JPH01193827A - Photograph producing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent dirt and dust, etc., from being stuck between a photosensitive material and an image receiving material by pinching the end part of a heat developing photosensitive material in a transverse direction and feeding it from a housing part to a contact part. CONSTITUTION:A gear 102 which receives the driving force of a timing belt 68 is fixed to a conveying roll 95 in order to convey the photosensitive material P and plural pairs of conveying rolls 104 and 106 are provided on the back stream side of conveying rolls 98 and 100. And a small diameter part 112 is formed on the middle part of the conveying rolls 98 and 100 and the conveying rolls 104 and 106 and a small diameter part 120 is formed on the middle part of the conveying rolls 116 and 118 in the same way. Therefore, the photosensitive material P is prevented from contacting with said middle part and the dust can be prevented from sticking to an emulsion surface formed on one side of the photosensitive material P and an image formed part to a back surface. Thus, the dust is prevented from sticking to the central part of a photosensitive surface from the conveying roll and the image of good quality can be transferred on the image receiving material even at the time of developing and transfer.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a photograph production device that is most suitable for quickly processing a photographed person image, such as an ID photograph, to obtain a photograph.

[Background technology]

An ID photographing device used to take images of people to be pasted on driver's licenses, certificates, etc. has a photographing room and a photo production room inside the housing, and the person being photographed is seated in the photographing room. Images of people are photographed, developed and supplied in a photo production room.

However, with such conventional photographic devices, the photographed image is formed on a negative film, and the image is printed from the negative film onto photographic paper and then developed, or exposed to special photographic paper, which is then converted into a positive image. Since it is configured to be developed as a product, it takes a relatively long time to obtain a photograph as a product. However, if a photographing device uses a diffusion transfer method, an image of a person photographed and exposed on a photosensitive material can be developed and immediately transferred to an image-receiving material, and a photograph can be obtained quickly. However, if dust or dirt adheres between the photosensitive material and the image-receiving material, the transfer of this portion will be incomplete, making it impossible to obtain a high-quality image of a person.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above facts, and an object of the present invention is to provide a photographic production apparatus that can obtain high-quality photographs in an extremely short period of time.

[Summary and operation of the invention]

The present invention is a photographic production apparatus in which a heat-developable photosensitive material is sent from a storage part to a photographing exposure point part, an image is exposed to light, and the image-receiving material is brought into close contact with the image-receiving material and then developed and transferred in a heat-developable transfer part and then peeled off. The developing photosensitive material is characterized in that the developing photosensitive material is conveyed from the storage section to the contact section while the widthwise end portions of the developing photosensitive material are held while avoiding the central portion of the photosensitive surface.

For this reason, in the present invention, an image is exposed to a heat-developable photosensitive material, this photosensitive material is brought into close contact with an image-receiving material at the contact portion, and after development, the image is transferred to the image-receiving material, and the image-receiving material is peeled off to become a product. Since the photosensitive material is conveyed with both sides in the width direction sandwiched between the storage section and the contact area with the image-receiving material, dust does not adhere to the center of the photosensitive surface from the conveyance rollers, and the quality is maintained even during development and transfer. A good image can be transferred to the image-receiving material.

In addition, in the present invention, a heat development section that heat-develops the exposed photosensitive material and a transfer section that heats the heat-developed photosensitive material and image-receiving material by overlapping them and transfers the image to the image-receiving material are separately provided. Alternatively, as shown in the examples, the thermal development section and the transfer section may be provided at the same location,
That is, a heat development transfer section may be provided which overlaps and heats the exposed heat-developable photosensitive material and the image-receiving material to simultaneously perform heat development and heat transfer.

Further, in the present invention, for example, US Pat. No. 4,430,415, US Pat. No. 4,483,914, US Pat. No., JP-A-59-218443, JP-A-60-1203
No. 56, patent application No. 59-209563, patent application No. 60-7
No. 9709, Patent Application No. 169585, Patent Application No. 1983
A heat-developable photosensitive material (thermally developable photosensitive element) and an image-receiving material (dye-fixing element) described in No. 244873 and the like can be used.

In the present invention, the image-forming solvent is a solvent required for image formation, such as water, a low-boiling organic solvent (
(alconobeketones, amides, etc.) or those obtained by adding various additives such as surfactants, development accelerators, and development stoppers to these solvents.

[Embodiments of the invention]

(Description of the entire apparatus) FIG. 1.2 shows a photographic production apparatus 10 to which the present invention is applied.

In this photographic production apparatus 10, one side of the housing 12 is used as a photography room 14, and the other side is used as a photographic production room 16. A seat 20 is provided in the photographing room 14, and a seat 20 is provided for the photographed person 22.
It is designed for seating.

