JPH0774575B2 - Fabric slat manufacturing equipment - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

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[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing cloth slats for horizontal blinds.

[0003]

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[0004]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, in a horizontal blind, a large number of slats made of narrow thin plate materials are rotatably and vertically arranged for adjusting a light shielding state by a ladder cord hanging from a head box. It is provided so that it can be hung while keeping the space between them, and can be operated from the state where the slats are folded up by the lifting cord to the state where they are lowered to cover the entire surface of the window. The width is about 30 mm, and the length is about 1 m or more, and it is formed of a thin and thin plate material made of aluminum, for example, and penetrates at least at two positions separated in the longitudinal direction in order to assemble the lifting cord. It has a structure with a hole.

[0005]

Blinds have been used as window dimmers for offices for a long time, but recently, the character as an interior is also emphasized, and the demand is gradually increasing at the personal and home level. In response to this trend, various types of color slats have been proposed, and blinds that cover the slats with a cloth bag to provide a warm new texture and a novel decorative effect have also been proposed (Jitsuko Sho 52). -56001, No. 62-2129
No. 8).

[0006]

By the way, the slat covered with the cloth bag needs to be made into a bag and the plate material should be put therein, as compared with a slat made of a normal aluminum plate material. There is a problem that the manufacturing work is troublesome and burdensome and cannot be mass-produced, so that it is difficult to widely spread in terms of cost and productivity.

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[0008]

Therefore, the present inventor has conducted extensive studies for the purpose of developing a manufacturing apparatus suitable for mass-producing slat covered with a cloth bag, and has made it easy to use a simple apparatus. The present invention has completed the device of the present invention which enables the production of slats with high productivity.

[0009]

The present invention not only brings about a new texture of the slats and a novel decorative effect by loosely enclosing the metal slat main body with a cloth bag, but also creates an air layer in the gap between the bag and the metal plate. It is an object of the present invention to provide a manufacturing apparatus suitable for manufacturing a slat having a structure devised so that the temperature on both sides of the blind can be buffered.

[0010]

Furthermore, the present invention provides a manufacturing apparatus suitable for manufacturing a slat having a structure devised so as to solve the problem that the slat and the bag are misaligned during use if the metal slat body is loosely encapsulated. The purpose is to provide.

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Means and Actions for Solving the Problems The present inventor has made a three-layer superposition in which slatted main bodies made of long and slender plates are juxtaposed between a front cloth and a back cloth with a certain distance in the width direction. A support means for supporting the body, a slitter for cutting the front cloth and the back cloth with an adhesive margin of a predetermined width left on the outer side edge of each slat body, and an adhesive means for adhering the adhesive margin portions of the front cloth and the back cloth. The above object was achieved by completing a device for manufacturing a cloth slat, which is characterized by including:

[0013]

According to the manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, a large number of cloth slats can be manufactured at one time by processing a large number of slat bodies arranged side by side between wide cloths and back cloths. There is.

[0014]

The simplest of the slat manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is to put a slat body, a front cloth and a back cloth, which are stacked in three layers, on a support table and to have a slitter roll having a circumferential blade. It can be realized by a method in which the welding roll and the welding roll are rotationally moved with respect to the three-layer superposed body.

[0015]

As a preferred configuration of the manufacturing apparatus of the present invention,
The supporting means also has a function of conveying the superposed body to a slitter roll rotating at a fixed position, and further, a side cloth and a back cloth are provided on the sides of the circumferential blade of the slitter roll. An example is one in which a welding roll for integrally heat-bonding the adhesive margin portion is provided.

[0016]

[0012] In order to prevent the slat body and the bag from being displaced during use, an adhesive means for adhering the back surface of the slat body and the back cloth, for example, a pair of top and bottom that presses the three-layer stack from above and below. A manufacturing apparatus provided with means such as a roll is also exemplified as being particularly preferable.

