JPS6164635A - Feeding method of sheet material - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To feed a processing part with a sheet material so efficiently in a simple manner, by taking out the sheet material inside a magazine having an engaging part, supporting two sides where sheet materials are opposed with each other, and an on-off plate from a discharge port in regular sequence after opening the on-off plate. CONSTITUTION:A magazine 2 is attached to a magazine attaching part 21 so as to turn its discharge port upside down, while a hole 50 of an L-shaped end face of an on-off plate 5 is fitted in a pin 24 of a movable plate 23 on a bottom part of the attaching part 21. Turning a handle 27, the on-off plate 5 is drawn out as being left engaged with the movable plate 23 intact, and the discharge port is opened. Afterward, a suction plate 29 is operated, making a suction body 29a go upward, and made into vacuum suction to a sheet material facing to a housing port of the magazine 2, then the suction body goes down, while a suction sheet material 1, whose two sides are supported by an engaging part installed in a port edge of the discharge port, passes through between engaging parts owing to its elastic flection so that the first sheet material 1 alone is separated and taken out. And, a suction body support part 29b rotates and feeds the sheet material 1 to a processing part 28.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention stores photographic material, such as a driver's license cut into predetermined dimensions, in a magazine.

The present invention relates to a method for supplying sheet material to a processing unit for photographing and printing facial photographs and/or bibliographic information.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, driver's licenses are made by winding a strip of photosensitive material into a roll, which is sequentially transported to a processing unit that photographs and prints facial photographs and/or bibliographic information, and after processing, is cut into a predetermined size. ,
It was obtained by sandwiching it between transparent film writing sheets and welding it.

Therefore.

Not only did it take a long time to produce a driver's license, but the entire machine became larger, and when it was cut, it produced a lot of waste, and the photosensitive material was wasted. Also.

The photosensitive material, which was wound into a roll, remained curled even after being cut, making it difficult to cover it with a transparent film. In order to solve the above problem, a photosensitive material having a predetermined thickness and strength and cut to the required size is used, and a face photograph and/or bibliographic information is photographed and printed on the photosensitive material. It was hoped that this would be done directly.

However, in the case of materials that are sensitive to light, such as photosensitive materials, there are problems with how to transport, store, and supply them to the processing section.In addition, the materials must be stacked and stored in light-shielding magazines. In such cases, the sensitive material tends to generate static electricity due to its material nature.

When taking out the sheet materials, they are in close contact with each other and it is difficult to separate them (
, it was difficult to feed the sheets one by one to the processing section.

[Purpose of the invention]

In view of the above-mentioned points, it is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet material supply method that enables sheet materials to be efficiently and simply supplied to a processing section.

[Structure of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a storage opening with a lid that can be tightly fitted after storing the sheet material, and a magazine having a locking part and an opening/closing plate that supports two opposing sides of the sheet material at the discharge opening. The opening/closing plate is opened, and the sheet material can be suctioned and taken out sequentially from the discharge port side and supplied to the processing section.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be described according to embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings. In Figure 1, except for 1, the front half is omitted and the cross section is shown as seen from the inside.

In the figure, 1 is a sheet material cut to product dimensions,
In this embodiment, the sheet material 1 is assumed to be a photosensitive material for driver's licenses, but is not limited to this. 2 is a magazine that stores the sheet material 1, and the magazine 2 has a storage opening for the sheet material 1. 3 and a discharge port, and the discharge port is provided with an opening/closing plate 5 and a locking portion 6 for supporting two opposing sides of the sheet material 1.

In addition, a removable lid 7 can be tightly fitted into the storage opening 3 when storing the sheet material 1. This magazine 2 is preferably molded from a material having light-shielding properties, such as resin mixed with carbon black.

The locking portion 6 is provided to protrude inward from the edge of the discharge port of the magazine 2, but is not limited to this, and a rod-shaped body may be passed over the locking portion 6. In the case of photosensitive materials for driver's licenses, since the shape is rectangular, the protruding length l of this locking portion 6 is preferably provided to support the short side of the rectangle.
is determined in consideration of the area, shape, thickness of the sheet material 1, elasticity of the material, etc. The opening/closing plate 5 includes an L-shaped end plate 5a that fits into an L-shaped notch 8 provided from the bottom to the bottom of one side of the magazine 2 where the locking part 6 is not provided, and a horizontal plate 5b provided on the inner surface thereof. It consists of Both ends of the horizontal plate 5b are inserted along grooves 10 formed on the end face of the locking part 6 so as to communicate with the oblong slits 9 formed in the cutout part 8, and the tips thereof are inserted into the grooves 11 formed on the rear end face. It is now possible to mate. When the horizontal plate 5b is completely inserted, L
The shaped end plate 5a is fitted flush into the above-mentioned notch 8 to prevent light leakage.

The lid 7 is provided on its inner surface with a protrusion 7a that rubs against an inclined surface provided to facilitate the storage of the sheet material 1 at the edge of the storage opening 3.

A skirt portion 7b that can fit around the outer periphery of the storage opening 3 is provided on the outer periphery.
is provided. This fitting portion of the lid body 7 is effective for preventing light leakage.

Figures 2 to 5 show an example of a feeding device for supplying a photosensitive material for a driver's license to a processing unit that photographs and prints facial photographs and/or bibliographic information.
In the figure, 20 is a dark box, and 21 is a mounting part provided on the top surface of the dark box 20 that allows the magazine 2 to be mounted with the outlet side facing down.The magazine mounting part 21 completely blocks light between it and the peripheral wall of the magazine 2 Appropriate means (not shown) are provided for this purpose. 22 is the magazine 2 attached to the magazine attachment part 21
The opening/closing device 22 is provided with a planar U-shaped movable plate 23 attached so as to be able to slide along the bottom of the magazine mounting section 21, and a movable plate 23 is attached to the center surface of the movable plate 23. is when magazine 2 is installed.