On the other hand, a photosensitive material accommodating section 26 containing a heat-developable photosensitive material P is provided in the photo production chamber 16, and the photosensitive material P is supplied from this photosensitive material accommodating section 26 to a photographing and exposure section 28 to expose the person 22 to be photographed. A person image is exposed. After photographing and exposure, the photosensitive material P is sent to the upper frame tip section 30 and subjected to frame exposure, and then sent to the thermal development section 36 along with the image receiving material HR sent from the image receiving material storage section 34 via the water application section 32. It is sent and closely attached.

In this thermal development section 36, the photosensitive material P and the image-receiving material R are brought into close contact with each other and heated, thereby thermally developing the photosensitive material P and transferring the developed image onto the image-receiving material R.

The photosensitive material P and the image-receiving material R after thermal development transfer are removed from the peeling and taking-out section 3.
The image-receiving materials R are separated from each other in step 8 and taken out as a product in box 3.
At the same time, the photosensitive material P is supplied to the photosensitive material storage section 4.
0, and the odor is removed.

Next, each component will be explained in detail.

(Description of Photosensitive Material Storage Unit) As shown in FIG. 2, two photosensitive material magazines 46 and 48 are attached to this photosensitive material storage unit 26, and when one magazine becomes empty, photosensitive material is loaded from the other magazine. P is supplied. These photosensitive material magazines 46 and 48 are arranged in a cylindrical case 5 as shown in FIG. 3.4.
A roll-shaped portion 52 of the photosensitive material P is pivotally supported on the roller 1, and a supply port 54 is formed so that the photosensitive material P can be supplied from the outer periphery.

These photosensitive material magazines 46, 48 are inserted into the storage box 56 from the upper end opening 56A. Leaf springs 58 and 60 are provided for pressing the storage box 56 against the side walls 56B and 56C of the storage box 56. Therefore, the photosensitive material magazines 46, 48 have side walls 56B, 5
6C and positioned, and the bottom surface 54B on which the supply port 54 is formed is pressed against the light shielding block 62 provided on the bottom wall 56D of the storage box 56, so that the supply port 54 is shielded from light from the outside. It has become.

The storage box 56 has supply ports 5 for photosensitive material magazines 46 and 48.
A driving roller 64 and a pressing roller 66 are provided corresponding to the roller 4. These driving rollers 64 and pressing rollers 66
The intermediate portion has a small diameter so as to clamp and drive both ends in the width direction of the leading end of the photosensitive material P drawn out from the photosensitive material magazine 46, 48. All of the rollers up to the thermal development section 36 have small diameters at the intermediate portions corresponding to the photosensitive surface side of the photosensitive material to prevent rubber adhesion.

As shown in FIG. 3, a portion of a timing belt 68 is wound around the drive roller 64, and the timing belt 68 is rotated by the driving force of a motor 70.

Further, the storage box 56 that accommodates the suppression roller 66 can be selectively rotated about a shaft 74 between a solid line state and an imaginary line state in FIG. 3 by means of a holding means (not shown).

Further, an intermediate portion of an arm 76 is pivotally supported by a pin 78 on a rotating bracket 72 provided in the storage box 56, and a suppression roller 66 is pivotally supported at one end of this pin 78. A tension coil spring 80 is interposed between the other end of the arm 76 and the rotating bracket 72, and generates a biasing force that presses the pressure roller 66 against the drive roller 64 in the state shown by the solid line in FIG. ing. Therefore, if the storage box 56 is placed in the imaginary line state shown in FIG.
Since the pinching of the photosensitive material P is released by moving away from the photosensitive material magazines 46 and 48, each of the photosensitive material magazines 46 and 48 can be replaced.

Further, when the storage box 56 is in the state shown by the solid line in FIG.
The supply ports 54 of the photosensitive material magazines 46.48 are shielded from light by the rotating bracket 72 and the storage box 56, so that either one of the photosensitive material magazines 46.4
Even when the magazine 8 is replaced, the photosensitive material P stored in the other magazine is prevented from being inadvertently exposed.

The storage box 56 is provided with inclined guide paths 82 and 84 for guiding the photosensitive material P drawn out from the supply port 54 by the driving roller 64 and the pressing roller 66. The intermediate portions of these inclined guide paths 82 and 84 pass through a light shielding plate 86 extending from the storage box 56. This light-shielding plate 86 substantially covers the inside of the photographic production chamber 16 together with the storage box 56, and shields the processing area downstream from the inclined guide path 82.84 from light from the inside of the storage box 56, and the photosensitive material magazines 46.48.
External light is prevented from entering the downstream portion from the photographic exposure section 28 when replacing the camera.

Further, a pair of light-shielding rollers 94,96 are provided upstream of the light-shielding plate 86 on the inclined guide path 82,84, so as to nip and convey the photosensitive material P. That is, the light shielding roller 94 is connected to the timing belt 68 via a gear (not shown).
The light-sensitive material P is sandwiched and conveyed by receiving the driving force of the light-shielding plate 86, and external light is prevented from entering downstream through the inclined guide path 82 and 84 portion of the light-shielding plate 86.

A rotary cutter 88 is provided immediately after the inclined guide paths 82 and 84 that are shielded from light by the light shielding plate 86, and is configured to cut the photosensitive material P to a required length, that is, to match the size of the photographed image. . A cut piece storage box 90 is provided directly below the cutter 88 to store cut pieces. This cut piece storage box 90 is provided directly below the cutter 88, and the guide path 82.84 passing through the cutter 88 is inclined, so that no cutting debris remains in the guide path 82.84, and the photosensitive material P is properly It is designed not to interfere with transportation.

Conveyance rollers 98 and 100 are provided on the downstream side of the cutter 88 to convey the cut photosensitive material P. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 4, a gear 102 that receives the driving force of the timing belt 68 is fixed to the conveyance roller 98. Further, a plurality of pairs of transport rollers 104, 106 are provided downstream of these transport rollers 98, 100. Furthermore, guide plates (not shown) for guiding the photosensitive material P are provided in these inclined guide paths 82 and 84, corresponding to both ends of the photosensitive material P in the width direction, if necessary.

These transport rollers 98, 100 and 104
．． 106 has a small diameter portion 112 formed in the intermediate portion, which prevents contact with the intermediate portion of the photosensitive material P and prevents dust from adhering to the image forming portion on the emulsion surface and the back surface formed on one side of the photosensitive material P. It can be prevented.

A vertical guide path 110 shown in FIG. 5 is provided between the downstream end of the inclined guide path 82 and the photographing and exposure section 28. This vertical guide path 110 is provided with three pairs of conveyance rollers 116 and 118, and round belts 122 and 124 are wound around these so that the photosensitive material P can be conveyed vertically downward.

That is, an upper round belt 122A is wound between the uppermost conveyance roller 116A and the middle conveyance roller 116B, corresponding to both ends of the photosensitive material P in the width direction, and the uppermost conveyance roller 118A and the middle conveyance roller 118B. An upper round bell) 124A is wound between the upper round bells) 124A corresponding to both widthwise ends of the photosensitive material P, and these upper round bells) 122A, 124
The linear portions on one side of A are in close contact with each other to sandwich and convey the photosensitive material P. Similarly, the conveyance roller 116B.

Round bells 122B and 124B are also wound around between 118B and the lowest transport rollers 116c and 118C, so that the direct parts on one side are in close contact with each other, so that the photosensitive material P is held and transported.

Note that the driving force of the motor 70 is transmitted to these conveying rollers 116 and 118 via a timing belt (not shown) or the like. These transport rollers 116.1
18 similarly has a small diameter portion 120 formed in the middle portion to prevent dust from adhering to the photosensitive material P due to contact therewith.

(Description of Photographic Exposure Section) The photographic exposure section 28 is shown in detail in FIGS. 6 to 8.

In this photographic exposure unit 28, as shown in FIG. 7, a pair of guide rods 132 are horizontally hooked up to a pair of side plates 130 (however, one side plate is omitted in FIG. 7). , the moving table 134 moves these guide rods 1
32 for horizontal movement. This movable table 134 has a shutter 136 for photographing four images.
and a single-image photographing shutter 138 are installed side by side.

As shown in FIG. 8(A), the shutter 13 for photographing four images
6, a front lens plate 140 is fixed by a movable table 134 and a heavis 142, and four optical means 142 are attached to this front lens plate 140, and as shown in FIG. It is designed to be exposed to light. These images F are designed to form so-called vertically long images in which the vertical dimension B is larger than the horizontal dimension A.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 10, the exposure optical axis O of each surface image F is
The angles θ and φ from the center point of the four images are different angles.

Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 9, when exposing the four images F, the area is larger than that of the image F as a product of dimension AXB, and therefore, there is an overlap between each image F. The exposed portion is exposed to a larger amount of light than the image F, and the cross-shaped exposed portion 144 forming the boundary between the four images shown in FIG. 9 is formed on the outline of the four images F. Since the exposure time is twice as long as that of the frame-shaped peripheral portion 146, the amount of exposure is increased.

As shown in FIG. 8, there are screws 150 on the front lens plate 140.
The rear lens plate 152 is fixed by. A spacer 154 is interposed between the rear lens plate 152 and the front lens plate 140 at the attachment portion of the screw 150, so that a gap is formed between the rear lens plate 152 and the front lens plate 140, and a shutter body 156 is disposed in this gap.

The rear lens plate 152 has an aperture 1 corresponding to the optical means 142.
58 are formed.

Furthermore, a hood holder 164 is fixed to the rear lens plate 152 with screws 162. This hood holder 164 is also provided with four openings 166 corresponding to the optical means 142, and optical means 168 are attached to these openings 166 so as to form an image together with the optical means 142.

A pulley 170 is pivotally supported on the hood presser 164,
A drive shaft 172 fixed to this pulley 170 is connected to the shutter body 156. This shutter body 156
Also, an opening 174 corresponding to the optical means 142 is formed. As shown in FIG. 10, these four openings 174 are formed with different mounting angles θ and φ around the axis corresponding to each exposure optical axis 0.

An optical sensor 178 is attached to the front lens plate 140, and the rotation angle of the shutter body 156 can be controlled by detecting a slit 156A formed in the shutter body 156.

On the other hand, the shutter 1 for photographing one image shown in FIG. 8(B)
38 also uses components having the same configuration as those in FIG.
4. Only one opening 166 is formed in each of the rear lens plates 152, so that a single relatively large image can be formed on the photosensitive material P. This single image is simply an enlarged version of the image F at the time of four-image exposure, as shown in FIG. 9(B), and is a vertically elongated image.

As shown in FIG. 7, a motor 184 is attached to the movable table 134 through a bracket 182 at the intermediate portion of the four-image photographing shutter 136 and the first image photographing shutter 138. A pulley 186 is fixed to the output shaft of this motor 184, and endless timing belts 188 and 190 wound around these pulleys 186 are connected to the pulley 17 of the four-image photographing shutter 136.1 and the image photographing shutter 138.
By being wound around Q, the motor 184 can simultaneously rotate the shutter bodies 156 of the four-image photographing shutter 136 and the one-image photographing shutter 138 by a necessary angle.

Further, as shown in FIG. 7, a shutter 136 for photographing four images
．． A light guide box 192.1 is attached to the shutter 138 for photographing one image.
94 is compatible. The light guide box 192 has a light guide path 192A divided into four sections corresponding to the four images F of the 4-image photographing shutter 1360, and the light guide box 194 has a single light guide path 194A. . The light guide path 192A is the ninth
As shown in the figure, images are taken so as to expose the image F having the cross-shaped exposure areas 144 and 146, and to avoid overlapping exposure between these four images F except for the cross-shaped exposure areas 144 and 146. This structure guides exposure light.

As shown in FIG. 7, a screw shaft 196 is stretched between the side plates 130 in parallel with the guide rod 132, and the movable table 134 is
bracket) 134A. This screw shaft 19
6 drives the movable table 134 in the left-right direction by the rotation of a motor 198 attached to the side plate 130, so that the shutter 136 for photographing four images or the shutter 138 for photographing one image is selectively adapted to correspond to the photosensitive material P. There is.

As shown in FIG. 6, in the photographic exposure section 28, the photosensitive material P
is arranged vertically, and the upper and lower ends are upper nipping conveyance rollers 218.
A, 218B and lower clamping withdrawal rollers 22OA, 220B
It is designed to be held between the These rollers have a small diameter in the middle to prevent rubber from adhering to them, and are controlled by receiving motor driving force to accurately stop the photosensitive material P at the photographic exposure position.

The upper nipping conveyance rollers 218A and 218B may temporarily rotate in a direction opposite to the conveyance direction to apply tension to the photosensitive material P in order to improve the flatness of the photosensitive material P during photographic exposure.

A suppressing means 222 is arranged on the back surface of the photosensitive material P at the photographic exposure position and is pressed against the photosensitive material P during photographic exposure. In this pressing means 222, the upper and lower ends of the pressing plate 224 are supported by a combination of a bottle 225 and an elongated hole 224A, so that they can approach and separate from the photosensitive material P. Rotation of the eccentric cam 226 causes the elongated hole 224 to move into the photosensitive material P. It is now being pushed to. For this reason, a guide plate 228 with an exposed portion punched out is placed on the side of the exposed surface of the photosensitive material P to support the pressing force of the elongated hole 224 and maintain the flatness of the photosensitive material P. .

(Description of the upper end of the frame) As shown in FIG. 7, the movable table 134 has upper frame light openings 200 and 202 formed at the lower part of the four-image photographing shutter 136 and the image photographing shutter 138. Further, a lithium film 204 is fixed to these frame light openings 200 and 202 in correspondence with the photosensitive material P side. This squirrel film 204 has four parts excluding the peripheral part 146 shown in FIG.
The light shielding section 206.2 has a light shielding section 206 corresponding to the exposure range of each image F and a light shielding section 208 corresponding to the image range printed by the single image photographing shank 138.
The area around 08 is a blank section 210. Further, as shown in FIG. 6, strobe light emitting means 212 are arranged corresponding to these frame light openings 200 and 202.

Therefore, these light apertures 200 and 202 on the frame are as shown in Fig. 9 (
As shown in A) and (B), it is possible to form a surrounding area 146 around the image F with a sufficiently large amount of exposure. (cut into S) is smaller than the surrounding portion 146.

Note that by adding symbols and characters such as the photographing date to a part of the blank section 210, these symbols and characters can also be formed in a part of the image F.

(Description of Water Application Section) As shown in FIG. 2, a vertical guide path 230 similar to the vertical guide path 110 is provided below the upper frame tip 30.
A pair of guide plates 232 and 234 are arranged between the vertical guide path 230 and the water application section 32. Guide plate 2
34 is divided into an upper guide plate 234A and a lower guide 234B as shown in FIG.
6. Similar to the vertical guide path 110, these guide plates 232 and 234 are capable of holding only both ends of the image F in the width direction.

The gap 236 is provided to absorb the difference in processing speed between the photographic exposure section 28 and the frame upper end section 30 and the water application section 32. That is, since the processing speed of the photographic exposure section 28 and the upper frame tip section 30 is relatively fast, and the processing speed of the water application section 32 is slow, the vertical guide path 230 is connected to the photographic exposure section 28 and the upper frame tip section 3.
When the photosensitive material P is conveyed at the same conveyance speed as 0, when the water application section 32 is conveyed at a low speed, the gap 236 is such that the leading end of the photosensitive material P reaches the water application section 32. In this state, a bent portion 238 is automatically formed in the middle of the photosensitive material P as shown in FIG. 2 to absorb differences in processing speed.

As shown in FIG. 12.13, the water application section 32 is provided with a lower case 242 and an upper case 244, which are fitted together to form a sealed state to reduce water evaporation. .

The lower case 242 has a water tray 246 therein, and can store water as an image forming solvent. As shown in FIG.
4. This supplied water 250 is supplied to a heater 256 disposed within the tank 248.
The water 250 is maintained at a predetermined temperature to improve image forming efficiency and to prevent the water 250 from freezing.

Inside the water tray 246, a pair of lower rollers 26OA and 260B are fixed to each lower skin shaft 262 at the entrance and exit of the photosensitive material P, respectively. These lower skin shafts 262 are pivotally supported by the lower case 242, and one of the lower skin shafts 262
A gear 264 fixed to the outside of the lower case 242 is rotated by the driving force of a motor (not shown). An endless guide belt 266 is also provided between the lower rollers 26OA and 260B at the entrance and exit of the photosensitive material P.
However, each hook is extended and corresponds to both ends of the photosensitive material P in the width direction.

On the other hand, upper support shafts 276 are rotatably supported on a bracket 270 fixed to the upper case 244, and upper rollers 274A, 274A, and 274A, corresponding to lower rollers 26OA, 260B,
274B is fixed.

One upper support shaft 276 has a gear 278 fixed to the shaft end that meshes with a gear 280 fixed to the end of the lower skin shaft 262, and rotates by receiving the rotational force of the lower skin shaft 262. It looks like this. These upper rollers 274A, 2
An endless guide belt 282 is passed between the belts 74B and 74B, and one straight part of the endless guide belt 282 is in close contact with the straight part of the endless guide belt 266, so that both ends of the image F in the width direction can be held and conveyed between them. .

In this case, the gap between the upper rollers 274A and 274B is made shorter than that between the lower rollers 26OA and 260B, and the upper rollers 274A and 274B bend the endless guide belt 266 downward, and the endless guide belt 282 and the endless guide belt 266 Improves adhesion.

The upper case 244 has a hinge 284 as shown in FIG.
It is pivotally supported to the lower case 242 via the locking means 286, and the closed state is maintained by the locking means 286. This prevents the water 250 at a predetermined temperature in the water tray 246 from evaporating unnecessarily.

However, by releasing this locking means 286, the upper case 244 is moved to the lower case 2 as shown in FIG.
42, and the interior is opened to facilitate repair work.

In addition, the endless guide belt 266 and the endless guide belt 28
The photosensitive material P after being coated with water and sent out from between 2 and 3 is held between the outlet nipping and conveying rollers 290 and 292 and transferred to the thermal developing section 36.
It is designed to lead to.

(Description of Image-Receiving Material Storage Unit) As shown in FIGS. 15 to 17, a plurality of image-receiving materials R are stored in layers on the lifting table 300.

This elevating table 300 is guided by a plurality of guide rods 304 erected in parallel inside the image receiving material box 302 so as to be able to move up and down. In addition, this lifting platform 300 has one end of a cable 306 fixed to it, and this cable 306
A weight 308 is fixed to the other end. The middle part of this cable 306 is wrapped around the middle part of a guide pulley 310, and its direction is changed. Therefore, when the weight 308 generates a downward biasing force due to its own weight, the lifting platform 3
00 is designed to be able to rise upward by receiving this urging force.

As a result, the lifting table 300 always presses the uppermost layer of image-receiving material R against the stopper 312 by the biasing force of the weight 308, but when the number of image-receiving materials R decreases, the uppermost layer of image-receiving material R
As the force with which the image receiving material R is pressed against the stopper 312 increases, that is, as the number of sheets of the image receiving material R decreases, the pressure absorption effect against the force applied in the thickness direction of the image receiving material R decreases, so the pressing force applied to the image receiving material R increases. Become. To adjust this, a tension coil spring 314 is interposed between the lifting platform 300 and the image receiving material box 302 to move the weight 308 downward against the urging force of the weight 308. is also biased with a weak biasing force.

