JPH0796348B2 - Booklet page turning method and device - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for turning pages of a booklet such as a passbook one by one in a desired direction.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when pages that make up a booklet such as a passbook are mechanically turned over, a page with a strong rigidity (for example, a hard paper like the cover page) is used to prevent multiple pages from being turned at once. , For pages with weak stiffness (for example, some soft paper such as medium paper), change the flipping position, or use a material with a high friction coefficient such as a rubber roller to finely control the pressing pressure of the folding member. I was doing it.

However, in order to prevent the plural sheets from being turned at once, adjusting the turning position of the booklet and the pressing pressure of the turning member is to determine the rigidity of the paper, the size and thickness of the booklet. , And other elements must be taken into account individually, and the control of the device and the mechanism itself became very complicated.

The present invention solves this problem.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a member that presses the spread side of the booklet against the table and turns over the booklet after feeding the booklet onto the table. Furthermore, after this member holds the spread side of the booklet strongly against the table surface,
A transport roller forcibly returning the booklet to the facing side is provided, whereby the booklet is deformed into a chevron between the strong pressure member and the transport roller. After that, the mountain-shaped booklet is pushed in from above the table, and except for the page held by the above-mentioned pressure-turning member, a member for pushing the booklet to the table surface until it becomes flat is provided, and the page to be turned by this After flipping and separating only the other from the others, flip through the pages.

Operation The present invention replaces the conventional means of changing the flipping position and the pressing pressure depending on the characteristics of the page to be flipped, and presses and holds the spread side of the booklet fed to the table from the upper surface to the table, and then the closing margin side. , The booklet is deformed into a chevron on the table, and then the chevron-shaped booklet is pressed from above to the table so that the page to be flipped is separated from the other pages, and the page is thus separated. Only flip through easily.

Embodiment 1 FIGS. 1 to 12 are operation diagrams showing a first embodiment of the present invention. The device of the present invention comprises a pair of left and right units that operate in a generally similar manner. That is, each unit includes a pair of upper and lower conveying rollers 20, 21; 22, 23 and an upper conveying roller 2
It consists of page-turning rollers 24, 26 above 0, 22. The transport rollers 20, 21; 22 and 23 may each be composed of a single long roller, or may be a plurality of rollers having a narrow width and arranged at regular intervals. When the booklet 36 is in contact with each other and the booklet 36 is conveyed between the conveying rollers, the lower conveying rollers 21,
23 is elastically held so that it can descend to the same plane as the table surface 38. The rollers 20 to 23 are simultaneously driven by a known motor or the like. Similar to the transport rollers, the page turning rollers 24 and 26, each having a single long roller or multiple narrow rollers arranged at regular intervals, have a built-in one-way clutch that can rotate only in the directions of arrows 25 and 27, respectively. It is mounted on levers 32 and 34 that swing around the rotation center shafts 28 and 30.

Position sensors 40 are provided in the upper and lower parts of the table surface 38 in the vicinity of the left side transport rollers 20 and 21. In the figure, only the light emitting side is shown and the light receiving side is omitted.

As shown in FIG. 1, the booklet 36 inserted into the insertion portion between the left side transport rollers 20 and 21 rotating in the directions of arrows 42 and 43.
Moves to the right on the table surface 38 and is further advanced to the right by the right-hand side transport rollers 22 and 23 which are also rotating in the directions of arrows 44 and 45.

When the trailing edge of the booklet 36 passes between the left side transport rollers 20 and 21 and passes over the sensor 40, the sensor 40 operates to stop the rotation of the right side transport rollers 22 and 23 and stop the movement of the booklet 36.

Then, as shown in FIG. 2, the left page-turning roller
24 rotates clockwise around the lever rotation center axis 28 and contacts the table surface 38. Booklet 36 now stopped at this time
The rear end of the page turning roller 24 is controlled by the position sensor 40 so as to be on the right side about 3 to 4 mm from the ground contact point of the table surface. The page-turning roller 24 is formed of a material having a high friction coefficient such as rubber, and is arranged in a direction orthogonal to the booklet transport direction.

Then, as shown in FIG. 3, the conveying rollers 22 and 23 are rotated in the direction opposite to the arrows 44 and 45 while holding the booklet 36, and the booklet 36 is pushed back to the left by about 20 mm. The trailing edge of booklet 36 is 3-4m
m The booklet 36 bends upward as shown in the figure because it hits the page turning roller 24 on the left side and is pushed further to the left. This is a habitual action to make it easier to turn pages. The curling operation is particularly required for turning over a cover such as a new passbook.

Next, as shown in FIG. 4, the right side conveying rollers 22 and 23 are rotated in the directions of arrows 44 and 45 to convey the booklet 36 rightward by about 20 mm, and at the same time, the left page turning roller 24 is rotated leftward and raised. Return to the original position shown in FIG.

