Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Yoshiyuki Doi

Yoshihiro Seto

Fumio Sugaya

Masaaki Terashima

Yoshihiko Abe

Kenji Arai

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Kazuya Fujimoto

Keiji Osada

Shinichi Yabe

Toshimitsu Ishiwata

A printing plate stand and an apparatus for positioning the printing plate stand are provided. The printing plate stand is movable and supplies printing plates to a printing plate transfer apparatus. The positioning apparatus includes, at a bottom surface of the printing plate stand, a pair of fixed wheels, movable only forward and backward, free wheels, movable in multi-directions, and leg portions which are located at vicinities of the free wheels and which can project downward further than the free wheels. The positioning apparatus has a raising and lowering device for moving the printing plate stand in vertical directions, blocks and ball casters which use the raising and lowering device and position the printing plate stand at a predetermined position when a first printing plate loading portion is opposed to and adjacent to the transfer apparatus, and blocks and ball casters which use the raising and lowering device and position the printing plate stand at the predetermined position when the printing plate stand is reversed and a second printing plate loading portion is opposed to and set adjacent to the transfer apparatus. Therefore a plurality of printing plates can be efficiently loaded, printing plate stand handling can be improved, and printing plate stand positioning with respect to the transfer apparatus becomes easy.

Apparatus for accurately positioning a printing plate stand

A chemical analysis element supplier has a cartridge container for storing a cartridge in which a plurality of chemical analysis elements are stored. The cartridge is inserted into the container through a cartridge insertion port which is formed in the top of the container. An element take-out mechanism takes out the chemical analysis element in the cartridge through an element take-out port which is formed in the bottom of the container. The element take-out mechanism is provided with a lifting member which is operative to move upward through the element take-out port to lift the cartridge in the container so that at least a part of the cartridge projects upward through the cartridge insertion port.

Chemical analysis element supplier

A chemical analysis film cartridge with a box-like casing body having first and second end walls opposed to each other between which a plurality of dry frameless chemical analysis film chips are stored in a stack. A first opening is formed in a side wall of the casing body near the first end wall so that only the film chip nearest the first end wall can be taken out of the casing body through the first opening by moving the film chip in a direction perpendicular to the stack. A second openings which permits a suction pad to hold the film chip nearest the first end wall and to remove it from the casing body through the first openings is formed in the first end wall. The width of the first opening is larger than the thickness of one film chip and smaller than double the thickness of one film chip over at least a portion of the first opening. The suction pad is retracted with the film chip so that the film chip abuts against the edge of the second opening on opposite sides of the suction pads and then the suction pad is further retracted to pull the central portion of the film chip in this state into the second opening, thereby reshaping the film chip into a predetermined warped-shape conforming to the shape of the first opening.

Device for taking out chemical analysis film chips from a film cartridge

A plurality of dry chemical analysis films are stacked in a cartridge. A chemical analysis film supplier has a cartridge storage chamber in which a plurality of cartridges are stored so that the chemical analysis films in each cartridge can be taken out by a chemical analysis film removing device. In the the cartridge storage chamber, the cartridges are arranged in a circle, and a moisture-absorber holding portion is formed inside the circle of the cartridges, and a moisture absorber is loaded in the moisture-absorber holding portion.

Chemical analysis film supplier

A lithographic printing plate printer includes: an original-film loading section; a lithographic printing plate loading section; a printing surface plate on which an original film is brought into close contact with a lithographic printing plate; a light source for printing an image on the original film onto the lithographic printing plate on the printing surface plate; a punch-hole punching unit for punching a punch hole in the original film; an original film transporting unit for taking out the original film in the original-film loading section and transporting it onto the printing surface plate via the punch-hole punching means; and a lithographic printing plate transporting unit for taking out the lithographic printing plate in the lithographic printing plate loading section and transporting it onto the printing surface plate.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshiyuki Doi