JPS6248582A - Printer base - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform operations of replacing, setting and removing a continuous form paper on the front side of a printer base and thereby enhance operability, by providing the first table on which to mount a printer and the second table on which to mount papers in an integral construction, and rotatably supporting the integral structure by a main body. CONSTITUTION:When a rotary table 13 on which to mount a paper is rotated clockwise, a stopper shaft 18 is moved to the outer periphery of the table 13, and is pushed out into a stopper groove 16 provided on the opposite side, resulting in an engaged condition, and operations of replacing, setting and removing a continuous form paper 5 are carried out. To set the paper 5, a supplying paper box 3 is placed on the operator's side of the table 13, and the leading end of the paper is passed through a guide roller 24-1. The table 13 is rotated counterclockwise until it is stopped, and the leading end part of the paper 5 is set into the printer 2. The paper 5 being discharged is led into a discharging paper box 4, and the table 13 is rotated in the opposite direction to return the base 10 to its initial front-side condition, thereby completing the paper setting. To recover the printed paper, the table 13 is rotated 180 deg., the paper 15 is cut off at a required part, is taken out from the box 4, and the leading end of the paper 5 is led into the box 4.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to a printer stand on which a printer is mounted, and in particular, to a printer that sucks and discharges printed continuous paper from the back side, and improves the workability of setting or removing paper. The present invention relates to a printer stand suitable for.

[Background of the invention]

With the spread of word processors, personal computers, etc., many printers that print characters and figures have been adopted, and the printer stand on which the printer is mounted is generally a printer stand 1 with a printer 2 on it, as shown in Figure 2. Inside the housing, there are a supply paper box 3 that stores the continuous paper 5 for supply, a discharge paper box 4 that folds and stores the print output paper after printing, and a plurality of guide rollers that guide the continuous paper 5. The structure is equipped with 6.

Furthermore, when setting continuous paper 5 in the installed printer 2, the operator first stores new continuous paper 5 in the supply paper box 3 on the front side of the printer stand 1, and then moves the plurality of guide rollers 6. The continuous paper 5 is sent out to the rear side of the printer 2 through the path. Next, go to the back of the printer stand 1 and pull out the continuous paper 5 to the back of the printer stand 1.
After being set in the printer 2, a guide roller 6 is hidden again to guide the continuous paper 5 to the discharge paper box 4 and fold it into the discharge paper box 4 so that the continuous paper 5 printed and sent out by the printer 2 can be stored in the discharge paper box 4.

Next, if we consider a case where a personal computer or the like is placed in a general office together with the printer 2 and the printer stand 1, the printer 2 and the
The printer 2 is on the left side of the printer stand 1 equipped with the printer 2.
OAAl 1 equipped with a personal computer 9 for controlling
Generally, an office desk 8 is placed on the right side of each.

Note that a chair 30 used by an operator or an office worker is placed in front of each desk.

In the above desk arrangement, continuous paper 5 is used for printer 2.
When collecting the set or punched paper,
Similarly to the above, the operator must bypass other office desks and the like to work behind the printer stand 1.

In addition, in order to perform work such as replacement on the back of the printer stand 1, it is necessary to provide a work space, and the rear part of the printer stand 1 cannot be brought into close contact with the wall, resulting in wasted installation space. was occurring.

To reduce this waste, there is a layout method that arranges office desks and the like to eliminate detours and work space, as shown in Figure 5.

In the illustrated example, the office desk 8. OAAl1, instead of arranging the printer stand 1 in a straight line, the printer stand 1 is extended toward the aisle so that it is oriented at right angles, and the operator checks the printed content while operating the personal computer 9. The front of the printer 2 was placed on the side of the personal computer 9 so that
Although it is easier to go around to the back of the printer stand 1, it is necessary to go around to the back of the printer stand 1 when setting printer paper or taking out paper, and the fact that it protrudes toward the aisle side causes obstacles to walking. Become.

In this way, when replacing, setting, and taking out printing paper, it is necessary to go to the back of the printer stand 1, which poses a problem in workability. In addition, if one set of continuous paper 5 is 15 inches wide and has 2,000 sheets, approximately 1
Since it is heavy at 4 kg, it is difficult for female operators to carry the paper around office desks and other places.

