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Transport mechanism for a photographic film processor

US4140383A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 10, 1976
Grant dateFeb 20, 1979
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Expiry dateDec 10, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T137/86236
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Apparatus for engaging and moving a film strip through a light-tight processor having tanks of processing chemicals, including a film clip which fastens to the front of the film and which has a rearwardly-facing opening, and a pickup member which enters the opening in the film clip to drag it and the film strip through the tanks of chemicals.

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