JPS5938743A - Disk film processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the quantity of processing solution and miniaturize the processing device by rotating the disk film according to order of processing, and rotating the disk film on its own axis holding it in an inclined state during processing. CONSTITUTION:When a disk film support 10 arrives at the starting end of a developing tank, it is disconnected from a charging rail 55. At the same time, the grooved pulley 16 of the support 10 is engaged with the endless belt 60' of a driving belt device 60, and the support 10 is held at 45 deg. to the bottom plate, and rotated. When the support 10 arrives at the terminal end of the developing tank 46, the sleeve cylinder of the support 10 is pushed up to become nearly horizontal. By cooperation of above-mentioned pushing up operation and an endless chain for carrying, the supprt 10 is carried to the starting end of a bleaching tank 47. With descent of a holding piece, the support 10 is inclined and disconnected from the holding piece. By this way, the support is shifted to a subsequent tank.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION In the present invention, a disc film is subjected to a so-called development process, in which processes such as development, bleaching, fixing, and stable hardening are appropriately mixed with water washing process in between. The present invention relates to an improvement of a disk film processing device that performs draining and drying processing.

Recently, along with the development of disc film cameras, various disc film processing machines have been proposed. However, these disc film processing machines were developed with the processing of large quantities of disc film in mind, following the example of long photographic film processing machines. It is uneconomical and impractical to process.

An object of the present invention is to provide a highly practical disc film processing apparatus that can easily process a small amount of disc film with a small amount of processing liquid in a short time.

The gist of the disk film processing apparatus of the present invention is as follows: (A) A disk film mounting portion, a bevel gear, a pulley, and a rotating roller are attached to the lower end, upper end, and upper end of the rotating shaft supported by the sheath cylinder, respectively, and the disk film processing apparatus is Form a support, (
B) The disk film supports are erected at regular intervals on an endless chain for transportation installed horizontally in a dark box, and attached to a U-shaped support so as to be able to swing uniformly in a see-saw manner; Below the elliptical orbit in which the disc film attached to the support revolves by the endless transport chain, the loading section and the disc film are subjected to processing such as development, bleaching, fixing, and stable hardening. (D) in a linear section of the orbit of the disk film, the disk (6) a drive belt device having an endless belt configured to hold the disc film support in an inclined state in cooperation with a pulley of the film support and rotate the disc film; a guide rail that engages a rotating roller at the upper end of the disc film support to hold the disc film support in an inclined state; and a bevel gear of the disc film support. a bevel gear for rotating the disk film in cooperation with the The present invention is characterized in that it is equipped with a crimp disk film lifting device that cooperates with an endless transfer chain to transfer the disk film to the next tank.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail with reference to illustrated embodiments.

(Structure) In FIG. 10, numeral 1 is a disk film, which has a diameter of about 6-5C1n and has a mounting hole with a diameter of about 1 m in the center. Reference numeral 1o denotes a disk film support body, which is equipped with a sheath cylinder 11 and a rotating shaft 12.
2 is supported by a pair of E-rings 13 on the sheath cylinder 11 so as to be rotatable and non-removable. A disk film attachment part 14 is fixed to the lower end of the rotating shaft 12 (the left end in FIG. 10), a bevel gear 15 and a grooved boot 916 are attached to the upper end of the rotating shaft 12, and the upper end of the rotating shaft 12 The rotating rollers 17 are mounted to rotate around the central axis of the rotating shaft 12. There are four hemispherical parts 1 on both sides of the sheath tube 11.
8 is recessed. A groove is cut in the axial direction in the portion where the rotating shaft 12 protrudes from the lower surface of the disc film attachment part 14, and a bending spring wire 19 is attached in the groove so as to be retractable. Mounting part 1
4. It is designed to be able to be removably attached to the bottom surface of 4 and elastically open several lines.

In Figures 1 to 3, Figure 1 is a plan view showing the inside of the dark box with the top plate completely removed, and Figure 2 is the II of Figure 1.
- It is a longitudinal side view along the line II, and Figure 3 is the I of Figure 1.
It is a partially cutaway front view taken along the I[-1 line.

