Microfilm pickup camera with marking means for screened originals
AssigneeAfga-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsWalter Gutmann, Gerhard Schreiner, Wolfram Betzold, Wilfried Hofmann, Traugott Liermann, Klaus Schiessl
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Abstract
A microfilm pickup camera comprises a device for continually horizontally transporting originals to be projected in the camera through the camera, and an ink printing head for marking originals before they enter an exposure station provided in the camera. The ink printing head is provided with a drive which pivots, rotates and displaces the ink printing head between a use position, a cleaning position and a non-operative position. The printing head is EDV-controlled.
Claims18
A microfilm pickup camera, comprising transport means for transporting originals to be reduced inserted into the camera so that each original is continually horizontally moved within the camera;
- an exposure station for a reduced projection of the originals;
- and marking means for marking originals before they reach said exposure station, said marking means including an ink spraying head controlled by a computer and directed in a use position (I) approximately vertically downwardly relative to a horizontally movable original (2), said head having nozzles and being rotatable to a cleaning position (II), and a diaphragm cover (25), said head being also rotatable and displaceable relative to said diaphragm cover to an inoperative position (III) to protect said nozzles from dry ink residuals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.