Automatic developing apparatus for processing silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material
AssigneeKonica Corporation
InventorsKenji Ishida, Hiroshi Yoshimoto
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Abstract
An automatic developing apparatus for processing an exposed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material with a processing solution comprises a processing tank containing the processing solution, a replenishing processing solution tank in which a replenishing processing solution is prepared by dissolving a processing tablet, tablet dissolving means provided in the replenishing processing solution tank, means for detecting the dissolution of the tablet and means for supplying the replenishing processing solution to the processing tank.
Claims19
An automatic developing apparatus for processing an exposed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material with a processing solution comprising:
- a processing tank containing the processing solution;
- a replenishing processing solution tank in which a replenishing processing solution is prepared by dissolving a processing tablet having a bulk density of 1.0 to 2.5 g/cm.sup.3 ;
- tablet dissolving means provided in the replenishing processing solution tank;
- means for detecting the dissolution of the tablet;
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- means for supplying the replenishing processing solution to the processing tank.
An automatic developing apparatus for processing an exposed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising:
- a color developer tank containing color developer;
- a replenishing color developer tank in which replenishing color developer is prepared by dissolving a tablet for color developer having a bulk density of 1.0 to 2.5 g/cm.sup.3 ;
- tablet dissolving means provided in the replenishing color developer tank;
- means for detecting the dissolution of the tablet for color developer;
- means for supplying the replenishing color developer to the color developer tank;
- a bleach tank containing bleach;
- a replenishing bleach tank in which replenishing bleach is prepared by dissolving a tablet for bleach having a bulk density of 1.0 to 2.5 g/cm.sup.3 ;
- tablet dissolving means provided in the replenishing bleach tank;
- means for detecting the dissolution of the tablet for bleach;
- means for supplying the replenishing bleach to the bleach tank;
- a stabilizer tank containing stabilizer;
- a replenishing stabilizer tank in which replenishing stabilizer is prepared by dissolving a tablet for stabilizer having a bulk density of 1.0 to 2.5 g/cm.sup.3 ;
- tablet dissolving means provided in the replenishing stabilizer tank;
- means for detecting the dissolution of the tablet for stabilizer;
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- means for supplying the replenishing stabilizer to the stabilizer tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.