A pin 24 is provided at a position into which a hole 50 provided on the lower surface of the L-shaped end plate 5a of the opening/closing plate 5 can be fitted.

Although the movable plate 23 may be moved by any means, in this embodiment, a pinion 26 is engaged with a pinion 25 provided on the lower surface of both wings, and the pinion 26 is connected to a drive handle 27 provided outside the dark box 20. It is designed so that it can be rotated by the operation of . Reference numeral 28 denotes a processing section for photographing and printing facial photographs and bibliographic information on a photosensitive material, and a phototaking lens section 28a is provided outside the dark box, and a photosensitive material gripping section 28b is provided inside the dark box. 29 is a suction cup body 29
The suction cup device 29 is rotatably provided with a supporting portion 29a that supports the magazine mounting portion 2 so as to move forward and backward.
The opening/closing plate 5 of the magazine 2 attached to the magazine 1 is the opening/closing device 2
2, the sheet material facing the opened discharge port side is lifted up and vacuum-adsorbed, descended in the suction state, rotated at the descending point, and moved forward in the horizontal direction to the processing section 2.
The receiver can be passed to the photosensitive material gripping portion 28b of No.8.

It should be noted that the opening/closing device 22 and the suction cup device 29 of the opening/closing plate need not be limited to those in the above embodiment, and they can also be electrically operated and controlled by a computer. Furthermore, although the magazine mounting section 21 is of an open type in this embodiment, it is advantageous to provide it inside the dark box 20 from the viewpoint of light-shielding properties.

In the above embodiment, the sheet material l stored in the magazine 2 is fed to its processing section.

First, the magazine 2 is mounted on the magazine mounting section 21 with its discharge port facing down. As a result, the holes 50 in the L-shaped end plate 5a of the opening/closing plate 5 fit into the pins 25 of the movable plate 23 provided at the bottom of the magazine mounting section 21.Next, when the handle 27 is rotated in a certain direction, the opening/closing plate 5 is the movable plate 23
It is moored to and pulled out to open the magazine outlet. After that, when the suction cup device 29 is activated, the suction cup body 29
a starts to rise, and at the rising point, it is vacuum-adsorbed to the sheet material 1 facing the storage opening of the magazine 2, and then descends. In this case, since two sides of the sucked sheet material 1 are supported by the locking portions 6 provided at the edge of the discharge port, the sheet material 1 is bent by the elasticity of the material and passes between the locking portions 6. Therefore, the second sheet material 1 is provisional.

Even if the second sheet material 1 is dragged by the first sheet material 1 due to static electricity or the like and floats up, the second sheet material 1 itself is not under the suction force of the suction cup body 29a, so the first sheet material 1 When the sheet material 1 passes through the locking part 6, it returns to its original state due to the bending force and its own elasticity, and only the first sheet material attracted to the suction cup body 29a is always separated and taken out. That will happen.

However, when the suction cup body 29a reaches the descending point.

The sheet material 1 whose supporting part 29b rotates and attracts
is transferred to the photosensitive material gripping section 28b of the processing section 28, thereby completing the supply. Thereafter, the sheet material is processed using conventional methods.

It is led out of the dark box by suitable means not shown.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the present invention provides the storage opening with a lid that can be tightly fitted after storing the sheet material, and the discharge opening with the locking portion that supports two opposing sides of the sheet material.

Since the sheet material in the magazine having the opening/closing plate is opened, the opening/closing plate is opened, the sheet material is suctioned and taken out sequentially from the discharge port side, and then supplied to the processing section, so when the sheet material is sucked and taken out from the stacked sheet materials. Next, the sheet material passes through the locking portions placed on its two opposing sides while being bent, is reliably and efficiently separated from other sheet materials, and is supplied to the processing section. Therefore, when the sheet material in the magazine is a photographic material and the coughing material is applied to a processing unit that takes and prints facial photographs and/or bibliographic information, the supply of the photographic material to the processing unit can be made in a cassette format, which simplifies the manufacturing process for driver's licenses, and there are no inconvenient problems associated with obtaining driver's licenses using conventional methods.
Moreover, the photosensitive material is housed in a storage magazine and can be stored and transported without being exposed to light or damaged, and the preparation process for supplying it to the processing section is simplified, among other excellent effects. .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a side sectional view of a magazine used in this invention, Figs. 2 to 5 show an example of an apparatus for carrying out this invention, Fig. 2 is a front sectional view, and Fig. 3 is a side sectional view. FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the operating state of the suction cup device, and FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing the relationship between the slide opening/closing plate and its opening/closing device. 1-Sheet material 2-Magazine 3-Accommodation opening 5-Opening/closing plate 6-Locking portion 7-Lid body 20--Dark box 21--Magazine mounting section 22-Opening/closing device 23--Movable plate 28・-Processing part 29-=-When the suction cup device is used Applicant
Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 29 29a Figure 4

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) The storage opening is provided with a lid that can be tightly fitted after storing the sheet material, and the discharge port has a locking part that supports two opposing sides of the sheet material, and a magazine that has an opening/closing plate.
A method for supplying sheet material, characterized in that the opening/closing plate is opened, the material is suctioned and taken out sequentially from the discharge port side, and the material is supplied to a processing section. (2) Supply of the sheet material according to claim 1, wherein the sheet material is a photographic material, and the sheet material is supplied to a processing unit that takes and prints facial photographs and/or bibliographic information. Method.