Patent Application
20150091288
The present invention relates to a high-security notebook which is prepared by zigzag folding a continuous form having prints on both sides and provided with capability of preventing falsification and missing pages, and a process for producing the notebook.
The present inventor developed a fundamental printing technology of using an endless belt-shaped printing plate for manufacturing an elongated strip-shaped printed continuous form by printing on an elongated continuous web form (continuous paper web). The technology of printing on a continuous form using an endless belt-shaped printing plate is applied to preparation of booklet forms for payment of a pension and insurance or a tax, a calendar, a contract, an operation manual, and books, etc.
Moreover, it is widely used also for preparation of individual or separate sheet prints requiring high quality and high security, such as a service ticket, a travel ticket, a gift certificate, a cash voucher, a stock certificate, and a debenture from a feed roll of continuous web form along with a progress of printing technology in recent years.
By the way, a notebook has been conventionally prepared by covering a plurality, e.g., 40 or 60, of inside paper sheets, with a front cover and a back cover, and by fixing or gluing the sides of the sheets to form a booklet. The inside paper sheets of a notebook are formed by printing ruled lines on each face of paper sheet. Although the ruled lines are formed as solid lines or dotted lines, the inside paper sheets of a notebook are formed of separate sheets.
In the conventional technology of printing on a continuous web form taken out from a paper feed roll using an endless belt-shaped printing plate, printing is performed on one side of a continuous form and not on both sides of the continuous form continuously. Accordingly, no technology has been developed for printing continuously on both sides of a continuous form, or for folding-up zigzag such an elongated continuous web form printed on both sides thereof to prepare a notebook.
In a conventional notebook, individual paper sheets are stacked to form a booklet of inside paper sheets, which is then covered with a front cover and a back cover. For such a notebook prepared from paper sheets, it is difficult to find an inferior product caused by possible lack, missing or damage of a portion of inside paper sheets, or to notice such a lack of page on a part of inside paper sheets.
On the other hand, the replication technology by a copying machine is developed in recent years and, in connection therewith, it is desired to develop a high-security print of which reproduction is impossible with a copying machine. Similarly, it is also expected to develop a notebook of which reproduction of contents such as characters is difficult. However, a conventional notebook is not provided with capability of preventing the falsification or omission of inside paper sheets between a front cover and a back cover, and it has not become a high-security one.
The present invention has been made in consideration of the situation mentioned above, and an object of the present invention is to provide a notebook which has been prepared by folding zigzag a continuous web form printed on both surfaces thereof and is provided with capability of preventing the falsification or omission of pages to satisfy a high-security, and a process for production thereof.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a notebook which has been prepared by folding zigzag a continuous web form into a form allowing spread-reading and is therefore different in type from a conventional notebook in a form of booklet formed by firm binding of inside paper sheets.
According to the present invention, there is provided a notebook, comprising: a unit form group including a preset number of consecutive unit forms zigzag-folded and printed on both faces thereof, said unit form group having been prepared by providing a continuous web form which has been printed on both surfaces thereof including at least one surface on which the unit forms are printed, folding up zigzag the continuous web form for every unit form, cutting the continuous web form for every preset number of consecutive unit forms, and stacking the unit forms to prepare a notebook, so as to allow spread-reading of the respective unit forms,
wherein each unit form has a note face, and the note face includes a main data area equipped with a plurality of printed ruled lines, a date region, and also a succession of micro characters printed on at least one part thereof.
In a preferred embodiment, the printed ruled lines in the main data area include horizontal ruled lines formed with a succession of micro characters.
The present invention also provides a notebook, wherein the group of unit forms spreadably zigzag-folded and stacked of the above-mentioned notebook are covered spreadably with a book cover including a front cover, a spine and a back cover, and is disposed spreadably, wherein
the front cover and the back cover are each provided with a cover plate applied onto a back thereof so as to allow insertion of a sheet behind the cover plate from an inward position of the cover plate,
a first unit form and a second unit form are held in a folded state by insertion between the back of the front cover and the cover plate, and
a last unit form and a last but one unit form are held in a folded state by insertion between the back of the back cover and the cover plate.
