KR0181642B1 - Page turning apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to accurately turn pages in the forward and reverse directions in a book page changer.

In a page changing apparatus for performing page replacement of an open page of a booklet, a preliminary walking roller (3) rotatable in the forward and backward directions and a page changing roller (2) rotating later in the same direction than the rotation of the preliminary walking roller (3). Is installed, and the preliminary walking roller 3 contacts the page to be flipped, and the page is rolled up in advance, and then the page change roller 2 is further rolled up to perform the page change in the forward and reverse directions.

Description

Page changer

In general, an automatic teller machine that prints a passbook, such as a financial institution, changes pages of a passbook, such as when a user opens a sheet other than the printable sheet and inserts it into the device when the print page of the passbook spans a plurality of pages. Replace device is built in. This page changer takes extra processing time to return the original print page because it incorrectly prints another page, for example, when a page skewing / lifting shortage occurs. The function to turn one by one reliably is required.

In order to perform this reliable page turning, in the prior art, a page that is to be turned over from an open page is first slightly lifted by a preliminary roller having a high coefficient of friction, and a page roller is used to turn a page in a state where a gap is created by the walking roller. A page changer to perform is proposed. The preliminary roller rotates in one direction prior to the rotation of the walking roller, and this prior art is described in, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-58991.

The page changer according to the related art performs page change by the walking roller while the page to be flipped is lifted up by the small roller in advance, so that it is possible to prevent the page from turning over several pages at once. Since the rotation direction of is fixed, it can be rotated only in one direction and cannot be applied to a page turning device that performs page turning in the forward and backward directions. In addition, the page changing apparatus according to the prior art has a drawback in that the use thickness of booklets such as bankbooks and the like varies depending on the financial institution or country, and it is difficult to reliably turn over the printing pages one by one in correspondence with the thickness of the paper.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a highly reliable page switching apparatus capable of performing page switching in the forward and backward directions by eliminating the drawbacks of the prior art, and preventing multiple walks of pages. Another object of the present invention is to provide a page changing apparatus capable of preventing multiple page walks even when the paper thickness is different.

1 is a side view of a page changer according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram showing a roller configuration of the page changing apparatus according to the present embodiment.

3 is a diagram showing a roller operation of the page changing apparatus according to the present embodiment.

4 is a diagram for explaining a page turning operation of the page changer according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a case where the page changer shown in FIG. 1 is applied to a bankbook printer. FIG.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

1: shaft 2: page change roller

3: preliminary walking roller 2a, 3a: high friction part

2b, 3b: Rotating part 2c, 3c: Groove

4,13: driving roller 5,6: driven roller

7: return path 8,9: paper guide

10: shutter 12: bankbook

In order to achieve the above object, the page changer according to the present invention includes a preliminary walking roller which rotates in the forward and reverse direction coaxially with the page change roller, and wherein the preliminary walking roller turns the page by the page change roller. The first feature is to perform the page change by contacting the page to be flipped prior to contact with the preliminary page and preliminarily walking the page to be flipped, and further turning the walking page in the rolled up state by the page change roller.

Further, the page changing apparatus according to the present invention has a page contact roller contacting a page to be flipped by rotating in a forward and reverse direction with the shaft as an axis, and fixed to the shaft and contacting a page to be flipped by forward and reverse rotation according to the rotational direction of the shaft. A preliminary walking roller and a conveying mechanism for conveying the booklet in the opened state, wherein the page changing roller rotates in the same direction later than the rotation of the preliminary walking roller, so that the preliminary walking roller performs page changing by the page changing roller. The second feature is that, prior to the contact with the page to be flipped, the page is rolled up in advance in contact with the page to be flipped, and then the conveying mechanism carries out a page change by conveying a booklet in the reverse direction to the roller rotation direction. In the device by A third feature is that the page contact portion of the support roller and the preliminary walking roller has a high friction portion having a high contact resistance with the page. Other objects and features of the present invention will become apparent from the following description.

Hereinafter, a page changing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a side view of a page changing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 (a) to 2 (c) shows a roller configuration of the page changing apparatus. FIGS. 3 (a) to 3 ( c) is a figure for demonstrating the operation | movement of the roller of a page changer, FIG. 4 (a) thru | or 4 (c) is a figure for demonstrating the page turning operation of this page changer.