[0017]

Still further, a first feeding means for causing a large number of slender elongated plate-made slat bodies to run side by side in the lengthwise direction with a constant length-wise spacing, and a large number of slatted body bodies that are run in parallel. The second feeding means for feeding the back cloth so as to be in contact with the lower surface of the sheet, the third feeding means for feeding the front cloth so as to be in contact with the upper surfaces of the entire slat bodies which are arranged in parallel, and these feeding means. A slitter roll that cuts the front cloth and the back cloth with a margin of adhesion on the outside of the side edge of the slat main body, which is provided in the conveyance path where the slat main body, the front cloth and the back cloth are sent in a stacked state. A device for manufacturing a cloth slat equipped with a means and an adhering means for adhering the adhesive margin portions of the front cloth and the back cloth has a high feed speed of the front cloth as compared with the feed speeds of the first and second feeding means. By setting, slack in the longitudinal direction on the table cloth It exemplified as particularly preferable in the production of slats that give.

[0018]

The manufacturing apparatus of the present invention employs, for example, a pleat that covers the surface of the slat main body and has pleats along the lengthwise direction or random surface unevenness, so that a slat having an air layer on the surface side can be easily formed. It can be manufactured.

[0019]

When a slat is manufactured using the manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, the material of the front cloth and the back cloth applicable to the slat is not particularly limited, and any of natural fiber, regenerated fiber, synthetic fiber woven cloth and non-woven cloth can be used. The outer cloth may be pleated or may be pre-processed so as to have random irregularities such as a staggered pattern. Of course, it is also preferable to use a cloth having an appropriate print pattern.

[0020]

The back cloth may be adhered by adhering the back cloth to the back surface of the slat body and then covering the back cloth with the front cloth and the width edge of the back cloth. It is sufficient that the backing cloth is adhered to the slat body as long as the backing cloth is not displaced with respect to the slat body. Alternatively, it is of course possible to adopt a form of adhering in a strip shape in the longitudinal direction or another form. The front cloth, the back cloth, and the slat body may be adhered to each other by heat fusion or by using an adhesive, depending on the nature of the cloth itself. Not something.

[0021]

The slat body is not particularly limited, but a conventional thin aluminum plate (100 to 150 microns) can be used as it is.

[0022]

The manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, by having the above-described structure, can easily mass-produce the cloth slats in which the slats are wrapped in the cloth bag, and in particular, the surface covering the slats can be covered. In the cloth, a hollow air layer that acts as a buffer air layer is formed, and when there is a difference in temperature between the inside and outside of the cloth, the cloth slats have an unprecedented excellent function of providing heat insulation and heat insulation effects, A slat in which the back cloth is adhered to the slat body and the cloth is not displaced can be easily manufactured.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below based on the embodiments shown in the drawings.

[0025]

FIG. 6 illustrates a general structure of a blind to which the cloth slats 32 manufactured by the apparatus of the present invention are applied. In this figure, 20 is a head box, and a window is provided by a bracket (not shown). It is attached to a curtain rail (not shown) provided along the upper frame. An elevating cord 22 is provided along the lengthwise direction, and a tilt shaft 21 to which a tilt drum 25 around which the upper end of a ladder cord 24 is wound is attached is also provided inside. The lifting cord 22 is extended to the outside from a stopper portion 27 provided near the end of the head box 20 and is connected to an auxiliary cord 28 via a cord stopper 26. Reference numeral 29 is a rotary operation rod extended to the outside from the tilter 30 near the end of the head box 20.

[0026]

Reference numeral 31 is a bottom rail assembled to the lower end of the elevating cord 22, and a large number of cloth slats 32 are supported between the bottom rail 31 and the head box 20 by a ladder cord 24 with a constant vertical spacing. .

[0027]

FIGS. 4 and 5 show an outline of an example of a cloth slat manufactured by the device of the present invention. A slats main body 1 made of an aluminum plate and a back surface of the slats main body 1 are provided. It comprises a back cloth 3 that covers and has an adhesion margin 3a that slightly projects from the width direction, and a front cloth 4 that covers the surface of the slat body and has an adhesion margin 4a similar to the back cloth. Since the back cloth 3 is adhered by the adhesion margins 3a and 4a, the cloth bag 2 is formed as a whole. In the cloth slats in this example, the front cloth 4 and the back cloth 3 have a space 5 with respect to the slat body, but the invention is not particularly limited to this. In order to provide such a space 5, a material such as pleats that has been previously processed on the surface cloth 4 may be appropriately used. It is also preferable that the back cloth 3 be adhered to the back surface of the slat body with an adhesive or the like.

