Patent · US Expired

Method of and apparatus for drying for film developing device

US5228210A · kind A · utility

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10References

20Claims

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Assignee

Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

Walter Hofmuth · Munich, DE
Rudolf Loistl · Unterhaching, DE
Helmut Schausberger
Alfons Kastl · Munich, DE
Jurgen Mueller · Olpe, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 11, 1991
Grant date	Jul 20, 1993
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 11, 2011

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03D15/027
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method of drying a developed, wet sheet carrier, especially an X-ray film after passing through a development device includes passing the sheet carrier through a dryer which has several infrared radiators arranged along the path of the sheet carrier at its both sides and reflectors provided at the side away from the sheet carrier and deflecting the infrared radiator to the facing side of the sheet carrier. The method is performed so that a main stream is supplied at both sides of the sheet carrier at the rear side of the reflectors, a partial air stream is supplied between each infrared radiator and the sheet carrier, and then each partial air stream is united with the main air stream so that the temperature and the moisture of the main air stream increases in a flow direction.

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