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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7306384 | Processing apparatus for lithographic printing plate and process for processing the same A processing apparatus for a lithographic printing plate, which has a photosensitive material coated thereon and has an image formed with an FM screen or a high definition AM screen, by a developing part and a rinsing part in this order, in which a concavo-convex pa... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7198876 | Method of preparation of lithographic printing plates A method for preparation of a lithographic printing plate, which comprises the steps of: imagewise recording on a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support having a hydrophilic surface and a thermosensitive layer, the thermosensitive layer comprisin... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7168866 | Multi-chamber washing device for photosensitive material A washing bath in a photographic paper processor has plural washing chambers for washing photographic paper with washing water by passage of the photographic paper. Plural cell units are coupled with one another vertically by a modular structure. Each of the cell un... | 01/30/2007 |
| 6946239 | Method of developing photosensitive planographic printing plate A method of developing a photosensitive planographic printing plate which includes a support and a recording layer and which has been exposed to a light beam with a developer, wherein the photosensitive planographic printing plate is immersed in the developer while ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6655860 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus A brush roller is structured such that a web body having wire members is wound in a helical manner around a roller main body to which an axial end member is mounted. A fastening member is mounted to a rotary shaft of the axial end member, and one end of t... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6648524 | Device for removing moisture from sheets of photographic materials A device for removing moisture from individual sheets of a photographic material has a pair of transport rollers at the incoming side and another pair of transport rollers at the exit side of the device. Arranged between the roller pairs is a squeeze-out ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6547461 | Photosensitive material automatic-processing apparatus In a photosensitive material processing apparatus of the present invention, a brush roller used in a pre-water-washing section and a developing section is formed by winding a slender band wherein bristles are woven into a knitted fabric onto the periphera... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6435740 | Photosensitive material processing device In a shutter facing an aperture portion in a partition plate in a photosensitive material processing device, a blocking member, formed substantially in a semicircular cylindrical shape, is placed by the rotation of a shaft between blades thereby closing t... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6076980 | Photographic processor having scrubbing rollers A method and apparatus for processing a photosensitive material. The apparatus includes a narrow processing channel through which a photosensitive material passes. A drive mechanism for transporting of the photosensitive material through the processing ch... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6068414 | Roller for use in a photographic sheet material wet processing apparatus The roller (20) comprises a main body member (31), a shaft (46) fixed to the main body member (31) and extending from one end thereof, and an end member (34) in contact with the main body member (31), characterised in that the end member (34) is mounted o... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5960226 | Roller for use in wet processing apparatus The roller comprises a core (56) having an elastomeric covering which comprises an outer exposed region (60) and an intermediate region (58) positioned between the outer region (60) and the core (56). The outer region (60) has a thickness which decreases ... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5905924 | Replaceable cartridge coating assembly method of coating a photosensitive material using the same The present invention relates to a replaceable coating cartridge and a method of coating at least one surface of a photosensitive material using the replaceable coating cartridge. The method and apparatus can be used in a photographic processing device, a... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5884115 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus A first roller, which contacts a photographic printing paper with the first roller being formed longer than the width of the photographic printing paper, is disposed at the conveying direction downstream side of the photographic printing paper with respec... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5834156 | Method for processing photosensitive material and apparatus therefor A method for processing a photosensitive material characterized in that an exposed photosensitive material is subjected to dip coating with a processing solution, according to which there are no problems encountered in plate making by the conventional dip... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5805949 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus A photosensitive material processing apparatus in which a pair of rollers respectively having water absorbing surface layers is disposed downstream of a washing processing section and the rotating shafts of said rollers are urged in the directions in whic... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5745816 | Roller for use in a photographic sheet material processing apparatus A roller, for use in a photographic sheet material processing apparatus, comprises a core (32) provided with a covering of relatively soft material (34). The roller has a length (L) of from 0.4 to 2.0 m. The core has a maximum diameter (D) of less than 0.... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5689750 | Apparatus for the wet processing of photographic sheet material An apparatus for the wet processing of photographic sheet material comprises at least one treatment vessel (12, 12', 12") having upper and lower openings (17, 18), one of the openings (17) constituting a sheet material inlet and the other of the openings ... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5687419 | Method of processing photographic material and photographic processing apparatus Described herein is a method and apparatus for processing photographic material in sheet form. The sheet (2) to be processed is formed into a generally tubular configuration and inserted between the nip of a pair of drive rollers (4, 6). Processing soluti... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5537179 | Device and process for the rapid washing of photographic material A device for washing photographic material, comprising at least one washing tank and at least two rows of pairs of rollers, arranged one above another, above the liquid level of the tank, of which the first row is passed through by the photographic materi... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5512972 | Photographic processing apparatus Apparatus for processing photographic sheet material including at least two rollers which are rotatively supported on corresponding shafts and biased together by springs acting on one of the shafts is provided with a mechanism operable to separate the rol... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5420659 | Modular processing channel for an automatic tray processor A low volume photographic material processing apparatus that utilizes a narrow horizontal processing channel. The channel is formed by a repeating combination of modular squeegee pinch rollers and modular impingement slot nozzles. Photographic processing ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5400103 | Squeeze rollers A squeeze roller assembly is made up of a plurality of pairs of squeeze rollers are that arranged in a row over a plurality of rows of photographic developing tanks for delivering photosensitive materials between the adjacent developing tanks. One roller ... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5396308 | Feed rack for feeding photosensitive materials There is provided an improved rack for feeding photosensitive materials, which is so adapted that an operator can turn its feed rollers without soiling his hand. A vertically-extending roller driving shaft is rotatably provided outside of a rack body. A s... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5396309 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus In a photosensitive material processing apparatus, a conveying rack is provided so as to be able to be immersed in and lifted out from both of first and second processing chambers simultaneously. The conveying rack includes a plurality of conveying roller... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5394215 | Photographic processing apparatus In small processing machines, the rate at which material passes through the machine tends to be low due to its size. This results in the access time being long as it is the sum of the actual processing time at each stage, plus the crossover times between ... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5394216 | Automatic processing apparatus An automatic processing apparatus is provided to sequentially dip photosensitive material into a plurality of processing solution tanks storing processing solution while conveying the photosensitive material to process the photosensitive material. Rollers... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5369458 | Liquid stripper for photographic material A device for processing photographic materials comprising at least one liquid-filled tank and liquid from the liquid-filled tank is removed from the photographic material and lead back to the same tank. The tank comprises several pairs of rollers placed o... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5136322 | Light-sensitive material processing apparatus A light-sensitive material processing apparatus for processing an image-wise exposed light-sensitive material by immersing the light-sensitive material in a processing solution while the light-sensitive material is being automatically conveyed. The appara... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5089838 | Pressure developing device In a pressure developing device employed in an imaging device like a duplicating machine, an optical printer etc., pressure force for evenly pressurizing a recording medium is capable of being varied in accordance with the width of the recording medium to... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5089839 | Method of processing pre-sensitized lithographic printing plate and apparatus therefor An apparatus for processing an imagewise exposed pre-sensitized lithographic printing plate which entails uniformly applying a desired amount of developer, that has not been substantially used to the surface of the printing plate by a developer supply mem... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5047795 | Slotted processing apparatus and method A system of substantially closed processing stations designed to disperse chemicals for uniformly coating or otherwise contacting an emulsion-coated or other surface or strip is disclosed. The system comprises one or more slotted stations through which de... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5029310 | Pressure developing device In a pressure developing device, employed in an image recording unit, including a pair of pressure developing rollers for pressurizing a material on which a visible image is to be developed through elastic springs, provided are backup rollers arranged to ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4952958 | Photo-sensitive printing plate automatic developing apparatus A photo-sensitive printing plate automatic developing apparatus for conveying a photo-sensitive printing plate upon which an image has been exposed, along a conveyor route while developing it in a developing tank, and then performing at least one of the f... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4945374 | Pressure developing device In a pressure developing device employed in an imaging device like a duplicating machine, an optical printer etc, pressure force for pressurizing a recording medium is capable of being varied in accordance with the width of the recording medium to be pres... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4942421 | Method of preventing bending of lithographic printing plates Processing of lithographic printing plates, particularly a method of preventing bending of the plates during processing. Conventionally, the chemical processing of lithographic printing plates includes advancing the plates between pairs of rotating brushes. Th... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4768050 | Pressure development apparatus for imaging sheets employing photosensitive microcapsules A two-roll type pressure developer apparatus provides for the pressure development of a latent image formed on sheet material, and includes a first hollow pressure roll mounted on a support shaft which extends axially through the first roll and is in pres... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4740075 | Device for processing photosensitive materials A compact device which can be attached to a conventional printing plate developing machine either as a correcting agent washing station or as a developing station is provided. The device comprises an antechamber and a brush area which contains a brush rol... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4688917 | Device for wet processing of photographic films A device for wet porocessing of photographic films comprises a film processing device and a storage container for storing a processing liquid supplied to the film processing device. The film processing device has a housing which is formed as a container i... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4678310 | Device for treating printing plates with a fluid A device for treating printing plates with a fluid. A flooded trough has a bottom, two lateral boundary walls and containment blades, one blade located on each of the inlet and outlet sides of the trough. The bottom carries a plate guide surrounded by a r... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4588277 | Waterless lithographic plate processor Apparatus for processing plates for waterless lithographic printing comprises a first and second pair of driving rollers and washing tray in a first zone, a third and fourth pair of driving rollers and reciprocating brushing roller in a second zone, a fif... | 05/13/1986 |