Next, as shown in FIG. 5, the right side transport rollers 22 and 23 are rotated in the direction opposite to the arrows 44 and 45 to transport the booklet 36 leftward by about 10 mm.

Then, as shown in Fig. 6, the left page turning roller
The 24 is again rotated clockwise to the table surface, and the rear end of the booklet 36 is pressed against the table surface 38 with a constant pressure. At this time, it is preferable that the left page turning roller 24 presses the rear end of the booklet 36 about 3 to 4 mm to the right.

Then, as shown in FIG.
While pressing the table surface 38 with
The booklet 36 is moved to the left by about 5 mm by rotating 23 in the direction opposite to the arrows 44 and 45 to bend the booklet 36 upward, and the rollers 22 and 23 are stopped at that position.

Then, as shown in Fig. 8, the right page turning roller
Rotate the lever 34 of 26 to the left around the rotation center axis 30,
With the roller 26, the upper surface of the booklet 36 that is now curved upwards is tapped rapidly. Therefore, the top page of the booklet 36 is curved in the state shown in FIG. 7 due to friction with the left page turning roller 24, but the second and subsequent pages are below the roller 24 due to the waist of the paper itself. It is knocked out to the left through. Here, the right-side page turning roller 26 is arranged in the direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the booklet 36 like the left-side page turning roller 24. These left and right rollers
24 and 26 are preferably solenoids for rotating central shafts 28,
Better drive around 30. This is because the operation of these rollers causes a collision action such as hitting the booklet surface or the like. The operation shown in FIG. 8 prevents plural pages from being turned.

Next, as shown in FIG. 9, the right side page turning roller 26
Rotate up and return to the original position. Now, the top page of the booklet 36 is curved between the left page turning roller 24 and the right conveying rollers 22 and 23. If the booklet 36 type, the coefficient of friction between each sheet, etc.
When this state cannot be obtained by the tapping operation once, the tapping operation shown in FIG. 8 can be performed again.

Then, as shown in Fig. 10, the left page-turning roller
While keeping the top page of the booklet 36 by 24, the left and right transport rollers 20, 21; 22, 23 are moved to the arrows 42, 43; 4 in FIG.
Rotate in the opposite direction of 4, 45 and return the booklet 36 to the left about 40 mm except the top page. For this reason, the top page is further separated from the second page of booklet 36.

After that, as shown in FIG. 11, the booklet 36 is further pushed back to the left, and at the same time, as shown in FIG. 12, the left page turning roller 24 is rotated up to the position shown in FIG. 1 to form a loop. Flip the top page you were doing upwards. The booklet 36 is ejected from the insertion portion in the state where one page is turned over by the operation of the left side conveyance rollers 20 and 21.

The above-mentioned FIGS. 1 to 12 are particularly suitable examples for turning over the cover of a booklet, but the page turning of the inside paper is also possible in exactly the same way.

Further, as will be apparent to those skilled in the art, by conveying the front end of the booklet to the turning position, the left and right turning rollers are rotated, and the booklet feeding direction at the time of turning is made to act in the opposite direction to the front cover and the middle paper turning. It is possible to turn the inside paper upside down in exactly the same way.

FIGS. 13 to 19 show a second embodiment of the present invention. The difference from the first embodiment is that a left-side page turning roller 24 shown in FIG. Since the hitting member is provided in the first embodiment, the operation is substantially the same as that of the first embodiment.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment will be described.

FIG. 13 is substantially the same as FIG. 5 of the first embodiment, and a booklet 58 such as a passbook inserted between the upper and lower transport rollers 50, 51 on the left side is formed by arrows 55, 57 and arrows 64, 65. The left side conveyance rollers 50 and 51 and the right side conveyance rollers 52 and 53 that rotate in the direction convey the sheet to the right. The booklet 58 is stopped at a predetermined position by detecting the rear end of the booklet 58 by the position sensor 62 and stopping the right side conveyance rollers 52, 53.

Next, as shown in FIG. 14, the page turning member 54 descends on the rear end of the booklet 58, and the booklet 58 is placed on the table surface 60.
Keep strong pressure against. The page turning member 54 is preferably formed of urethane rubber or the like having a high coefficient of friction, and may have a roller shape as in the first embodiment.

After that, as shown in FIG. 15, the right transport rollers 52, 53 rotate in the direction opposite to the arrows 64, 65 to move the booklet 58 to the left. Therefore, the booklet 58 is curved upward as in FIG.

Next, as shown in FIG. 16, the hitting member 56 that rotates about a fixed position 59 falls on the curved upper surface of the curved booklet 58 and hits the booklet 58. For this reason, the top page of the booklet 58 maintains the curved state due to the friction of the page turning member 54, but the second and subsequent pages extend flat on the table surface 60 due to the waist of the page itself. This prevents the turning of a plurality of pages.