[0028]

Embodiment 1 FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 show a portion in which a slitter roll 6 which is a characteristic portion of an example of the manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is arranged.
The slitter roll 6 of the present example is mounted on a rotary shaft 9 fixed in position in a large number at a fixed interval in the axial direction. Of course, it is also preferable to adjust the position of the rotary shaft 9.

[0029]

Further, the slitter roll 6 of this embodiment has a circumferential blade 7 in the central portion in the width direction, and the welding rolls 8 having a slightly smaller diameter are integrated on both sides of the circumferential blade 7. . The welding roll 8 is for pressing (or heating) the bonding margins 3a, 4a of the front cloth 4 and the back cloth 3 to bond the overlapping bonding margins 3a, 4a. 15 is a mount.

[0030]

With respect to the cutting / bonding portion on the frame 15 on which the slitter roll 6 having such a structure is arranged,
At the slitter roll 6, a slat body 1 made of a slender long plate was placed in parallel with the front cloth 4 and the back cloth 3 with a certain width in the width direction. The position is adjusted so that the intermittent portion passes, and the paper is passed through. At this time, the slitter roll 6 rotates and the cover cloth 4
And the back cloth 3 is cut in the longitudinal direction. Reference numeral 16 in the drawing indicates the cutting line (slit). At this time, the welding roll 8 simultaneously press-bonds the adhesive margins 3a and 4a to the gantry 15, whereby the adhesive margin portion becomes a welded portion, and a large number of cloth slats shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 are simultaneously formed. Manufactured.

[0031]

Incidentally, in order to convey the above-mentioned three-layer superposed body, it is needless to say that an operator may manually operate the superposed body, and the tip of the slat main body portion of this superposed body is sandwiched by a clip and moved forward. A pulling device may be used, or a pedestal having a conveyor type may be used. When a long cloth or slat material wound in a roll shape is used as a raw material, a large number of slats made of slender long plates are run in parallel in the longitudinal direction with a constant widthwise interval, for example, a roll. A first feeding means such as a feeder and a second feeding means such as a roll feeder which feeds a backing cloth so as to be in contact with the entire lower surface of the slat main bodies which are run in parallel, and a large number of running in parallel. It is also possible to provide a third feeding means such as a similar roll feeder for feeding the surface cloth so as to be in contact with the entire upper surface of the slat main body, and thereby manufacture continuous cloth slats. In this case, fine wrinkles can be added to the outer cloth by slightly increasing only the feeding speed of the outer cloth.

[0032]

Further, in this example, the apparatus in which the three-layer stacked body is conveyed and passed through the slitter rolls at the fixed position has been described, but the three-layer stacked body is placed on the mount, It is also possible to use a device in which the shaft 9 on which a large number of slitter rolls 6 are mounted is moved in the longitudinal direction while rotating the shaft 9 thereon. According to such a shaft moving type apparatus, it is possible to prepare a large number of fixed-size three-layer superposed bodies at different positions, transfer them onto a pedestal, and perform only cutting.

[0033]

In the method of conveying the above-mentioned three-layer superposed body, temporarily fixing the slat main body to the front cloth and the back cloth by using an adhesive or the like also facilitates the work and surely works. Is preferred.

[0034]

When using the above manufacturing apparatus,
If you use pleated or uneven fabric for the front and back fabric, not only the warmth of the fabric but also the decorative effect of the uneven fabric and the buffer space where the internal space is the temperature A slat that can also be expected to have a temperature-shielding effect by functioning as a can be easily manufactured.

[0035]

It is also possible to adhere them by providing an adhesive layer between the back surface of the slat body and the back cloth. In this case, since the slat body is preferably slightly curved in the width direction, the upper and lower rolls 14 and 13 having the curved peripheral surfaces as shown in FIG. An example is a case where bonding is performed by passing pressure (or heating) through a pair of pressure roll devices. The back surface of the slat body and the back cloth may be adhered to each other in the state of the above-mentioned three-layer superposed body or after cutting. Furthermore, the slat body may be adhered to the back cloth before the front cloth is overlaid. You may provide the process of making it adhere to.

