Roll holder for photographic processors
AssigneePako Corporation
InventorWilliam B. Kellett
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Abstract
An adjustable roll holding rack particularly designed to facilitate width adjustment and loading in a dark room atmosphere and including a pair of adjustable roll holding brackets each having a generally G-shaped spindle receiving slot for journalling in captured relationship the roll mounting pins on which the supply rolls of strip material to be processed are carried and each bracket being provided with a wide mouth entrance leading into said slot to guide the spool spindle into the slot for easy loading in the dark room atmosphere, said brackets also including supporting arms adapted to be securely anchored in the desired adjusted spaced apart relation to accommodate rolls of different widths of strip material, with means for releasably holding the brackets in the desired adjusted position.
Claims8
A roll holder for mounting supply rolls of photographic strip material to be processed, said holder comprising:
- a transversely extending fixed mounting rod,
- a fixed adjustment element spaced rearwardly from said mounting rod,
- a pair of laterally extending roll mounting pin elements for journaling a supply roll of photographic strip material to be processed,
- a pair of spaced apart roll holding brackets, each bracket including:
- a hub element rotatably and slidably mounted on said transverse mounting rod,
- a roll mounting arm fixed to said hub element and extending forwardly therefrom,
- an anchoring arm fixed to said hub element and extending rearwardly therefrom and having an interlocking element adjustably connected to said adjustment element to anchor the bracket in the desired spaced apart from the other bracket of said pair,
- said roll mounting arm including a pin receiving slot oriented to rotatably mount in captured relationship the mounting pins on which a roll of strip material to be processed is carried.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.