JPS63125340A - Forming machine or simple lettering tape - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simply edit a word or a phrase and to simply transfer the edited content to an article to be printed, by printing the character or mark stored in a memory part on the surface of a lettering tape through an ink ribbon. CONSTITUTION:When a desired character or mark is inputted by the operation of each input key 2, said character or mark is stored in a memory part 15 under the control of CPU 14 and, at the same time, displayed on a display part 13. A user forms and edits a word, a phrase or a sentence while confirming the display content of the display part 3. Next, when the printing key among input keys is pushed, a lettering tape is delivered gradually by the driving of a micromotor 13 and, at the same time, the character or the mark stored in the memory part 15 is transferred to the surface of the lettering tape 5 by a printing head 9 through an ink ribbon 10. The transfer surface of the ink 10a on the lettering tape 5 is pressed to an article 16 to be printed and rubbed from above to transfer the character or mark of a positive image to the surface of the article 16 to be printed.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Fields] The present invention provides a method for easily producing a lettering tape that can transfer titles, etc. to index cards of cassette tapes, labels of video cassettes, spines of document files, etc. This article relates to a simple lettering tape making machine that can be used.

[Prior Art and Problems] This type of lettering tape production \AIa has not been available in the past. In particular, a transparent film sheet (with 5 characters screen printed on the back) is commercially available, and when used by the consumer, the desired characters are pasted onto the object from the back side and transferred. However, according to this, it includes not only desired characters and symbols, but also unnecessary characters and symbols, and it is also necessary to buy many sheets to get the necessary characters and symbols. There was an uneconomical aspect of having to use words.
If you want to make a phrase or a simple sentence, you have to select the desired characters one by one and transfer them onto the printing material, which takes time and effort in composing the words and aligning the characters. However, the layout was often not very good, making it difficult to use.

On the other hand, there are already label making machines that are capable of printing desired characters, symbols, etc. on thick resin tape, although they are not of the type that transfer characters, symbols, etc. onto an object to be printed. However, the labels made by this label making machine had the disadvantage that the thick resin tape itself was pasted onto the object to be printed, making it unsightly, and that the resin tape was easily peeled off.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention was made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to easily edit words, phrases, etc., and to print the edited material on the printed material. To provide a lettering tape making machine that can easily transfer lettering to.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the simple lettering production machine of the present invention includes an input section for character symbols, etc., a memory section for storing the input character symbols, etc., and this memory section. The gist of the present invention is to include a means for printing the character symbol cylinder stored in the lettering tape onto the surface of the lettering tape via an ink ribbon.

[Example] An example of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the simple lettering production machine according to the present invention has the size of a medium-sized handy type machine that can be held with one hand. On the surface of the case body 1, various input keys 2, 2, etc. for characters, symbols, etc. are arranged in rows vertically and horizontally, and a display section 3 is also provided. On the other hand, the internal structure of this lettering production machine is as shown in FIG. A lettering tape 5 made of film is removably attached to the support shaft 6,
The tip of the lettering tape 5 is a tape feed roller 7a,
7b and is configured to be able to be drawn out from an outlet 17 provided on one side of the case body 1. In the middle of feeding out the lettering tape 5, a platen 8 and a thermal transfer type printing head 9 are disposed on the upper and lower surfaces of the lettering tape 5, and the ink ribbon cassette 11 is arranged so that the ink ribbon 10 passes through the leading end surface of the printing head 9. is attached removably. In addition, a micro motor 13 for moving the tape feed roller 7b and the take-up shaft 12 of the ink ribbon 10 in conjunction with each other is also provided in the case body 1.
has been done.

Here, the outline of the software circuit built into the ICLE board 4 will be explained. As is clear from the electrical control block diagram shown in FIG. 2゜2..., a display section 3, and a printing head 9 are each connected to a CPU 14.

The lettering tape 5 may be made of resin films such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, nylon, polyimide, Teflon, vinyl chloride, ABS, etc., as well as paper or metal foil. Preferably, a mold release accelerator such as silicone is coated on the opposing surface.

Further, a cutter 18 for cutting off the lettering tape 5 fed out from the case body 1 is provided on the take-out lower. Generally speaking, the micro motor 13 is configured to automatically stop when the lettering tape 5 is fed out from the case body 1 over a predetermined length by a limit switch (not shown).

However, in a lettering production machine configured like this,
When a desired character structure, etc. is input by operating each of the input keys 2, 2, . . . , the characters, symbols, etc. are stored in the memory section 15 under the control of the CPU 14. At the same time, the characters, symbols, etc. are displayed on the display section 3. Therefore, the user can create and edit single iFt, phrases, or simple sentences while checking the contents displayed on the display section 3. However, when the printing key 2a, which is one of the input keys, is pressed, the lettering tape 5 is fed out little by little by the drive of the micro motor 13, and at the same time, the characters, symbols, etc. stored in the memory section 15 are read out. The print head 9 transfers the ink to the lettering tape 5 via the ink ribbon 10 . In this case, as shown in Figure 4, first 1 from the left end of the character data ((a) in the figure).
After printing a column, move the lettering tape 5 by one column, then print the second column, and move the tape again. By repeating this operation, the lettering tape 5 is printed on the same figure ( Inverted mirror image characters, symbols, etc. as shown in b) are transferred. The lettering tape onto which the mirror image characters, symbols, etc. have been transferred in this manner is separated from the lettering tape 5 of the main body. Next, as shown in FIG. 5, the ink 10a transfer surface of the lettering tape 5 is pressed against the 16 surface of the object to be printed and rubbed from above, so that a normal image of characters or symbols will appear on the 16 surface of the object to be printed. etc. will be transcribed.

Furthermore, in the lettering production machine according to the present invention, actually,
Switching modes when inputting characters and symbols, shifting and specifying the size of characters and symbols, converting kana to kanji, inserting and deleting characters and symbols in the sentence mWi collection,
It has various functions such as moving the cursor on the screen of the display section 3, and there are a number of operation keys for this purpose as shown in FIG. These functions are substantially the same as those of commonly known typewriters and word processors.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above with respect to the embodiments, the lettering making machine according to the present invention is capable of producing lettering tapes of desired characters, symbols, single pieces, hot letters, or simple sentences by simple microcomputer control. This has the advantage that the transfer work of titles, etc. to various index cards and labels can be carried out easily and efficiently.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 1 is an external perspective view, Fig. 2 is a sectional view, Fig. 3 is an electrical control block diagram of this lettering making machine, and Fig. 4 is a surface of the lettering tape. Figure 5 for explaining the transfer operation of characters, symbols, etc.
The figure is a usage diagram of a lettering tape with mirror image characters printed thereon. 2.2 is the input key, 15 is the lettering tape, 8 is the platen, 9 is the transfer head, 10 is the ink ribbon, 14 is the CP
U, 15 is a memory section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] It is equipped with an input section for inputting characters and symbols, a memory section for storing the inputted characters and symbols, and a means for printing the characters and symbols stored in the memory section on the surface of the lettering tape via an ink ribbon. A simple lettering tape making machine that is characterized by: