摘要:
Apparatus for recording data on X-ray films which are stored in cassettes having windows for exposure of certain portions of films therein includes a housing with two slots for insertion of cards with information pertaining to the patient and/or physician. The housing confines a battery of liquid crystals and an associated digital clock, digital calendar and digital counter each adapted to be actuated from the exterior of the housing to cause the corresponding liquid crystals to furnish the selected information. Such information, together with information on one of the cards, is imaged onto the exposed portion of X-ray film in the properly inserted cassette by a partly light transmitting mirror and an optical element. The images of the liquid crystals are inverted depending upon whether the X-ray film bears a postero-anterior or an antero-posterior picture of a patient's chest to thus ensure that the recorded data can be read while the physician looks at the developed film in a manner as is customary for examination of X-ray pictures. The liquid crystals can be illuminated by a discrete light source so that the light source which illuminates the data cards inserted into the housing need not be selected with a view to properly illuminate the liquid crystals and vice versa.
摘要:
An arrangement is disclosed for projecting an identifying image from a data carrier on to a film in a cassette provided with a window which may be sealed against light. The arrangement has an opening mechanism for pushing a cover for the window open and closed. The arrangement further has a projection mechanism and switch means for triggering the opening mechanism and the exposure. The opening mechanism has an engaging device which is guided on a carriage and engages the window cover. The engaging device, which is held in engagement with the window cover via a spring, may be disengaged from the same in any position of the carriage by means of a lifting mechanism. The lifting mechanism has a crank which is connected with the engaging device and is operable from externally.
摘要:
An arrangement for closing and opening a film sheet cassette, particularly an X-ray film cassette, has a bottom element, and a top element provided with a projection and movable relative to the bottom element between closed and open positions. A sliding element is provided having a projection engageable with the projection of the top element in the closed position, and disengageable from the same in the open position. A spring member urges the sliding element into and retains the same in engagement with the projection of the top element in the closed position. An elastic detent element retains the sliding element when the latter is disengaged from the projection of the top element in the open position. The elastic detent element is actuated by the top element when the latter moves from the open position into the closed position, so that the sliding element ceases to be retained by the elastic detent element and is urged by the spring into the engagement of the projection of the top element.
摘要:
An arrangement for supplying unexposed X-ray films to a handling apparatus, such as a cassette unloading and loading apparatus, includes a channel member bounding a channel into which a receptacle unit including an inner receptacle member and an outer tubular casing member can be introduced. The casing member is shiftable relative to the receptacle member so as to respectively cover and uncover a withdrawing opening of the receptacle member in its closed and open relative position. At least one arresting device is provided which arrests the members in their closed position. The arresting device is released by a releasing device mounted on the channel member when the receptacle unit reaches its releasing position in the channel. Then, the casing member is retained in the releasing position, and the receptacle member continues its movement until it reaches its open position. During the extraction of the receptacle unit from the channel, the releasing device initially retains the casing member, so that the receptacle member reaches its closed position first, and only then is the extraction of the entire receptacle unit commenced. The arresting device includes a biased rocking element having a detaining projection engaging in a recess of the receptacle member. A biased operating pin of the releasing device acts through an aperture of the casing member on the rocking element.
摘要:
A sheet film processing apparatus for sheet film including a housing for holding a re-loadable film, and having an upper surface and a back surface, developing equipment including developing tanks with developing fluid, arranged above the upper surface, a housing cover for covering the developing equipment in a light impervious manner, elements for leading the film to the developing device, a fluid collector basin located between the developing tank and the upper surface for catching any developing fluid which may fall from the developing equipment, a waste water tank provided at the back surface, and a plurality of drain hoses connecting the tanks and the collector basin with the waste water tank so as to lead the developing fluid to the waste water tank. This leads to a particularly compact construction which is easily accessible for servicing.
摘要:
A cassette for sheet film has a cover and a bottom which are hinged to one another along a longitudinal edge of the cassette. Locking elements for locking the cover and bottom when the cassette is closed are arranged at the opposite longitudinal edge of the cassette. The cover and bottom cooperate to define a film compartment and the bottom has a rigid, flat wall for supporting a sheet of film. The cover has a window for exposing the film in the compartment and is further provided with a slot which slidably receives a shield for protecting the film against light until such time as the film is to be exposed. A resilient rim is mounted on the cover and extends around the window. The rim is arranged to press the margins of the film against the rigid wall of the bottom when the cassette is closed. The hinged connection of the cover and the bottom causes the rim to contact the film progressively as the cassette is closed so that the rim stretches the film flat over the rigid wall of the bottom. The pressure of the rim on the margins of the film after the cassette has been closed insures that the film remains flat regardless of the orientation of the cassette.
摘要:
Apparatus for admitting sheets of unexposed X-ray film into and for removing sheets of exposed X-ray film from cassettes of the type having two pivotally connected sections which are separably locked to each other has a housing with a wall which is pivotable to and from an open position in which a cassette containing a sheet of exposed film is inserted into the housing so that one of its sections lies against a pivotable partition while the latter assumes a first position to thereby seal a cassette-receiving first compartment from a second compartment of the housing. A mechanism is actuated in the closed position of the wall to unlock the cassette in the first compartment and to hold the other section of such cassette against movement with the partition. The partition is thereupon pivoted to a lowermost position, together with the one section of the cassette, so that the exposed sheet can descend by gravity into a tray in the second compartment. On its way back to the first position, the partition moves the one section into the range of a suction head which transfers an unexposed sheet from a tray in the second compartment into the space between the two sections. The cassette is locked and its other section detached from the mechanism when the partition returns to its first position, and the locked cassette is removed from the first compartment on movement of the wall to open position.
摘要:
An X-ray film cassette has body and cover parts movable relative to one another between open and closed positions and provided with locking elements, magnetic and counter plates associated with these parts and attractable to one another, at least one reinforcing foil arranged to be brought together with a film between the magnetic and counter plates, wherein the reinforcing foil has a surface arranged to face toward the film and being rough with a roughness of between 10 and 60 microns.
摘要:
A cassette with two chambers for discrete cut films has a centrally disposed plate-like partition with two identical sides, and a pair of identical covers each of which is adjacent to a different side of the partition and is pivotably attached to the partition by a hinge for movement between an open and a closed position. The covers have exposure apertures and carry slidable plate-like shutters which can slide in slots of the respective covers to permit or prevent entry of light by way of the respective apertures. The film chambers are separated from each other by the central portion of the partition, and the latter further carries locks for releasably holding the covers in their closed positions. The lock for one of the covers is provided at that side of the partition which is adjacent to the other cover, and vice versa. The hinge or hinges for one of the covers are provided on a first marginal portion of the substantially rectangular partition, and the lock for such one cover is provided on a second marginal portion which is parallel to the first marginal portion. The hinge or hinges and the lock for the other cover are respectively provided on the second and first marginal portions of the partition.
摘要:
Apparatus for developing latent images of X-rayed objects on dielectric receptor sheets has a carrier which advances receptor sheets along a circular path about a horizontal axis. A tank with an open top is installed below the six o'clock position of the carrier and contains a horizontal developing electrode having narrow elongated channels extending in parallelism with the axis of the carrier. A pump draws liquid developer from a vessel in which the tank is confined and admits the developer into the bottom zone of the tank wherein the developer rises to fill and flow above the channels of the electrode and to thereby contact the latent image of a sheet on the moving carrier. The surplus of liquid developer overflows the upper edge of the tank and returns into the vessel. The electrode is movable up and down by rotary eccentrics to thereby influence the development of latent images, especially the development of outlines of dark portions of the images.