The present invention also provides a process for producing a notebook, comprising:
successively printing a multiplicity of unit forms including ruled lines formed of a succession of micro characters by a first printer equipped with an endless belt-shaped printing plate on one surface of a continuous web form supplied from a feed roll,
inverting the front and back surfaces of the continuous web form with a form inverter,
printing on the other surface of the continuous web form by a second printer equipped with an endless belt-shaped printing plate to provide the continuous web form with prints on both surfaces,
folding up zigzag the continuous web form for every unit form to pile up the zigzag-folded continuous web form on a stack, and
cutting and separating the continuous web form for every preset number of consecutive unit forms, thereby providing a notebook including a group of the preset number of consecutive unit forms which have been printed on both faces thereof and spreadably zigzag-folded.
According to the present invention, a continuous web form which has been printed on both faces thereof is zigzag-folded for every unit form and piled up, and the zigzag-folded web form is cut and separated in a width direction for every preset number of unit forms to form a zigzag-folded notebook. The notebook is formed not of separate sheets but of respective unit forms (inside paper, successively connected with each other, so that falling-off of unit forms can be prevented and the breakage or damage of the contents can be securely confirmed in case where it occurred.
Moreover, the note face of each of the unit forms constituting the notebook is printed with a succession of micro characters (used herein to mean characters, numerals or symbols which are at most 1 point (=0.3514 mm) in size and cannot be recognized at least by observation with naked eyes to convey some meaningful data). Micro characters are collapsed when copied by using an ordinary copying machine, such as an electrophotography copying machine, so that the reproduction thereof is impossible, and the notebook is provided with a falsification prevention function to ensure a high security. A succession or row of micro characters are preferably incorporated as at least a portion of a horizontal ruled line on a note face.
Furthermore, the notebook can be read in a spread state, allows checking of data recorded thereon in a larger area at one time and is thus a new type of notebook.
Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to accompanying drawings.
A notebook manufacturing apparatus 10 may be referred to as a rotary press printing machine whereby an elongated continuous web form (continuous paper, rolled paper) 12 supplied from a feed roll 11 is successively printed by elongated endless belt-shaped printing plates 13.
As shown in
The endless belt-shaped printing plate 13 of the printers 18, 19, and 21 is produced from a flexible elongated resinous relief printing plate disclosed in JP2011-53424A and JP2012-96490A (the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference). A plurality of the thus-produced resinous relief printing plates are connected one by one in a longitudinal direction, and then both longitudinal ends of the connected printing plates are connected to form an endless belt-shaped printing plate 13. The endless belt-shaped printing plates 13 are produced by connecting the resinous relief printing plates at an installation site of the respective printers 18, 19 and 21, and are twisted around the respective printers 18, 19, and 21.
The endless belt-shaped printing plates 13 are each formed of a flexible film-like resinous relief printing plate, and the respective endless belt-shaped printing plate 13 (13a, 13b, 13c) are each wound about a plate cylinder 23 and a guide cylinder (guide roller) 24 and are operated synchronously. More specifically, each endless belt-shaped printing plate 13 (13a, 13b, or 13c) may have a longitudinal and circumferential length appropriately selected from a range of several meters to several tens of meters, for example, 7 m-50 m. The endless belt-shaped printing plates 13a, 13b and 13c (13) have identical longitudinal lengths, and operated synchronously.
The endless belt-shaped printing plate 13a wound about the plate cylinder 23 of the first printer 18 is equipped with, for example a pair of inking rollers 25a, to which a printing ink of predetermined color, such as black, blue or green, is supplied. The supplied printing ink is applied to the plate surface of the endless belt-shaped printing plate 13a. The printing ink applied to the plate side of the printing plate 13a is transferred for printing to the continuous web form 12 supplied from the feed roll 11. The continuous web form 12 is pressed by an impression cylinder 26, and the image on the endless belt-shaped printing plate 13a is printed to the continuous web form 12 by the pressure.
In the first printer 18, note faces (page faces) of unit forms 12a, 12b, . . . , as shown in
More specifically, in case of using the notebook manufacturing apparatus 10 for manufacturing a notebook for use as a research-and-development note or a technical development note, each note face may be provided with a main data area 27 for indicating a progress of research or technical development, a study subject, contents of various actions, a memo, etc., and also a date column 28 for indicating year, month and day of record, an attestation (or acknowledgement) column 29 for superiors, a name column 30 for indicating the name of a person in charge and a participant, etc.
The main data area 27 includes horizontal ruled lines 31 and vertical ruled lines 32 to form a note area, wherein successive row numbers are attached to rows between successive horizontal ruled lines 31, and successive page numbers are allotted to an upper corner or a lower end center of the respective note faces (page faces) of consecutive unit forms 12a, 12b, . . . , of the continuous web form 12. Each horizontal ruled line 31, except for the lowermost one, may be formed as a horizontal ruled line formed of a succession of relatively fine micro characters of 0.3P (point)-0.7P (point). Some example of the horizontal ruled line 31 is described later.
After the page faces (note faces) of the unit forms 12a, 12b, . . . , are consecutively printed on one surface (form surface) of the continuous web form 12, the continuous web form 12 is guided to a second printer 19, where watermarks 33 of the shape of, e.g., a cherry petal, are printed on the respective note faces (page faces) of the unit forms 12a, 12b, . . . , of the continuous web form 12 by inking rollers 25b and an endless belt-shaped printing plate 13b of the second printer 19. Such watermarks 33 may be attached in order to express a looking of high-class printing and may also be given as other shapes than petals, or a mark or name of a company, etc.
After the page faces (note faces) of the unit forms 12a, 12b, . . . , are printed by the first printer 18 and the watermarks 33 are printed on the note faces by the second printer 19 at a note face, the continuous web form 12 is sent to the form inverter (or turnover) device 20 where the back and front surfaces of the continuous web form 12 are reversed.
The form inverter 20 may be composed as shown in
In the third printer 21, printing is continuously performed to the front (or back) surface of the continuous web form 12 similarly as in the first and the second printers 18 and 19 using an endless belt-shaped printing plate 13c and the inking rollers 25c. In a specific example, by the third printer 21, the same printing as the first printer 13 is performed to the front (or back) surface of the continuous web form 12. Therefore, a series of printings can be continuously performed to the front and back surfaces of the continuous web form 12 by the first printer 18 and the third printer 21.
After the printing on both surfaces is performed, the continuous web form 12 is led to the inspection device 40, where the continuous web form 12 is inspected with respect to a positional deviation, printing unevenness, etc. The inspected continuous web form 12 is then guided to a cutting machine 41, where marginal zones 15 of the continuous web form 12 are cut off along slitter lines 15a (
As the zigzag folding apparatus 44, a zigzag folding apparatus equipped with a fold line generator as disclosed in JP5324950B (incorporated herein by reference) may be used for example. According to such a zigzag folding apparatus, the continuous web form 12 is alternately provided with a ridge-like projection line or a valley-like depression line (each functioning as a fold line) in transverse directions for every unit form 12a, 12b, . . . . The zigzag folding apparatus 44 is equipped with such a fold line generator and a press for fixing the resultant fold lines, so that the continuous web form 12 is provided with a zigzag-folded state for every unit form 12a, 12b - - - .
Moreover, the continuous web form 12 has been printed on both surfaces thereof by the first to the third printers 18, 19 and 21, so that there is provided with a continuous web form including consecutive unit forms printed on both surfaces and zigzag-folded with alternate ridge-like projection lines and valley-like depression lines extending in transverse directions. Thus, by the zigzag folding apparatus 44, the continuous web form 12 is zigzag-folded for every unit form 12a, 12b, . . . , and is successively conveyed to and piled up on a stacker 45.
The continuous web form 12 folded up in a zigzag shape on the stacker 45 is caused to form a group 46 of preset number, e.g., 50 or more, of unit forms 12a, 12b, . . . , and one volume of notebook may be obtained by cutting off such a unit form group in the transverse direction and separating it from the remainder of the continuous web form 12. If desired, such a continuation of zigzag-folded continuous web form 12 may be provided with plural volumes, e.g. two volumes of printed notebook data to form two groups 46 of unit forms, which are then cut in separation for each group to provide plural volumes of notebook.