5 shows a schematic diagram when the page changing apparatus shown in FIG. 1 is applied to a bankbook printer.

First, the overall configuration of the bankbook printer will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 5, 7 is a conveyance path for conveying a bankbook (not shown). The passbook is formed by driving roller groups 141 to 143, 4 and 13 arranged in the middle of the conveying path and driven rollers 151 to 153, 6 and 5 provided in pairs with these driving rollers. It is conveyed to the left direction from the right direction of a figure. The printing portion is composed of the printing head 16 and the platen 17, and the printing necessary for the bankbook is made when the bankbook passes through the site where they are installed. 2 is a page change roller for walking the pages of the bankbook, 3 is a preliminary walking roller, and the necessary page change is made when the passbook passes through the portions of the two rollers 2 and 3. 10 is a shutter. The operation of this bankbook printer is as follows, for example. First, when a passbook in which pages to start printing from the left end of the figure is inserted into the conveying path 7, the passbook is conveyed by a pair of upper and lower rollers 141 and 151, and then the passbook is conveyed by the rollers 142 and 152 again. . Now suppose, for example, that a bank account has 24 lines of arguments, and there are bank accounts with up to 20 lines of arguments, and this time you want to do 10 lines of arguments. In the printing sections 16 and 17, the account book conveyed is printed up to 20 lines, so that only four lines can be printed. In this case, the printing unit prints for four rows, and the passbook is conveyed by the rollers 143, 153, 4, 6, 13 and 5 to the site where the page change device is installed. Here, the passbook is page-turned, this time returned in the reverse direction, and reaches the print section. In the printing section, the remaining six rows are printed on the account book in which the page is changed, and are conveyed and discharged by the rollers 142, 152, 141, and 151. In the above example, the page replacement was only one page. However, when the number of lines to be printed is extremely large (for example, when printing 100 lines), the account book is alternately returned between the printing unit and the page changing unit, and the page replacement is performed. The and arguments are repeated alternately and exported out by the end of the argument.

Next, the page change apparatus in this printer is demonstrated using FIG. FIG. 1 shows an enlarged view of the page changer portion in FIG.

In FIG. 1, the paper guides 8 and 9 which form the conveyance path 7 which guides the passbook (not shown) of the state in which the page was opened upward, and the passbook in the said conveyance path 7 are rotated. Drive rollers 13 and 4 and driven rollers 5 and 6 entirely sandwiched and conveyed, a shutter 10 which rotates the paper guide 9 to make a page turnable when turning pages in a passbook, and It is attached to the page change roller (2) which rotates in contact with the page of the passbook with the shutter 10 as a rotation center, and performs the page change, and is attached to the shaft (1) coaxial with the page change roller (2) and rotates in the forward and reverse direction. It is possible to have a preliminary walking roller 3. The page change roller 2 is fitted to be freely rotatable with respect to the shaft 1, the preliminary walking roller 3 is fixed to the shaft 1, and rotates in the forward and reverse direction according to the rotation of the shaft 1. It is configured to.

The structure and operation of this page change roller 2 and roller 3 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. FIG. 2 (a) shows the front of the rollers 2 and 3 of FIG. 2 (b) shows the side surface of the roller, FIG. 2 (c) shows the II cross section of (b), and FIGS. 3 (a) to 3 (c) sequentially rotate. It is a figure which shows.

By the way, as shown in FIG. 2, the page change roller 2 is rotatably fitted with the shaft 1 so as to be freely rotatable, and has a rotating portion 2b having a groove 2c opened in an arc shape. And a hollow high friction portion 2a attached to the upper portion (in the state of FIG. 2 (a)) of the rotating portion 2b, and configured to be rotatable at a radius R1 with the shaft 1 as the rotation center. .

