US3558813A - Mechanisms and circuits for facsimile reproducing systems - Google Patents

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US3558813A
US3558813A US698255A US3558813DA US3558813A US 3558813 A US3558813 A US 3558813A US 698255 A US698255 A US 698255A US 3558813D A US3558813D A US 3558813DA US 3558813 A US3558813 A US 3558813A
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  • This invention relates generally to facsimile reproducing systems in which first and second beams of light scan synchronously over, respectively, a copy sheet and a sensitized photographic film sheet, and in which tonal values detected by scanning of the copy sheet are converted into a signal controlling the intensity of the second beam to produce exposure on the film sheet of an image derived from the copy sheet. More particularly, this invention relates to improvements in facsimile reproducing systems similar to that disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,109,888 issued Nov. 5, I963 in the name of W. W. Moe.
  • a copy sheet in the fonn of a color transparency is stretched between opposite arcuate sides of a frame to conform to a cylindrical surface intercepting the path of a stationery scanning beam and having an axis normal to and intersecting the axis of that path.
  • a single line of scanning of the sheet by the beam is produced by rocking the frame about the axis ofthe cylindrical surface through a fixed angle from a reference angular position.
  • the sheet is then" returned to reference position by a rearward rocking motion not used for scanning purposes.
  • the frame is displaced one step in the direction of the axis of the cylindrical surface so as to cause successive line scans over the copy sheet to form a raster scanning pattern therefor.
  • the scanning beam is modulated in color and intensity by the tone values of the color transparency through which the beam passes in the course of scanning.
  • the modulated beam is convertedinto different color component electric signals con trolling the currents through respectively corresponding glowlamps to thereby control the intensities of respectively corresponding exposing" light beams emitted by those glowlamps.
  • Each of the exposing light beams is projected to a separate zone of a drum which undergoes rotary motion and stepwise axial motion relative to the exposing beams in synchronism with, respectively, the rocking motion and the axial stepwise motion of the frame.
  • the exposing beams are thus caused to scan in raster patterns over sensitized photographic film sheets mounted on the drum at those zones, the different beams exposing different color separation images of the original color transparency on the different film sheets.
  • the system of the Moe patent has the disadvantage that, when the copy sheet is large, it becomes difficult to stretch the sheet within its frame so as to conform the sheet with desired accuracy to the ideal geometric cylindrical surface.
  • the film sheets must occupy less than half the drum circumference in order to permit the return motion of the frame to occur when the exposing light beams are falling on a blank area of the drum. Otherwise, those beams would expose a false image on the i ilm sheets in response to illumination of the copy sheet during the return motion of the frame.
  • the requirement, however, that the film sheets not occupy more than half the drum circumference is disadvantageous because half of the circumference of the drum is thereby wasted.
  • a further object of this invention is, in connection with a system of such type, to provide improvements which permit the film sheet to occupy more than half the drum circumference and/or which permit adjustment of the ratio between the size of the scanned area of the copy sheet and the size of the scanned areas of the one or more film sheets.
  • Still another object of this invention is to provide circuitry for restarting a glowlamp after it has been extinguished.
  • FIG. I is a plan view of the mentioned embodiment with a portion of the embodiment being broken away to simplify the drawing;
  • FIG. 2 is an enlarged plan view of a portion of the FIG. 1 embodiment
  • FIG. 3 is a front elevation (taken as indicated by the arrows 3-3 in FIG. 2) of the portion shown in FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 4 is a side elevation (taken as indicated by the arrows 4-4 in FIG. I) of the embodiment of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 5 is a side elevation in cross section (taken as indicated by the arrows 5-5 in FIG. 1) of the embodiment of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 6 is a plan view of the portion of the FIG. I embodiment which involves the drum, the glowlamps and the circuits for those glowlamps, and which is the portion broken away in FIG. I;
  • FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of one of the circuits shown in FIG. 6.
