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Photographic film conveying device

US6538718B2 · kind B2 · utility

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11Claims
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Filing dateJun 5, 2001
Grant dateMar 25, 2003
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Expiry dateJun 9, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B27/50
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

To achieve for a photographic film conveying device that no external force causing conveying speed to vary is applied to a photographic film during image reading, after a preceding photographic film is discharged from a reading conveying path, the time until a subsequent photographic film is conveyed to the reading conveying path is not long, or even if a photographic film set in a film supplying section is elongate, image reading of photographic films by an image reading section can be carried out efficiently, there is provided a photographic film conveying device comprising a section setting a discharge conveying section in a withdrawn state or a conveying state, a section controlling conveying of preceding and subsequent photographic films, or a section switching a conveying path of a photographic film.

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