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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1997
Yuji Yamamoto, Wakayama, JP;
Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd., Wakayama, JP;
Abstract
A photographic material feeder apparatus includes a paper conveyor for conveying cut papers to an exposure station and a plurality of paper magazines arranged in a cluster around a loading end of the conveyor. Each magazine accommodates therein a respective paper roll having a width corresponding to a respective size of a film image to be printed, and each magazine has a respective paper supply opening directed at the loading end of the conveyor. A plurality of paper feeders, one each positioned adjacent the opening of a respective the magazine, is operable to feed therefrom a strip of paper from the respective paper roll towards the loading end of the conveyor. A plurality of paper cutters, one each positioned adjacent a respective paper feeder, is operable to cut the strip of paper fed thereby from the respective magazine to a given length to produce a desired size of cut paper to be fed to the loading end of the conveyor.