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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1999
Heinrich Schaub, Wettingen, CH;
Gretag Imaging AG, Regensdorf, CH;
Abstract
A processing arrangement for web shaped material (M) wound onto reels before and after processing includes a processing station (B) for the material, associated transport mechanism (T) for transporting the material through the processing station, an unwind arrangement (U) for the automatic feeding of material to be processed from on an unwind reel (S) located in an unwind position (pU) to the processing station, a windup arrangement (W) for the automatic feeding and winding up of processed material leaving the processing station onto a windup reel (S) located in a windup position (pW), and a common reel carousel (K) for receiving at least three windup reels (S) and unwind reels (S). The reel carousel transports the reels (,) removably mounted thereon cyclically and stepwise into the unwind position (pU), the windup position (pW) and at least one exchange position (pR) so that an unwind reel (S) emptied after unwinding of the material to be processed (M) after its further transport into the windup position (pW) can take over the role of a windup reel (S) and that in the at least one exchange position (pR) a windup reel (S) containing processed material can be removed from the reel carousel (K) and replaced with a new unwind reel (S) containing material to be processed. The processing arrangement is especially suited for the treatment or processing of photographic rolled up material and facilitates and simplifies the operation in that the exchange of the material reel is possible in one operation step and at one location of the processing arrangement.