Patent · US Expired

Photographic printing apparatus having multiple film entry points

US5767943A · kind A · utility

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13Claims

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Assignee

Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

Knut Oberhardt · Holzkirchen, DE
Edmund Mangold · Ohlstadt, DE
Bernhard Lorenz · Marzling, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 16, 1996
Grant date	Jun 16, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 16, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03D13/003
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Photographic printing apparatus is disclosed with a common guidance and transport device for the films. Several entry points are adapted in size and shape to various films and/or cartridges. Each of these input points has a separate guidance and transport device. A transfer station is provided which transports the films from the guidance and transport devices of the entry points into the common guidance and transport device through the printing apparatus.

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