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Processing apparatus

US5198848A · kind A · utility

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3References

10Claims

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Assignee

Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

Jean-Pierre Tahon · Langdorp, BE
Alfons Kastl · Munich, DE
Stefan Osiander · Munich, DE
Horst Koninger

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 17, 1992
Grant date	Mar 30, 1993
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 17, 2012

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03D13/02
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Processing apparatus for image-wise exposed light-sensitive sheets of the DTR-type, which comprises a trough (11) for processing liquid, a sloping entry guide plate (17) for guiding a sheet towards its deepest point, a pair of outlet rollers (16) for pulling a sheet at a uniform speed through the apparatus and for squeezing liquid from it and replenishing means for keeping a processing liquid in the trough at a controlled level, which apparatus is provided with a floating cover (25) arranged for floating on the free surface of the processing liquid, and means for maintaining between the rear edge of the floating cover and the rear end of the trough a space (41) sufficient to allow unhindered passage of a processed sheet towards the outlet rollers.

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