EP0000227A1 - Dispositif pour l'emmagasinage et la distribution de matériaux en forme de feuilles - Google Patents

Dispositif pour l'emmagasinage et la distribution de matériaux en forme de feuilles Download PDF

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EP0000227A1
EP0000227A1 EP78200052A EP78200052A EP0000227A1 EP 0000227 A1 EP0000227 A1 EP 0000227A1 EP 78200052 A EP78200052 A EP 78200052A EP 78200052 A EP78200052 A EP 78200052A EP 0000227 A1 EP0000227 A1 EP 0000227A1
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web
sheets
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Emile Frans Stiévenart
Hendrik Sylvester Plessers
Georges Jozef Neujens
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03B—APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
    • G03B42/00—Obtaining records using waves other than optical waves; Visualisation of such records by using optical means
    • G03B42/02—Obtaining records using waves other than optical waves; Visualisation of such records by using optical means using X-rays
    • G03B42/04—Holders for X-ray films
    • G03B42/045—Holders for X-ray films apparatus for loading or unloading the holders

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  • the invention relates to a device for storing and dispensing material in the form of individual sheets.
  • a magazine For storing photographic film sheets a magazine has been proposed comprising a light-tight casing which has an entry slot for the film sheets and contains a flexible web which takes up the film sheets as they are introduced into the casing and causes them to become sandwiched between adjacent convolutions of the web as it winds onto a storage spool.
  • a reverse winding of the web i.e., on winding the web from the storage spool back onto a supply spool, the film sheets become dispensed from the magazine, through the same slot, in reverse order.
  • the linear speed of the web which determines the speed at which the film sheets are drawn into the magazine or dispensed therefrom as the case may be, is directly dependent on the speed of rotation of the spool onto which the web is wound for the time being.
  • This spool is driven by an electric motor having automatic control circuitry for controlling its speed.
  • the automatic storage of sheets at a storage station should take place at a constant input speed to the storage station.
  • a constant sheet delivery speed is often required.
  • a complicated automatic motor control circuitry is required. If the winding motor is driven at constant speed the linear speed of the sheet take--up and dispensing web increases as the diameter of the reel of web wound onto the driven spool increases.
  • the present invention provides a sheet storage and dispensing device employing a coilable-web sheet storage and dispensing system but wherein a constant web speed is achieved in a more simple manner.
  • a device for storing and dispensing material in the form of individual sheets in which there is a web attached to first and second spools so as to be windable from one to the other of them and back again, means for guiding sheets to the path followed by the web between said spools to cause such sheets, when the web is wound onto the first spool, to be carried onto that spool between convolutions of the web thereon, one or more web-driving rollers engaging the web along a position along said path; means enabling said roller(s) to be positively and reversably driven, and slip clutches'between said driving roller(s) and said spools to cause rotation of the web-driving roller(s) to be accompanied by rotations of said spools in directions and at speeds such as to keep the web tensioned along said path.
  • the speed of the web is determined by the speed of rotation of the web-driving roller(s).
  • the web-driving roller(s) is (are) driven at constant speed. The fact that the diameter of the reel of web on the take-up spool increases during this winding operation does not have to be taken into account. It is not necessary to provide complicated electrical or electronic devices for speed modulation purposes.
  • the web tension is maintained to avoid wrinkling or creasing of the web.
  • Devices according to the invention may be constructed and installed to operate storage-wise automatically in dependence on the approach of a sheet to the web path.
  • the web-driving roller(s) may be automatically set in motion responsive to a signal emitted when a sheet to be stored moves into a certain position, e.g., a position in the sheet guide means.
  • the driving means for the web-driving roller(s) may operate intermittently at pre-determined intervals of time and for predetermined periods dependent on the setting of a timer.
  • the said web is the only web employed for the take-up and dispensing of sheets, and sheets fed into the device for storage become sandwiched directly between neighbouring convolutions of this web on the storage spool.
  • a second web which is attached to the storage spool and a third spool, the arrangement being such that both webs wind onto the storage spool simultaneously, the convolutions of one web intervening between neighbouring convolutions of the other web.
  • sheets fed into the device fcr storage will become sandwiched between the two webs or. the storage spool.
  • the use of a single web will be primarily in view.
