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US 7,367,266 B2Granted
Plate feeding apparatus
AssigneeDainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.
InventorsMorihiro Takeda, Hiroshi Miyoshi
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Abstract
A plate feeding apparatus includes a multi-cassette unit for storing, in a stacked state, a plurality of cassettes storing plates, a loader unit for fetching from each cassette plates to be fed to an image recorder, and a plate feed unit disposed above the multi-cassette unit to be tiltable about a horizontal axis in a state of having a portion thereof vertically overlapping the multi-cassette unit.
Claims5
A plate feeding apparatus for feeding plates to an image recorder, comprising:
- a multi-cassette unit for storing, in a stacked state, a plurality of cassettes storing the plates;
- a loader unit for fetching from each of said cassettes the plates to be fed to the image recorder;
- a first horizontal moving mechanism for horizontally moving the cassettes stored in said multi-cassette unit between said multi-cassette unit and said loader unit;
- a lift mechanism for vertically moving the cassettes horizontally moved by said first horizontal moving mechanism to a plate feed position for feeding the plates to said image recorder;
- a plate feed unit disposed above said multi-cassette unit to be tiltable about a horizontal axis in a state of having a portion thereof vertically overlapping said multi-cassette unit;
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- a second horizontal moving mechanism for horizontally moving said cassettes between said loader unit and said plate feed unit.
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