JPS6245839B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a continuous form processing device that continuously produces booklets, envelopes, etc. of a required number of pages from continuous forms, and particularly relates to a continuous form processing device that continuously produces paper sheets in the marginal zone that are separated from continuous forms into chips. The present invention relates to a continuous form processing device equipped with a burster device that performs shredding processing.

Generally, this type of continuous form processing device uses a slitter device to cut the continuous form along slit lines to separate the marginal zone, and then uses a burster device to cut the continuous form along bursting perforations to form unit forms. , booklets and envelopes with the required number of pages can be manufactured continuously.

On the other hand, the strip of paper in the marginal zone removed from the continuous form by the slitter device is sent into a processing box and discarded.

However, the elongated strip of paper in the marginal zone that is sent into the processing box is bulky and cannot be disposed of efficiently because it is processed as it is in the long strip.

This invention takes the above-mentioned points into consideration, and has developed a continuous form processing device that shreds strips of paper in the marginal zone that are separated from continuous forms into chips and disposes of them smoothly and efficiently. The purpose is to provide

Embodiments of the continuous form processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is an overall schematic diagram showing a continuous form processing apparatus of the present invention, which continuously produces booklets of a desired number of pages from continuous forms. This continuous form processing device is installed on a floor surface 10, and includes a center slitter section B having a paper feed section A, a burster section C, and a stacking section D.
The collator section E having the same structure and the stacker section F are coupled together in a separable manner. For this reason, the continuous form processing device has units B, C,
By selectively combining E and F, it can also be used as a device with other functions.

The paper feed section A stores continuous forms 11, for example, for tax payment notices or coupon books. Figure 2 shows, as an example, 6
The case of producing a single-sheet tax payment notice (Figure 3) will be explained.

The continuous form shown in Figure 2 has slit lines 14 on both sides.
A marginal zone 15 is formed with the boundary between.
A large number of marginal punch holes 16 are formed in the marginal zone 15 at predetermined intervals in the longitudinal direction.
This allows the continuous form 11 to be smoothly guided in the longitudinal direction.

The continuous form 11 has bursting perforations 17 cut in the width direction. The bursting perforations 17 are formed at regular intervals in the longitudinal direction, while a central slit line 18 is formed in the center of the continuous form 11 in the longitudinal direction.

Each sheet of paper necessary for a tax notice is divided by each bursting perforation 17, 17 and slitting line 18. In the continuous form shown in Figure 2, each tax notice form is placed at the burster perforation 1.
It is connected in the longitudinal direction with 7 as the border, and 1
For example, the form for a tax notice is 6 sheets of paper a.
~f. Among these, unit form a is a unit form in which address, name, information column, etc. are written, and a tax notice column and an explanation column for payment method are formed on the back side as necessary. The unit form b is a unit form for all payments, and is divided into, for example, a notification column for all payments and a receipt column, with the fold perforation 20 as the border, in which necessary information (matters) are written and entered. It is becoming more and more common.
Unit forms c to f are for each paper from the first period to the fourth period, and each of these sheets also has a fold perforation of 20,
It is divided into a notification column and a receipt column with 20 as the border,
The necessary information is now filled in.

By the way, the paper feed section A, as shown in FIG.
It is formed on the mounting table 23 of the interstacker 22. A moving caster 24 is attached to the lower surface of the mounting table 23, and an engaging metal fitting 25 is provided at the rear end thereof, and is configured to detachably engage with the unit of the burster section C.

The mounting table 23 is provided with a pillar 27 that supports the slitter device 26. However, paper feed section A
Continuous forms 11 are stacked in a folded state, and as shown in FIGS. 1, 4, and 5, these continuous forms 11 are guided by a guide plate 28, It is sent to the pin tractor 29.
The marginal punch hole 16 of the continuous form 11 engages with this first pin tractor 29, and the continuous form 11 is then sent to the slitter section B. A set of slitter devices 26 is arranged in this slitter section. This slitter device 26 has a rotatably mounted disk-shaped slitter 30, which cuts the continuous form 11 in the longitudinal direction along the central slitter line 18 to form the first and second continuous forms 11A,
11B is formed. One of the cut continuous forms 11B is guided by a guide plate 32. The guide plate 32 has a diagonally cut guide end at the rear thereof, and the two rows of bicontinuous forms 11A and 11B are guided so as to overlap smoothly and smoothly.