20 is a dark box, which includes a top plate 21, a bottom plate 22, and a front plate 23.
, a left side plate 24, a back plate 25, and a right side plate 2G. Reference numerals 27 and 28 denote a charging inlet and an outlet opening on the left and right sides of the front plate 23, respectively, to which a dark bag, a light-shielding film, etc. (not shown) are attached. Reference numeral 29 denotes a support frame body having a V-shaped cross section and provided on the lower surface of the top plate 21 in the front-rear direction.

Reference numeral 30 denotes an endless chain for transportation installed horizontally within the dark box 20, and extends between the front sprocket wheel 31 and the rear sprocket wheel 32. The front sprocket wheel 31 is mounted on a driving vertical shaft 34 driven by a motor 33 with a speed reducer, and the rear sprocket wheel 32 is mounted on a driven vertical shaft 36 rotatably supported on a fixed vertical shaft 35 (see FIG. 4). It is installed on. In FIG. 1, the endless transfer chain 30 is rotated clockwise by a motor 33. Endless chain for transportation 3
0, U-shaped supports 37 are erected at equal intervals larger than the diameter of the disc film 1 (for example, 100wn). As shown in FIGS. 11 and 12, the U-shaped support 37 is attached to a connecting piece 38 fixed to the endless transfer chain 30 with a pin 39. Further, the legs 40 and 41 of the U-shaped support 37 are formed to be long and short, and an inclined surface 42 is formed at the connecting portion of the legs 40 and 41. A click ball 44 is provided at opposing portions of the legs 40, 41, respectively, and is held by a spring 43 so as to be retractable. The four hemispherical parts 18 of the sheath tube 11 are connected to the click ball 4
4, the disc film support 10 is attached to the U-shaped support 37 in a removable and uniformly swingable manner. Instead of the click ball, a horizontal shaft may be used to attach the device so that it is not removable and can be swung in a uniform manner.

A disc film 1 revolves around an endless transport chain 30 that spans sprocket wheels 31 and 32.
In FIG. 1, the orbit of the orbit includes a left straight section along the left side plate 24, a semicircular rear direction change section along the rear sprocket wheel 32, a right side straight line along the right side plate 26, and a front sprocket wheel 31. It has an oval-like shape with a semicircular front turning section along the . Below the elliptical orbit of the disc film 1, there is a loading section 45 facing the loading port 27, a developing tank 46, a bleaching tank 47, a washing tank 48 along the left straight section, and a rear direction change section. A fixing tank 49 along the line, a washing tank 50 along the right straight section, a stable hardening tank 51, a squeeze tank 52, and a drying section 53
and a discharge portion 54 facing the discharge port 28 are arranged in this order.

Reference numeral 55 denotes a loading rail provided in the loading section 45, which supports the disk film support 10 horizontally and at approximately the same height as the U-shaped support 37. Reference numeral 56 denotes a discharge guide rail provided in the discharge section 54, which guides the disk film support 10 that has come out of the drying section 53 and is in revolution.
Remove from the letter-shaped support 37 (see Fig. 6) and open the discharge port 28.
After that, it is automatically discharged to the outside of the dark box 20.

In order to rotate the disc film 1 in each processing tank and each processing section which are arranged along the left straight section and the right straight section of the elliptical orbit of the disc film 1, the dark box 20 has a V-shaped cross section. Drive belt devices 60 and 61 for the developing tank 46, bleaching tank 47 and washing tank 48 are provided on the left side of the support frame 29 (see FIG. 3), and drive belt devices 60 and 61 for the washing tank 46 are provided on the right side of the support frame 29 (see FIG. 5). Drive belt devices 62, 63, and 64 are provided for the tank 50, the stable hardening tank 51, the squeeze section 52, and the drying section 53. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 and 7, the drive belt device 60 includes a grooved groove IJ 65, 65 attached to the lower surface of the left side of the support frame 29, and a grooved groove IJ 65, 65 disposed within the support frame 29. It is constructed by wrapping an endless belt 60' around a grooved pulley 66 driven by a motor 67.

The other drive belt devices 61, 62, 63, and 64 are configured similarly to the drive belt device 60, and include endless belts 61', 62', 63', and 64'. These endless belts 60', 61', 62'
, 63' and 64' respectively push down the grooved pulley 16 of the disc film support 10 and move the disc film support 10 around the click ball 44 of the U-shaped support 37 as shown in FIGS. 3 and 5. As shown in FIG. 7, the disc film 1 is tilted at approximately 45 degrees with respect to the bottom plate 22, and the disc film 1 is rotated via the grooved pulley 16.

