Dark box for storage of exposed light sensitive sheets

US5358115A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Gerald Pietsch · Kaufbeuren, DE
• Helmut Schausberger

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 8, 1993
• Grant date: Oct 25, 1994
• Expiry date: Nov 8, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03B42/045
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A dark box which has at least one sealable opening and whose internal chamber can be divided into a desired number of compartments for stacks of identical or differently dimensioned and/or shaped sheets of exposed radiation sensitive material such as X-ray films, photographic paper, photographic film or others. The dark box can be inserted into the dark room of an apparatus which is designed to simultaneously withdraw two or more sheets from the inserted dark box and to transport the withdrawn sheets toward or into a developing machine of the type capable of simultaneously processing two or more rows of sheets. If the machine must be confined in a dark chamber, the apparatus is equipped or combined with an adapter which prepares simultaneously withdrawn sheets for admission into the developing machine.