JPH03164297A - Method and apparatus for preparing postcard - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To send data in a concealed state by mail and to allow a recipient to open a bonded part to read the data by a method wherein data is displayed to one surface of a postcard main body consisting of three sheet pieces and a releasable intermediate sheet is provided to the data display surface while the postcard main body is fed to be closely bonded under heating. CONSTITUTION:The data of a client are displayed on the designation and address display part 2 and data display part 3 of a postcard main body 1 on the A-surface side thereof on the same plane. The postcard main bodies 1... are supplied and the intermediate sheet 5 delivered from a roll body 5a is supplied to the A-surface of a sheet piece 1c in an adhesive sheet supply apparatus 11. The postcard main bodies 1... are supplied to a dividing apparatus to be divided into individual postcard main bodies 1. A sheet piece 1a is folded downwardly and the sheet piece 1a is folded upwardly along folding parts 16 in a folding apparatus 13. Sheet pieces 1a, 1b, 1c are bonded in such a state that a thermal adhesive material 16 is interposed between the sheet pieces 1a, 1b and the intermediate sheet 5 is interposed between the sheets 1b, 1c. The postcard main body 1 is heated by a heater 21 and bonded under pressure by a pressure roller 22.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to postcards, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for manufacturing postcards for mailing postcards with concealed information such as correspondence.

(Prior art and problems to be solved by the invention) The applicant has already filed an application for utility model registration on July 19, 1989, regarding postcards that can be glued to Ayu (Japanese).
-85391') That is, in this invention, the main body of the postcard consists of three sheet pieces, and two of the three sheet pieces are polymerized with the information display side facing the inner side, and the sheet pieces to be polymerized are By interposing an intervening sheet with a removable sweetfish adhesive resin layer in between, it is possible to mail the information while concealing it from the outside, and after the recipient receives the postcard, the polymerization can be carried out. This postcard is extremely useful and novel in that it is possible to convey the hidden information by opening the envelope and reading the information on the inside.

However, since the above-mentioned postcards are completely new, no manufacturing method has been established for these postcards, and no equipment specifically designed for these postcards has yet been developed.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and its purpose is to provide a method for manufacturing postcards as described above and a dedicated printing device.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention provides for displaying information on one side of a postcard body made of three sheet pieces and then transporting the postcard while interposing a removable intervening sheet on at least the information display surface. This was done in an attempt to solve the above problem by forming them by heating and bonding them together.

That is, firstly, the present invention provides three sheet pieces 1as1b.
, Necessary items such as the addressee, addressee, information to be hidden, etc. are displayed on one side of the postcard body 1 consisting of an IC, and then the postcard body 1 is
After transferring the removable intervening sheet 5 having sweetfish adhesive resin on both the front and back surfaces, the postcard body 1 is bent into a substantially two-letter shape, and among the three sheet pieces, address,
The intervening sheet 5 is interposed on one side of the two sheet pieces 1b and lc on which the addressee is displayed, and the adhesive provided in advance on the intervening sheet 5 and the other side of the sheet piece 1b This is a method for manufacturing a postcard by heat bonding through a cutter 6.

Second, the present invention provides three sheet pieces 1a, Ib, IC
a transport device for transporting the postcard body 1, on which the addressee, addressee, and information to be hidden are displayed; 1. An adhesive sheet attachment device 11 for interposing a removable intervening sheet 5 having liquor fat on both the front and back surfaces;
mi! with the intervening sheet 5 and thermal adhesive 6 interposed between the three sheet pieces! ! A folding device for folding into a Z-shape, and between the sheet pieces 1a and 1b of the postcard body 1 and between the sheet pieces +b% Ic? This is a postcard manufacturing device consisting of a Kaayu gluing device for back gluing.

(Function) In the above-mentioned manufacturing method and manufacturing responsibility for postcards made of horizontal stripes, the postcard body is printed with the address, name, and information on one side, and then transported by a conveying device, and then After intervening an intervening sheet with adhesive resin, I! The sheet piece 13 is bent into a Z-shape, and the sheet piece 13 is folded by the bending.
% An intervening sheet is interposed on one side of sheet piece 1b, while Ayu adhesive is interposed on the other side of sheet piece 1b, Ic, and by heating and polymerizing in this state, the postcard body is Between the sheet pieces 1a and 1b and between the sheet pieces 1b and l
This makes it possible to produce postcards with c.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described along with the drawings, but for convenience of explanation, the manufacturing device will be described first, and then the manufacturing method will be described.

In FIG. 1, numeral 10 indicates a conveying device for supplying postcard bodies 1 as continuous form sheets such as ○A equipment by means of a conveyor 720, and 6 indicates a thermal adhesive provided on the back side thereof. .

Here, we will take a closer look at the postcard body 1 that was transported above. To explain in detail, it is shaped by three sheet pieces 1a, 1b, and lc as shown in Fig. 8(a) to (c), and the shape shown in Fig. 8(a) is
1 shows the back side of the postcard main body 1, and the figure (opening) shows the back side of the postcard body 1.

