Rack for transporting photosensitive material through a bath

US4423947A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Nikolaus Jelinek · Munich, DE
• Hans Ketterer · Putzbrunn, DE
• Helmut Schausberger

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 13, 1982
• Grant date: Jan 3, 1984
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03D3/132
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A transporting device for advancing photosensitive material through a processing bath has an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion has an inlet region via which the photosensitive material is introduced into the bath and an outlet region via which the photosensitive material is withdrawn from the bath. The inlet and outlet regions are located above the level of the bath. The inlet region has a pair of directing rollers which convey and guide the photosensitive material to the lower portion of the transporting device while the outlet region similarly has a pair of directing rollers which convey and guide the photosensitive material away from the lower portion. The lower portion of the transporting device has several sets of transporting rollers which advance the photosensitive material through the bath. The upper and lower portions of the transporting device are designed as separable units. This permits the upper portion, which requires more frequent cleaning than the lower portion, to be removed from the latter for cleaning purposes.