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Image transfer apparatus

US5408297A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 17, 1994
Grant dateApr 18, 1995
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Expiry dateMay 17, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03F3/102
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An image transfer apparatus, which comprises a platen (8) to which an image-forming material is to be attached and a transfer cylinder (1) to which an image receptor is to be attached, and which is for transferring an image formed in a photosensitive layer of an image-forming material to an image receptor by the introduction of the image-forming material and the image receptor into a nip formed by the platen and the transfer cylinder by the rotation of the platen and the transfer cylinder, the apparatus having an image-forming material attaching device comprising a device for holding the top end side of the image receptor to a platen surface along the entire width of the image receptor and a device for holding the bottom end side of the image receptor to a platen surface along the entire width of the image receptor, the device for holding the top end side being a pin bar (13) having pins protruded from an inside of a blanket (10) in a slope portion (12) continued from a partial cut-off portion formed in the platen.

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