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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 1978
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dale O Ballinger, Denver, CO (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F27B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
432 59 ; 432-8 ; 68 / ; 271198 ; 226171 ; 198835 ; 34120 ; 26 186 ;
Abstract
An elongatable endless belt passes around four rollers and, in so doing, passes adjacent to the heated surface of a U-shaped platen which has its edges adjacent to two of the rollers. The surface of the belt which faces the platen is in driving engagement with a film coming from a recording means. One of the noted two rollers is driven faster than the other so that the belt moves the film along the platen surface and leaves one edge of the latter at a higher speed than that at which the belt arrives at the other edge of the platen surface. Therefore, the belt progressively elongates and moves along the film as it is moving the latter along the platen surface.