Reference numeral 2 indicates a destination/address display section provided on the back side of the sheet piece 1a, and 3 indicates an information display section provided on the back side of the sheet piece 1b% lc. Reference numeral 4 indicates a sender's advertisement display section provided on the side B of the sheet IC.

In other words, data of an unspecified number of customers are printed on the same side of the back side of the postcard body 1 by printing from an OA device, etc. on the address, address display section 2, and information display section 3. At the same time, matters common to all postcards are printed on the advertisement display section 4 provided on the back side (Otsu side).

Reference numeral 16 indicates a bending portion that performs a substantially two-shape bending process, which will be described later. The cross-sectional structure of the postcard main body 1 is such that an opaque sheet 8 is bonded with paper 7, as shown in FIG.

The above transport device 10 is the postcard manufacturing device 15 in FIG.
It is located at part a in the overall diagram. Note that the upper surface of the postcard body 1 in the conveyed state is referred to as the front side, and the lower surface side is referred to as the second side.

FIG. 2 shows an adhesive sheet supply device 11 having a roll body 5a for interposing the intervening sheet 5 onto the postcard main body 1 conveyed by the conveying device 10.

The material of this intervening sheet 5 is, for example, a transparent synthetic resin film such as stretched polypropylene, which has a heat-adhesive resin on its surface, and its adhesive strength is such that it can be peeled off after heat-bonding. It has a certain degree of strength.

In addition, this adhesive sheet supply equipment! I+ is located at part b in the postcard manufacturing apparatus 15 shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 shows a cutting device 12 for cutting the postcard bodies 1 continuously fed from the adhesive sheet feeding device 11 into individual pieces. I'm going to be decapitated.

The cutting device 12 is located at section C in the postcard manufacturing device 15 shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 shows the cutting device 12, although the structure of the device is not shown.
A folding device 13 is shown for folding the sheet pieces 1a of the postcard body 1, which have been individually divided by , in the direction of the O side and the sheet piece IC in the direction of the back side.

A cross section of the postcard body 1 folded in this manner is shown in FIG.
5, it is located in the d section.

FIG. 6 shows a heat bonding device 14 for superimposing and adhering the folded postcard body 1.
It is constituted by a heater 21 for thermally softening the thermal adhesive 6 of the intervening sheet 5 and a pressurizing port 22 for press-fitting the intervening sheet 5.

This heat bonding device 14 is a leaf M manufacturing device 15 shown in FIG.
It is located at section e in the overall diagram.

The postcard manufacturing device 15 of this embodiment is made of the above-mentioned postcard, and the manufacturing method thereof will be explained next.

First, in the conveyance device 10 shown in FIG. 1, the postcard body 1, which is a continuous form paper in a continuous form, is placed on a conveyor 720 with the back side thereof being supplied with thermal adhesive 6 by preheating. It is transferred as the top side.

Then, as shown in FIG. 2, in the adhesive sheet supply device 111, the intervening sheet 5, which is fed out from the O-ring body 5a of the postcard body 1, is fed onto the back side of the sheet piece IC.

Next, the postcard bodies 1 are fed to the cutting device 12 shown in FIG. Then, the postcard body 1 is divided into individual postcard bodies 1 by the tensile breakage.

Then, as shown in FIG. 4, the divided postcard main body 1 is folded in a folding device 13 so that the sheet piece 1a is turned to the O side (downward) and the sheet piece IC is turned to the back side (top side) at the folding part l6. It can be bent.

Then, as shown in FIG. 5, a heat coupling agent 6 is interposed between the sheet pieces 1a and Ib, and an intervening sheet 5 is interposed between the sheet pieces Ibx and lc, and polymerization is performed.

Next, the folded postcard body 1 is heated by a heater 21 in the sweetfish polymerization device 14 shown in FIG. As a result of pressure contact polymerization by the pressurizing hole 22, a postcard 9 with substantially the entire part in a completely adhered state is formed.

In the above postcard manufacturing method, three sheet pieces 1a,
1b and 1c are bent into a substantially two-shape shape, and the intervening sheet 5 or the cohesive agent 6 is interposed on substantially the entire surface of the two overlapping parts, so that the whole is in close contact with each other, Sheet pieces 1a and 1b cannot be separated, and sheet piece +b
This allows the space between S and C to be formed in a separable manner.

Therefore, the information printed on both sheet pieces Ib%
Since it takes up twice the normal area to be written on both sides of the IC, a large amount of information can be written on it, and since it is hidden, confidential information can also be transmitted by mail. Become.

In particular, since the postcard body 1 is composed of three layers with the opaque sheet 8 interposed between the two sheets of paper 7 as described above,
For example, even if the cover 7 that forms the postcard body 1 is so thin that it can be seen through, the information displayed on the information display section 3 will be prevented from being seen through to the outside by the opaque sheet 8, which will have a confidentiality effect. is very good.

