Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Masatoshi Ueno

Hiroshi Taniguchi

Seiji Nanri

Takashi Ohno

Mitsumasa Tanizawa

An apparatus for exposing of an image of an original film on photosensitive material, the film and the photosensitive material being held together by vacuum contact between a transparent plate and a flexible sheet. The apparatus includes a squeegee unit which moves while pressing the flexible sheet. The squeegee unit forcibly moves the air, thereby speeding up the setting of the vacuum contact. The apparatus also includes a speed changing unit for changing the speed of the squeegee unit depending on the resistance of the air to movement. If the air moves easily, the squeegee unit moves rapidly. If the air does not move easily, the squeegee unit moves slowly, or the squeegee unit stops for a prescribed period and then, after the air is removed, is restarted. Thus, complete removal of air is carried out rapidly.

Apparatus for exposing an image of an original film on a photosensitive

An apparatus for processing sensitive materials has a tank in which film containing a sensitive material is conveyed, the film passing through a processing bath while guided by conveying rollers, and at least one wiper coming into contact with at least one of the conveying rollers facing to a film surface of the sensitive material. A flow of processing solution is produced by at least one inlet or jet in the region where contact occurs between a wiper and a conveying roller, so that any material wiped off the roller is removed away from the contacting region.

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Masatoshi Ueno