The disc film support 10 is held in an inclined state in a fixing tank 49 disposed along the rear turning section of the elliptical orbit of the disc film 1, and
In order to rotate the disc film 1, as shown in FIG. 4, a guide rail 68 with which the rotating roller 17 at the upper end of the disc film support 10 engages is installed in the dark box 20 by a supporting member (not shown), and the disc is rotated. A large-diameter fixed bevel gear 69 that meshes with the bevel gear 15 of the film support 10 is attached to the upper end of the fixed vertical shaft 35 that projects above the rear Sedge rocket wheel 32. Instead of the large-diameter fixed bevel gear, a small-diameter bevel gear may be rotated counterclockwise by a motor (not shown) or the like. While the film 1 is changing direction, the rotating roller 17 is guided by the guide rail 68, and the disc film support 10 is held approximately against the bottom plate 22 of the dark box 20 using the click ball 44 of the U-shaped support 37 as a fulcrum. While maintaining the tilted state at 45 degrees, the bevel gear 15 of the disc film support 10 rolls on the fixed bevel gear 69, thereby causing the disc film 1 to rotate. Further, before and after the direction change of the disc film 1, the grooved pulley 16 of the disc film support 10 is rotated by the endless belt 61'.
The belt 62' is detached from the belt 62' and engaged with the endless belt 62'.

For example, the rotation speed of the disk film 1 in each processing tank and each processing section is 200 times per minute in the developing tank 46 and the drying section 53, 2000 times per minute in the squeeze tank 52, and 60 times per minute in the other tanks. . Disk film processing time is about 30 minutes from loading to discharge.

Reference numeral 70 denotes a disk film lifting device, which, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, includes a developing tank 46, a bleaching tank 47, and a washing tank 4.
8. A horizontal lifting rod 71 arranged along the inside of the starting end of the fixing tank 49, and a horizontal lifting rod 71 arranged along the inside of the terminal end of the fixing tank 49, the washing tank 50, the stable hardening tank 51, and the squeeze tank 52. It is equipped with a lifting rod 72. As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, support rods 73, 74, and 75.76 are vertically fixed to the front and rear ends of the horizontal lifting rods 71.72, respectively, and the lower ends of the support rods 73 to 16 are fixed to each other. Rotating disk 77.7B
, γ9, 80 with a pin 81 so as to be rotatable.

The rotating discs 71 and 18 and the rotating discs 79 and 80 each have a chain transmission device 82, which is formed by an endless chain wrapped around a pair of sprocket wheels so that the discs 79 and 80 rotate synchronously.
The rotating disc 77 is interlockingly connected to a motor 85 via a chain transmission 84 so as to rotate counterclockwise in FIG. 87 is the reversing gear 88.8
It is interlocked and connected at 9. A support piece 90 is provided on the upper surface of the horizontal lift rods 71 and 72 at the end position of each treatment tank, and as shown in FIG. It makes a circular motion in the same manner as above, contacts the lower surface of the sheath cylinder 11 of the disc film support 10, and works together with the endless transport chain 30 to transport the disc film 1 to the next tank, that is, to transfer it. It has become.

Reference numeral 91 denotes a guide rail disposed between the terminal end of the drying section 53 and the discharge rail 56, and the guide rail 91 is arranged between the terminal end of the drying section 53 and the discharge rail 56, and is installed just before the grooved boot 916 of the disk film support 10 separates from the endless belt 64' of the drive belt device 64. The discharging guide rail 56 engages with the rotating rollers 17 of the disc film support 100 and gradually brings the disc film support 10 into a horizontal state.
It is designed to guide you.