Since the postcard 9 in this embodiment is triple horizontally shaped with approximately two characters, the postcard body 1 is made of relatively thin continuous ticket paper for office automation equipment, etc.
Even when the postcard 9 is shaped, the strength can be improved by the triple polymerization, so a durable postcard 9 can be formed.

Note that since the conveying device 10 in the above embodiment uses the conveyor 720, it is possible to supply the postcard bodies 1 in a continuous state, but the configuration of the conveying device 10 is limited to the above. Instead, the postcard body 1 may be supplied using other means.

Also, the adhesive sheet supply device in the above embodiment! The horizontal edge of II is not limited to the above-mentioned one, and for example, the intervening sheet 5 and the sweetfish adhesive 6 may be applied at the same time, and in this case, the thermal adhesive 6
There is no need to supply the postcard body 1 to the postcard body 1 by preheating it in advance.

Note that the specific materials of the thermal adhesive resin and thermal adhesive 6 of the intervening sheet 5 are not limited, and the point is that the thermal adhesion of the intervening sheet 5 (liquor has adhesive strength that allows it to be peeled off). However, the thermal adhesive 6 may be any adhesive as long as it has an adhesive strength that cannot be peeled off.

Although the folding device 13 is not shown in the drawings, any conventional means for folding a sheet body, such as a horizontal folding device, etc. can be applied to this folding device 13.

Furthermore, the configuration of the cutting device 12 in the above embodiment is not limited to that described above, and for example, a cutting means such as a cutter may be used. Furthermore, the cutting device 12 is not an essential condition of the postcard manufacturing device 15, and is not limited to the above. This is not necessary if the main body 1 is supplied to the conveyance device 10 in a pre-divided state.

In addition, in the heat bonding device 14 in the above embodiment, since the pressure roller 22 is positioned immediately after the heater 21, there is an advantage that the heat adhesive resin and the heat adhesive 6 can be closely bonded extremely well. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and, for example, the pressure roller 22 may be provided with a applying means, and in this case, the above-mentioned thermal bonding can be performed more easily. However, the pressurizing means is not an essential condition, and after the postcard body 1 is folded in the folding member 13, only a cramming process may be performed to perform the above-mentioned thermal bonding.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, the present invention allows three sheet pieces to be bent into a substantially two-shape shape, two of which can be peeled off, and two of the sheet pieces can be peeled off.
Since the method and apparatus for producing postcards are made up of non-peelable postcards, information to be concealed can be printed on the peelable surface and mailed, and the information can be hidden by peeling off the two sheets. This has resulted in a very special effect in that it is possible to produce postcards that can be disclosed and communicated.

Furthermore, since postcards can be continuously formed using form paper etc. that can be printed continuously using OA equipment, etc., there is also the great advantage that companies, public organizations, etc. can use it beneficially for advertising, etc. .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 to 6 show an embodiment of the postcard manufacturing method according to the present invention, FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a conveying device 10, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an adhesive sheet illustrator ill. 3 is a perspective view showing the cutting device 12, FIG. 4 is a folded state of the postcard body 1, FIG. 5 is a sectional view thereof, and FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing the heat bonding device 14. FIG. 7 is a front view showing the entire postcard manufacturing apparatus 15. FIG. 8 shows an embodiment of the postcard body 1, (A) is a front view, (B) is a back view, and (C) is a sectional view. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Postcard body 5... Intermediate sheet 6... Thermal cleaning agent lO... Conveying device 11... Adhesive sheet supply device 12... Cutting device 13... Folding device 14.
... Heat bonding device 15 ... Postcard manufacturing device

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Necessary items such as the addressee, addressee, information to be hidden, etc. are displayed on one side of the postcard body 1 consisting of one or three sheet pieces 1a, 1b, and 1c, and then the postcard body 1 is After transferring the removable intervening sheet 5 having heat-adhesive resin on both the front and back surfaces, the postcard body 1 is bent into a Z-shape, and one of the three sheet pieces is placed on the destination side. , address is displayed 2
The intervening sheet 5 is interposed on one side of the sheet pieces 1b and 1c, and the intervening sheet 5 and the sheet piece 1a
, 1b. A postcard manufacturing method characterized in that the postcard is manufactured by heat bonding via an adhesive 6 provided in advance on the other side of 1b. a conveyance device for conveying a postcard body 1 consisting of two or three sheet pieces 1a, 1b, and 1c, on which an addressee, an addressee, and information to be hidden are displayed on one side; and at least the sheet piece 1b. , 1c, and an adhesive sheet supplying device 11 for interposing a removable intervening sheet 5 having a heat-adhesive resin on both the front and back sides between the three sheet pieces; A folding device for folding the sheet 5 and the thermal adhesive 6 into a substantially Z-shape in an interposed state, and heating for thermally bonding the sheet pieces 1a and 1b of the postcard body 1 and the sheet pieces 1b and 1c. A postcard manufacturing device comprising: an adhesive device.