  • a bed 10 supports an electric motor 11 driving at constant rotary speed a shaft 12 journaled along its length in bearing 13 and having its rightward end connected to a 2:1 gearbox l5.
  • a drum 16 Mounted on shaft 12 to rotate therewith is a drum 16 carrying four axially spaced sensitized photographic film sheets l7--20 (see FIG. 6) of which only the sheet 17 is shown in FIG. 1.
  • Each of the sheets l720 extends around the drum 16 to occupy more than half its circumference.
  • a projector carriage 25 Disposed to one side of the drum 16 is a projector carriage 25 movable on ways 24 parallelto the axis of the drum.
  • Can riage 25 supports four projectors 27-30 (FIG. 6) of which each is comprised of a glowlamp 26 and optical means for forming the light emitted by that lamp into an exposing light beam.
  • the respective light beamsfrom the projectors 2730 are directed to the separate axial zones of drum 16 at which x the film sheets l720 are mounted on the drum.
  • carriage 25 is moved axially rightward one incremental step during the second revolution in each nonoverlapping pair of consecutive revolutions of the drum.
  • That stepwise axial movement of the carriage is effected by apparatus 31 which may he, say, driven by motor ll (as indicated by the dash line 32 in FIG. I), and which may be similar to the indexing apparatus disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,288,925 issued on Nov. 29, I966 in the name ofW. W. Moe.
  • The' glowlamps of the projectors 27-30 are connected (FIG. 6) through skip-scan circuits 35 (later described in more detail) and through respective cables 37-40 to a unit 41 which effects electronic color processing of different color component image signals supplied thereto by a cable 42.
  • Unit 41 may be a color signal processing system similar to those disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 2,873,312 issued Feb. I0, 1959 in the name of W. W. Moe or U.S. Pat. No. 3,l94,883 issued July 13, 1965 in the name of Austin Ross.
  • What unit 41 does is, briefly, to (a) receive three separate electrical signals representative of the blue, green and red color components of scanned tone values of a colored original image, (b) subject those input signals to tone range compression, color correction masking, under color removal and other processing, (c) utilize such processing to supply yellow,” magenta,” cyan” and black” signals to, respectively, the projectors 27, 28, 29 and 30 to cause the light beams from the glowlamps of those projectors to expose yellow, magenta, cyan and black separation images of the colored original on, respectively, the films l7, l8, l9 and 20.
  • the input signals for unit 41 are derived in a manner as follows.
  • Shaft has fixedly mounted on its right-hand end a main cam 47 and an auxiliary cam 48.
  • the camming face of cam 47 is engaged by a cam follower roller 49 (FIG. 4) mounted on the outer end of a crank arm 50 of which the inner end is affixed to the left-hand end of a crankshaft 51 journaled in bearings 52, 53 mounted on a base 54 in turn mounted on bed 10.
  • a crank arm 55 Secured to the right-hand end of shaft 51 is a crank arm 55 having formed therein a longitudinal arcuate slot 56.
  • a setscrew assembly 57 Received in that slot is a setscrew assembly 57 which may, by manipulation, be adjusted to and maintained at any desired position along the length of the slot.
  • Setscrew device 57 serves as a pivot connection for the lower end of a drive rod 60 of which the upper end has a similar pivot connection provided by a setscrew assembly 61.
  • Device 61 is received in an arcuate slot 62 formed in the outer end of a drive plate 63 furnishing the radially outward part of a bellcrank lever 64.
  • setscrew device 61 may be adjusted to and held at any desired position in the slot in which it is received by l loosening the setscrew of the device, (2) sliding the device to the selected position, and (3) retightening the setscrew of the device.
  • the radially inward end of the bellcrank lever 64 encircles and is fixedly secured to a rocker shaft (not shown) supported at opposite ends by balls received in sockets at the end of the shaft and in sockets provided by ball support plugs received in bores 71 at opposite horizontal ends of a stand 72 mounted on base 54.
