KR20030039439A - Print processing device for an auto-printing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A printing apparatus used in an automatic printing system is provided to save a working time by reducing operating steps of a printing process and to simplify the manufacturing process by simplifying a connecting structure of a driving unit, a transcription part, and an ink feeding section. CONSTITUTION: A printing apparatus includes a table(20), a lifting printing section(30) for performing a transcription printing, an ink feeding section(40) for feeding ink, and a control section(50) for controlling the operation of the components. The table(20) is installed on a frame(1) and extends towards a conveying line through which an object to be printed is conveyed. The lifting printing section(30) is installed in the table(20) and is reciprocated up and down on the object. The lifting printing section(30) includes a transcription pad(31) for transcribing a pattern and a power generating section(32) for driving the transcription pad(31).

Description

Print processing device for an auto-printing apparatus

The present invention relates to a printing performing apparatus of a printing automation device, and in particular, to reduce the operation of the printing process to increase the number of products to be printed per unit time, and to simplify the configuration to manufacture the device And to obtain the advantages of using.

In general, almost any product manufactured in the form of a product is printed with the manufacturer's logo or various advertising text.

The printing method described above was a method in which a worker performs a printing job by a print stamp or the like, and such a printing method requires a plurality of workers to increase the productivity, so that the expenses for the hiring of the worker may be reduced. Problems such as delay of work occurred.

To solve this problem, conventionally, when a printing object is supplied at a predetermined position, an apparatus for performing a printing operation on the surface of the supplied printing object has been provided.

The printing apparatus for performing a printing operation as described above has been disclosed in Patent Application No. 10-2001-0070353 filed by the present applicant (hereinafter referred to as Nov. 13, 2001).

The apparatus is as shown in FIG. 1 and looks at this configuration, a frame 1 for each component unit is installed, a supply unit 2 installed on one side of the frame 1 and supplying a print object, and It is installed on the upper side of the frame (1), and a holder (3) for holding the spheres supplied by the supply unit (2) on the upper surface is provided at regular intervals, the print object held by the holder (3) to be printed A transfer unit 4 for stepping transfer to a position, a printing unit 5 installed above the frame 1, for printing a pattern on a print object transferred by the transfer unit 4, and the frame 1 It is installed on one side, it consists of a discharge unit 6 for discharging the printed object printed the pattern from the printing unit (5).

In the above-described apparatus, the conventional printing unit 5 (single printing apparatus) is mounted on the frame 1 and the mounting stand 11 installed on the frame 1 as shown in FIG. The ink supply unit 13 is moved on the flat plate 12 in which the original drawing is engraved to supply ink in the original drawing, and the ink supply unit 13 is installed in the upper part to which the printing object B is transferred on the mounting table 11. A transfer device 14 for transferring the original drawing supplied with ink to the printing target B, and an ink supply unit 13 installed in the mounting table 11 to transfer the original drawing to the printing target B; It consists of a drive mechanism 15 for driving the transfer device 14.

In the printing unit 5 configured as described above, when the object to be printed B is transferred by the transfer unit 4, the driving mechanism 15 is operated to transfer the transfer pad 16 of the transfer apparatus 14 to the flat plate 12. The original drawing engraved in the) is transferred to one surface of the pad 16, and the transfer pad 16 is raised to move to the upper side of the printing object B, and then lowered again to draw a pattern on the printing object B. After the transfer printing, it is raised again and returned to its original state.

At this time, while the transfer pad 16 is moved, the ink cup 17 of the ink supply unit 13 slides on the flat plate 12 to supply ink in a negative circle engraved on the flat plate 12 to supply a series of ink. The administration is complete.

In the conventional printing unit as described above, since the transfer pad must be driven simultaneously with the ink cup, in order to perform printing on the printed object, a plurality of strokes described above, i.e., fall-rise-move-fall-rise-return One stroke is completed only when the operation is performed. In particular, since the moving and returning sections are longer sections than the lifting sections, the time for transferring the transfer pad to this stroke is delayed.

Therefore, when the driving time is delayed, the influence is transmitted to the entire process from the process of printing the printed object to the process of discharging, thereby reducing the number of products to be printed per unit time, thus resulting in low productivity.

In addition, since the transfer pad and the ink cup must be configured with a lever driving device having a plurality of joints on the basis of the cam device in order to be driven at the same time, the assembly of the device itself is difficult, as described above, Since it is very weak against the occurrence of noise and external impact, there is a big problem of fear of breakage.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, to reduce the number of operations of the printing stroke to shorten the working time, and to simplify the configuration of the drive mechanism, transfer device unit, ink supply unit to facilitate the production It is an object to provide a printing performing apparatus.