A half-moon roller 316 corresponds to the uppermost layer of image-receiving material R. This half-moon roller 316 is attached to the rotating shaft 3 fixed to the shaft center.
A timing belt 322 that receives the driving force of a motor 320 is wound around the 18th head. For this reason, the half-moon roller 31
6, the notch 316A corresponds to the uppermost layer of image receiving material R in the normal state, but when the motor 320 rotates, its outer peripheral portion pushes out the uppermost layer of image receiving material R in the direction along the plane of the paper, and the conveying roller 326. As if sending it out to 328 spaces.

It has become.

These transport rollers 326 and 328 rotate in opposite directions. That is, the conveyance roller 326 rotates the uppermost layer of image receiving material R sent by the half-moon roller 316 in the direction of arrow J and sends it out between the guide plates 330 and 332, but the conveyance roller 328 rotates in the direction of arrow J and sends it out between the guide plates 330 and 332. Rotate the image receiving material R in the opposite direction as shown in the image receiving material box 3.
It is designed to return to within 02. For this reason, if two sheets of image-receiving material R are inadvertently stacked and sent by the half-moon roller 316, only the upper image-receiving material R of the two-sheet stack will be sent between the guide plates 330 and 332, and the lower image-receiving material R is returned into the image receiving material box 302.

The image receiving material R sent from the guide plates 330 and 332 is sent to the thermal development section 36.

(Description of the thermal development section) As shown in Figures 18 and 19, the thermal development section 36 has a pair of transport rollers 350A and 350B at the entrance, a pair of transport rollers 352A and 352B at the middle, and a pair of transport rollers 352A and 352B at the exit. A pair of conveyance rollers 354A and 354B are respectively connected to the side plate 351.
It is supported by a bearing 353 to form a horizontal conveyance path. A driving force from a driving source is transmitted to these jaws so that they are rotated in the direction of arrow L1M. Therefore, the photosensitive material P and the image receiving material R sent out from the water application section 32 and the image receiving material storage section 34 are sent to the thermal development section 36 with the emulsion surface of the photosensitive material P and the image receiving surface of the image receiving material R being brought into close contact.

As shown in FIG. 22, the photosensitive material P is the image receiving material R.
The dimensions and transport timing are determined so that the image-receiving material R reaches the thermal developing section 36 with its leading end protruding further than the photosensitive material P in the transport direction.

Guide plates 356A, 35 are provided between each of these conveyor rollers.
6B are arranged one above the other to guide the photosensitive material P and image receiving material R that are in close contact with each other.

These guide plates are integrally formed with circular arc portions 358A and 358B that cover the outer periphery of each conveyance roller on the opposite side to the conveyance path.

Here, the conveyance roller 350A has a hollow portion 360, and a heater 362 is housed within this hollow portion 360. This allows the heater 362 to heat the transport roller 350A from the inside, thereby heating the photosensitive material P and image receiving material R passing therethrough. Also, guide plates 356A, 3
56B, a heater 364 is closely attached to the opposite side of the conveyance path along the conveyance path and the outer periphery of the roller to generate heat. Therefore, the guide plates 356A and 356B generate heat by the heater 364, so that the photosensitive material P and the image receiving material R within the guide path can be heated.

As a result, the heaters 362 and 364 heat the photosensitive material P and the image receiving material R that are in close contact with each other, and first the photosensitive material P
is thermally developed, and then this developed image is transferred to the image receiving material R.
It is now possible to transfer to.

(Description of Peeling and Taking Out Section) As shown in FIG.
0 and an upper guide plate 392 are arranged. That is, as shown in FIG. 22, since the photosensitive material P is formed in advance to be wider than the width of the image receiving material R, both ends of the photosensitive material P that protrude beyond the image receiving material R are connected to these lower guide plates 390.
, the upper guide plate 392 pinches and guides the photosensitive material and sends it out to the photosensitive material deodorizing box 40.

In order to send the photosensitive material P to the photosensitive material deodorizing box 40, endless belts 394 are provided on both sides of the guide path for the photosensitive material P.
．． 396 are arranged so as to contact the front and back surfaces of the photosensitive material P and feed the photosensitive material P into the storage box 56.

Further, this peeling and taking-out section 38 is provided with endless belts 398 and 400 for holding the leading end of the image-receiving material R. These endless belts 398 and 400 correspond to both widthwise ends of the image-receiving material R, and are designed to pinch the leading end of the image-receiving material R fed in the horizontal direction from the thermal development section 36 and bend upward to lift it. It has become. That is, as shown in FIG. 22, the leading end of the image-receiving material R is made to protrude from the leading end of the photosensitive material P in advance, and is brought into close contact with the leading end of the image-receiving material R.
It is designed to be lifted up while being held between 0 and 0. In this state, the leading end of the photosensitive material P is connected to the lower guide plate 390 and the upper guide plate 3.
The image receiving material R is guided downward at 92 and lifted upward and is separated from the photosensitive material P guided downward by the lower guide plates 390 and 392.