  • the mentioned rocker shaft carries in fixed relation a drum sector means 75 comprised of a hub 76 secured to that shaft, an arcuate cylindrical mm 77 and radial webs 78 and 79 and side web 74 connecting the rim to the hub.
  • the left-hand end (FIG. 2) of hub 76 is shaped to have an upwardly extending head 80 (FIG.
  • the entire described sector structure is adapted to be rocked about its rocker shaft by forward and back motions of the drive rod 60.
  • a light projector Disposed on the leftward side (FIG. 2) of the second device 75 is a light projector supported (FIG. 4) by a platform 91 mounted by a ball 92 on base 54 and adjustable in inclination with that base by a vemier screw assembly 93 of which the screw engages the forward end of the platform.
  • Projector 90 emits a stationary scanning light beam in a path indicated by the dash line 94. The beam in that path is directed to a scanning head 95 separated from the front end of projector 90 by the gap 96.
  • the rim 77 of the sector structure 75 has a portion which extends leftwards of the side web 74 and is stiffened by triangular webs 97.
  • the left-hand transverse margin 98 of that rim portion is disposed to the right of beam path 94 but is spaced from that path by only a small distance, i.e., a few hundredths of an inch.
  • the outer face 100 of rim 77 is accurately machined to define with high precision a sector of a geometric circular cylindrical surface passing through gap 96 and having an axis coincident with that of the mentioned rocker shaft and normal to and intersecting the axis of the path 94 for the light beam from projector 90.
  • Rim face 100 serves as a template surface for a copy sheet in the form of a rectangular color transparency providing the color image from which the color separation images are made by the described system.
  • Sheet 105 is placed in contact with template surface 100 so that the opposite lateral edges 106. 107 of the sheet coincide with generatrix lines of the geometric cylindrical surface defined by the template surface and so that, between those edges, the portion of the sheet over the template surface is bent or curved by the backing provided by that surface to conform very closely to the ideal cylindrical surface which is the desired shape for the copy sheet.
  • sheet 105 is so positioned on template surface 100 that a leftward portion 110 of the sheet extends transversely into and across gap 96 to intercept the path 94 for the scanning light beam. Throughout the extent of portion 110, the sheet 105 is not backed by its template surface. Despite that lack of backing, however, the stiffness of the sheet and the closeness to path 94 of the left-hand edge 98 of the template surface are factors which conjointly cause the unbacked portion of sheet 105 to have at its intersection with path 94 a negligible divergency from the described ideal geometric cylindrical surface.
  • sheet 105 is maintained in contact with that surface by a clamping means in the form of a resilient strap passing with tension from a zone of fastening 117 to surface 100 on one lateral side of sheet 105 to a zone of fastening 118 of the strap to the surface 100 on the other lateral side of the copy sheet.
  • a clamping means in the form of a resilient strap passing with tension from a zone of fastening 117 to surface 100 on one lateral side of sheet 105 to a zone of fastening 118 of the strap to the surface 100 on the other lateral side of the copy sheet.
  • strap 115 passes circumferentially over the sheet 105.
  • Strap 115 may be provided by, for example, a resilient strip of tape having an underside coated with adhesive at the fastened ends of the strip but noncoated with adhesive over the strip portion in contact with the copy sheet. Because the strap 115 is tensioned between its end'zoncs at which it is fastened to the template. the strap presses the portion underneath of sheet 105 into firm contact with the template surface 100. On the other hand, because the copy sheet and strap are not fastened together, the sheet may be moved transversely beneath the strap by a force overcoming the friction between the sheet and strap.
  • the left-hand transverse margin 119 of the sheet is gripped between the arcuate rim 120 ofa drum sector means 121 and an arcuate clamping bar 122 (FIG. 5) drawn to the rim 120 by screws 123 passing through that bar and through the copy margin 119 to be received in threaded holes in the rim 120.
