Processing and treating device for x-ray film cassettes

US4908514A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Walter Bauer · Munich, DE
• Jurgen Muller · Wulfen, DE
• Volkmar Voigtlander · Eichenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 14, 1988
• Grant date: Mar 13, 1990
• Expiry date: Sep 14, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03B42/02
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A handling device for X-ray film cassettes with a sheet shaped receiving material sensitive to X-rays comprises an input slot for introducing a cassette, a separate output slot for removing a cassette, the input and output slots extending substantially in the vertical direction, a cassette input stack container for accommodating cassettes to be inserted into the input slot and associated with the latter, and a cassette output stack container for receiving cassettes withdrawn from the output slot and associated with the latter, the input stack container having a bottom surface which extends downwardly towards the input slot and a rearwardly inclined rear wall which borders and aligns with the input slot, the input stack container being provided with transporting unit for a first cassette accommodated in a cassette stack and having its end side aligned with the input slot, the output stack container also having a rearwardly inclined rear wall and a downwardly forwardly inclined bottom surface provided with a catching railing for the cassettes.