  • the invention includes devices wherein there is a pair of web-driving rollers between which the web is gripped. If the sheets to be handled are of a nature such that they might be spoiled if subjected to the pressure exerted by such driving rollers the sheet guiding means should guide the sheets to a position along the web path which is downstream from such rollers.
  • the device comprises a casing in which the web and associated spools and.driving roller(s) are accomodated and which has a combined entry/discharge slot via which sheets can pass to and from the web along the sheet guiding means, and light-tight closure of such slot serves light-tightly to enclose the casing.
  • closure means for light-tightly closing said slot is provided as part of the device, e.g., as a displaceable slot cover mounted on the casing.
  • the device may be designed for installation in juxtaposition to another appliance which ex- eludes entry of light into the casing via said slot.
  • Preferred devices with a light-tightly closable casing as above described can be used for storing exposed light-sensitive film sheets or for dispensing unexposed ones, such as may be used in radiographic daylight systems.
  • a central processing unit may be used which is installed at a fixed location but not necessarily close to the room where radiographs are taken. It is therefore of value to employ a kind of intermediate unloader into which exposed radiographic film sheets unloaded from radiographic cassettes can be fed for temporary storage before being bulk-processed.
  • Devices according to the invention can be constructed so as to be usable in such an unloader. In this way a substantial gain of time may be realized as the staff has no longer to unload the cassettes in a one-by-one fashion at the central processing unit.
  • Such a device can also be used with advantage when serial radiographic exposures have to be made.
  • the device may be loaded with unexposed film sheets and operated to feed such sheets in succession directly to the X-ray station where the radiographs are taken.
  • the exposed films may be fed in sequence, e.g. by means of endless belts, through the exposure area (possibly in combination with intensifying screens) and be fed from that area into a second device according to the invention.
  • it is suitable to provide a device having a storage capacity of the order of 10 to 30 film sheets, of, say the 24x30 cm format.
  • the casing (when provided) in devices according to the invention may be of any required shape, e.g. of generally rectanguloid or cylindrical form.
  • the web is preferably a polymeric material such as polyethylene terephthalate which has a sufficient mechanical strength even at small thicknesses.
  • the device comprises a casing with a sheet entry and discharge slot having a light-screening closure which opens automatically as the device is positioned in contact with an associated appliance so that the latter excludes light from such slot.
  • the latter may be equipped with supplementary signalling means in order to indicate whether it is in loaded or in empty condition.
  • signalling means may comprise photoelectric sensors which sense the presence or absence of inactinic radiation caused by the passage, in front of a suitable source, of the sheets to be dispensed or stored.
  • signalling means comprise the use of metallic strips on the belt of flexible material which screen-off the magnetic flux emanating from a magnet so that magnetic field sensitive sensors may be energized or de-energized. Such metallic strips are provided at least in the vicinity of the front and rear edge of the web of flexible material and in this way may indicate the fact that either the supply spool or the storage spool is empty or not.
  • the invention is primarily intended for application to radiographic daylight systems, it can be used in the construction of storage and dispensing facilities for other purposes, e.g. a feeder in automatic punch-card operated banknote dispensers.
  • the side-walls may be spaced from the edge of the body member so that a gripping edge 13 is left which facilitates the transportation and the positioning of the magazine 10 in view.
  • a motor 14 may be provided for driving a sheet feeding mechanism located in the housing 11 which mechanism will be described in detail hereinafter.
  • an entrance slot 15 is provided therein which is masked by a strip 16 of light screening material in case light-sensitive film sheets are treated. Details about the functioning of said light screening means will also be dealt with further in the description.
  • the cross-section of the magazine - here illustrated as being rectangular - can be selected depending on the apparatus with which it will be combined in functional relationship,
  • FIG. 2 In the interior of the magazine 10, illustratel in sectional view in fig. 2 are provided storage spool 20, driving roller 21 and supply spool 22.
  • a web 23 passes from the supply spool 22 over the driving roller 21 to the storage spool 20 in such a way that the web winds from one spool to the other when such spools are rotated in opposite directions.
  • Film sheets 24 are fed to the interior of the magazine 10 via entrance slot 15 in such a way that they become positioned upon the web 23 and are carried along to the storage spool 20 where they are gripped between adjacent convolutions of the web 23.
  • the reverse action takes place, in that the sense of rotation of web-driving roller 21 is reversed so that the film sheets 24 emerge from between the convolutions on storage spool 20 and are delivered at the entrance slot 15 in order to undergo further treatments.
