Patent · US Expired

Apparatus and method for developing a photographic emulsion carrier

US6461062B2 · kind B2 · utility

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10Claims

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Assignee

Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

Walter Hofmuth · Munich, DE
Anton Pirmann · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 10, 2001
Grant date	Oct 8, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 10, 2021

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03D3/132
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An apparatus and method for developing a s photographic emulsion carrier in a plurality of processing tanks through which the emulsion carrier travels in succession, with at least one rotatable roller, the photographic emulsion carrier having a front section and an end section and the roller being arranged such that an end section of the photographic emulsion carrier comes into contact with the roller while travelling from a first to a second processing tank, the direction of rotation of the roller being designed so that the roller can wipe the end section in a direction is away from the emulsion carrier.

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