A heater 40 is installed corresponding to the image receiving surface of the image receiving material R after this peeling.
2 is provided to dry the image receiving material R.

The endless belt 398.400 has a vertically elongated guide B4O at the top.
4 is provided, and the image-receiving material R, which is raised with both ends in the width direction held by the endless belt 398.400, is once fed into this guide part 404 from the tip, and the rear end is held by the endless belt 398.400. When it is sent out, it falls into the take-out box 39 due to its own weight.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, the photographing room 1 of the housing 12
A strobe 18 is provided on a partition wall 12A that separates the camera 4 and the photo production room 16 to illuminate the person 22 to be photographed.

(Function of the embodiment) In the photosensitive material storage section 26, the photosensitive material magazine 46 or 48
The photosensitive material P is fed out from a predetermined side of the photosensitive material P, cut into a predetermined length by a cutter 88, and then fed into the photographic exposure section 28 and stopped. In this case, the photosensitive material P taken out from the photosensitive material storage section 26 and cut by the cutter 88 is transferred in the width direction by the conveyance rollers 98, the conveyance rollers 104, and the vertical guide path 110 and the vertical guide path 230 shown in FIG. Since only the end portions are held and conveyed, there is no dust adhering to the image area of the photosensitive surface.

If the photosensitive material P whose tip has been cut off by the naori ivy 88 is sent back toward the magazine by reversing the drive roller 64.66 and the light-shielding roller 94.96, and the tip is held between the drive rollers 64.66, a long The light shielding roller 94 can be used even when not in use for a period of time.
．． 96 can be prevented.

The person to be photographed 22 enters the photographing room 14 and takes a seat on the seat 20. The illumination device illuminates the photographed person 22 by pressing an operation button (not shown) or by inserting a coin. At the same time, the motor 198 is driven in the photographic exposure unit 28 to
Depending on the selection, the shutter for photographing four images 136 or the shutter for photographing one image 138 corresponds to the exposure optical axis O.

Here, due to the rotation of the motor 184, the shutter body 156
is rotated so that the aperture 158 corresponds to the exposure optical axis O, and the image F is exposed onto the photosensitive material P.

In this case, when the shutter 136 for photographing 4 images is selected, 4
When the single image photographing shutter 138 is selected, the enlarged single image F is exposed. In particular, the four-image photographing shutter 136 is as shown in FIG. 8(A).
Since the openings 174 in the shutter body 156 are formed unevenly at the center of rotation, that is, at an angle of θ, the four images F all have the same exposure time as shown in FIGS. 9(A) and 10. It is exposed as a large, vertically elongated image.

The shutter body 156 may rotate only in one direction, or may rotate back and forth and always return to a fixed position.

Next, the photosensitive material P is sent to the top end portion 30 of the frame.

At this frame top end 30, the lithium film 204 is attached to the photosensitive material P.
The light shielding part 206 covers the central part of the image F, and the strobe light emitting means 212 emits light to expose the peripheral part 146 to the periphery of the image F through the blank part 210. By making the cross-shaped exposure area 144 and the surrounding area 146 wide, it becomes possible to cut the obtained photograph into an arbitrary size and form a sufficient white frame around the image F.

Further, when the single-image photographing shutter 138 is selected, a large image F is exposed at the center of the single-image photographing shutter 138, and similarly, the upper frame light aperture 20 is exposed at the upper frame tip 30.
2, the periphery of the image F is illuminated on the frame.

Next, the photosensitive material P sent from the top end part 30 of the frame is sent to the water application part 3.
2, but when its tip is held between the endless guide belts 266 and 288 of the water applicator 32, the conveyance speed in the water applicator 32 is relatively slow, so it is sent out from the upper frame tip 30. A gap portion 236 and a help bent portion 238 are formed due to the speed difference with the rear end portion which is relatively fast, absorbing this speed difference and continuing to convey the photosensitive material P. .

In the water application section 32, while the photosensitive material P is moving at a low speed, it passes through the water tray 246 and water 250 is applied thereto. In this water application section 32, endless guide belts 266 and 282 are held at both ends of the photosensitive material P in the width direction, so that unnecessary dust does not adhere to the image surface of the photosensitive material P. Also, the water application section 32
Since the lower case 242 and the upper case 244 are sealed, there is little evaporation of water in the water tray 246, which is maintained at a predetermined temperature.

In the image-receiving material storage section 34 , the image-receiving material R is pressed against a stopper 312 by an elevator 300 pushed up by a weight 308 , and the uppermost layer of image-receiving material R is pulled out by rotation of a half-moon roller 316 and transferred to the heat developing section 36 . Sent. Due to the balance between the weight 308 and the tension coil spring 314, the pressing force exerted by the weight 308 on the image receiving material R on the lifting table 300 does not become abnormally large even if the number of sheets placed on the image receiving material R is reduced.

