Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Somar Corporation

Hiroya Endo

Hiroshi Nagate

Yoji Washizaki

Kenichi Miyata

Ken-ichi Miyata

A laminator for laminating a film sheet on a surface of a substrate comprises: a pressure roller; a conveyor roller for supplying a substrate to the pressure roller; a film sheet-supplier which is reciprocally movable up and down for attaching a front end of a continuous flexible film sheet onto the front end of the surface of the substrate which has been moved by the conveyor roller and is stopped in front of the pressure roller; and a film sheet end-holder which is movable forward and backward and has on its front end a gas blowing face having a curve corresponding to the curve of the surface of the pressure roller so as to hold the film sheet in contact with the surface of the pressure roller.

Laminator for laminating film sheet on substrate

A process for laminating a photosensitive-layer which includes providing (A) a base having a laminating region and a non-laminating region, and (B) a support having thereon, in order, a photosensitive layer and a protective film, where part of the protective film corresponds to the laminating region and part of the protective film corresponds to the non-laminating region, removing the part of the protective film which corresponds to the laminating region from the photosensitive layer such that the photosensitive layer can be laminated to the base in the laminating region, feeding the base and the support having thereon the photosensitive layer from which protective film has been removed to a nip between a pair of heated pressure rollers, passing the base and photosensitive-layer-covered support forward through the rollers while the base and photosensitive-layer-covered support are being nipped and hot-pressed by the rollers, with the photosensitive layer being in contact with the laminating region of the base to laminate the photosensitive layer to the base, and then peeling the support from the photosensitive layer, wherein the removal of protective film from the photosensitive layer is conducted in such a manner that the part of the protective film which corresponds to the non-laminating region of the base is left on the photosensitive layer.

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