[Purpose of the invention]

The purpose of the present invention is to solve such conventional problems and to replace, set, and replace continuous paper using an hour wheel and an inexpensive method in a printer stand equipped with a printer that sucks and ejects printed continuous paper from the back side. To provide a printer stand capable of improving work efficiency by allowing each work of taking out the printer to be carried out in front of the printer stand.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, the printer stand of the present invention includes a first table (rotary table plate 12) on which the printer (2) is placed, a first table (rotary table plate 12) on which the printer (2) is placed, and a printer stand on which a printer for printing on paper is mounted, and a first table (rotary table plate 12) on which the printer (2) is placed, and a 5) is integrated with the second table (rotating paper table 13), and the integrated structure is a rotatable main body (base plate 27, etc.) placed on the floor. It is characterized by the fact that it holds.

[Embodiments of the invention]

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

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a printer stand showing a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is an exploded view of FIG. 1.

The printer stand lO of the present invention is broadly divided into the table surrounding plate 11. An outer frame consisting of a holder support 22 and a holder bottom plate 27, a rotary table plate 122 that rotates at the center of the outer frame, a rotary plate support 23, and a rotating paper storage table 13.
It consists of a structure. The details of the configuration are as follows.

First, the rotary table plate 12 is a circular plate on which the printer 2 for discharging printing paper on the back side is mounted, and a part of the rotary table plate 12 is formed into a linear shape and a guide roller 24 is provided thereon.

The mounting table surrounding plate 11 is hollowed out in the center in a circular shape so as to create a slight gap (approximately 1 mm) around the rotary table plate 12 so that the rotary table plate 12 can rotate at the center. It is a square plate, 4
It is integrated in a parallel state with the book stand bottom plate 27 located below by the book stand support column 22. Note that since the hole is cut out circularly in the center, the rear side is further cut out, so the hollowed out shape becomes a U-shape.

An adjuster 29 is screwed into the bottom of the four support columns 22 that fix both plates 11 and 27 to absorb unevenness of the floor, and the printer comes into contact with the floor surface of the room through the adjuster 29. Use it as a support for the stand.

Similarly to the above, the rotary table plate 12 is integrated with the rotary paper tray table 13 located below by the two rotary plate supports 23 provided on the left and right in a plane parallel state. Although the details will be described later, the rotating paper tray table 13 is a circular plate rotatably provided on the upper part of the tray bottom plate 27.

The input/output cable 21 connecting the printer 2 and a host device (not shown) exits from the back of the printer 2, and then connects to the straight section 2 of the rotary table plate 12, the rotary plate support 23°, and the cable groove bit 1.
4. Cable entry hole 15. The cables are routed through the square entrance holes 25 in order and lowered onto the floor and connected to the three-position device. Note that the cable artificial hole 15° and the cable entrance square hole 25 are connected to the rotary paper storage table 13, respectively. This is a hole provided in the center of the ilil bottom base 27, and one cable groove bit 14 is provided between the rotary plate support 23 and the cable entry hole 15, and the cable 21
can be embedded in the groove.

A semicircular straight section provided on the rear side of the rotary table plate 12 is provided with a 5-inch straight line in order to allow the continuous paper 5 to slide without jamming.
A guide roller 24 longer than the paper width of the continuous paper 5 is attached to guide the continuous paper 5 to be supplied to the printer 2.

The rotary paper tray table 13 is provided with stopper grooves 16 at two locations around its circular shape, and the angle at which the paper can be rotated is limited by applying stoppers @18 here, which will be described in detail later.

On the upper surface of the table bottom plate 27, a load receiver is provided with a roller 19 in order to support the M table 13 for one rotation and rotate it stably.
and three pairs of rotating pre-prevention rollers 20 are installed diagonally at about 120 degrees. The detailed structure of the load bearing roller 19 and rotation prevention roller 20 will be described later.

FIG. 7 is a schematic side cross-sectional view of the printer stand 10 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 8 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the bottom surface taken along the line AA in FIG. 7.

The position of the straight line section provided at the rear of the rotary table plate 12 is as follows:
As shown in FIG. 7, the continuous paper 5 discharged by the printer 2 is placed approximately in the center of the discharge paper box 4 that stores the continuous paper 5. Note that 24-1 is a guide roller that guides the continuous paper 5 from the supply paper box 3.

The load receiver roller 19 is in pressure contact with the lower surface of the rotary paper tray table 13, and is mounted on an integrated rotating structure consisting of the rotary paper tray table 132, the rotary plate support 232, and the rotary table plate 12. It receives and supports the load receiver of the printer 2 to be mounted. Further, as shown in FIG. 10, the rotary paper tray table 13 is supported by a roller shaft 19-2.
It rotates with the rotational movement of , making the rotational movement smooth.