(Function) When the motor 33 with a speed reducer (see FIG. 2) is started, the endless transfer chain 30 rotates clockwise in FIG. 1. A motor 67 arranged inside the V-shaped frame 29...
- When starting (see FIG. 7), the respective endless belts 60' to 64' of the drive belt devices 60 to 64 move around the couplet pulley 16 (fifth) of the disc film support 10.
(see FIG. 7) rotates in the same direction as the endless transfer chain 30. When the motor 85 (see FIGS. 7 to 9) is started, the horizontal lifting rods 71 and 72 of the disk film lifting device 70 move toward the endless transport chain 3.
0 to move the disk film support up and down. Holding the disc film support 10 (see FIG. 10) in your hand, place it on the loading rail 55 of the loading section 45 through the dark bag (not shown) in the loading port 21, and then The click balls 44, 44 (
11 and 12), the disc film support 10 is transported by the endless transport chain 30. When the support 10 reaches the starting end of the developer tank 46, it is removed from the charging rail 55, and the grooved pulley 16 of the support 10 is attached to the endless drive belt device 60 as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3. Engaged with the belt 60', the support 10 is held at an angle of about 45 degrees with respect to the bottom plate 22, as shown by the dotted line in FIG. do. When the support body 10 reaches the terminal end of the developer tank 46, the sheath cylinder 11 of the support body 10 moves to the support piece 90 (the ninth
(see figure), the click balls 44, 4
It becomes almost horizontal with 4 as the fulcrum. The support 10 is pushed up by the circular movement of the support piece 90 in conjunction with the circular movement of the bottle 81 and in cooperation with the endless transfer chain 30, the support 10 is moved into the bleaching tank 4.
7, and as the support piece 90 descends, the support body 10 becomes inclined and detaches from the support piece 90. As described above, the support 10 is transferred to the next tank. While the support 10 passes through the bleaching tank 47 and the washing tank 48, the support 10 is held in an inclined state by the endless belt 61' of the drive belt device 61 and the grooved pulley 16, and the rotation axis 12 is made to rotate.

At the end of the bleaching tank 47 and the end of the washing tank 48,
Support piece 90 of horizontal lifting rod 71 and endless chain 30 for transfer
The support body 10 is transferred to the next tank in cooperation with the following tank. The support body 10 is transferred from the washing tank 48 to the fixing tank 49.
When the grooved pulley 16 is transferred to the endless belt 6
1', the rotating roller 17 at the upper end of the support body 10 engages with the guide rail 68, and as the endless transfer chain 30 circulates, the bevel gear 15 of the support body 10 moves to the fourth position.
As shown in the figure, the support body 10 is engaged with the fixed bevel gear 69 and rotates, so that the support body 10 is inclined at approximately 45 degrees with respect to the bottom plate 22 while the endless transfer chain 30 changes direction. While being held, the rotating shaft 12 is caused to rotate. When the direction change of the transfer chain 3° is completed, the rotating rollers 17 separate from the guide rails 68, and
The grooved boob IJ16 engages the endless belt 62' of the drive belt assembly 62. Thereafter, the support 10 is transferred to the fixing tank 49.
The support 10 is supported by endless belts 62', 63', and 64' as shown in FIG. The rotary shaft 12 is held in a state inclined at approximately 45 degrees with respect to the bottom plate 22, and the rotating shaft 12 is rotated. At the end of each treatment tank, the support piece 90 of the horizontal lifting rod 72 cooperates with the endless transfer chain 30 to transfer the treatment tank to the next tank. At the terminal end of the drying section 53, the grooved pulley 16 separates from the endless belt 64', and the rotating roller 17 engages with the guide rail 91 (see FIG. 1), and the endless chain 30 for transportation circulates to move the supporting body 10. The discharge section 5 changes from an inclined state to a horizontal state.
(see FIG. 6), by changing the direction of the endless conveying chain 30, the supporting body 10
is removed from the U-shaped support 37, and the dark box 2 is removed from the outlet 28.
It is automatically ejected to outside.

Therefore, the disc film that has already been photographed and is in the magazine is taken out from the magazine in the loading section 45, and it is sandwiched between the support plates and placed on the underside of the disc film mounting part 14 of the disc film support 10, one or several sheets. After mounting, the support 10 is attached to the U-shaped support 37 as described above, and while the support 10 is circulated and automatically discharged from the discharge port 28 as described above, the disk is removed. The film 1 is subjected to so-called development processes such as development, bleaching, water washing, fixing, water washing, stable hardening, etc., is subjected to draining in a squeeze tank 52, and is subjected to a drying process in a drying section 53.

