Automatic processer
AssigneeKonishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsShigeharu Koboshi, Hiroyuki Kakuhari, Satoru Kuse, Kazuhiro Kobayashi
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Abstract
Disclosed is an automatic processor for processing at least two different kinds of light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials comprising at least one processing tank for commonly processing the light-sensitive materials. The automatic processor is capable of performing developing processing of different kinds of light-sensitive materials simultaneously.
Claims8
An automatic processor operable for simultaneous processing first and second different kinds of light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising
- a common processing tank for commonly processing said light-sensitive material
- first and second different kinds of processing tanks for processing respectively the first and second different kinds of light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials;
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- first and second conveying means operable for conveying said first and second different light-sensitive materials said first and second different kinds of processing tanks at the same time, while excluding said first light-sensitive material from said second tank and said second material from said first tank.
A process for automatically processing different kinds of photographic material including at least a first and a second kind of light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials, in an automatic processor having at least one kind of different processing tanks, one kind of shared processing tanks, and at least two conveying means each operable to convey either said first or said second kind of light sensitive photographic materials;
- said process comprising:
- conveying said first kind of photographic materials through processing tanks containing first processing solutions for processing said first kind of photographic materials and simultaneously;
- conveying said second kind of photographic materials through processing tanks containing second processing solutions for said second kind of photographic materials;
- at least one of said first and said second processing solutions being the same solution and being in said shared processing tanks;
- and at least one of said first and said second processing solutions being different and being contained in said different processing tanks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.