On the other hand, the rotary pre-prevention roller 20 is attached to the base plate 27 in order to press against the lateral inner surface of the rotary paper tray table 3 to eliminate lateral wobbling of the integrated rotating structure and to smooth rotational movement. It is mounted horizontally and is pivotally supported by a roller shaft 20-2, as shown in FIG. In this way, the load receiver is provided at a diagonal position of about 120 degrees with the roller 19 and the rotating blow prevention roller 20 at 3ffl.
The rotary paper tray table 13 is stably supported without wobbling. Note that 26 is a compression spring that pushes the stopper shaft 18 toward the rotating M: holder table 13 side.

When the stopper shaft 18 attached above the tray bottom plate 27 engages with one of the two stopper grooves 16 provided on the rotating paper tray table 13, as shown in FIG.
The rotating operation of the rotating structure including the rotating paper tray table 13 and the like is stopped.

Note that the details of the engagement will be described later.

FIG. 9 is an enlarged plan view of the stopper groove 16 in the one-rotation paper tray table 13.

As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, the stopper groove 1G is located in the center of the bottom plate 27 and on the outer periphery of the circular rotary paper placement table 13.

Two stopper grooves are provided at diagonal angles of approximately 180 degrees, and the stopper groove is an upright surface 16-1 in which the stopper shaft 18 to engage and lock enters to prevent rotation of the rotary paper tray table 13, and a stopper groove for inserting and removing the stopper shaft 18. and a stopper groove inclined surface 16-2. In addition, the stopper groove upright surface 1
6-1 is oriented perpendicularly to the outer periphery, and one stopper groove inclined surface 16-2 is oriented obliquely to the outer periphery.

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view showing the state of engagement between the stopper groove 16 and the stopper shaft 18.

The stopper shaft 18 is screwed and fixed to the upper surface of the base plate 27 via the stopper shaft mounting bracket 28, and
The rotating paper tray is always pressed toward the table 13 side by the force of . As a result, when the stopper groove 16 faces the position of the stopper shaft 18, it slides down the stopper groove inclined surface 16-2 and fits into the stopper groove upright surface 16-1.

11 and 12 are schematic plane cross-sectional views showing the rotation of the one-rotation paper tray table 13, and FIG. 13 is a stopper similar to FIG. 10. 1116 is a side sectional view showing an engaged state of the shaft 1116 and the shaft 18. FIG.

The rotation unit table 13 is fixed by the engagement between the stopper shaft 18 and the stopper groove 16 as shown in Figure 8. Arrow direction (clockwise)
When the stopper shaft 18 is rotated, the stopper shaft 18 passes through the stopper groove inclined surface 16-2 and moves to the outer periphery of the rotary paper tray table 13, as shown in FIG. It becomes a state. Subsequently, when it is manually rotated significantly, the stopper groove 16 on the opposite side comes to the stopper shaft 8 as shown in FIG.

Once again, the stopper shaft 18 is pushed out by the compression spring 26 and extends and slides down the stopper groove inclined surface 16-2 into the engaged state, so it does not rotate any further. In other words, even if you try to rotate further in the direction of the arrow, it will not extend Since the protruding stopper shaft 18 collides with the stopper groove upright surface 16-1, the rotation is interrupted. Further, even if the robot tries to return in the direction opposite to the arrow A, the stopper shaft 18 is engaged with the stopper groove 16, so that rotation by a weak force is prevented and the stopped state is maintained. In this state, the continuous paper 5 is replaced, set, and taken out.

Therefore, when the operator returns to the original working position after completing one task, applying a strong rotational force in the direction opposite to arrow A (counterclockwise) will compress the compression spring 26 in the same way as above. , stopper~' The shaft 18 is retracted and becomes rotatable.

Since two stopper grooves 16 are provided at approximately 180 degrees apart, one rotation of the paper tray table 13 is a reciprocating motion in the forward and reverse directions, and the paper exits from the printer 2 and reaches the center of the rotating paper tray table 13. This prevents the cable 21 that passes through the cable entrance hole 15 and is routed to a higher-level device (not shown) from being twisted more than necessary and disconnected. Furthermore, since the cable 21 is routed in the groove of the cable groove bit 14 on the upper surface of the rotary paper tray table 13, it is prevented from being caught or obstructed when replacing the supply paper box 3 or the output paper box 4. Preventing.

FIG. 14 is a side cross-sectional view for explaining the operation of setting paper and taking out print embossing paper from the printer stand 10 on which the printer 2 is mounted. Note that the printer 2 that sucks and discharges printing paper from the back has a rotary table plate 12 on its back.
Place them so that there are ii and w copies of them.