1 is a front view of a preprinted printing automation device.

2 is a schematic view of a printing unit of a printing automation device previously applied.

3 is a schematic view of a printing performing apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is a side view of a printing performing apparatus according to the present invention.

5 is a block diagram of a control unit configuration of a printing performing apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 6 is a flow chart of the printing process of the printing performing apparatus according to the present invention.

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20: mounting table 30: elevating printing unit

31: transfer pad 32, 43: power generating unit

40: ink supply part 41: flat plate

42: ink cup 50: control unit

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has the following features.

The present invention provides a printing automation apparatus in which a supply part, a conveying part, a printing part, and an ejecting part are formed on a frame, and a series of operations thereof are performed to perform a print job on a print object.

The printing unit is installed on the frame, the mounting table so that one side is located in the upper portion of the line on which the print object is transferred; An elevating printing unit which is installed on the mounting table and is installed to be movable up and down on the printing object and transfers a pattern onto the printing object; An ink supply unit which is installed on the mounting table and is installed to be capable of reciprocating a slide at least on a line higher than a line on which a printing object is conveyed and transfer-printed the printing object; The control unit is installed on the mounting table to control the lifting printing unit and the ink supply unit to perform the operation, respectively, characterized in that the control unit to perform a continuous printing process for each of the continuously fed, conveyed print object.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention to which the above features are applied will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 3 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a printing performing apparatus according to the present invention, Figure 4 is a side view of the apparatus of FIG.

3 and 4, the printing performing apparatus according to the present invention, the mounting table 20, each component is installed, the lifting printing unit 30 for performing the transfer printing, the ink supply unit 40 for supplying ink, the drive It consists of a control unit 50 for controlling the operation.

Here, the printing performing apparatus is described on the basis of being installed at the position of the printing unit 5 in the printing automation apparatus of the present application shown in FIG. 1, and the article of the same reference number used at this time is found to be the same.

The mounting table 20 is installed on the frame 1, and is provided so that one side extends to the upper side of the line on which the printing object B is transferred, and the elevating printing unit 30 extends from the mounting table 20. It is installed inside, and is installed to be able to reciprocate up and down in the upper portion of the printing object (B).

Here, the lifting printing unit 30 is composed of a transfer pad 31 which is a medium for transferring the pattern, and a power generating unit 32 for driving the transfer pad 31.

The transfer pad 31 is positioned above the transferred printing object B, and the power generating unit 32 is fixedly coupled to the inside of the mounting table 20 at the upper portion thereof so that the transfer pad 31 is connected by the connecting table 33. Is combined with).

The ink supply unit 40 includes a flat plate 41, an ink cup 42, and a power generating unit 43. The flat plate 41 is engraved with an original drawing on one side of an upper surface thereof, and at least a printing object B is Both ends are coupled to the guide groove 44 at the upper side higher than the line to be transported and configured to slide back and forth.

The ink cup 42 is connected to the bracket 21 fixed in the mounting table 20, the lower end of the opening portion of the space filled with ink is in close contact with the flat plate 41, a more firm adhesion Compression spring 45 is installed between the bracket 21 to be provided.

The power generating unit 43 is fixedly mounted in the mounting table 20, and is connected by the flat plate 41 and the connecting rod 46 to allow the flat plate 41 to slide back and forth horizontally.

Here, the lifting printing unit 30 and each of the power generating units 32 and 43 of the ink supply unit 40 are the speeds of the driving, the starting and the stopping of the driving can be easily controlled. It is preferable that the converter mechanism for converting the rotational power into the linear movement power (these are not shown since they are conventional techniques) is configured in combination with the servomotor.

The control unit 50 is installed on the mounting table 20 in the form of an operation panel to control the operation of the lifting printing unit 30 and the ink supply unit 40, the configuration thereof is as shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 5, the control unit 50 is a keypad or button for inputting and setting data for controlling the power generating units 32 and 43 of the elevating printing unit 30 and the ink supply unit 40 in advance. A key input unit 51 such as a panel, a control unit 52 for generating and transmitting a signal for controlling the respective power generation units 32 and 43 according to the input data, and the control unit 52 It consists of a drive driver 53 which receives a signal and drives each power unit 54 (servomotor described above).

6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of performing a print job on a print object in the print performing apparatus configured as described above.