  • the control of the period that the web-driving roller 21 must be rotated may occur by means of a detecting mechanism detecting the passage of the trailing edge of a sheet to be stored in front of it.
  • a delay mechanism may be provided which stops the web-driving roller a small lapse of time after the detection process.
  • the web-driving roller may be sterted as a consequence of an analogous process, in this way detecting the passage of the leading edge of a sheet.
  • Dispensing of the sheets may occur in a similar fashion.
  • Driving roller 21 may be rotated at constant speed by a motor 14 (shown in fig. 1) in either direction so that the web 23 may be fed from the supply spool 22 via driving roller 21 towards the storage spool 20 or vice versa.
  • the web 23 is fixed by its ends to the spools 20, 22 so that nearly the total length of the web can be transferred from the supply spool 22 towards the storage spool 20.
  • Sheets 24 which are introduced into the housing 11 via the entrance slot 15 become positioned on the part of the web 23 extending between the driving roller 21 and the storage spool 20.
  • the number of sheets which may be stored is dependent on the total length of web 23 which can be wound onto storage spool 20.
  • the space available in the magazine must be sufficient to accomodate that length of web and the film sheets held thereby which of course increase the diameter of the web coil.
  • a suitable storing capacity for the magazine is, e.g. between 10 and 30 film sheets of 24 x 30 cm format.
  • Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the mechanism for driving the spools 20, 22 and roller 21.
  • Gear 25 is coupled with the storage spool 20 via a friction coupling 28; gear 27 is coupled with the cupply spool 22 via a friction coupling 29.
  • the storage spool 20 When are being fed fowards the storage spool 20, the latter will be rotated in an anti-clockwise direction (in the aspect of fig. 2) through the intermediary of gear 25. Gear 27 will also be rotated anti-clockwass, but due to the presence of friction coupling 29, the supply spool 22 will be rotated clockwise by the pulling force exerted on the web. The reverse rotation of coupling 29 exerts a braking force on the web 23, so that the latter will always be tensioned against the pulling force exerted by web driving roller 21. This results in an even winding cycle on storage spool 20, so that the possibility and the occurrence of wrinkling and welting of the web are avoidsd.
  • the web 23 used in a preferred embodiment for dispensing radiographic films comprises a polymer layer, such as polyethylene terephthalate onto which an elestroconductive layer has been coated in order to redues electrostatic charge building-up of the films.
  • a polymer layer such as polyethylene terephthalate onto which an elestroconductive layer has been coated in order to redues electrostatic charge building-up of the films.
  • Such sntistatic layer has as main constituent a dispersion of carbon-black in a suitable dispersing sgent such as an aqueous gelstin solution. This amount of carbon-black may be as high as 30 % by weight,
  • a signalling means 30 may be provided near the end of the web 23.
  • This . signalling means 30 may comprise a ferro-metallic strip which intersepts the field lings emanating from 8 small permanent magnet located cloce to the web. The presence or absence of the magnetic field may be detected by a sensor located in front of the source at the other side of the web.
  • the web-driving roller 21 can if required be provided with at least one row of teeth 31 (sec fig. 4) which engage equispatially arranged perforations 32 provided along at least one longitudinal margin of the web 23.
  • Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate how the light means of the entrance slot 15 is operated.
  • the entrance slot 15 provided in housing 11 is masked by a strip of metallic or polymeric material 16.
  • the said strip has a forwardly projecting flange 33 along its top edge.
  • a pair of springs 36, 37 secured to that flange bear against a projecting portior of the housing 11.
  • a stop or lug 34 is provided at one and of the strip 16.
  • the magazine is intended to be installed next to a receiving apparatus. During such iinstallstion an abutment member 35 on the frame of that receiving apparatus abuts against that lug and pushes the strip 16 laterally relative to the magazine housing.
  • the strip carries a plurality of pins 38, 39, 40 which engage in inclined grooves 41, 42 and 43 in the front face of the housing 11.
  • the lateral force exerted by the abutment member 35 causes the strip 16 to move obliquely upwardly parallel with those grooves into a position in which the entrance slot 15 is completely uncovered.
  • the springs 36 and 37 restore the strip 16 to its original position in which it,light-tightly closes the entrance slot 15.
  • One particular magazine according to the invention used as a dispenser for unexposed radiographic films, had the following characteristics :
  • the magazine as described can be modified in numerous ways.
  • the whole gear mechanism may be located externally rather than internally of the housing.
  • the driving of the spools and the web driving roller may be performed with endless belts instead of with conventional gear wheels as illustrated and described.
  • the magazine receiving device itself is provided with a driving shaft or motor, the latter may be directly coupled with the shaft of the web driving roller, so that a separate motor for operating the magazine is not required.

