JPH0797377B2 - Alphabet cursive writing and clipping device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial field of application) The present invention combines the letters of the alphabet cursive using a computer to spell words, and writes the spelled words on paper or cloth, or on paper or cloth. It relates to a device for cutting from.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, for example, when the cloth of the team name spelled in the cursive alphabet is attached to the chest part of the uniform used for baseball or the like, the company etc. who is requested to make the uniform Ask a pattern expert to make a spelling of the alphabet cursive team name, attach the finished team name on a piece of paper, and cut the cloth with scissors to leave the paper part. Things were being done.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In the above-described conventional method, it took a considerable number of days for the expert to create the spelling of the team name. Also, the uniform manufacturing company showed the spelling of the team name created to the client and asked if it could be used as it is or if it needed to be corrected. Therefore, it took many days to complete the team name. In addition, there is a problem that if correction is necessary, more days for correction are needed. Further, in order to cut off the formed team name from the cloth, the paper on which the team name is printed as described above is attached to the cloth, and the paper is cut with scissors according to the outer or inner line of the characters. There was a problem that it took a considerable amount of time to cut off the team name with the scissors.

In addition, it has been conventionally performed to record the cursive letters of the alphabet in a storage device one by one through a digitizer and a computer, and operate an XY plotter or the like through the computer so that the characters in the storage mechanism are printed on a paper surface or the like. Traditionally, writing was done. However, when writing a cursive alphabet using a conventional computer, 1
It was written individually for each character, and was not written as a word (spellet).

In view of the above, the present invention classifies cursive characters into prefixes, suffixes and suffixes, stores them in storage means, and extracts them from the storage means according to the characters of a desired alphabet cursive phrase and synthesizes them. However, the purpose is to print or cut out the cursive part of the alphabet cursive.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, in the first invention, the acronym data having a connecting portion at the rear portion, the word middle-character data having connecting portions at the front and rear, and the front portion. A storage unit for storing inflection data having a connecting portion, an input unit for inputting alphabetic writing cursive phrase data, and from each data of the storage unit based on the cursive phrase data input by the input unit. The gist of the present invention is to have a selecting means for selecting an initial word, a middle word and an ending word corresponding to the cursive phrase, and a printing means for printing cursive phrase data selected by the selecting means. . Further, the gist of the second invention is that the printing means in the configuration of the first invention is replaced with a cutting means for cutting the alphabet writing system clause data from the object to be cut.

(Operation) According to the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the initial character data having the connecting portion at the rear portion, the word middle character data having the connecting portions at the front and rear, and the ending character data having the connecting portion at the front portion are provided. The character data group divided into three types is stored in the storage means. Then, when the desired alphabetic writing style clause data is input by the input means, the selecting means selects character data corresponding to the writing style clause data from the acronym data, word middle-character data and suffix data. Then, the cursive phrase data selected by the printing means is printed. Further, in the second aspect of the invention, instead of printing, the alphabet writing system clause data selected by the cutting means is cut out from the cut object.

(Embodiment) Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, the letter a is the lowercase letter of the cursive alphabet.
Are shown in three patterns, a in FIG. 1 (a) belongs to the first pattern, a in FIG. 1 (b) belongs to the second pattern, and a in FIG. 1 (c) is the third pattern. Belongs to the pattern.

Then, a that belongs to the first pattern PI is the beginning of the spelling (word beginning)
In general, the outer line 1 is an outer contour line and the inner line 2 is an inner contour line as indicated by a (hereinafter referred to as PIa). The outer line 1 has two parallel curves whose rear end is inclined by about 45 degrees, and one rear end 1α thereof has a height of 1/2 of the height H of the outer line 1, The other rear end 1β is located right next to the rear end 1α. Further, the inner line 2 has a loop shape.

A belonging to the second pattern PII is in the middle of the spelling,
As in the case of a (hereinafter referred to as PIIa), the outer line 1 has rear ends 1α and 1β at the rear part thereof, like the PIa of the first pattern. This PIIa has a rear end 1 of the first pattern PIa on its front part.
There is a front end 1γ, 1δ for making it possible to connect with α, 1β, and one front end 1γ is at a position descending from the upper front part of a to a height of 1/2 of the height H with an inclination of about 45 degrees, The other front end 1δ is located right next to the front end 1γ. The inner line 2 is the same as the inner line of the first pattern PI.

The a belonging to the third pattern III comes at the end (word ending) of the spelling, and the outer line 1 has the front end 1γ, 1 of the second pattern PIIa as shown in a (hereinafter referred to as PIIIa).
It is the same as δ. This PIIIa is the second pattern P
The difference from IIa is that the rear end is closed to form a curve 1ε.

It should be noted that the alphabet that belongs to the first pattern PI is the second
The h and i shown in the figure have a closed curve 1ζ similar to the curve 1ε of the third pattern PIII in the front part thereof, and i has a closed curve 3
There is.