The operator selects the continuous paper 5 to be fed to the printer 2! - To do this, bend down so that you can see the lower part of the front side of the printer table 10, place the supply paper box 3 containing the continuous paper 5 on the front side of the rotary paper tray table 13, and first, is passed through the guide roller 24-1. Next, while crouching down, turn the rotary sheet tray table 13 of the rotary movable body, which is in the state shown in FIG. 15, to the left to bring it into the state shown in FIG. After turning about 180 degrees until it stops automatically (@1
7), the continuous paper 5 in the guide a-ra 24-1
Pinch the tip of the printer, pass it through the guide roller 24, and set it into the printer 2 from the back. Next, after putting the continuous paper 5 ejected from the rear of the printer 2 into the ejection paper box 4 placed on the rotary paper storage table 13,
By turning the rotating paper table 13 in the state shown in FIG. 7 in the opposite direction to the right from the above and returning it until it passes the state shown in FIG. 16 and automatically stops, the printer table 10 returns to its original frontal state. Then (in the state shown in FIG. 15), the paper setting work is completed.

On the other hand, when collecting 9 m printed sheets of paper, the paper is stored in the output paper box 4 on the back side of the printer stand IO, so the operator must first Rotate the section table 13 by 180 degrees, move the output paper box 4 to the front side, then cut the continuous paper 5 from the required part, take out the cut paper from the output paper box 4, and remove the output paper M4. Insert the remaining leading edge of the continuous paper 5 into the container. Note that the replacement work for the continuous paper 5 can also be performed in the same manner as described above, so the explanation will be omitted.

In each of the above-mentioned operations, there is a straight line cut into a semicircle provided at the rear of the one-turn table plate 12, and the edge is used as a space for conveying the continuous paper 5, so that the paper is cut from the outer periphery of the circular hole. Even if the rotary table 12 rotates once without feeding, the continuous paper 5 rotates without coming into contact with the table surrounding plate 11. In addition, the rotary table 12
Even when the rotating body 5 rotates, the width of the rotating body 5 does not exceed the width of the printer stand 10, so it is possible to place an office desk, an OA child table, etc. in close contact with the printer stand 10.

By using the printer stand 10, operations such as replacing paper and collecting printed punched paper can be performed easily.
The operator does not have to go to the back of the printer stand and can always handle the printer from the front. Additionally, by eliminating the need to work on the back, the printer stand and the back of each office desk can be placed close to the wall, eliminating wasted space.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 18 and 19.

FIG. 18 is a perspective view of a printer stand according to the second embodiment;
FIG. 19 is a side sectional view of FIG. 18.

The octagonal rotary table plate 112 is used to directly mount the printer 2 like the rotary table plate 12 described above, and is integrated with the rotary paper table section 113 by the one-rotation plate support 123 as in the previous embodiment. The rotary paper tray table section 113 also has a tray bottom plate 127 as in the first embodiment.
Between the load receiver and the roller 192 rotation prevention roller 2
0 to fix it in a rotatable state.

The operator manually rotates the rotary paper table section 113 in the same manner as in the first embodiment, rotates the printer 2 and the octagonal rotary table plate 112, and rotates the front side backward and the back side forward. can be directed.

Comparing this embodiment with the first embodiment described above, there is a gap between the octagonal rotary table plate 112 and an adjacent desk, etc., so it is conceivable that objects may fall from there. By omitting the table frame placed around the rotary table plate 112, it is possible to manufacture at low cost. Further, the same effect is achieved, such as ease of handling operations such as paper setting and paper replacement.

Also in this embodiment, the roller 19 supports the rotational movement of the 5-rotation paper table section 113 in the horizontal and vertical directions.
, 20 are provided, but the number may be increased or decreased depending on the load and size of the printer 2 and the rotary moving body. Furthermore, although the stopper shaft 18 is provided exposed on the upper surface of the base plate 127, by mounting it inside, the printer base can have a good appearance. Furthermore, an octagonal rotary table plate 11
In order to prevent 2 from moving inadvertently, use a compression spring 2.
Set the spring strength of 6 to a higher value.

The rotary table plates 12 and 112 on which the printer 2 is directly placed and rotated about 180 degrees are half-moon shaped in the first embodiment and octagonal in the second embodiment, but as shown in FIG. There is also a method of providing a rectangular hole, that is, a paper conveyance path hole 31, through which the continuous paper 5 passes through. In both embodiments, the rotary table plate 1 serving as the top plate is
2.112 and rotating paper tray table 13 which is a paper receiving part
113 are parallel to each other, but the rotary paper tray table is placed so that the surface on which the supply paper box 3 is placed faces the front side, and one output paper box 4 is placed as shown in FIGS. 22 and 23. It is possible to have a structure in which the surface is inclined toward the back side, that is, toward the working side (tilt paper table rotating table 213). In addition,
In this case, the opening is widened, and a stopper 214 for preventing the paper from falling is attached to improve the balance, taking into account the ease of setting the paper box and the center of gravity of the paper.

