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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1997
Shinichi Funabashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Osamu Nagayama, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Nawano, Kanagawa, JP;
Hisashi Tsubata, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadashi Aiba, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
In a method in which a thin-film support is continuously led into a vacuum chamber from the atmospheric air, subjected to surface treatment and led-out to the atmospheric air again, a pneumatical cutoff portion of a leading-in and leading-out section is constituted by seal roller sets each of which is formed by aligned pairs of leading-in rollers and leading-out rollers which are close to each other through slight distances, and the support is led-in and led-out while lapped at an angle of from 30 to 150 degrees around the pair of rollers nearest to the atmospheric air of the seal roller sets.