  • the second device 121 is on the opposite side of beam path 94 from sector device 75 and is generally similar to the latter in that the rim of device 121 is connected by radial webs 124, 125, and a side web 126 to a hub 127 mounted on a rocker shaft (not shown) coaxial with the rocker shaft for sector device 75.
  • the outer face 128 of the rim of sector device 121 conforms to the geometric circular cylindrical surface defined by the template surface 100 on the sector device 75.
  • a difference between two sector devices is that whereas device 75 is mounted on a transversely stationary stand 72, device 121 is mounted on a carriage 130 (FIG. 5) transversely movable on ways 131 and 132 in a direction normal to the axis of beam path 94.
  • Another difference is that. whereas the angular motion transmitting bar 82 (FIG. 2) is fixed to sector device 75, bar 82 is transversely slidable within the channel member 133 of sector device 121, in which bar 82 is received.
  • the carriage 130 for sector device 121 is moved transversely by a sine bar linkage 135 coupling that carriage to carriage 25 for the glowlamp projectors.
  • Such linkage is comprised in part (FIG. 1) of a strut projecting from the side of carriage 25 and of a long bar 141 pivotally connected at one end to strut 140 and pivotally connected at the other end to the radially outer end of a ratio bar 142.
  • Bar 142 at its radially inner end is angularly movable about a pivot 143 fixedly connected to the bed 10.
  • the central portion of bar 142 has formed therein a lengthwise extending arcuate slot 144 within which is received a setscrew assembly 145.
  • That assembly provides a pivotal connection for the right-hand end of a short bar 146 of which the left-hand end is pivotally connected to a strut 147 projecting outwardly from the carriage 130.
  • Setscrew device 145 can be adjusted to and maintained at any desired position along slot 144 by loosening the setscrew of the device, sliding the device to the selected position, and then retightcning the screw of the device.
  • the ratio of the respective linear movements of bars 141 and 146 is approximately equal to the ratio of the distances from pivot 143 of the respective pivotal connections of bars 141 and 146 to the ratio bar 142. It follows that selective adjustment of the setscrew assembly 145 in slot 144 effects selective adjustment in the ratio of the linear movements of the bars 141 and 146.
  • the auxiliary cam 48 operates a microswitch 150 to selectively change the electrical condition of that switch between open" and closed" conditions
  • a cable 151 connects switch 150 in circuit with the skip-scan circuits 35 to provide for control of that unit by the switch actron.
  • the colored image to be reproduced from a copy sheet 105 has a size x in the circumferential direction of template surface 100 and a size y in the transverse direction of that surface.
  • Those circumferential and transverse directions correspond to, respectively, the circumferential x and axial y directions over the surface of drum 12 on which the film sheets 1720 are mounted.
  • the color separation images to be exposed on those film sheets are to be the same in shape as but larger in size that the original color image on copy sheet 105.
  • Such congruence between the color separation images and the original colored image is realized by satisfying the relations:
  • Vx is the linear velocity in the direction x of the scanning beam from projector 90 over copy sheet 105
  • V is the linear velocity in the direction of x of the exposing beams over the film sheets 17-20 D
  • D is the size in the direction y of each step of transverse movement of sheet 105
  • D is the size in direction y of each step of axial relative movement between drum 12 and the exposing light beams from the glowlamp projectors.
  • Relation (l) is satisfied by adjusting setscrew device 57 (FIG. 4) to a position within slot 51 at which, during the first of two consecutive revolutions of drum 12 (FIG. 1), the rod 60 rocks sector means 75 upwardly at an angular speed causing the linear scanning speed of beam 94 over copy sheet 105 to be lla of the linear scanning speed of the exposing beams over the drum 12.
  • setscrew device 61 is positionally adjusted within slot 62 and film sheets l7-20 are positioned on the circumference of drum 12 such that the interval during which beam 94 will scan the color image on sheet 105 will be coincident in time with the interval during which the exposing beams will scan over the film sheets.
  • Relation (2) is satisfied by adjusting the position of set screw device 145 within slot 144 to cause a unit transverse movement of carriage 25 to be converted by the sine bar linkage into a transverse movement of l /a of the carriage 130.