When a horizontal bar is used instead of the click ball 44, the disc film 1 is removed manually from the disc film support 10 at the ejection section 54, and is then automatically removed by the removal rail. In order to automatically remove the disc film, the rails on the inside of the pair of ejection rails 56 in FIG.
The outer rail is formed into a disk film removal rail consisting of two upper and lower horizontal rails, and the disk is removed just before the support 10 approaches the front direction change section from the drying section 53. Remove the film 1 and enter it to the outside of the rail, and remove the endless chain 30 for transfer.
When the direction of the disc film 1 changes, the support plate at the center of the disc film 1 is removed and brought into contact with the rail.
is made to separate from the support 10.

(Effects) According to the present invention, the disk film revolves in accordance with the order of the treatments to be applied to the disk film, and the disk film is rotated on its own axis while being held in an inclined state throughout the treatment, so the amount of processing liquid is reduced. I'm going to work on it, so
This allows the disk film processing device to be made smaller. During one revolution of the disk film, loading of the disk film, processing such as development, bleaching, fixing, stable hardening, etc. are carried out, so-called development processing with appropriate water washing processing, water draining, drying processing, Since the disc film is ejected, a small amount of disc film can be processed in a short time. In the straight section of the elliptical orbit of the disk film, the disk film is held in an inclined state by the endless belt of the drive belt device and rotated, so the structure is simple and the operation is easy. In short, the present invention has made it possible to easily process a small amount of disk film with a small amount of processing liquid in a short time and to provide a highly practical disk film processing apparatus.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is a plan view showing the inside of the dark box with the top plate removed, FIG. Figure 3 shows ■-■ in Figure 1.
Partially cutaway front view along the line, Figure 4 is IV-I of Figure 4.
Figure 5 is a cut-away elevational view taken along line V, Figure 5 is a cut-away elevation view taken along line ■-■ in Figure 1, Figure 6 is a cut-away elevation view taken along line V+-Vt in Figure 1, Figure 7 is a cutaway elevational view taken along the line ■-■ in Figure 2, Figure 8 is a partially cutaway plan view of the disc film lifting device, Figure 9 is a side view of the main parts of the disc film lifting device,
FIG. 10 is a partially cutaway front view of the disc film support;
Figure 11 is a partially cutaway front view of the U-shaped support attached to the endless chain for transfer, and Figure 12 is X1l-Xl of Figure 11.
FIG. 1: Disc film 10: Disc film support 11: Sheath tube 12: Rotating shaft 14: Disc film attachment part 15: Bevel gear 16: Boule 17: Rotating roller 20: Dark box 30: Endless chain for transport 37: U-shaped support Tools 45: Loading section 46: Developing tank 47: Bleaching tank 48: Washing tank 49: Fixing tank 50: Washing tank 51: Stable hardening tank 52 Nisquez tank 53: Drying section 54: Discharge section 60-64: Drive belt Devices 60' to 64': Endless belt 68 guide rail 69: Bevel gear 70: Disc film lifting device Patent applicant Noritz Research Center v-5 Kuchimine 7 times 1 \4G

Claims (1)

[Claims] A disk film support is formed by attaching a disk film mounting portion, a bevel gear, a pulley, and a rotating roller to the lower end, upper end, and upper end of a rotating shaft supported by a sheath cylinder, respectively, and the disk The film support is attached to a U-shaped support set upright at regular intervals on an endless chain for transportation installed horizontally in a dark box so as to be able to swing uniformly in the scene, and the disk film attached to the disk film support is Below the elliptical orbit revolved by the endless transfer chain,
A charging section, processing liquid tanks for sequentially applying processes such as development, bleaching, fixing, and stable hardening to the disk film with appropriate water washing in between, a squeeze tank, and a drying section. ,
a discharge section, and in a straight line section of the orbit of the disk film,
a drive belt device having an endless belt that cooperates with a pulley of the disc film support to hold the disc film support in an inclined state and rotate the disc film; In one direction changing section, a guide rail engages with a rotating roller at an upper end of the disc film support to hold the disc film support in an inclined state; and a bevel gear of the disc film support; a bevel gear that cooperates to rotate the disc film, and pushes up the disc film support across the various terminal ends and the starting end of each subsequent tank, and cooperates with the endless transport chain. 1. A disk film processing apparatus comprising a disk film lifting device configured to transport the disk film to the next tank.