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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1997
Alexander Hirsch, Stuttgart, DE;
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for removing a plate holder from and/or returning it to an exchangeable magazine with at least one plate holder in which plate-shaped objects are deposited one in each. One side of the plate holders provided with a rack engaged by a feed gear actuable by a gearing in two directions of rotation alternately. The feed gear has a tooth-free, raised zone arranged thereon in such a way as to engage with a corresponding tooth-free zone on the rack of the plate holder at the beginning of the withdrawing movement. The feed gear is peripherally provided with a projection which is offset towards the raised zone and pushes the plate holder into a defined final position in the magazine. In this position, the feed gear and the rack of the plate holder are in a disengaged condition. The projection of the feed gear has a right-angled, radially projecting face co-operating with the front face of the plate holder.