  • carriages 25 and 130 are positioned, so that the paths for the exposing beams intercept the right-hand end portions (FIG. 1) of the film sheets 1720, and the path 94 for the scanning beam intercepts the left-hand end (FIG. 3) of the copy sheet 105.
  • the light sources and electric circuits of the system are then energized, and motor 11 is turned on to rotate drum l2 and to initiate the scanning cycle for the colored image on the particular copy sheet 105.
  • cam 41 (which rotates at half the speed of drum 12) drives linkage 49, 50, 51, 55, 60, 63 to rock the sector device 75 upward through a predetermined angle from a reference angular position for the device.
  • Such movement of device 75 is transmitted through bar 82 to sector device 121 to cause the latter device to rock upward by the same amount.
  • the upward rocking motions of devices 75 and 121 causes the beam in path 94 to scan in a line down over the image on the copy sheet 105.
  • the beam is modulated in color and in intensity by the scanned tone values of the original image.
  • the beam is received by head 95 which (in a well-known manner) converts the color and intensity modulation of the beam into blue, green and red color component signals supplied via cable 42 to the unit 41.
  • That processing unit derives from those input signals the yellow, magenta, cyan and black signals supplied by way of skip scan control unit 35 to, respec tively, the projectors 27, 28, 29 and 30.
  • the last-named signals control the current through the glowlamps of the projectors so as to modulate the intensity of the light beams therefrom.
  • each beam exposes on its associated sheet a line of detail derived from the concurrent line scanning of the copy sheet and forming part of the separation image exposed by that beam on such film sheet.
  • cam 48 operates during the mentioned second revolution of drum 12 to actuate microswitch 150 to effect through unit 35 an extinction of the glowlamps 26 in the projectors 27-30 and a consequent blanking of the exposing beams from the projectors.
  • the FIG. 1 embodiment has a skip-scan action providing the principal advantage that the film sheets l7-20 may be wrapped around drum 12 to occupy all or most of the full circumference of the drum. Absent that skip-scan action, the exposing of spurious information on the film sheets during the return stroke of the sector devices 75 and 121 could be avoided only by having such stroke occur during the period when the exposing beams are falling on a blank area of the drum between the opposite edges of the film sheets wrapped on the drum. In order, however, to make that period long enough for the full return stroke of devices 75 and 121 to occur within such period, it would be necessary to limit the 1' wrap of the film sheets around the drum to less than half the drums circumference.
  • indexing device 31 moves carriage 25 one incremental axial step to the left to thereby position the beams for the glowlamp projectors to scan a new line over the film sheets.
  • the step movement of carriage 25 is converted by the described sine bar linkage into a lesser transverse step of leftward movement of carriage and of the sector device 121 (FIG. 2) mounted on that carriage.
  • section device 121 is locked by bar 82 to the transversely stationary device 75 in respect to angular motion, the leftward stepwise movement of device 121 relative to device 75 is permitted by the sliding of bar 82 in its seat in the moving sector device.
  • the leftward indexing by a step of that device produces a leftward pulling of one incremental step of the copy sheet 105 so as to position that sheet for a new line of scanning by the beam in path 94.
  • the cylindrically curved copy sheet undergoes that stepwise movement by sliding over the template surface 100 of the transversely stationery device 75 and by slipping beneath the strap 115 which resiliently presses the copy sheet against such surface. In this manner, the copy sheet in the course ofa scanning cycle is progressively pulled leftward until most of the sheet is to the left of surface 100 so as to receive no backing from that surface.
  • cam 48 actuates microswiteh 150 to operate through unit 35 to restart the glowlamps 26 of the projectors 27-30.
  • the P16. 1 system repeats the operations already described.
  • SKIP-SCAN ClRCUlT Unit 35 is comprised of duplicate circuits of which there is a respective one for each of the projectors 17-20, and of which all are controlled in parallel by the microswiteh 150.