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[0037]

According to the manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, there is an effect that a large number of cloth slats can be easily mass-produced by a simple apparatus in which, for example, a welding roll and a slitter roll are integrated. By enabling mass production, the cost of the cloth slats can be reduced, and blind slats can be quickly and inexpensively supplied according to a wide range of demands.

[0038]

Further, since the manufacturing apparatus is simple as described above, the equipment cost is low, and the manufacturing work is performed by using the cover cloth,
Since it is only necessary to stack the backing cloth and slat body on top of each other and convey them to slitter rolls, etc., it is simple and suitable for automation, so the number of workers is small and industrial production can be streamlined. There is also the effect.

[0039]

Furthermore, the metal slat body is loosely wrapped in a cloth bag to provide a new texture and a novel decorative effect, and an air layer is created in the gap between the bag and the metal plate to cushion the temperature on both sides of the blind. A slat having a structure devised so that it can be easily produced can be easily produced by the production apparatus of the present invention.

[0040]

Furthermore, the production of the slat, which solves the problem that the slat and the bag are displaced during use by adhering the slat body and the back cloth, can be easily produced by the production apparatus of the present invention.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a configuration outline of a characteristic part of an example of a manufacturing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a view of the characteristic configuration of FIG. 1 as seen from the side of the slat in the feed direction.

FIG. 3 is a view showing a pressure roll device for adhering the back cloth of the slat body to the back cloth.

FIG. 4 is a view showing a partial cross section of a cloth slat manufactured by the device of the present invention.

5 is a cross-sectional view of the cloth slat of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a schematic perspective view for explaining the overall configuration of a horizontal blind to which a cloth slat manufactured by the manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is applied.

[Explanation of sign]

1 ... ・ Slat body, 2 ... bag, 3 ... backing fabric, 4 ... front fabric, 5 ... space, 6 ... slitter roll, 7 ...・ Circular blade, 8 ... Welding roll, 9 ... Shaft, 10 ... Cutting slit line, 11 ... Welding part, 12 ... Adhesive roll device, 13 ...・ ・ ・ Lower roll, 14 ・ ・ ・ ・ Upper roll 15 ・ ・ ・ Mounting base, 16 ・ ・ ・ ・ Cutting line

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A slat body made of a slender long plate is arranged in parallel between a front cloth and a back cloth with a constant width-direction interval.
A support means for supporting the layered body, a slitter for cutting the front cloth and the back cloth leaving a margin for adhesion on the outer side edge of each slat body, and an adhesive margin portion for the front cloth and the back cloth. An apparatus for manufacturing a cloth slat, comprising: an adhering means for adhering. 2. The apparatus for manufacturing cloth slats according to claim 1, wherein the slitter for cutting the front cloth and the back cloth is a slitter roll having a circumferential blade. 3. The support according to claim 2, wherein the supporting means for supporting the three-layer superposed body also serves as a conveying means for conveying the superposed body to the slitter roll rotating at a fixed position. Fabric slat manufacturing equipment. 4. The welding roll according to claim 2, wherein the slitter roll is integrally provided on a side portion of the circumferential blade with a welding roll for heat-welding the adhesive margin portions of the front cloth and the back cloth. Equipment for manufacturing cloth slats. 5. The apparatus for manufacturing a cloth slat according to claim 1, further comprising an adhesive means for adhering the back cloth of the slat body to the back cloth. 6. The manufacturing method of a cloth slat according to claim 5, wherein the bonding means for bonding the back surface of the slat main body and the back cloth comprises a pair of upper and lower rolls for pressing the three-layer stack from above and below. apparatus. 7. A first plurality of slatted elongated slatted plate main bodies that run in parallel in the longitudinal direction at regular intervals in the width direction.
And the second feeding means for feeding the backing cloth so as to contact the lower surface of the whole slat body which is run in parallel, and the second feeding means which contacts the upper surface of the whole slat body which is run in parallel. The third feeding means for feeding the cloth and the feeding path for feeding the slat body, the front cloth and the back cloth in a superposed state by the feeding means are provided with an adhesive margin of a predetermined width on the outer side edge of the slat body. A device for manufacturing a cloth slat, comprising: a slitter for cutting the front cloth and the back cloth, and an adhering means for adhering an adhesive margin portion of the front cloth and the back cloth.