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EP0209177A1 (fr) * 1985-07-12 1987-01-21 Agfa-Gevaert N.V. Emballage pour film graphique
AT386587B (de) * 1981-02-03 1988-09-12 Ferag Ag Verfahren und vorrichtung zur pressung von anfallenden druckprodukten
EP0559396A1 (fr) * 1992-02-26 1993-09-08 Kodak Limited Méthode et appareil pour manipuler des échantillons de matériau sensible de faible épaisseur
EP0803762A1 (fr) * 1996-04-26 1997-10-29 Konica Corporation Cassette pour négatifs
US6071023A (en) * 1996-04-26 2000-06-06 Konica Corporation Negative holder

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FR2102441A5 (fr) * 1970-08-04 1972-04-07 Radiologie Cie Gle
FR2135841A5 (fr) * 1971-04-30 1972-12-22 Radiologie Cie Gle
US3961760A (en) * 1973-04-18 1976-06-08 U.S. Philips Corporation Magazine for X-ray film sheets, comprising a rotatable storage drum

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FR2102441A5 (fr) * 1970-08-04 1972-04-07 Radiologie Cie Gle
FR2135841A5 (fr) * 1971-04-30 1972-12-22 Radiologie Cie Gle
US3961760A (en) * 1973-04-18 1976-06-08 U.S. Philips Corporation Magazine for X-ray film sheets, comprising a rotatable storage drum

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AT386587B (de) * 1981-02-03 1988-09-12 Ferag Ag Verfahren und vorrichtung zur pressung von anfallenden druckprodukten
EP0209177A1 (fr) * 1985-07-12 1987-01-21 Agfa-Gevaert N.V. Emballage pour film graphique
US4715500A (en) * 1985-07-12 1987-12-29 Agfa-Gevaert N.V. Light-sensitive photographic film packaging
EP0559396A1 (fr) * 1992-02-26 1993-09-08 Kodak Limited Méthode et appareil pour manipuler des échantillons de matériau sensible de faible épaisseur
EP0803762A1 (fr) * 1996-04-26 1997-10-29 Konica Corporation Cassette pour négatifs
US6071023A (en) * 1996-04-26 2000-06-06 Konica Corporation Negative holder

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