JPS6031471A - Business-sheet collation apparatus for interruption collation - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily load partition business-sheets, etc. by installing a shelf for exclusive use for interruption collation so as to be taken-out in the direction perpendicular to a transport passage on the upstream side of a collation shelf and installing an accommodated paper size varying means onto the above-described shelf, if necessary. CONSTITUTION:On the most upstream side of a business-sheet transport passage having a sorter transport belt 2 in a collation apparatus 49, a shelf 35 exclusively used for interruption collation is installed so as to be taken-out in the direction perpendicular to the direction of shift of the belt 2. Said shelf 32 is supported by the slidable members 45 installed on the both sides of the shelf, and when the shelf is taken out, a paper feeding means 32 for collation is retreated from the operation position. An accommodated paper size varying means 48 is installed on to the exclusively used shelf 35 so as to be shiftable right and left. In interruption collation mode, the business-sheet feeding means 32 for collation is driven, and the paper sheet 36 for interruption collation on the exclusively used shelf 35 is fed onto the sorter transport belt 2 through a deflecting member 34 for cassette and supplied in distribution onto each collation shelf 8.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Field of Application) The present invention relates to a single-paper device that can be used for one interrupt, and in particular, can feed a sheet of paper for one interrupt at an arbitrary timing to meet one interrupt. This is related to the number of interruptions that can be made to the purchase of paper.

(Prior Art) FIG. 1 shows an example of a conventional combining device. Further, FIG. 2 shows a front view of the paper sorting machine IM.

] The sheets that have been subjected to beeing are sent to the entrance 1 of the combining device. The paper that has passed through the entrance 1 is attracted to the sorter conveyance belt 2, and is conveyed 1 m from the top to the bottom in the figure as the sorter conveyance belts 1 and 2 rotate clockwise.

Note that the paper is attracted to the sorter conveyor bells 1 and 2 as follows:
This is because a suction tank 3 is provided inside the sorter conveyor belt 2 and communicates with a hole drilled in the sorter conveyor belt 2, and the suction tank 3 is sucked by a suction pump 4.

Reference numeral 5.5' denotes a pair of feed screw rods arranged in parallel along the paper conveyance direction on both sides of the sorter conveyance belt 2, and each feed screw rod 5,5' has a nut 6°6'. The ends of a movable plate 7 are fixed to these nuts 6 and 6', and the movable plate 7 is suspended horizontally between the nuts 6 and 6'.

A plurality of collating deflection members 9 are fixed to the movable plate 7 at regular intervals for peeling off the sheets adsorbed on the sorter conveyance belt 2 and sending them to the collating shelf 8.

The feed screw rod 5 is connected to a drive source 11 such as a reversible motor via a clutch mechanism 10. Further, the feed screw rods 5 and 5' are connected via a timing belt 13 stretched between pulleys 12 and 12' so that they rotate in the same direction and at the same speed.

A solenoid 14 controls on/off of the clutch m4M10. The solenoid 14 is actuated by a pulse signal from a sensor (not shown) installed near the entrance 1 to detect the leading edge of the paper, and turns on the clutch mechanism 10 for a short time.

That is, the power of the drive source 11 is transmitted to the feed screw 5 for a short time.

Therefore, every time paper enters 1, the feed screw rod 5
rotates at a predetermined angle and in a predetermined direction, and the nut 6 screwed onto the feed screw rod 5 moves downward. The rotation of the feed screw rod 5 is controlled by timing bells 1 to 13.
The nut 6' also moves downward in conjunction with the nut 6.

Therefore, the movable plate 7 suspended horizontally between the nuts 6 and 6',
A plurality of collating deflectors 9 fixed to the moving plate also move downward together with the nuts 6,6'.

Now, by appropriately selecting the amount of rotation of the feed screw rods 5, 5' each time the solenoid 14 and the clutch mechanism 10 are turned on once, and the pitch of the screws, the nut can be rotated while the clutch mechanism 10 is activated once. 6. If 6' is moved downward by an amount equal to the interval between the collation shelves 8, the sheets entering the entrance 1 can be sorted from the upper collation shelf to the lower collation shelf in sequence. I can do it.

When the collation deflection section vJ9 moves below the position where it faces the lowest collation shelf 8, the movable plate 7 holding the collation deflection member 9 steps on a lower limit switch (not shown).

Then, the drive source 11 is reversed by the signal output from the lower limit switch, and the movable plate 7 is moved to a position where an upper limit switch (not shown) is pressed. Accordingly, the collation deflection member 9 comes to face the highest collation shelf.

In the combining device as described above, when dividing sheets or separately processed photographs, printed matter, etc. (hereinafter referred to as dividing sheets, etc.) are mixed between copy sheets and collated,
In the past, many sheets were manually fed out one by one, and such merging devices were complicated to operate, had poor working efficiency, and were prone to diagonal insertion and jamming.

In order to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks, there have been proposals that provide shelves exclusively for interruption collation (for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 57-1
(See Publication No. 80,558, etc.), in this case as well, it is not easy to insert partition sheets etc. into the dedicated shelf 35 for interrupt T-times.
Another disadvantage is that it is difficult to align partition sheets of different sizes when loading them.

(Objective) The present invention has been made in order to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks, and its purpose is to provide a sheet 1 for one-way insertion, which is equipped with a shelf exclusively for the one-way insertion, in which partition sheets, etc., can be easily loaded. The objective is to provide a synthesis device.

(Summary) In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention configures a dedicated shelf for interruption T so that it can be pulled out in a direction perpendicular to the paper conveyance path, and further includes a means for changing the size of stored paper, if necessary. It is unique in that it is equipped with a dedicated shelf for interrupt T events.

(Example) The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 3 is an external perspective view showing a state in which the interstitial collection shelf of one embodiment of the present invention is pulled out, FIG. 4 is a side view of the main part showing the operating state of this embodiment, and FIG. FIG. 3 is an external perspective view showing an example of an interrupt collation instruction member suitable for use with the example. In these figures, the same reference numerals as in FIG. 1 represent the same or equivalent parts.

As is clear from the illustration, the interrupt T-only shelf 35 is arranged at the most upstream side of the paper conveyance path.
It is constructed so that it can be pulled out at right angles to the moving direction of the sorter conveyor belt 2.

In other words, the intermittent collation-only shelf 35 is supported by sliding members 45 provided on both sides thereof, and can be smoothly moved in a direction perpendicular to the plane of FIG. 4. .

In addition, when pulling out the intermittent collation exclusive shelf 35, the roller release lever 33 (FIG. 3) is operated to retreat the single sheet feeding means 32 from the operating position.

In addition, the interrupt-only shelf 35 is provided with storage sheet changing means 48. The stored paper size changing means 48 is movable from side to side in FIG. 4, and is fixed at a position corresponding to the size of the paper stored in the interruption collating shelf 35.

In the copying machine main body 50 (FIG. 4), the sheets that have been copied are sent from the T-sheet stack 1 to the collating device 49.

The sheets are conveyed to the position of the sorter conveyor belt 2 by the inlet conveyor belt/1.6, the conveyor auxiliary roller 40 and the conveyor auxiliary roller 39, and are transferred to the respective collating shelves as described above in the conventional example. It will be divided into 8.

In the event that paper jams or other accidents occur in the collating equipment, the sorter entrance deflection member 44 is rotated clockwise in FIG. Prevent it from being sent to.

As a result, sheets that have been copied within the copying machine main body 50 are distributed to the temporary tray 41 and temporarily stored there.

Either by suitable automatic control means, as described below, or by a manual control signal 56, the collated paper feed means 32 is activated (alternatively, as shown in dotted lines in FIG. 2) from the position indicated by the solid line to the position shown by the solid line), and the interrupt shelf 3
It comes into contact with the interrupted collated paper 36 stored in 5.

At this time, the cassette deflecting member 34 is rotated in the Il'J ii1 direction from the position indicated by the dotted line in FIG. 4 to the position indicated by the solid line.

By the collated paper feeding means 32, the ! of FIG. f Interrupt sheets 36 sent out in the collation direction] are fed onto the sorter conveyor belt 2 by the cassette deflection member 34, and are distributed to the respective collation shelves in the same manner as described above with respect to the conventional example. Ru,.

When the scheduled distribution of the sheets to the respective collating shelves 8 is completed, the cassette deflector 611 34 rotates counterclockwise and returns to the position indicated by the dotted line in the figure.

As a result, from the collated paper population 1 to the entrance conveyance bell 1-4
6. The copy sheets sent via the conveyance auxiliary rollers 40, 39, etc. are distributed to the respective collation shelves 8 by the usual method.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view schematically showing a portion of the document feeder suitable for automatically controlling and overcoming the above-mentioned interruptions.

A detection means 51 is provided on the document placement table 54 having the document placement gate 55 . The detection means 51 detects an interruption instruction mark 53 attached to the interruption collation instruction member 52.
is read and supplied to a control device such as a microcomputer 57.

As the interrupt instruction mark 53, it goes without saying that in addition to the bar code shown in the figure, an appropriate color code or mark can be used.

Although not shown in the figure, when the interrupt 1 instruction member 52 is supplied onto the document table 54 and the interrupt instruction mark 53 is read by the detection means 51, the copying machine main body 50
The copy operation is temporarily interrupted, and the interruption collation-only shelf 35
From there, the first interruption sheet 36 is sent out as described above and fed to each collation shelf 8.

Then, when the scheduled interruption 1 ends, the main body 50 of the copying machine 1 continues to perform the (,] bee operation for the subsequent document.

In the above, an example in which one interrupt collation exclusive shelf 35 is provided has been described, but it is clear that interrupt collation can be performed in exactly the same manner even if a plurality of shelves 35 are provided.

(Effects) As is clear from the above explanation, according to the present invention, the following effects can be achieved by vaporization.

(1) Since the shelf exclusively for interruption collation is constructed so that it can be pulled out forward and backward, it becomes possible to take in and take out the interruption 1-fold sheets extremely quickly and easily.

As a result, even when documents are fed manually or automatically and copies are made one after another, the necessary interrupt collation sheets can be reliably loaded into the interrupt T-column exclusive shelf.

(2) Since a means for changing the size of stored paper is provided on the dedicated shelf for interruption collation, even when sheets of different sizes are to be collated in interruption, it is possible to reliably load the interruption 1 sheet in the correct paper storage position. .

(3) If the interrupt collation instruction member is inserted between normal originals and manuscripts, and the interrupt 1-column sheets are stored in the pre-planned order in the interrupt-collate-only shelf, the interrupt 1-column can be done completely automatically.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a schematic side view of a conventional merging device, Fig. 2 is a front view of the sorting mechanism, and Fig. 3 is a merging device according to an embodiment of the present invention with the interruption collating shelf pulled out. FIG. 4 is a side view of essential parts showing the operating state of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a perspective view of an interruption collation instruction member suitable for use with an embodiment of the present invention FIG. 2 is an external perspective view showing an example. 1...Population of collated paper, 2...Sorter conveyance bell 1~.
8... Collation shelf, 9... 1 deflection member, 32... 1
Interleaf paper feeding means, 33... roller release lever, 34...
...Deflection member for cassette 1, 35...Shelf for exclusive use of interrupt T, 36...Interrupt collation paper, 711...Temporary 1-ray, 44...Deflection member for sorter entrance, 45...
Sliding member, 46... Entrance conveyance belt, 48... Storage paper 1 noise changing means, 49... Collating device, 50...
・Copy; number body, 52... interrupt 1 instruction member, 5
33...Interruption instruction mark, 54...Manuscript mounting table Patent attorney Michito Hiraki and 1 other person

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A conveyance means that conveys the paper along a scheduled conveyance path, a plurality of collating shelves arranged along the conveyance path and stores the sheets in one go or sorted, and the paper conveyed by the conveyance means. a deflection member that guides sheets to the collation shelves; and an interrupt T-column exclusively for storing collated sheets for interrupt collation, which is disposed upstream of each of the collation shelves along the conveyance path. a shelf, a means for feeding the collated sheets in the interrupt collation-only shelf toward the conveyance path, and a cassette deflector for guiding the single sheet fed as described above to the conveyance path. 2. A sheet gathering device capable of interruption collation, characterized in that said interruption T-combining shelf is configured to be able to be pulled out in a direction perpendicular to said transport path. (2) The paper collation device capable of interrupt collation according to claim 1, wherein the shelf exclusively for interrupt collation is equipped with means for changing the size of stored sheets.