As shown in FIG. 3, the alphabetical letters a to z patterned into the three types of front, middle, and rear as described above are digitized with respect to a floppy disk, which is a conventionally known storage device. (Not shown) and a vector font via a computer.

A font pattern using a vector font describes the outline of a character with a straight line element or a curved line element having a direction. For example, FIG. 1 (a) illustrates a storage means for storing a letter "a" in the lower case as initial word data having a connection portion at the rear portion in a storage device. One point with the outer line 1 is defined as the starting point, and this is set as the coordinate P1. Then, in this embodiment, the coordinates P2 of the next point determined by the straight line element or the curve element are plotted in the direction indicated by the arrow. In this way, the coordinates of "a" are sequentially determined in the arrow direction to form the character outline. When the coordinates are sequentially determined from the starting point coordinate P1, the coordinate position of the rear end 1α is determined at Pn. Then, based on the position of this rear end 1α, the other rear end 1β
Is determined, and the coordinate of "a" is sequentially determined in the arrow direction up to the start point coordinate P1 with the coordinate position of the rear end 1β as a reference point. In this way, the coordinates of the required point of the outer line 1 are determined. Similarly for the inner line 2, the coordinates of the required point are determined.

FIG. 1 (B) illustrates a storage means for storing a lowercase letter “a” as word middle-character data, which is provided with connecting portions at front and rear parts, in a storage device. The outer line 1 of the word character data is divided into two. In this case the first starting point coordinate
P1 is 1γ, and the first end point coordinate Pn is the rear end 1α. Then, the second start point coordinate Q1 is set to 1β and the second end point coordinate Qn is set.
Is the rear end 1δ. The inner line 2 is the same as that shown in FIG.

FIG. 1 (c) illustrates a storage unit that has a connecting portion at the front and stores a lowercase letter "a" as suffix data in a storage device. In this case, it is similar to FIG.

The vector font data of the alphabet of PI, PII and PIII whose coordinates are set as described above is classified into three patterns and stored in the data floppy DF as a storage means. In this case, for example, PI data is recorded at addresses 0 to 499 of the data floppy DF index file, PII data is recorded at addresses 500 to 999, and PIII data is further recorded at addresses 1000 to 1499. It shall be.

In addition, the reason why the vector font is adopted in this embodiment is that
This is because it is easy to enlarge, reduce, and rotate the character to an arbitrary angle.

Next, writing a word by combining the above three patterns of letters will be described.

As a device used for writing this character, a microcomputer 5 as a recording means, a selection means, an input means shown in FIG.
It consists of an XY plotter 6 connected via.

The microcomputer 5 is a conventionally known one and has a display 8 and a keyboard 9 as an input means. The keyboard 9 is provided with keys 10 for alphabets and keys 11 for numbers. The XY plotter 6 is also a conventionally known one, and there is a horizontally long rectangular base plate 12 for attaching an adhesive sheet or paper that can be attached to a cloth. A pair of rails 13 and 13 are arranged in parallel at the lower part. A moving rod 14 that is guided and moved by the rails 13 is provided above the base plate 12. The moving rod 14 is provided with a holder 15 that moves along the rod 14,
A writing instrument 16 or a cutting tool 21 described later can be attached to this.

Here, a pulse motor 17 is attached to one rail 13 side, and this pulse motor 17 is actuated by a signal from the microcomputer 5, and a chain (not shown)
The moving rod 14 is moved via. Further, a pulse motor 18 is also attached to one end of the moving rod 14, and the pulse motor 18 is also operated by a signal from the microcomputer 5 to move the holder 15 via a chain (not shown). Has become.

In the above configuration, to write abe on the adhesive sheet 19 attached to the surface of the base plate 12 of the XY plotter 6 with a cursive alphabet, for example, abe, the moving rod 1 of the XY plotter 6
By moving 4 and holder 15, holder 15
The writing instrument 16 is moved to a desired position on the adhesive sheet 19.

Then, the microcomputer 5 into which the data floppy DF is inserted is operated to specify the size (enlargement / reduction) of the alphabet writing system and the inclination angle, and then the key 10 is pressed to input abe. By this input, calculation is performed in the microcomputer 5 according to the flowchart shown in FIG. That is, since a is the head address, the contents of the registered address (for example, 31) of a in addresses 0 to 499 in the index file are read, and this content (for example, record number 522) is read as a vector font. The file is read and the vector data is stocked in the memory of the microcomputer 5.

Similarly, since b is an intermediate address, the contents in addresses 500 to 999 of the index file are read,
Further, this content is read from the vector font file, and vector data is stocked in the memory of the microcomputer 5.

In addition, for the last e, the microcomputer 5
Stock vector data in the memory.