In addition, the preliminary walking roller 3 is fixed to the shaft 1 coaxial with the page change roller 2, and the preliminary walking roller 3 rotates in accordance with the rotation of the sharp 1. The rotational force to the shaft 1 is achieved by transmitting the rotation of the motor 20 to the shaft via the gears 19 and 18. The page change roller 2 is formed with an arc-shaped cutout (groove) 2c centering on the shaft 1, while the preliminary walking roller 3 has a pin 3c that engages with the groove 2c. ) Is installed. That is, the rotating part 3b which is rotatable in the normal and reverse direction at the radius R2 is formed in the range of the arc angle of this groove | channel 2c. In addition, the page change roller 2 is made of a material having a high friction force so that the portion 2a in contact with the page surface of the passbook is reduced in slipping upon contact with the surface. The same material is used also for the part 3a of the preliminary walking roller 3. 2a and 3a have a hollow part in order to enlarge a contact area by deformation, and to prevent a slip when it contacts a page surface, and materials, such as plastic rubber, are used.

The operation of the rollers 2 and 3 configured in this manner is located on the right side of the drawing on the basis of the rollers 2 and 3, and the operation of turning the pages on the left side will be described next.

First, in the initial state, the rollers 2 and 3 maintain each roller in an upright position as shown in FIG. 1, and the shaft 1 starts rotation from this state. The preliminary walking roller 3 fixed to the shaft 1 by this rotation starts rotation counterclockwise, moving the pin 3c along the groove 2c of the roller 2, as shown in FIG. The pin 3c rotates to reach the end of the groove 2c. When the pin 3c reaches the end of the groove 2c, as shown in FIG. 3 (b), the contact portion 3a of the preliminary walking roller 3 contacts the opened page of the passbook, and the contact page is rolled slightly beforehand. Then, the page change roller 2 rolls up the slightly rolled up page, so as to actually turn over one page as shown in FIG. 3 (b).

When the page changing device turns the pages of the passbook in the reverse direction, the passbooks are positioned on the left side of the drawing with the rollers 2 and 3 as the boundary, and the respective rollers 2 and 3 in the above-mentioned second (a) The right side page first opened by the clockwise rotation of the shaft 1 from the upright initial state contacts the page where the preliminary walking roller 3 performs the page turning, and slightly lifts the page in advance, and then the page slightly rolled up. When the changeover roller 2 is rolled up by clockwise rotation, the page turning can be surely performed.

Next, the overall operation of this page changing apparatus will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 enlarges the operation of turning over the bankbook page on the left side of the bound portion 12c of the bankbook 12 on the basis of the rollers 2 and 3 of the apparatus shown in FIG. It is shown as (c).

First, FIG. 4 (a) shows a state in which the preliminary walking roller 3 is rotated until it contacts the left page 12a by counterclockwise rotation of the shaft 1, and in this state, the preliminary walking roller 3 The operation of rolling up the page 12a to be turned over in advance is started. In the state in which the page 12a and the next page are staggered by this rolling, the pin change 3c of the preliminary walking roller 3 reaches the end of the groove 2c of the roller 2, so that the page change roller 2 is also The counterclockwise rotation is started, and the page 12a is bent and lifted up as shown in FIG. 4 (b), and the shutter 10 is lifted about the axis by the curvature of the page 12a. .

Here, when the page change roller 2 rotates, the page 12a is erected by its elastic force, and here, the conveying passbook 12 is moved to the left in the drawing direction by the rotation of the drive roller 3 and the driven roller 5. The page change is performed by turning the page 12a to the right with respect to the stitched portion 12c. The next page change is performed by the rotation of the rollers 3 and 5, etc., while returning the passbook to the position of FIG. 4 (a) and simultaneously placing the rollers 2 and 3 vertically as described above. The page turning is performed from the operation of slightly lifting the left page 12a in advance by the counterclockwise rotation of the shaft 1. In the reverse page turning, the shaft 1 rotates clockwise from the position of the bankbook 12 in the position of FIG. 4 (c) and the rollers 2 and 3 upright, and the preliminary walking roller 3 Subsequent to preliminary walking of the page to be turned over, the page change roller 2 is operated to perform page change in the reverse direction to the first.

In the page changing apparatus according to the present embodiment, the preliminary walking roller 3 performs the clockwise and counterclockwise rotation prior to the rotation of the page changing roller 2, and in the state where the page to be turned up is previously rolled up, the page changing roller 2 Since the page turning is performed in the above, the page turning in the forward / backward direction of booklets such as bankbooks can be reliably performed.

