Patent · US Expired

Method of processing an exposed photographic material and processing band for carrying out the method

US4399212A · kind A · utility

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5References

21Claims

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Assignee

Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

Immo Boie · Cologne, DE
Hermann Luhrig · Leverkusen, DE
Guido Kovacic · Unkel, DE
Karlheinz Keller · Bettingen, CH

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 1, 1982
Grant date	Aug 16, 1983
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 1, 2002

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03D5/062
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and to a processing band for processing a sheet or strip of photographic material (1) which has been image exposed and is brought into surface contact, in the presence of water, with a carrier (2) which is impregnated with the required processing chemicals. The photographic material (1) which has been image exposed is repeatedly moved along a closed path and brought into surface contact with the processing band (2) along a specified portion of said path in the presence of water, the processing band (2) having at least wo sections with different processing functions (A, B, C . . . ) arranged one behind the other, with which every portion of the photographic material (1) comes successively into contact.

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