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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 11, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Nix Company Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03D / ; G03D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354337 ; 354345 ; 354344 ;
Abstract
When a ring with an exposed dental X-ray film mounted thereon is thrown into a first tank filled with a processing solution, the ring is scooped into a space of a ring-holding portion of a rotating arm through a first opening. As the ring-holding portion is moving in the tank, the ring is pushed by a tilted bottom portion while being held within the space by a release preventing wall and a door so that the ring is also moving together with the ring-holding portion. When the ring-holding portion has fully moved out of the tank, the door is opened and the ring is released from the space into an adjacent tank through a second opening.