Photographic processing station with cleaning rollers
AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorsPatrick Van den Bergen, Luc De Roeck, Rony Van Bouwel
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Abstract
A photographic processor for treating an image-wise exposed photographic sheet material with a processing liquid, which comprises: developing (12), a fixing (13) and a rinsing (14) station, driven pressure roller pairs (21, 22, 23, 24, 25) in the rinsing station for conveying sheet material through a body of rinsing water in said station, the lower rollers of the roller pairs dipping completely in the liquid and the upper rollers dipping only partially therein, and cleaning rollers (26, 27, 29) with a circumferential covering of a pile fabric, which are in frictional contact with the upper rollers of said roller pairs, and the peripheral speed of which is equal to that of the corresponding upper roller(s).
Claims16
Photographic processor for treating an image-wise exposed photographic sheet material with a processing liquid, which comprises:
- a rinsing station (14) for containing a body of rinsing water,
- replenishing means (56, 57) for adding fresh rinsing water to said station,
- driven pressure roller pairs (21, 22, 23, 24, 25) for conveying said sheet material through said body of rinsing water, and
- at least one cleaning roller (26, 27, 29) with a circumferential covering of a pile fabric (34), which is in frictional contact with at least one roller of a roller pair of said pressure roller pairs, and the peripheral speed of which is equal to that of said at least one roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.