Device for removing image recording material
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshinori Kawamura, Tsukasa Ono, Kazuoki Komiyama, Takashi Koizumi, Yoshihiro Koyanagi
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Abstract
A device for removing an image recording material is provided, which takes up little space and is used with printing plates and interleaf sheets set alternately in a cassette. An interleaf sheet and a printing plate are taken out simultaneously. In the midst of being conveyed along a conveying path leading to an exposure section, only the interleaf sheet is sucked by a fan or drawn-in between a roller pair so as to be peeled off from the printing plate. The peeled-off interleaf sheet is discarded, and the printing plate is conveyed reliably to the exposure section.
Claims16
A device for removing an image recording material in order to feed an image recording material out to a subsequent process from a cassette which accommodates, in an alternately stacked state, image recording materials, in each of which an image recording surface is provided on a support, and interleaf sheets, each of which is thin-film-like and protects the image recording surface, said image recording material removing device comprising:
- a take-out device for simultaneously taking out from the cassette a pair of the image recording material and the interleaf sheet in a state in which the interleaf sheet is superposed on top of the image recording material;
- a conveying device for conveying the image recording material and the interleaf sheet, which have been taken out by the take-out device, along a predetermined conveying path to the subsequent process;
- a peeling device which peels the interleaf sheet from the image recording material while the interleaf sheet and the image recording material, which have been simultaneously taken-out, are in the midst of being conveyed along the conveying path to the subsequent process by the conveying device;
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- an interleaf sheet discarding device for discarding the interleaf sheet, which has been peeled off, along a path which is different from the conveying path to the subsequent process.
A method comprising:
- taking out from a cassette a pair of an image recording material and an interleaf sheet simultaneously in a state in which the interleaf sheet is superposed on top of the image recording material using a take-out device;
- conveying the image recording material and the interleaf sheet, which have been taken out by the take-out device, along a predetermined conveying path to the subsequent process using a conveying device;
- peeling the interleaf sheet using a peeling device, from the image recording material while the interleaf sheet and the image recording material, which have been simultaneously taken-out, are in the midst of being conveyed along the conveying path to the subsequent process by the conveying device;
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- discarding the interleaf sheet, which has been peeled off, along a path which is different from the conveying path to the subsequent process using an interleaf sheet discarding device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.