The photosensitive material P coated with water is brought into close contact with the image-receiving material R, which is fed by -th sheet from the image-receiving material storage section 34, in the state shown in FIG. 22, and then sent to the thermal development section 36. This heat developing section 3
6, the photosensitive material P is rapidly heated to a predetermined temperature by the heaters 362 and 364, so that rapid thermal development is performed, and then the developed image is transferred to the image receiving material R. Since there is no dust attached to the photosensitive surface of the photosensitive material P that is brought into close contact with the photosensitive material P, there is no transfer defect, and the image can be accurately transferred to the image receiving material R. Furthermore, since water has already been applied to the photosensitive material P, the image forming efficiency is improved.

After the transfer, the photosensitive material P and the image receiving material R are sent to the peeling-off section 38 while remaining in close contact with each other. In this peeling-out section 38, both widthwise ends of the photosensitive material P are held and guided by a lower guide plate 390 and an upper guide plate 392, and are bent downward.

On the other hand, the image-receiving material R is held at its leading end by the endless bell (398, 400) and bent upward, so that the image-receiving material R and the photosensitive material P are separated. The photosensitive material P is stored in the photosensitive material storage section 40, and the image receiving material R is sent by the endless belt 398, 400 and once ascends to the guide section 404, and then taken out to the takeout box 39 to become a product. Since this image-receiving material R has been heated and dried by the heater 402, the person to be photographed 22 can take it out immediately.

- For example, after all the photosensitive materials P are pulled out from the photosensitive material magazine 46, the storage box 56 is rotated to the imaginary line state in FIG. 3 and the photosensitive material magazine 46 is taken out from the storage box 56. The photosensitive material P is supplied from the photosensitive material magazine 48, and the photosensitive material P pulled out from the photosensitive material magazine 48 and reaching the cutter 88 is
Since the storage box 56 is in the state shown by the solid line in FIG. 3, it will not be exposed inadvertently when the photosensitive material magazine 46 is replaced. The same applies when replacing the photosensitive material magazine 48.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, in the present invention, since the widthwise ends of the photosensitive material are held and sent from the storage section to the contact section, dust does not adhere to the center of the photosensitive material, which impairs the quality of the developed human image. It has an excellent effect of being able to be transferred to an image-receiving material.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional side view showing a photographic production apparatus to which the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is an enlarged view showing a part of FIG. 1, FIG. The figure is a perspective view of Fig. 3, Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the vertical guide path, Fig. 6 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing the photographing exposure section and the top of the frame, and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the shooting exposure section and the top of the frame. FIG. 8(A) is an exploded perspective view showing the 4-image shooting shutter, FIG. 8(B) is an exploded perspective view showing the 4-image shooting shutter, and FIG. 9(A) is an exploded perspective view showing the 4-image shooting shutter.
FIG. 9(B) is a front view of the photosensitive material with images exposed, FIG. 10 is a front view of the photosensitive material with images exposed, and FIG. 10 is the shutter rotation when four images are exposed. 11 is an exploded perspective view of the vertical guide path provided between the upper end of the frame and the water application section, FIG. 12 is a sectional view of the water application section, and FIG. 13 is a front view showing the arrangement of the optical axis relative to the center. 14 is a sectional view taken along the line XIV-XIV in FIG. 12. FIG. 15 is a vertical sectional view showing the image receiving material storage section.
6 is a sectional view taken along the line XVI-XVI in FIG. 15, FIG. 17 is a perspective view of the image-receiving material storage section, FIG. 18 is a perspective view showing the heat developing section, and FIG. 19 is a section taken along XIX-XIX in FIG. 18. 20 is a perspective view showing the peeling-off section, FIG. 21 is a vertical sectional view of the peeling-off section, and FIG. 22 is a plan view showing the state of contact between the photosensitive material and the image-receiving material. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10... Photographic production device, 26... Photosensitive material storage section, 28... Photography exposure section, 30... Frame top end, 32... Water application section, 34... Image receiving material storage section , 36... Heat development section, 38... Peeling/taking out section, 46... Photosensitive material magazine, 48... Photosensitive material magazine, 64... Drive roller, 98. 104... Conveyance roller, 110 ...Vertical guideway, 122A, 122B, 124A, 124B...Round belt.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A photographic production apparatus in which a heat-developable photosensitive material is sent from a storage section to a photographic exposure section, an image is exposed, the image is brought into close contact with an image-receiving material, and the photothermographic material is developed and transferred in a heat-developable transfer section and then peeled off, wherein the photothermographic material is peeled off. A photographic production apparatus characterized in that the material is conveyed from a storage section to a close contact section while holding the widthwise edge of the material while avoiding the center of the photosensitive surface.