In this way, the data stored in the memory of the microcomputer 5 is first output to the XY plotter 6. This allows the XY plotter 6
The writing implement 16 goes from the point 4a in FIG. 5 in the direction of the arrow on the adhesive sheet 19, goes from the line 1 on the outward side to the line 1 on the outward side of b, and further goes on the line 1 on the outward side of e. Go to the last point and record. Then, when the writing instrument 16 reaches the point 20 of e, the direction changes to the backward side, advances on the line 1 of e in the opposite direction to the previous direction, and once reaches 4 of a, it stops once.

Then, the writing instrument 16 has an inner line 2 of a and two inner lines 2 of b,
The inner line 2 of 2 and e is written on the adhesive sheet 19, and the work is completed. Then, as described above, the adhesive sheet 19 on which the letters of the alphabet are written by the writing instrument 16
Is cut out with scissors or the like.

As shown in FIG. 6, a cutting tool 21 which is a cutting means used when cutting out the spelled letters of the alphabet cursive from the adhesive sheet 19 has a cylindrical tool holder 22.
A tool head 23 is arranged inside the. A recess 24 is formed at the center of the tip of the tool head 23, and a cutter 27 is rotatably supported by a pivot bearing 25 and a radial bearing 26 fitted in the recess 24. A first thrust shaft 29 and a second thrust shaft 30 are fixed at their one ends to the tool head 23 and a support body 28 fixed to the upper part of the tool head 23 inside the tool holder 22, The first thrust shaft 29 is slidable with respect to the bush 31 fitted in the support body 28, and the second thrust shaft 30 is slidable with respect to the bush 32 fitted in the tool head 23. It has become. Therefore, the tool head 23 does not rotate with respect to the tool holder 22 and can move upward and downward within a predetermined range.

A blade pressure setting spring 34 is provided in the hole 28a above the first bush 31 and between the first bush 31 and the blade pressure adjusting knob 33 provided on the support body 28. Then, by adjusting the amount of tightening of the blade pressure adjusting knob 33 with respect to the support body 28 and adjusting the force of pressing the first thrust shaft 29 of the blade pressure setting spring 34, the cutter 27 attached to the tool head 23 is adjusted.
It is designed to adjust the pushing force of.

This cutting tool 21 is attached to the XY plotter 6 instead of the writing tool 16, and at that time, the tool holder
The small diameter portion 22a at the lower portion of 22 is fixed to the holder 15 of the XY plotter 6 by means not shown. This cutting tool 21 is moved by the XY plotter 6 like the writing instrument 16, but at the time of the movement, in order to make the blade of the cutting edge 27a of the cutter 27 always perpendicular to the traveling direction of the holder 15, Magnets 34, 35, and 36 are fixed to the tips of the cutter 27 and the tool head 23, respectively.

Character part 19 of the adhesive sheet 19 cut out as described above
The a is attached to the uniform by appropriate means, that is, by sewing or pasting.

In the above embodiment, the inclination angle of the front end and the rear end of the outer line is set to about 45 degrees, but by changing this angle from 45 degrees, the space between the characters can be shortened or extended. In addition, the present embodiment may be freely modified and implemented without departing from the spirit thereof.

(Effect of the Invention) In the first invention, it is possible to freely extract and print an alphabet cursive phrase based on a character data group that is divided into three types: word initial data, word middle data, and word suffix data. Also, in the second invention, the alphabet cursive bunsetsu can be freely taken out and cut out, and the cutting out of the alphabet cursive bunsetsu from a cloth or the like can be performed easily and quickly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 shows the acronyms, middle and endings of the alphabetic writing system a, and FIG. 2 shows the acronyms h and i of the alphabetic writing system. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a microcomputer and an XY plotter, Fig. 4 is a chart showing a discrimination routine performed by the microcomputer, and Fig. 5 is written on paper or cloth with the XY plotter or from paper or cloth etc. FIG. 6 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the cutting tool showing the cut-out words. 5 ... storage means, input means, computer as selection means, 6 ... XY plotter as printing means, 9 ... keyboard as input means, 21 ... cutting tool as cutting means, DF ... data floppy as storage means.

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A storage means for storing word acronym data having a connecting portion at the rear portion, word middle character data having connecting portions at the front and rear, and inflection data having a connecting portion at the front portion, and a cursive body. Based on the input means for inputting the phrase data and the alphabetic cursive phrase data input by the input means, the corresponding initial word, middle word and suffix word of the cursive phrase are selected from each data of the storage means. An alphabetic cursive writing device having a selecting means and a printing means for printing cursive phrase data selected by the selecting means. 2. A storage means for storing word acronym data having a connecting portion at a rear portion, word middle-character data having connecting portions at the front and rear, and suffix data having a connecting portion at a front portion, and an alphabet writing. Input means for inputting the style phrase data, and based on the cursive style data input by the input means, the initial word, the middle word and the end word of the cursive style clause are selected from the corresponding data from the storage means. An alphabet cursive cutout device having a selection means and a cutout means for cutting out cursive phrase data selected by the selection means from an object to be cut.