[Notebook]
An example of notebook 50 consisting of a zigzag-folded unit form group 46 is shown in
The notebook 50 consisting of the unit form group 46 may be formed of unit forms of A4 size or B5 size, for example, and the first unit form A on the front surface side may constitute a front cover page, and the last unit form Z on the front surface side may constitute a back cover. The second unit form B on the front surface side can form a printed contents page for example. Accordingly, one notebook 50 consisting of a single unit form group 46 may include at least 50 inner paper sheets giving at least 50 pages of unit form 1, unit form 2, - - - , unit form 50 on each of the front and back surface sides and totally at least 100 pages on both surface sides. It is also possible that one zigzag-folded notebook including a plurality of unit form groups without separation constitutes a notebook having plural times of volume as that of a notebook 50 comprising a single unit form group.
Anyway, the zigzag-folded notebook 50 allows spread-reading of reading and checking data described on the notebook in a spread state and therefore in a wider area, thus giving a better scrutinizing efficiency.
By the way, a notebook 50 of a unit form group can be modified by bonding a thick paper for a cover onto each of unit form A and unit form Z on the front surface side of the continuous web form 12 to provide a zigzag-folded notebook with a front and back cover pages. Such a zigzag-folded notebook of so-called “houchouori” is suitable for spread-reading of a supra, the Bible, a long speech manuscript, etc.
Moreover, in one notebook or a plurality of notebooks, each of unit forms 12a, 12b, . . . connected in succession in a zigzag-folded state for constituting a notebook 50 may have a note face made up as shown in
The index columns 49 are provided, e.g. as solid printed images at side edges of unit forms 12a, 12b, . . . , and a common index is given to an identical row of a group of e.g. 10 successive unit forms, such as unit form 1 to unit form 10, unit form 11 to unit form 20, unit form 21 to unit form 30, unit form 31 to unit form 40, or unit form 41 to unit form 50.
Moreover, the indexes 49 may alternatively be given as outlined characters in a colored background instead of printed solid images at side edges of unit form 1-unit form 50. Examples of such outlined characters may for example include names of administrative units, such as states, or names of tourist sites in administrative units on respective unit forms 1 to 50. In that case, supplemental indications regarding the administration unit names or tourist site names, such as names of broader administrative units or country name, may be given as solid printed images on e.g. unit forms 48 to 50. In this case, the row number of the index may be subtracted by a number of corresponding pages. As result, the breakage or omission of any unit forms can be easily found by observation of the index columns.
By the way, the main data area 27 of the unit forms 12a, 12b, . . . , may for example be formed by a multiplicity (e.g. 25) of horizontal ruled lines 31 and a vertical ruled line 32, for example. Among these, the horizontal ruled lines 31 for example may be formed of a succession of relatively fine micro characters. In an example, the uppermost and lowermost horizontal ruled lines among the horizontal ruled lines 31 may be formed of micro characters of 0.7P (point)-1.0P (point), and the remaining horizontal ruled lines 31 may be formed of finer micro characters of 0.3P-0.6P. Fine micro characters forming the horizontal ruled line 31 are difficult to recognize the contents thereof with naked eyes. In case of being copied with an electro-photo graphic copying machine, the micro characters forming the horizontal ruled lines 31 will be collapsed, and reproduction of the characters is impossible, thus preventing falsification to realize a high security.
Moreover, the lowermost horizontal ruled line 31 may be formed of micro characters, of which the sizes are gradually enlarged from an intermediate point toward the end-of-the-line. It is also possible that the end of the lowermost horizontal ruled line 31 are formed of characters of e.g. 3P (size of about 1 mm), which can be recognized by naked eyes.
Moreover, the lowermost horizontal ruled line 31 may also be formed as a horizontal ruled line of characters of which the sizes are decreased from the starting end to an intermediate point. Anyway, it is desirable from a discernment function that the lowermost horizontal ruled line 31 in the main data area 27 is formed of characters, a part of which is enlarged in size.
Alternatively, it is also possible that the uppermost and lowermost horizontal ruled lines 31 of micro characters of identical sizes as the other horizontal ruled lines.