  • the circuit for the glowlamp 26 of projector 27 is shown schematically in FIG. 7.
  • the glowlamp is connected by leads 160 and 161 between a source of +180 volts DC and ground.
  • the cathode of the glowlamp is in series with a diode D in turn in series with two parallel circuit branches consisting of, respectively, the collector-emitter path of transistor Q and resistor 162 in series and the collector-emitter path of transistor Q and resistor R in series.
  • the image signal on lead 37 is applied to the base of transistor Q by way of a gate circuit 163 which passes or blocks the image signal in response to a control signal applied to circuit 163 by lead 164 from the movable contact 165 of microswiteh 150.
  • the same control signal is fed by lead 166 and resistor 167 to the base of transistor Q to control the conductivity of that transistor.
  • Another circuit between the source of I80 volts DC and ground is comprised of the connection in series of (a) the primary 170 of a voltage multiplying pulse transformer 171, (b) a charge-storing capacitor 172 and (c) the collector-emitter path of a transistor 0,.
  • the secondary winding 173 of transfonner 171 is connected to the anode and cathode leads 160, 161 for glowlamp 26 by, respectively, a resistor R and a diode D the forward direction of conduction of the latter being away from the cathode of the glowlamp.
  • a diode D is connected as shown across the primary winding 170 of the transformer.
  • Capacitor 172 is shunted by a discharge resistor R,.
  • the base of transistor Q is connected by a resistor 174 to the movable contact 165 of the microswiteh 150.
  • movable contact 165 is positioned by auxiliary cam 48 to be closed with a fixed contact 180 connected to a supply of volts DC.
  • the combined actions of cam 48 and of a biasing spring 181 move the contact 165 to closed position with a fixed contact 183 connected to a supply of O.5 volts DC.
  • both the copy sheet and the film sheets are lined scanned during the first out of every two revolutions of drum 12. 1n the course of that scanning, movable contact is closed with fixed contact 180 to supply plus 10 volts DC to gate 163 to permit the image signals to pass to transistor Q3 so as to produce a variation in the conductivity of that transistor and a corresponding variation in the amount ot'current drawn through glowlamp 26. Simultaneously, the +l0-volts signal is supplied to transistor O to render that element high in conductance.
  • movable contact 165 shifts from closure with contact 183 back to closure with contact 180 so as to reestablish the condition necessary to keep glowlamp 26 fired once it has been restarted.
  • the time at which glowlamp 26 would fire would be uncertain because it would depend upon a random event such as receipt by the gas in the glowlamp of sufficient ionizing radiation in the form, say, of a cosmic ray or other high energy particles.
  • Such uncertainty as to the time of firing is, however, avoided in the FIG. 7 circuit as the result of the change in position of contact 165 from closure with contact 183 to closure with contact 180.
  • the +l0-volts signal is supplied to transistor Q, to change the conductance of that.transistor from low to high.
  • the increase conductance of transitor Q causes a transient pulse of current to flow through the primary winding of transformer 171 and into capacitor 172 to charge that capacitor.
  • transformer 171 When transformer 171 is so pulled, it develops at the output of its secondary 173 a transient high voltage which drives the cathode of glowlamp 26 down in voltage to a value at which the ensuing cathode-anode voltage of the glowlamp produces a firing of that lamp.
  • the described transient voltage may produce across the glowlamp a cathode-anode voltage on the order of 300 or more volts.
  • resistor R prevents excessive current from being drawn through the glowlamp in the circuit including the glowlamp itself and transformer secondary 173.
  • Diode D concurrently prevents transistor Q from being reversed biased.
  • Diode D has no function during the restarting period but serves during normal operation to prevent excessive current from being shunted around the glowlamp through the secondary winding 173.
  • capacitor 172 discharges through resistor R, so as to be ready to generate the next restarting pulse.
  • circuit has been described in connection with the skip-scan technique of scanning copy, the circuit is not limited to that particular application but has other applications as well.
