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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1981
Filed:
May. 10, 1979
Howard P Jones, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Edo Western Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A dry film processor includes a housing, a film supply canister disposed in the housing for holding film and supplying it to the other processing apparatus, a take-up canister also disposed in the housing for receiving and holding the film after it has been processed, storage apparatus for receiving film from the supply canister and for supplying the film to the take-up canister, a drive roller for moving the film from the supply canister to the storage apparatus at a speed determined by certain input speed signals, heater apparatus for heating the film to enable development thereof, drive belt apparatus responsive to control signals for moving the film to withdraw it from the storage apparatus and move it past the heater apparatus, and a control unit for supplying control signals to the drive belt apparatus. An aperture is formed in the housing and the film is moved past the aperture to allow exposure thereof to a cathode ray tube or other light producing structure from which information is to be received and recorded on film. The heater apparatus includes a heater element which may be moved into and out of contact with the film to thereby commence or discontinue development of the film. Also, the control unit supplies signals to the heater apparatus to control the temperature thereof and thus further control the rate at which development of the film occurs.