Developing device for a horizontally, transported photographic layer carrier

US4577949A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Erwin Geyken
• Franz Heckl · Senden, DE
• Alfons Kastl · Munich, DE
• Klaus Lehnert · Hammersbach, DE
• Rudolf Loistl · Unterhaching, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 30, 1984
• Grant date: Mar 25, 1986
• Expiry date: Nov 30, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03D5/04
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A developing device for a photographic layer carrier, particularly a film, includes two rotary transport roller pairs transporting a film in a horizontal direction over a bath containing a processing liquid. Two liquid-admitting chambers are positioned opposite to each other in spaced relationship to form a processing space through which the film is transported. Each chamber is subdivided into two portions by a comb-like partition which loosens vortexes generated in one chamber portion upon pumping the liquid thereinto and ensures a uniform distribution of the liquid discharged into the processing space through a slot provided in the second chamber portion.