  • such circuit is also very useful where the image signals derived from the scanning of a copy sheet are replaced for a portion of the scanning of that sheet by fixed signals which produce solid color printing in the final reproduction, and which are selected by a knockout mask as described in copending US. application Ser. No. 649,621 filed June 28,1967 in the name of Bartel et al., and owned by the assignee hereof.
  • microswitch 150 is replaced by a blanking trigger signal derived from the knockout mask, gate 163 is eliminated, and means are provided to selectively control the conductance of transistor Q either by the image signal from the scanned copy sheet or by a fixed value signal selected by the mask.
  • the described apparatus may be modified to omit the skipscanning feature, the modifications involved being to employ: (a) a gear box lS-with a 1:1 transmission ratio, (b) a carriage drive 31 producing one axial stepwise movement of carriage 25 and 130 for each revolution of drum 16, c film sheets 17- 20 of small enough size so that the wrap of each around drum 16 is less than half the drum circumference, the film sheets being angularly positioned on-the drum so that the beams from glowlamps 2730 scan a blank area of the drum during the return rocking stroke of the copy sheet 105.
  • the indexing need not take place during such second revolution.
  • the size of the stepwise indexing movement is very small compared to the size of the distance swept out in each line scan of the copy sheet and film sheets,-the indexing step may occur at any time within the time period of a corresponding pair of drum revolutions without having any noticeable effect in the color separations produced on the film sheets.
  • first and second light beams scan synchronously in each of first and second orthogonal directions over, respectively, a copy sheet bearing a tonal subject and a sensitized photographic film sheet, and in which tone values detected by scanning of said subject by said first beam are converted into an electric signal controlling said second beam to expose an image of said subject on said film sheet
  • the improvement comprising light source means and photoresponsive means spaced apart by a gap across which said source means projects said first beam in a path to said photoresponsive means, arcuate sector means to one transverse side of said path and angularly movable relative to said path about a pivot axis normally intersecting the axis of said path, said sector means being transversely stationary relative to said path and having an arcuate face definitive of a cylindrical surface centered on said pivot axis and passing through said gap, clamping means to hold said copy sheet against said face so as to curve such sheet into conformance with said cylindrical surface and so as to provide for transverse projection of a portion of said curved sheet into said gap to be
  • said displacing means comprises a transversely movable carriage on the other transverse side of said gap from said sector means, means on said carriage to grip the transverse margin of said projecting portion of said curved sheet, and carriage advancing means to impart said synchronous transverse motion to said carriage.
  • said gripping means comprises sheet support means angularly movable relative to said path about said;pivot axis and having an outer arcuate face conforming to said cylindrical surface, means to clamp said transverse margin of said curved sheet against such face, and means to rock said support means about said pivot axis synchronously with said rocking thereabout of said sector means.
  • said means to rock said film support means comprises angular motion transmitting means coupled between said sector means and support means to lock such two means together in respect to angular movement but to provide for lost motion therebetween in respect to transverse movement.
  • said means to rock said sector means comprises means responsive to the rotary motion of said drum to rock said sector means in a manner permitting selective setting of the ratio between the linear travels of, respectively, said first beam in said first direction over said copy sheet and said second beam in the rocking direction over said film sheet, and in which said sheet displacing means comprises means responsive to said relative axial motion between said drum and second beam to impart said transverse motion to said curved sheet in a manner permitting selective setting of the ratio between said two lastnamed motions.
  • said sector rocking means comprises means responsive to each nonoverlapping pair of consecutive revolutions of said drum to produce an angular displacement from reference angular position of said sector means during a first revolution in said pair thereof and a return motion to reference position of said sector means during the second revolution in said pair thereof, said system further comprising means to extinguish said second beam during one revolution in each such pair of revolutions, and means to render intermittent said relative axial movement between said drum and second beam so as to omit any such movement during one revolution in each such pair of revolutions.

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