JPS6233078B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention is a printing machine for printing on price tags, etc., and is particularly suitable for printing on continuous bills.

[Prior art]

Conventionally, printing machines for price tags and the like have been configured to print by feeding each bill one by one into a character wheel set at a fixed position, so it takes time to feed the bills, and this can be quite time consuming when printing in multiple stages. It took a long time. Furthermore, when printing on a bill having a binding thread, there is a risk that the thread may move to the printing surface, resulting in incomplete printing.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

A printing machine that can print on a series of continuous bills at high speed, can easily print on multiple stages, and can process the threads so that they do not interfere with printing even if the continuous bills have a binding function. The purpose is to provide.

[Means to solve the problem]

A configuration in which a printing unit moves laterally to print on a series of consecutive bills, a configuration in which a stand on which consecutive bills are placed can be moved back and forth with respect to a predetermined path of the printing unit that moves in the horizontal direction, and a continuous A structure is provided for storing the bill binding thread for each bill and retracting it from the printing area.

〔Example〕

The illustrated embodiment will be described below. In this embodiment, a serial printer used as a computer terminal is modified, and 1 is a printing section of such a printer. 2 is its feed rod, and 3 is its rail.

4 is a platen stand which extends in the lateral direction in response to the movement of the printing unit 1 and is fixed to the substrate 5.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a front side plate, and 7 denotes a rear side plate, which are arranged in parallel in front and behind the platen table 4 as shown in FIG. The rear side plate 7 is fixed to the rear edge of the movable plate 8, and the front side plate 6 has a double wall as shown in the figure with a groove 9 between the walls, and can be adjusted to move in parallel on the movable plate 8. . The moving plate 8 also has fitting pieces 10, 10 on the back surface,
It can be moved in parallel on the substrate 5 by means of a guide rod 11 penetrating through it. That is, the front and rear side plates 6, 7
The movable plate 8 constitutes a bill guide 12, and this bill guide is movable as a whole with respect to the substrate 5, in other words, with respect to the platen stand 4. Note that 13 is a locking tool (cam type) for allowing the front plate 6 to be moved and fixed in position, and 14 is a handle for moving the bill guide 12. The handle 14 is a screw shaft 1
5 to move the bill guide 12 back and forth with respect to the platen stand 4.

16 is a sensor for detecting the bill feed hole, 17 is a blower disposed on the bill feed opening side, and 18 is a feed roller. The bill feeder side is shown in Figure 3.

The continuous bills used are as shown in Figure 4, and are folded and stacked in units of several. Each unit tag is connected by a temporary cutting line and is provided with a binding thread 19, a border portion, and two feed holes 20.

[Effect]

Next, we will discuss the operation. First, the distance between the front and rear side plates 6 and 7 of the bill guide 12 is adjusted by loosening the locking tool 13 so as to match the width of the consecutive bills to be used (vertical direction for unit bills). Next, rotate the handle 14 to move the entire bill guide 12 onto the platen stand 4.
Adjust it forward and backward so that the print is at the desired location (column) on the bill. In such an adjustment, it is convenient to provide a scale device so that the amount of movement of the front plate 6 or the moving plate 10 can be visually checked.

The drive unit (not shown) of the printing unit 1 stores the content to be printed in advance, and when a command is received, the printing unit 1 prints this information, just as it does as a computer terminal. It is.

Therefore, when the machine is operated and consecutive bills are inserted through the feed slot as shown in FIG.
Send it out along 7. At this time, the blower 17 blows each binding thread 19 toward the front plate 6, so that the thread 19 fits into the groove 9 of the front plate 6. The binding thread 19 on the unit tag when printing is arranged as shown in FIG. 5, and does not interfere with the printing operation.

Now, the continuous bills are fed in this way, and when the leading edge of the bills reaches the bill perforation detection sensor 16, the feed roller 18 stops. Once the roller has stopped, it moves back slightly, ie, by the width of the feed hole 20, by means of an internal elastic mechanism or the like to correct the stopping position of the consecutive bills. This is because the sensor 16 detects the rear end side of the feed hole 20 (the right side in the figure). This feed hole width reversing device may be a one-frame feed system using a ratchet mechanism 21 as shown in FIG. 6, or a system using a protruding cam 22 as shown in FIG. 7, but is not limited to these.

Once the position of the consecutive bills is determined in this way, the printing unit 1 starts printing. Printing is performed one row at a time from right to left in FIG. At this time, the printing contents on each unit tag whose operation of the printing section cannot be controlled by a computer are freely set. In addition, when printing in several stages is required, the contents can be made different on the upper and lower sides, or it is free to not print at all. Therefore, even if the unit bills have different printed contents, they can be completed as a continuous bill all at once.

[Effects] A series of consecutive bills can be printed all at once, making the printing process quick. Furthermore, if the printing unit incorporates the printing mechanism of a serial printer, such as that used in computer terminals, various types of printing on continuous bills can be performed extremely easily.

Since the bill guide can be moved back and forth with respect to the platen stand, multi-stage printing can be easily and quickly performed by changing the positional relationship between the two.

The issue of the bill binding thread interfering with printing has been solved by disposing of the bill binding thread using a blower and a groove in the front plate, and by moving the printing part instead of continuous bills.

It has the following characteristics.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a perspective view, Figure 2 is a sectional view (Figure 1A-
A line), FIG. 3 is a perspective view of essential parts, FIG. 4 is a plan view, FIG. 5 is an omitted cross-sectional view, FIG. 6 is a front view, and FIG. 7 is a perspective view. 1: Printing section, 4: Platen stand, 6: Front plate,
7: rear side plate, 9: groove, 12: bill guide, 17: blower, 18: feed roller, 19: binding thread.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A platen stand extending laterally is fixed to the machine frame,
A bill guide having front and rear side plates which are arranged parallel to each other in the front and back of the platen table and whose front and back spacing can be adjusted is provided so as to be able to move back and forth as a whole and fix its position, and is provided above the platen table. A printing machine for printing continuous bills, characterized by being equipped with a printing section that moves laterally to perform printing, and a feed roller that supplies a series of consecutive bills to a platen stand and stops them. 2 Fix the platen stand extending horizontally to the machine frame,
A bill guide having front and rear side plates which are arranged parallel to each other in the front and back of the platen table and whose front and back spacing can be adjusted is provided so as to be able to move back and forth as a whole and fix its position, and is provided above the platen table. It is equipped with a printing section that moves laterally to print, and a feed roller that supplies a series of consecutive bills to the platen stand and stops them. A printing machine characterized in that the groove is used as a storage section for thread for binding bills. 3. The printing machine according to claim 2, characterized in that the bill feed entrance is provided with an air blowing section for feeding the bill binding thread into the storage section of the front plate.