Horizon International Inc.

Horizon Inc.

Jun Mochizuki

Yoshiyuki Horii

Toyoki Takeuchi

Masayuki Kashiba

Akira Nakajima

Eiji Katayama

Takakazu Hori

Kou Ohuchiyama

Akira Onodera

Hitoshi Uchida

Tomoyuki Shimizu

Katsunori Ishida

Yasuo Taketsugu

Chuji Yamaguchi

Bui Manh Ha

Tetsuya Kawagoe

Takahiro Toshima

Hidekazu Ozasa

An index tab forming system sequentially forms index tabs to a plurality of sheets without replacing a blade die. The index tab forming system includes a rotary die cutteron which a long blade die that can form an index tab at any position of the sheet in the conveyance direction is mounted. Furthermore, the index tab forming system includes a rotational speed calculation unit configured to calculate the rotational speed of a conveyance roller pairbased on the rotational position of a die cut roller, a sheet position detection signal provided by a sheet detection sensor, the number of times of sheet conveyance, and a shift distance between respective index tabs and a conveyance roller control unit configured to control the rotational speed of the conveyance roller pairbased on the calculated rotational speed.

Index tab forming system

A conveyance control unit is provided with a conveyance request unit configured to transmit a conveyance request signal to a paper conveyance device at a conveyance request timing corresponding to a processing cycle of a downstream paper processing device, a passage information reception unit configured to receive a paper passage signal indicating that paper has been sent out from the paper conveyance device, and the determination unit configured to determine whether a conveyance delay has occurred based on timing when the paper passage signal was received. The conveyance request unit is configured to transmit the conveyance request signal at the conveyance request timing corresponding to the next processing cycle when it is determined that a conveyance delay has not occurred, and the conveyance request unit is configured not to transmit the conveyance request signal at the conveyance request timing corresponding to the next processing cycle when it is determined that a conveyance delay has occurred.

Conveyance control device and conveyance control method

An object is to eliminate waste of resources and achieve cost reduction and improved productivity. A stitcher includes a stitcher head configured to perform a reciprocating movement and a wire feed unit configured to feed a wire to the stitcher head and performs wire stitching on a paper bundle arranged at a wire stitching position in each cycle of the reciprocating movement of the stitcher head. The stitcher control device includes: a determination unit that determines in each cycle of the stitcher head whether or not thickness information on a paper bundle to be subjected to wire stitching in a next cycle is acquired; and a wire feed control unit that, when it is determined that the thickness information on the paper bundle to be subjected to wire stitching in the next cycle is not acquired, controls the wire feed unit not to supply a wire in the current cycle.

Sheet binding apparatus, stitcher, control device for stitcher, and control method for stitcher

The creaserincludes a project partfor forming the creaseon the sheetand a receive partfor receiving the project part. The project partis moved between a crease position and a standby potion, the project partbeing at the crease position so as to form the creaseon the sheet, the project partbeing away from the sheetat the standby position so as not to form the creaseon the sheet. The input deviceincludes a selectorfor selecting the sheetto be creased by the creaserfrom among the sheetsfed from the conveyer, the input devicesending the information of the selection to the controller

Saddle-stitch and fold machine

A sheet is intermittently advanced or alternately advanced and retreated by a pair of feed rollers in synchronization with rotation of a pair of magnet and anvil rollers so that the pair of magnet and anvil rollers makes two or more revolutions while the sheet passes through the pair of magnet and anvil rollers. The punching of the same pattern is performed by a flexible die at a plurality of areas of the sheet spaced in a sheet conveying direction.

Rotary die cutter

Each pair of bearing units for each of magnet and anvil rollers are movable in a vertical direction. Each of large diameter portions of the anvil roller is supported by a pair of support rollers. Each of large diameter portions of the magnet roller is pressed against the corresponding large diameter portion of the anvil roller by a pair of press rollers. Each stopper is moved between a first position in which it projects into a clearance between vertically opposed bearing units and a second position in which it retracts from the first position. When the stoppers are located at the first position, the opposed large diameter portions of the magnet and anvil rollers separate from each other, and when the stoppers are located at the second position, the opposed large diameter portions of the magnet and anvil rollers contact with each other.

The paper feeder comprises a first transport unit () to transport a sheet (S) on top of a paper stack () on a paper loading table (), and a second transport unit () to discharge sheets transferred from the first transport unit toward a binding device. The first transport unit begins transporting the next sheet each time a sheet is discharged from the second transport unit. Image data for a specified printed portion on the first sheet in the paper stack is stored in memory () as reference data. A camera () is disposed above the paper stack and photographs a region corresponding to the specified printed portion on the topmost sheet. A control unit () compares the image data for the paper photographed by the camera with the reference data, and if the image data matches the reference data, the first transport unit operations are paused.

Sheet feeder

Movable guides are moved in vertical direction by guide drive units between a retreating position and a protruding position. A setting section is provided for setting a contact start point on a sheet and a contact end point on the sheet. The movable guides are moved between the retreating position and the protruding position so as to keep contact with an area of the sheet from the contact start point to the contact end point while a product separated from the sheet is conveyed from a first conveying unit to a second conveying unit.

Punching machine

A sheet feeding machine comprises a housing, a feed section for feeding a plurality of sheetsin a feed direction, and a detecting sectionhaving detectorfor detecting informationprinted on the sheet. The detecting sectioncomprises a support framefor supporting the detector, a guide railmounted on the support frameand extending for guiding the detector, and a guide mechanismarranged between the housingand the support framefor guiding the support frame. The support framecan be accommodated in the housingwhen detecting the informationof the sheet. The support framecan be drawn out of the housingwhen moving the detectoralong the guide rail

Sheet feeding machine

A guillotine cutter () of the invention is provided with a pressing block driving mechanism () positioning a pressing block () at a standby position which is spaced upwardly from a sheet bundle (), a first operating position pressing the sheet bundle by a first pressing force, and a second operating position pressing the sheet bundle by a second pressing force which is larger than the first pressing force. The pressing block is carried by a rod () through a compression spring () at the standby position, the pressing block is supported on an upper surface of the sheet bundle at the first operating position, thereby applying the first pressing force to the sheet bundle on the basis of a resultant force of a gravitational force generated by its own weight and an biasing force generated by the compression spring, and the pressing block is pushed down by an expansion portion () of the rod while the pressing block is kept being supported on the upper surface of the sheet bundle at the second operating position, thereby applying the second pressing force on the basis of a resultant force of the first pressing force and the push-down force generated by the rod.

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Shiga, Japan

Jun Mochizuki