be movable back and forth in parallel and across the upper and lower surfaces is used to set the tape so as to surround one side, the upper surface, and the bottom of the sheet, and Tape hanging is performed by sole-cutting the thin bundle side of the later binding tape using a pair of upper and lower sealing devices, so paper sheets can be bundled from the tape. Each stack is held in a predetermined position without being moved at all until the end of the stack. Even when stacked sheets are stacked, it is possible to tape them in an extremely stable state without destroying the stacked state at all, and it is also possible to bundle the bundles even more reliably and firmly.

In this embodiment, the take 0 gas 41 member is described as a roller, but it is not limited to this, and in short, any structure may be used as long as it can pull out the binding tape and hang the tape. 0

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figures show one embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is an overall front view 1, Fig. 2 is a side view of the same part, and Figs. 3 (A) to (C).
Figure 4 is a side view of the upper and lower seal members in the sole device, Figure 5 is a partially cutaway front view of the same, and Figure 6 is a diagram showing the solar mounting body and paper in the sole device. FIG. 7 is a plan view showing the engagement positional relationship of the heat seal bar mounting plate of the tag sealing device, and a perspective view of bundled paper sheets. A Tape tensioning device for bundles, Sole device, W
Paper sheets, 1 machine frame, 4, 4' tape 0 tension arm, 8, 8' bundling tape 0, 30 upper sealer, 3σ/lower solar. Patent applicant: Omori Machinery Co., Ltd. (Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3)
Figure 5 Figure 6 Cause 1 Figure 7

Claims (1)

[Claims] A device for bundling arbitrarily accumulated paper sheets using a heat-sealable bundling tape, comprising means for holding the paper sheets in a predetermined position, and the apparatus includes means for holding the paper sheets in a predetermined position, and the upper and lower surfaces of the paper sheets are A bundle tape tensioning device includes a tape guide member attached to the tip of a small bundle tape tensioning arm that is slidable along the bundle tape tensioning device, and the bundle tape stretching device and the paper sheet holding means. A bundle take 0 is provided with a seal cut member for sandwiching the bundle side of the thin bundle Tates 0 carried by the bundle take 0 tensioning device from above and below and sealing them together. Fool cutting device;