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US 4,541,625 AGranted
Sheet film supply apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNaoki Yuguchi, Keiichi Kawasaki
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Abstract
An apparatus removably mountable on an X-ray image photographing apparatus for supplying sheet films to the photographing apparatus is provided with an outlet, a chamber for holding a number of sheet films, a slit having a gap of such dimension into which a sheet film may enter, a transport member for transporting the outermost sheet to the outlet and prior to said transport, transporting that sheet film toward the slit, and a pressing member for downwardly curving the end of the remaining sheet films which is adjacent to the outlet.
Claims17
A supply apparatus, comprising:
- support means for supporting a plurality of sheets;
- an outlet for feeding out an uppermost sheet of said sheets therethrough, said outlet being provided at one end side of said support means;
- means for forming a gap of such dimension into which an end of the uppermost sheet opposite to said outlet may enter, said gap forming means being provided at a second end side of said support means opposite to said outlet;
- slide means for sliding the uppermost sheet into said gap;
- spacing means disposed on at least one side of said gap forming means with respect to a direction perpendicular to the direction along which said outlet and said gap forming means are provided to space the uppermost sheet apart from the remaining sheets while the uppermost sheet is slid by said slide means;
- and
- carrying means for carrying the uppermost sheet to said outlet from said gap.
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A sheet feeder, comprising:
- means for supporting a plurality of sheets;
- an outlet for feeding out an uppermost sheet of said sheets therethrough, said outlet being provided at one end side of said support means;
- separating means, providing a space to allow entrance of an end of the uppermost sheet opposite to said outlet, for separating the uppermost sheet from the plurality of sheets, said separating means being provided at the other end side of said supporting means opposite to said outlet;
- first moving means for moving the uppermost sheet to said space;
- means for raising both corner sides of said end of the uppermost sheet from the plurality of sheets while the uppermost sheet is moved by said first moving means;
- and
- second moving means for moving the uppermost sheet away from the space toward said outlet by pushing said end of the uppermost sheet opposite to said outlet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.