The two rows of continuous forms 11A and 11B cut along the central slitter line are guided to a second pin tractor 36 via a guide plate 35, and collated by the second pin tractor 36 to form a pair of slitter devices 3.
Sent to 7. The slitter device 37 cuts along the slitter lines 14 formed on the sides of the continuous foams 11A and 11B to separate the marginal zone 15. In this case, the pair of slitter device 37 and second pin tractor 36 are supported so as to be movable and adjustable in the width direction of the continuous forms 11A and 11B, and the continuous forms 1 of various width sizes are supported.
Can be applied to 1A and 11B. The elongated strip of paper in the marginal zone 15 that has been removed is appropriately shredded by a margin burster device 38, which will be described later.

On the other hand, the marginal zone 1 is
The continuous forms 11A and 11B from which 5 has been removed are sent to the main burster device 40. This main burster device 40 has two sets of low-speed rollers 41 and 42 on the inlet side and one set of high-speed rollers 43 on the outlet side, respectively, at appropriate intervals in the running direction of the continuous foams 11A and 11B. A burster 44 is provided in between. Among these, the high speed roller 43 is
The burster section C is supported by pinion rack mechanisms 46 provided on both sides of the unit so as to be movable and adjustable in the running direction of the continuous form. As a result, continuous forms 11A, 1 of various top and bottom sizes are produced.
1B.

Thus, the tips of the continuous forms 11A and 11B are sent to the main burster device 40 and are transferred to the high speed roller 43.
When the rollers 41,
The difference in rotational speed between 42 and high speed roller 43 applies tension to continuous forms 11A, 11B. In this tensioned state, the burster 44 is pressed against the burster 44, and the burster 44 presses the burster 44 to form the burster 44.
The continuous forms 11A and 11B are cut along the line 7 to form unit forms (sheets) a to f.

The unit forms cut by the burster device 40 are guided by a first conveying device 48 in a stacked state of two sheets at a time. This first conveying device 48 is incorporated on the inlet side of the unit of the collator section E, while the first conveying device 48 is
The conveyance device 48 has a pair of conveyor belts 49A and 49B arranged vertically and oppositely. One of the conveyor belts 49A, 49B is driven clockwise and the other is driven counterclockwise, and conveys the cut unit form while holding it between them. Each conveyor belt 49A, 49
The tension of B is adjusted and controlled by coil springs 50A and 50B.

Also, the unit of the collator section E is the burster section C.
It is detachably connected to the unit of the burster section C, and furthermore, a drive device 51 is provided in the unit of the burster section C.
(Fig. 1) is incorporated. This drive device 5
1, the first and second pin tractors 29, 36, the slitter device 26,
37, the burster device 40, the sorting device 53 in the collator section E, and the second conveying device 54 are each driven synchronously.

The sorting device 53 is provided behind the conveyance path of the first conveyance device 48 and above the entrance of the second conveyance device 54 . The sorting device 53 has a pair of helical spiral blades 55A and 55B provided on both sides of the conveyance path. Above spiral blade 5
A presser guide roller 56 is provided on the conveyance path located between 5A and 55B. This presser guide roller 56 is rotatably attached to the free end of an arm 58 extending rearward from a support shaft 57.
This support shaft 57 is attached so as to be parallel to the rear roller shaft 59 of the conveyor belt 49A. The roller of the rear roller shaft 59 and the presser roller 56
A guide belt 60 is wound between the guide belt 60 and the guide belt 60, which presses and guides the unit form to be transferred on the conveyance path from above.

A stopper 63 is attached to the rear of the presser guide roller 56. This stopper 63 is supported so as to be movable and adjustable in the longitudinal direction of the conveyance path, and engages with the front end of the unit form sent along the conveyance path to hold the unit form on the spiral blades 55A, 55B. The spiral blades 55A, 55B are connected to a power source via an intermittent rotation mechanism (not shown) or the like, and are rotated in opposite directions, while the spiral blades 55A, 55B are terminated with two turns, for example. .