In the above embodiment, the object to be flipped through has been described as a passbook, but the present invention is not limited to this, and can be applied to page turning in other booklets. In addition, the present invention is not limited to the example using the preliminary walking roller 3 capable of forward and reverse rotation of the page to be turned over coaxially with the page change roller 2, and the preliminary walking of the page by another driving source. You can also use walking equipment.

As described above, the present invention provides a page change roller which rotates in the same direction later than the rotation of the preliminary walking roller, touches the page to be flipped by the preliminary walking roller, and in advance rolls up the page to be turned over, and then the page change roller is rolled up. The page change can be performed by further rolling up the page to be passed.

Next, the present invention provides a page change roller in contact with a page to be flipped by rotating in the forward and reverse directions about the shaft, and a preliminary walking roller fixed to the shaft and in contact with the page to be flipped by forward and reverse rotation in the rotational direction of the shaft, A conveying mechanism for conveying the booklet in the open state of the page is provided, and the walking roller contacts the page to be flipped up to advance the page to be flipped, and then the page change roller further rolls up the rolled up page in the rolled up state, and then By the conveyance mechanism conveying the booklet in the reverse direction to the roller rotation direction, the page can be changed. In addition, the page contact portions of the page change roller and the preliminary walking roller have a high friction portion with a high contact resistance with the page, so that the page can be reliably turned over.

Claims (8)

In a page changer device for rotating a page of a book consisting of a plurality of pages by rotationally driving a page change roller and a preliminary walking roller, a preliminary portion for conveying the booklet in the forward and reverse directions is provided, and the preliminary replenishment of the booklet is always performed. And a preceding driving means of the preliminary walking roller for rotating the walking roller prior to the page changing roller. The page changing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the preceding driving means comprises a driving unit for driving the preliminary walking roller and a locking mechanism for applying a rotation driving force to the page changing roller by rotating the walking roller beforehand. A page changing apparatus performed by a page changing roller of a book consisting of a plurality of pages, comprising: a preliminary walking roller rotating coaxially with the page changing roller in a forward and reverse direction, wherein the preliminary walking roller replaces a page by a page changing roller. The page changing apparatus which touches the page to be flipped in advance and touches the page to be flipped beforehand and performs a page change by further rolling up the page to be rolled up by the page change roller. . A page changing apparatus for changing a page of a book consisting of a plurality of pages, comprising: a page change roller in contact with a page to be flipped by rotating in a forward and reverse direction with the shaft as an axis, and fixed to the shaft and forward and reverse in accordance with the rotation direction of the shaft. A preliminary walking roller in contact with the page to be turned over by rotation, and a conveying mechanism for conveying a booklet in a state in which the page is opened, wherein the preliminary walking roller rotates in the same direction later than the rotation of the preliminary walking roller. Prior to contact with the page to be flipped by the change roller, the page to be rolled up in advance is brought into contact with the page to be flipped, and then the page change roller further rolls up the rolled up page in the rolled-up state, and then the conveying mechanism Autumn booklet Page changing device, characterized in that for performing a page change by the conveying roller in the direction opposite to the rotation direction. 4. The page change device according to claim 3, wherein a high friction portion having a high contact resistance with a page is provided at a page contact portion of the page change roller and the preliminary walking roller. A preliminary walking roller for carrying out a preliminary walking operation on a conveying mechanism for conveying a booklet, a page change roller for turning pages of the booklet, and a sheet for performing page change of the booklet prior to contact with the booklet of the page change roller. In the page changing apparatus of a booklet, said conveying mechanism has a drive means for conveying the said booklet in the forward / backward direction, The said preliminary | rolling roller has said said preliminary | backup front roller in any forward or backward conveyance direction of the said booklet. A page changing apparatus comprising a preliminary walking roller preceding means for contacting a sheet of paper in a book changing page. 7. The preliminary walking roller according to claim 6, wherein the preliminary walking roller preceding means includes an arcuate groove formed in the page change roller, and a pin provided in the preliminary walking roller to engage with the groove, and the booklet is first conveyed when the booklet is conveyed. Rotates, and then the pin contacts the end of the groove to rotate the page change roller. The said page change roller and the said preliminary walking roller are provided coaxially, The said preliminary walking roller rotates with respect to conveyance of the said booklet, The said page change roller rotates after that, It is characterized by the above-mentioned. Page change device.