In the above, there has been described an embodiment of using endless belt-shaped printing plates 13 (13a, 13c) of the first printer 18 and the third printer 21 for printing on back (or front) surface and front (or back) surface, respectively, of the continuous web form 12, zigzag-folding up the thus-printed continuous web form 12 by a zigzag-folder 44 to form a group of a preset number of successive unit forms 46, and cutting the continuous web form 12 for every one or plural groups of successive unit forms to produce a notebook 50 comprising one or plural groups of zigzag-folded unit forms.
In the above-described embodiment, the front and back surfaces of the continuous web form 12 may be printed with inks of identical colors or different colors. However, it is impossible to change the color of ink for printing the respective unit forms 12a, 12b, . . . on the back (or front) surface of the continuous web form 12 from an intermediate point, or perform a multi-color printing. It is however possible to change the color of ink for printing on the back (or front) surface of the continuous web form 12 from an intermediate point, or perform a multi-color printing, if a number of printers corresponding to a number of ink colors required for printing on one (i.e. front or back) surface of the continuous web form 12 are used and they are operated according to an appropriate schedule of operation.
A second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to
The second embodiment is obtained by covering a notebook 50 produced by the notebook manufacturing apparatus 10 according to the above-mentioned first embodiment with a book cover 60. The book cover 60 is formed as a makeup cover made of a resin, a skin, a pasteboard, a wood, etc., as shown in
Moreover, as shown in
Furthermore, in the spread state of the book cover 60 (as shown in
When the book cover 60 storing the notebook 50 is conveyed or spread open, as the notebook 50 is not in a form of booklet prepared by firm binding but has been prepared by zigzag folding-up, the inside papers forming folded unit forms of the notebook 50 can be freely spread and not constrained about intermediate spreading or falling. In this second embodiment, in order to hold the notebook 50 stably in the book cover 60, stoppers 72 and 73 are provided on the base sides of the front cover 61 and the back cover 62, so that non-intentional spreading or falling of intermediate unit forms of the notebook 50 is prevented. The stoppers 72 and 73 may be disposed at at least one part on the base sides of the front cover 61 and the back cover 62, respectively.
Although an embodiment of disposing stoppers 72 and 73 on the base sides of the book cover 60 is explained above, the stoppers 72 and 73 can also be disposed on both top and base sides.
In the above, embodiments of the present invention suitable for using a notebook 50 as a research-and-development note or a technical development note have been mainly described, but such a notebook 50 is also utilizable for use as a risk management note or an information control note.
An example of such a risk management has been proposed to have a note face of each unit form including columns for fill in necessary data for personal arrangement or self-control, such as various assets, liabilities, illness, and care, information for the life of every day, etc. Details of contents therein may be available in, e.g., “moshimo note” (roughly meaning a provident note)”, written by Michiko Susai, published from Life and Ending Center (a non-profit organization) (2004).
Moreover, as an example of an information control note, it may be possible to refer to “EVER NOTE”, written by Shinya Kita, published from K.K. Gijutsu Hyouron-sha (2011), which has proposed a note face of each unit form including an information arrangement column for collecting information of concern, an information processing column, an information check column, an information application column, etc.
Furthermore, while there has been described an embodiment wherein a notebook manufacturing apparatus is used to successively produce one or plural group(s) of unit forms successively from a continuous web form, it is also possible to use a type of notebook manufacturing apparatus using a wide endless belt-shaped printing plate for printing on a continuous web form having a large width to produce plural (e.g. two) groups of unit forms in parallel.
Moreover, in the above-described first embodiment, there has been described an embodiment wherein, in the printing on both surfaces of a continuous web form by using a first printer 18 and a third printer 21 (i.e., except for a second printer 19 for printing watermarks), an essentially identical pattern of printing (except for a possible change in order of printing on unit forms) is performed on both surfaces. It is however not essential that the contents of printing on both surfaces of the continuous web form performed using the first printer 18 and the third printer 21 are identical. Particularly, it is possible to restrict the printing of ruled lines formed of a succession of micro characters to only one of both surfaces and perform a simple printing, such as printing of only management data and without including micro characters, on the other surface.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-206367 | Oct 2013 | JP | national |