When a predetermined number of unit forms are stacked on the spiral blades 55A and 55B, the spiral blades are intermittently rotated, and the unit form is transferred to the second
Conveyor belt (or chain) 6 of conveyor device 54
He was forced to fall on top of 5. In this way, the unit forms a~
f is sent along the conveyor belt 65 by the rotation of the roller 66. At this time, the rear end of each unit form a to f is received by the claw member 67, while each unit form a to f is aligned in the vertical direction and width direction by the alignment device 68 and the alignment device 69. . The aligned unit forms a to f are stitched on one side by a known stitching (paper binding) device 70 called a stitcher to form a booklet.

The booklet with one side stapled by the stapler 70 is then sent to a low-speed conveyor belt 73 of the stacker section F. The booklets sent onto this low-speed conveyor belt 73 are received by a receiving member 74 provided at the rear and are successively held in an aligned state.

The margin burster device 38 is provided below another burster device 40, and the margin burster device 38 shreds the strip-shaped paper sheets in the marginal zone 15 into chips.
It is made to fall inside and is contained. This box 75 is housed in the lower part of the margin burster device 38 so that it can be pulled out.

The margin burster device 38 is provided with a pair of low-speed rotating rollers 76 facing each other on the inlet side and a pair of high-speed rotating rollers 77 facing each other on the exit side.
Thus, the strip of paper in the marginal zone 15 cut by the slitter device 37 is guided to the margin burster device 38, supplied between each pair of rotating rollers 76, 77, and elasticized between each pair of rotating rollers 76, 77. be held in place. In this way, the marginal zone 1 sent to the margin burster device 38
When the leading edge of the paper strip No. 5 reaches the high-speed rotating roller 77 and is pinched, a tensile force is applied to the paper strip due to the difference in the amount of rotation between the high-speed rotating roller 77 and the low-speed rotating roller 76, causing bursting. It is cut along the perforations 17 and the like. The cut chips are discharged from the high speed rotating roller 77 into a processing box 75 and stored therein. In this case, since the paper sheets in the marginal zone stored in the processing box 75 are shredded into chips, they are not bulky and a large amount of paper sheets in the marginal zone can be processed smoothly. can.

In addition, in the bursting device for strip-shaped paper sheets in the marginal zone shown in one embodiment, only a device equipped with a low-speed rotation roller and a high-speed rotation roller has been described. The 6th
As shown in the figure, a margin burster device 84 may be incorporated in which a burster 82 having a cutter blade is provided between a pair of low-speed rotating rollers 80 and high-speed rotating rollers 81, respectively. In this case, the burster 82 can move forward and backward toward the sheet of paper 85, and the high-speed rotating roller 81 is adjusted to be movable in the direction of travel of the sheet of paper.

Furthermore, in the description of one embodiment of this invention,
Although the case where a six-page booklet is manufactured from a continuous form has been described, the present invention can be applied to an apparatus that manufactures unit forms such as all kinds of booklets and postcards. That is, the present invention can be applied to any continuous form processing apparatus as long as it separates a continuous band-shaped marginal zone from a continuous form.

As described above, in the continuous form processing apparatus according to the present invention, the strip of paper in the marginal zone that is separated from the continuous form is shredded into chips by the margin burster device, so that the marginal zone part that is discarded is The paper sheet processing can be carried out smoothly and smoothly.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an overall schematic diagram showing an embodiment of a continuous form processing device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a six-page continuous form for tax notices, and FIG. 3 is similar to FIG. 4. FIGS. 4 and 5 are a plan view and a side sectional view of the continuous form processing apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a booklet manufactured from the continuous form shown in FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a modification of the marginal zone section burster device incorporated in the continuous form processing device of . A... Paper feed section, B... Center slitter section, C... Burster section, D... Binding section, E... Collator section, F... Stacker section, 11... Continuous form, a to f... Unit form,
11A, 11B...continuous form, 12...booklet,
26, 37... Slitter device, 38, 84... Margin burster device, 40... Burster device, 48, 5
4... Conveying device, 68... Aligning device, 65... Butting device, 74... Receiving member, 75... Processing box,
76, 80...Low speed rotating roller, 77,81...High speed rotating roller.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a continuous form processing device that separates the marginal zone from the continuous form and then cuts the continuous form along the bursting perforations to form unit forms, A margin burster device which shreds the strip of paper in the marginal zone into chips and is made up of a combination of a low-speed rotating roller and a high-speed rotating roller in sequence is incorporated, and a processing box is provided below the margin burster device. A continuous form processing device characterized by: