JP5737497B2 - Crimping device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a pressure bonding apparatus for folding a sheet base material provided with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that can be peeled off after bonding, and bonding the sheet base materials by applying pressure to create a pressure-bonded postcard.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a pressure-bonded postcard is known in which a sheet base material provided with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that can be peeled after bonding is folded in two or three, and then bonded in a peelable state by applying pressure.
Such a crimped postcard is suitable for creating a large amount of postcards in a short time, and is therefore widely used for direct mail and notification of maturity by financial institutions. (See Patent Documents 1 to 3)
Generally, when using such a crimped postcard, personal information or transaction information that differs for each postcard recipient is printed on the sheet substrate with a printer, and then the sheet substrate is folded using a crimping device. Create a postcard by applying pressure.

Conventionally, in a crimping apparatus that continuously produces a large number of such crimped postcards, pressure is applied to the continuous sheet base material so that it can be peeled off after adhesion provided in advance on the sheet base material. The overlapping part of the adhesive layer is adhered.
However, the amount printed on the sheet base material by the printer differs depending on the sheet base material that is an individual postcard, and depending on the amount of the printed amount, it is printed on the surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that can be peeled off after bonding. There are various amount of area.
In other words, when the amount of area printed on the surface of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer that can be peeled off with a small amount of printing is small, the area where the pressure sensitive adhesive layers adhere to each other is the pressure sensitive adhesive that can be peeled off with a large amount of printing. The amount of area printed on the surface of the agent layer is larger than when the area is large, and vice versa.

  That is, for example, when setting the pressure to the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers that can be peeled after bonding, based on the case where the amount of area printed on the surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that can be peeled off with a small printing amount is small, Conversely, the pressure on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer may be insufficient for the sheet base material when the amount of area printed on the surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that can be peeled off is large. However, there is a problem that the postcard is easily peeled off from the bonded portion, and there is a risk that the information written inside can be seen during mailing.

JP-A-7-276859 JP 2005-103974 A JP 2008-179165 A

Therefore, the present invention creates a pressure-bonded postcard so that the pressure-bonded postcard made of the sheet base material is not easily peeled off in the middle of mailing and the third-party information is not seen. For each sheet substrate, pressurization is applied to the folded sheet substrate according to the amount of printing area printed by the printer.
Provided is a crimping apparatus which can change conditions .

The pressure bonding apparatus of the present invention uses a sheet base material provided with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that can be peeled off after bonding, and folds the sheet base material after printing information on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer with a printer. ,
A pressure-bonding device that bonds sheet base materials by applying pressure to the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that is superimposed, and a pressurizing unit that applies pressure to the folded sheet base material, and the pressurizing unit When the pressure is applied to the sheet base material, depending on the amount of print area printed by the printer, if the amount of print area is large, the pressure member is folded to the folded sheet base material.
Change the pressure conditions so that application of large pressure, wherein when the printing area amount is small also with respect to the pressing means, the pressure conditions so that adding a small pressure to the folded sheet substrate Pressure changing means to change;
Mark reading means for reading a mark for specifying the pressurization condition displayed on the front surface or the back surface of the sheet base material;
With
The pressure changing unit has a function of changing a pressurizing condition based on a mark read by the mark reading unit .

Therefore, according to the crimping apparatus of the present invention, since a crimping postcard can be created under an appropriate pressure condition for each sheet base material for which the crimping postcard is created , the crimping postcard created with the sheet base material is easy during mailing or the like. Can be prevented from being peeled off, and the leakage of written information to a third party can be prevented.

It relates crimping device according to the present onset Ming is a diagram for explaining the outline. It is a diagram for explaining the three-fold postcards created by crimping device according to the present onset bright, (a) is a perspective view showing a state of folding the trifold postcard three, (b) is It is a perspective view which shows the state after producing a trifold postcard. It is a system block diagram of a crimping device according to the present onset bright. It is a reference diagram for explaining a mechanism of the crimping device according to the present onset bright. It is a diagram for explaining the mechanism of the crimping device according to the implementation embodiments of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a crimping apparatus 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
First, FIG. 1 shows a case where a plurality of postcard sheets 10 are sequentially printed by a printer from a sheet at an upper position displayed in the drawing to a sheet at a lower position. .
FIG. 1A shows a case where characters of approximately the same size are printed on each postcard paper 10 with an approximately equivalent layout.
FIG. 1B shows a case where characters of different sizes are printed on each postcard paper 10 in different layouts.
Each of these postcard papers 10 uses a sheet base material provided with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that can be peeled off after bonding, and information is printed by a printer on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on the sheet base material. Later, the sheet base material is folded, and pressure is applied to the stacked pressure-sensitive adhesive layers, whereby the sheet base materials are adhered to each other to form a three-fold postcard.

First, as shown in FIG. 1A, when characters of approximately the same size are printed on the postcard paper 10 on all postcard papers 10, the postcard paper 10 is shown in FIG. 3
A three-fold postcard having a substantially uniform adhesion state can be created by folding and applying substantially the same pressure from above and below to the stacked pressure-sensitive adhesive layers.
On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 1 (b), when letters of different sizes are printed on each postcard paper 10, they are applied on the upper surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. Since the amount of ink applied to the printer is different, it is difficult to adjust the pressure applied when pressure is applied to the superimposed pressure-sensitive adhesive layers from above and below.
In this case, when the printing amount is small and the printing area is small, the area of the portion where the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers overlap with each other increases, so that it can be bonded even with a relatively small pressure, but the printing amount is large. also when using printing large characters, since the area of the portion to each other pressure-sensitive adhesive layer overlaps smaller, can not adhere by pressure-sensitive adhesive layer between the not pressurized at a relatively large kina pressure .

Therefore, the crimping apparatus 1 of the present onset bright, according to a difference in printing area of each 3-fold postcards as described above, by configuring to allow pressurization of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer to 3-fold postcards All the three-fold postcards having different printing areas can be bonded in an appropriate state.
That is, in the pressure bonding apparatus 1 of the present invention, information is printed on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer using a sheet base material of the postcard paper 10 provided with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that can be peeled off after bonding. As shown in FIG. 1 (b), in a pressure bonding apparatus that later folds the sheet base material of the postcard paper 10 and applies pressure to the stacked pressure-sensitive adhesive layers to bond the sheet base materials of the postcard paper 10 together. In addition, even when different letter sizes are printed with different layouts on the sheet base material of each postcard paper 10 and the application area amount of the printer ink applied on the upper surface of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer is different, Pressure is applied to the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on which the sheet base material of the folded postcard paper 10 is superimposed under an appropriate pressure condition according to the amount of printing area for each postcard paper 10. .

Next, the system configuration of the crimping apparatus 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to the block diagram shown in FIG.
The crimping apparatus 1 according to the present invention includes a pressurizing unit 2 including a pair of pressurizing rollers for applying pressure to a sheet base material of the folded postcard paper 10 from above and below, and the pressurizing unit 2 to provide the postcard paper. When the pressure is applied to the sheet base material 10, when the print area amount is large according to the print area amount printed on the sheet base material by the printer, the folded postcard paper 10 The pressure is changed so that the pressure condition on the sheet base material is increased, and when the amount of printing area on the sheet base material is small, the pressure post means 10 is moved to the sheet base material of the folded postcard paper 10. Pressure changing means 3 having a function of changing the pressure so that the pressurizing condition is reduced, communication means 6 for communicating with the external device 9, conveying means 7 for conveying the sheet base material, and control means 8 .

Further, in the crimping apparatus 1 of the present invention, data of the print area amount of printing on each sheet base material is temporarily stored in the order of the sheet base materials that are transported by the transport means 7 and pressure is applied by the pressurizing means 2. Storage means 4 is provided.
The data of the print area amount for printing on each sheet base material stored in these storage means 4 is transmitted from the external device 9 such as a computer to the crimping apparatus 1 via the communication means 6 in advance for each series of processing. And stored in the storage means 4.
And when the said pressure change means 3 applies a pressure with respect to the sheet | seat base material folded by the pressurization means 2, based on the data of the printing area amount memorize | stored in the said memory | storage means 4, every sheet | seat base material It has a function of changing the pressurizing condition to the sheet base material by the pressurizing means 2 to an appropriate condition.

Furthermore, the pressure-bonding device 1 of the present invention includes a mark reading unit 5 that reads a mark for specifying a pressurization condition displayed on the front surface or the back surface of the sheet base material of the postcard paper 10, and the pressure changing unit 3 includes: based on the mark read by the mark reading unit 5 has a function to change the pressure conditions to the sheet substrate by pressurizing means 2 to the appropriate conditions for each of the sheet substrate.
In the crimping apparatus 1 of the present invention, the pressurizing means 2 for each sheet base material based on the data of the print area amount of printing on the sheet base material of each postcard paper 10 stored in the storage means 4 as described above. The setting file method for changing the pressurizing condition to the sheet base material to an appropriate condition, and the mark displayed on the sheet base material of each postcard paper 10 in advance by the mark reading means 5, and the sheet base material Pressing according to the amount of printing area on the sheet base material of the postcard paper 10 by two methods, the mark sensor method that changes the pressing condition to the sheet base material by the pressing means 2 every time. It is comprised so that conditions can be changed appropriately.
In the description of the present embodiment, a single crimping apparatus 1 is described as an apparatus that includes two systems, a setting file system and a mark sensor system. You may use as the crimping | compression-bonding apparatus 1 using only a sensor system.

Next, a case where processing is performed by the setting file method using the crimping apparatus 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 4 shows a case where five sheet base materials of the postcard paper 10 are processed in order as a reference example.
For example, in the external device 9 composed of a computer, data on the size of the printed area when printing on the sheet base material of the postcard paper 10 by a printer is described for five cases to be processed. Before the pressure processing is performed on the postcard paper 10 folded in three by 1, the data of the print area amount is transmitted from the external device 9 to the crimping device 1, and the storage means of the external device 9 is stored. 4 is stored.

Thereafter, when the post-printing paper 10 folded in three by the external device 9 is subjected to the pressurization process, it is determined based on the print area amount data stored in the storage means 4 of the external device 9. In order from the fifth to the fifth, the pressure changing means 3 changes the pressurizing conditions when pressure is applied to the postcard paper 10 and processing is performed.
In this processing, when the print area amount stored in the storage unit 4 of the external device 9 is data indicating a large amount as in the first case, the pressure changing unit 3 applies the postcard to the pressurizing unit 2. The processing is performed by changing the pressurizing condition so that a large pressure is applied to the paper 10, and in the case of data indicating small as in the second case, the pressure changing unit 3 applies the pressure to the pressurizing unit 2. On the other hand, the processing is performed by changing the pressurization condition so that a small pressure is applied to the postcard paper 10.

Next, an embodiment in which processing is performed by the mark sensor method using the crimping apparatus 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
In the crimping apparatus 1 that performs processing by the mark sensor method, one type of mark 11 is displayed from a plurality of types of predetermined marks on a predetermined portion of the postcard paper 10 surface.
In the example shown in FIG. 5, when one rectangular mark 11 having the same shape is displayed, a small pressure is applied by the pressurizing means 2, and when two marks 11 are displayed. Is determined by the pressurizing means 2 to apply a larger pressure.
As shown in FIG. 5, when printing is performed on the postcard paper 10 with a printer, these marks 11 are displayed with a single mark 11 if the printing area amount is small. If it is large, two marks 11 are displayed on the printer.
In this case, the relationship between the printing area amount and the pressure is preferably adjusted in advance so as to have a proper adhesive force.

As a procedure for processing by the mark sensor method, the mark 11 displayed on the postcard paper 10 is read by the mark reading means 5 with respect to the postcard paper 10 conveyed by the conveyance means 7 of the crimping apparatus 1.
Next, based on the information, the pressure changing unit 3 applies a small pressure to the folded postcard paper 10 when the mark 11 is applied to the pressurizing unit 2, and the two marks 11 are applied. If displayed, the pressurizing means 2 changes the pressurization conditions so as to apply a larger pressure and applies the pressure.

As described above, using a crimping device 1 of the present invention, in the case of performing the processing by the mark sensor system, by reading the mark is displayed on the postcard paper 10 side, since changing the pressure conditions of the pressure means, Not only two types of marks but also two or more types of marks are displayed on each postcard paper 10 so that two or more types of pressing conditions can be selected.
Thereby, according to the printing area amount at the time of printing with the printer with respect to the postcard paper 10, it is possible to perform an appropriate pressurizing process for each postcard paper 10, and to make it peelable with an appropriate adhesive force . be able to.

1 Crimping device
2 Pressurizing means
3 Pressure change means
4 storage means
5 Mark reading means
6 Communication means
7 Transport means
8 Control means
9 External devices
10 Postcard paper

Claims (1)

Using a sheet substrate provided with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that can be peeled off after bonding, after printing information on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer with a printer, the sheet substrate is folded and overlapped. A pressure bonding device that bonds sheet base materials by applying pressure to the agent layer,
A pressurizing means for applying pressure to the folded sheet substrate;
When pressure is applied to the sheet base material by the pressurizing means, if the amount of print area is large according to the amount of print area printed by the printer, the folded sheet with respect to the pressurizing means change the pressure conditions so that application of large pressure to the substrate and said when printing area amount is small, relative to the pressure means, to so that adding a small pressure to the folded sheet substrate additive Pressure changing means for changing the pressure condition ;
Mark reading means for reading a mark for specifying the pressurization condition displayed on the front surface or the back surface of the sheet base material;
Equipped with a,
The pressure bonding apparatus , wherein the pressure changing unit has a function of changing a pressing condition based on a mark read by the mark reading unit .

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