Imaging apparatus with moveable media guide
AssigneeCarestream Health, Inc.
InventorTroy A. Giese
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus including a media supply, a transport path, a supply path for transporting sheets of photothermographic imaging media from the media supply to the transport path, a drive roller driving sheets of imaging media along the supply path, and a media guide moveable from a normally closed position to an open position to provide a continuous surface for moving a sheet of imaging media from the supply path onto the transport path in a first direction along the transport path, and wherein the media guide is moveable from the open position to the normally closed position upon the entire sheet of imaging media being moved onto the transport path to block the sheet of imaging media from entering the supply path when moving along the transport path in a direction opposite the first direction.
Claims20
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- a media supply;
- a transport path;
- a supply path for transporting sheets of photothermographic imaging media from the media supply to the transport path;
- a drive roller driving sheets of photothermographic imaging media along the supply path;
- and
- a moveable media guide positioned at a junction of the supply path with the transport path, wherein the media guide is moveable from a normally closed position to an open position to provide a continuous surface for moving a sheet of photothermographic imaging media from the supply path onto the transport path in a first direction along the transport path, and wherein the media guide is moveable from the open position to the normally closed position upon the entire sheet of photothermographic imaging media being moved onto the transport path to block the sheet of photothermographic imaging media from entering the supply path when moving along the transport path in a direction opposite the first direction.
A method of transporting film in an imaging apparatus, the method comprising:
- positioning a moveable media guide at a junction of a supply path with a transport path;
- driving a sheet of film from a media source along the supply path to the transport path;
- moving the media guide from a normally closed position to an open position to provide a continuous surface for moving the sheet of film from the supply path onto the transport path in a first direction along the transport path;
- and
- moving the media guide from the open position to the normally closed position upon the entire sheet of photothermographic imaging media being moved onto the transport path to block the sheet of photothermographic imaging media from entering the supply path when moving along the transport path in a direction opposite the first direction.
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- a transport path;
- a supply path transporting sheets of media from a media supply to the transport path;
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- a media guide disposed at a junction of the supply path with the media path and moveable between a normally closed position and an open position, wherein the media guide, when in the open position, provides a continuous surface for supporting a sheet of media being transported along the supply path and being transferred from the supply path onto the transport path in a first direction along the transport path, and when in the closed position, blocks the sheet of media from entering the supply path when being transported along the transport path in a direction opposite the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.