Referring to FIG. 6 together with the drawings of the above configuration, when the printing object is transferred by the transfer unit 4 of the printing automation device (S10), the flat plate 41 is advanced, and at this time, the advanced flat plate 41 In the original drawing formed in the ink cup 42, the ink is supplied to a state in which the process to be printed is carried out. (S20)

As described above, when the flat plate 41 is moved forward (left movement in FIG. 3), the transfer pad 31 descends to transfer the ink supplied in the original drawing, and is immediately raised to transfer the pattern. )

At the same time as the transfer pad 31 is raised, the flat plate 41 is reversed (moves to the right in FIG. 3), and (S40) at the same time, when the transfer pad 31 is lowered, the lowered transfer pad 31 is printed (B). In contact with the printing process is performed, and as soon as the transfer pad 31 is raised and returned, one stroke is completed. (S50)

At this time, the reverse of the flat plate 41 is a process in which the engraved original pattern is placed in the space filled with the ink of the ink cup 42 to supply the ink.

Comparing the operation state of the printing performing apparatus as described above with the conventional one described above, in the prior art, the transfer pad 16 should perform the operation of six steps of falling-rising-moving-falling-rising-return. Each of the above steps is an operation state that must be distinguished without overlapping steps, and the present invention provides that the transfer pad 31 is merely raised and lowered, and the plate is slid only to the forward and backward sides in order to supply ink. Printing can be performed by a simple operation, thereby minimizing the number of driving strokes.

In addition, the printing performing apparatus according to the present invention, when inputting the data of the operation process to the control unit 50, the step of transferring the print object (B) and the process of advancing the flat plate 41 is performed at the same time, When the control data is input so that the time when the 41 is advanced and the time when the transfer pad 31 is lowered, that is, the flat plate 41 is advanced rapidly with a slight difference compared to the transfer pad 31, and the reverse is delayed with a slight difference, The stroke according to the driving described above can be performed more quickly.

The printing performing apparatus according to the present invention as described above is an example of the state applied to the printing automation apparatus as an example, but the working die is coupled to the lower side of the mounting table, so that the operator can directly supply the printed object When configured, it is also possible to construct a general semi-automatic printing performing apparatus.

As described above, the present invention achieves the effect of improving productivity by reducing the number of strokes in the printing operation and allowing the operation to proceed more quickly.

In addition, the connection configuration of each drive portion for performing the printing process is simplified to facilitate the manufacture of the device, as well as the effect of reducing the risk of damage to the noise and external impact when operating.

In addition, by controlling the driving force providing portion providing the driving force to the driving portion electrically and electronically, it is easy to control the speed and operation time of each driving portion to obtain the effect of improving workability.

Claims (4)

In the printing automation apparatus in which a supply part, a conveying part, a printing part, and an ejecting part are formed on a frame, and these are performed in a series of operations, a printing operation is performed on a printing object. The printing unit An installation table 20 installed on the frame 1 and having one side positioned at an upper portion of the line on which the printing object B is transferred; An elevating printing unit 30 installed on the mounting table 20 so as to be movable up and down on the printing object B, and transferring a pattern onto the printing object; An ink supply unit (40) installed on the mounting table (20) and installed at a slide reciprocating on a line higher than a line on which the printing object (B) is transferred to transfer printing the printing object; The printing unit 30 is installed on the mounting table 20 to control the operation of the lifting printing unit 30 and the ink supply unit 40 to perform the continuous printing process on the printing object (B) to be fed and transported continuously. Printing performing device of a print automation device, characterized in that consisting of a control unit (50). According to claim 1, wherein the lifting printing unit 30 A transfer pad 31 provided on an upper portion of the printing object B to transfer the pattern to be printed on the printing object B; The printing performing device of the printing automation device, characterized in that consisting of the power generating unit 32 is fixedly installed on the mounting table 20 and coupled to the transfer pad 31 to provide the lifting driving force to the transfer pad (31). The ink supply unit 40 of claim 1, wherein the ink supply unit 40 A flat plate 41 which is engraved with the original drawing on one side of the upper surface and slides back and forth on the upper side of the printing object B; An ink cup 42 fixedly installed on the mounting table 20 and in close contact with the flat plate 41, and filled with ink to supply ink in the engraved circle when the flat plate 41 is reciprocated; The printing performing device of the printing automation device, characterized in that made of the power generating unit 43 is fixed to the mounting table 20 and coupled to the flat plate 41 to provide a moving force of the flat plate (41). The method of claim 2 or 3, The power generating unit 32, 43 is provided with a servo motor capable of intermittent rotation speed, driving start, driving stop, etc., and is coupled to the servo motor to convert the rotational power of the servo motor into linear reciprocating drive. Printing performing device of the printing automation device, characterized in that made by the installation.