Abstract:
Apparatus for processing photographic materials is disclosed and more specifically equipment for turnaround during processing of an elongated web of photographic material at the midportion of a processing operation, the web being guided in part by inner and outer rollers with endless belts for guiding the web in an arcuate path.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an improvement in an apparatus for developing printing plates comprising pairs of upper and lower rolls adapted to convey said printing plates, bearing means at each end of each upper roll, and toggle lever means adapted to raise and lower said upper rolls with respect to said lower rolls, the improvement comprising a plurality of pivotal forked head means each having an upper and lower arm adapted to engage each of said bearing means, swivel shaft means supporting said forked head means and being parallel to the conveying direction of said printing plates, said upper arms of said forked head means being adapted to exert pressure on the top of said bearing means when said bearing means is in a lowered position, and said lower arms of said forked head means being adapted to support said bearing means in a raised position, means connecting one end of a toggle lever means to each forked head means, and means connecting the other end of said toggle lever means to a rotatable control shaft means which is parallel to the conveying direction of said printing plates.
Abstract:
An automatic photographic film processor or like device for treating sheets of materials of the type provided with a plurality of approximately equal-length, annularly arranged parallel rollers positioned in longitudinally contacting relation to form the periphery of a chamber adapted to contain a processing solution, fluid-tight seals being provided between the ends of such rollers and flat side plates. The rollers are each comprised of a rigid shaft having a resilient covering of a thickness at least comparable to that of the roller shaft. The end of the roller and the side plate are contoured so that a portion of the roller adjacent to the outer diameter thereof provides a seal when brought into flush contact with the side plate. This contouring also permits the rollers to be longitudinally compressed to assist in providing the seal, while providing strain relief to the roller end in the vicinity of the shaft.
Abstract:
An X-ray film processor comprises a developing station, fixing station, rinsing station and drying station compactly arranged in a casing. Gear driven rollers transport the films continuously from a feed slot at the front of the casing, through the processing and drying stations and out of a discharge slot which faces forwardly but is above and back of the feed slot. The films are discharged onto an illuminated viewing screen located above the developing and fixing stations. The transport rollers are arranged in sets, one for each of the processing stations, which can be readily removed as a unit for cleaning, servicing or replacement. A system for continuously supplying fresh water to the rinsing station during operation prevents entry of contaminants back into the supply line. The drying station is located above the rinsing station and has a single heater and single fan so arranged in cooperation with the transport system as to dry both sides of the films.
Abstract:
A transport roller rack highly efficient in use of power, especially suitable for photographic film developing machines. The rack combines transport rollers in staggered, non-nip forming configuration, with a power gear train having coaxial power tap-offs to clusters of roller driving gears.Each cluster has its own cluster drive gear, which is coaxially rotated by a larger power gear.Roller driving gears belonging to adjoining clusters also mesh with each other, thereby uniting these clusters into a continuous train of intermeshing roller driving gears.Also, the method of transporting film by the use of this rack.
Abstract:
This invention provides a U-shaped pathway for cut film and prints as the cut sheets are automatically moved in a prescribed manner, path and speed through a processing tank or tanks. This transport is between rollers which are spaced from each other sufficiently so that any potential squeezing or pressing on the emulsion surface of the film is safely absent. Large rollers are arranged in three vertical columns and provide the down and up travel path of the film. At the bottom of this transport path a large roller provides an inside guide for the film. A series of small rollers provide an outer guide path for the U-shaped transport section of film. These small rollers are driven as are all the other rollers but this outer U-guide is formed of short rollers arranged in an intermeshed pattern to provide a closely guided contour. Short small rollers are carried in spaced array on common shafts. Like sized rollers in a like spaced array on an adjacent shaft are mounted so as to fill the provided spaces between the rollers so that in intermeshed arrangement the driving contact surfaces provided by the rollers are spaced approximately one-half the diameter of the small rollers.
Abstract:
Apparatus forming a circuitous passageway in a copying device comprising a large diameter squeeze roller and a plurality of smaller diameter squeeze rollers of a smaller width pressing against the large diameter squeeze roller. Copy sheets released from the developing liquid tank are introduced one after another into this circuitous passageway to squeeze out the developing liquid from the copy sheets for drying the same and to change the direction of movement of the sheets. The small diameter squeeze rollers are arranged such that one of them or a center squeeze roller is disposed on the center peripheral line of the large diameter squeeze roller near the inlet of the circuitous passageway and the remainder are disposed in two rows symmetrical with respect to the center peripheral line of the large diameter squeeze roller, the two rows of rollers being spaced apart a greater distance toward the opposite edges of the periphery of the large diameter squeeze roller in going from the center squeeze roller in the direction of movement of the copy sheets along the circuitous passageway.
Abstract:
A driving mechanism for roller transporting devices in which spaced pairs of substantially contacting rollers transport material therebetween, said mechanism including a plate actuated for movement in the plane thereof to cause each point of said plate to rotate in a circle of the same diameter and about parallel axes with members on said plate cooperating with cranks on one end of one roller of each pair of rollers to effect rotation of said rollers together with intermeshing spur gears on the rollers at the other ends thereof rotating the other rollers of each pair.
Abstract:
An apparatus for processing two sides of a printing plate. The apparatus includes a chamber for pre-soaking both sides of a printing plate with developer, reciprocatable opposed brushes mounted adjacent the pre-soaking chamber and adapted to contact both sides of the plate, and opposed scrubber pads mounted adjacent the brushes.
Abstract:
The leader of a strip of photographic film which is to advance along one or more arcuate sections of a path extending through the developing solution in a tank is first engaged by a stationary guide surface which is adjacent to the convex side of an arcuate path section and directs the front edge of the leader against the periphery of a driven guide roller which thereupon directs the leader into the nip between a pair of advancing rollers.