In both of the above-mentioned embodiments, only the printer 2 is mounted on the printer stand 10, but as shown in FIG. In addition, a printer equipped with the printer 202 can also be used as the stand 10. Further, in this embodiment, the printer stand 1O is installed on the floor, but it can also be installed on a cabinet 300 for storing continuous paper 5 and the like, as shown in FIG.

In this way, the rotary paper storage tables 13 and 11 on which the output paper box 4 for storing printing paper from the printer 2 is placed are mounted.
3 has a rotatable structure, the ejected paper receiving box 4 can be moved to the front side, and there is no need to move to the rear of the printer stand when replacing or removing paper. Greatly improves operation. Therefore, even an unskilled operator can correctly and quickly replace, set, and take out the continuous paper 5.

Further, since work such as paper exchange can be performed only on the front side of the printer stand, the work space provided on the back side is no longer required, the printer stand 10 can be brought into close contact with the wall, and the installation space can be reduced.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to one aspect of the present invention, in a printer stand mounted with a printer that sucks and discharges printed continuous paper on the back side, a rotating table plate on which the printer is placed and a rotating paper placement table on which the continuous paper is placed are provided. Since it has an integral structure and is fixed in a rotatable state, you can always replace, set, and take out continuous paper from the front side of the printer stand without using special parts or special structures. This makes it possible to greatly improve the workability.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a printer stand showing a first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional side view of a conventional printer stand, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an example of a conventional desk arrangement. 4 is a plan view of FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a plan view showing another example of conventional desk layout, FIG. 6 is an exploded view of FIG. Fig. 8 is a schematic sectional view of the bottom surface taken along the line A-A in Fig. 7, Fig. 9 is an enlarged plan view of the stopper groove, Figs. 10 and 13 are side sectional views showing the engaged state, and Fig. 11. , Fig. 12 is a schematic plane sectional view showing the rotation of the rotating paper neck table, Fig. 14 is a side sectional view for explaining the operation method, and Figs. FIG. 18 is a schematic plane cross-sectional view showing the situation, and FIG. 18 is a perspective view of a printer stand showing the second embodiment of the present invention.
The figure is a side sectional view of Fig. 18, Fig. 20 is another structural example of the rotary table plate, Fig. 21 is a perspective view showing an example of the use of the printer stand, and Figs. 22 and 9523 are the rotary paper rest table. FIG. 24 is a perspective view and a schematic side sectional view showing another example, and FIG. 24 is a perspective view showing an example of installing a printer stand. 1.10: Printer stand, 2,202: Printer, 3:
Supply paper box, 4: Output paper box, 5: Continuous paper, 6,24
．． 24-1 guide roller, 7: OA desk, 8: office desk, 9: personal computer, 11: stand table surrounding plate, 12.12-1: rotating table plate, 13: rotating paper placing table, 14: Cable groove bit, 15: Cable entrance hole, 16: Stopper groove, 16-1: Stopper groove upright surface, 16-2: Stopper groove sloped surface, 18
: Stopper shaft, 19: Load receiver is roller, 1.9-2゜20-2: Roller shaft, 20: Rotation prevention roller, 21
: Cable, 22: Stand support, 23, 1238 rotating plate support, 25: Cable artificial square hole, 26: Compression spring, 27:
Stand bottom plate, 28: stopper shaft mounting bracket, 29: adjuster, 30: chair, 31: paper conveyance path hole, 112: octagonal rotary table plate. 113: rotating paper table table part, 127: table bottom plate,
203: Display screen section, 204: Input operation section. 213: Inclined paper table rotating table, 214: Stopper for preventing falling, 300: Cabinet. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8 Figure 9 Figure 11 Figure 12 Figure 13 Figure 14 Figure 5 Figure 16 Figure Figure 17 Figure 18 Figure 19 Figure 20 Figure 21 Figure 22 Figure 23, Figure 24

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) In a printer stand on which a printer for printing on paper is mounted, a first table on which the printer is mounted and a second table on which the paper is mounted are integrated, and the integrated structure is rotatable. A printer stand that is held by a main body that is placed on a floor. (2) The printer stand according to claim 1, wherein the first table has a disc-shaped portion with a linear portion. (3) The printer stand according to claim 1, wherein the main body has an integral structure with a table surrounding frame provided around the first table.