Next, as shown in FIG. 17, the striking member 56 is lifted to the right around the rotation center 59. If the top page could not be properly separated from the others due to the quality of the paper used in the booklet, perform the operations in Figures 16 and 17 multiple times.

After that, as shown in FIG. 18, the left and right conveying rollers 50, 51;
Rotate in the direction opposite to 5, 57; 64, 65 to push out the booklet 58 to the insertion port side. This causes the top page of booklet 58 to have a larger curvature.

Then, as shown in FIG. 19, when the page-turning member 54 is raised, the booklet with the top page turned over
58 is pushed out from the insertion port.

The operation shown in FIGS. 13 to 19 shows the turning of the cover of the booklet, but the turning of the inner sheet can be achieved by the same procedure.

Also, the operation of the page turning member 54 and the tapping member 56 is the first.
It is preferable to use a solenoid as in the embodiment.

In the above embodiment, the distance between the left and right page turning rollers is set to be slightly shorter than the width dimension of the page of the booklet, and the left and right page turning rollers are positioned so that they can act simultaneously on the trailing edge and the leading edge of the booklet. Has been. Further, although the position sensor is described as detecting the rear end of the booklet, the position sensor may detect the front end depending on the booklet to be handled.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, it is possible to easily perform front cover turning and middle paper turning by the same mechanism without changing the page turning position and pressing pressure. Therefore, the control and mechanism of the device can be remarkably simplified as compared with the conventional one.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIGS. 1 to 12 and FIGS. 13 to 19 are respectively the first of the present invention.
The working example and the second working example are shown in the order of operation. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a stage in which a booklet is supplied, and FIG.
The left page-turning roller comes into contact with the table surface to prevent the trailing edge of the booklet from being pushed back at the time of work. The figure shows the completion of "pulling", Fig. 5 shows the rear end of the booklet positioned to start the page turning work, and Fig. 6 shows the rear end of the booklet positioned against the table surface. Figures 7 and 8 show the entire booklet curved, FIG. 8 shows the upper surface of the curved booklet pressed against the table surface by the right page turning roller, and FIG. 9 shows the right page turning roller released. , Fig. 10 shows the booklet moved to the left to increase the curvature of the top page, and Fig. 11 sends the booklet further to the left to completely separate the top page from the others. Figure, Figure 12 shows the top page turned over Figure 13 is similar view as FIG. 5, the
FIG. 14 is a view similar to FIG. 6, FIG. 15 is a view similar to FIG. 7,
16 is a view similar to FIG. 8, FIG. 17 is a view similar to FIG. 9, FIG. 18 is a view similar to FIG. 11, and FIG. 19 is a view similar to FIG. Explanation of symbols 20, 21, 22, 23: Conveying rollers, 24, 26: Page turning rollers, 25, 27: Arrows, 28, 30: Central rotation axis, 32, 34: Lever, 36: Booklet, 38: Table surface , 40: Position sensor 42, 43: Arrow, 44, 45: Arrow, 50, 51, 52, 53: Conveying roller, 54: Turning member, 56: Striking member, 55, 57: Arrow, 58: Booklet, 59: Center of rotation, 60: Table surface 62: Position sensor

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A method of turning over pages of a booklet on a table surface, wherein the rear end of the booklet is pressed from the upper surface to the table surface, and the front end of the booklet is pushed toward the rear end side to bend the entire booklet. Knocking the top of the curved booklet, flattening the other page against the table surface while keeping the top page of the booklet curved, curving the top page of the booklet and the remaining pages A page-turning method for a booklet, which comprises pushing out the booklet to the rear end side while flattening it, and releasing the force pressing the rear end of the booklet from the upper surface to the table surface. 2. The page turning method according to claim 1, wherein the booklet is subjected to a curling operation before the rear end of the booklet is pressed against the table surface from the upper surface. 3. A page turning device comprising a pair of upper and lower first conveying rollers 20, 21; 50, 51, and a distance from the first conveying rollers which is slightly shorter than a width dimension of a page of a booklet 36, 58. A pair of upper and lower second conveying rollers 22, 23; 52, 53, which are spaced apart from each other, position sensors 40 and 62 for detecting the position of the booklet, and the booklet between the upper and lower rollers of the first conveying roller and the second conveying roller. Table surfaces 38, 60 for guiding and pressing means 24, 54 for pressing the rear end of the booklet against the table surface.
Means for feeding the booklet to the rear end side in order to bend the entire booklet whose rear end is pressed against the table surface upwardly of the table surface,
A page-turning device for flipping pages of a booklet, which includes: 23; 52, 53; and separating means 26, 56 for tapping the upper surface of the curved booklet to separate the top page of the booklet from other pages. 4. The page-turning device according to claim 3, wherein the separating member is a tapping member.