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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1998
Gerd Hoitz, Bad Ditzenbach, DE;
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A transport device for X-ray cassettes, each having a phosphor sheet stimulable by X-rays, is provided in a cassette processing apparatus (,), which is of simple physical construction and allows rapid and reliable processing of X-ray cassettes of different formats in a space-saving and user-friendly fashion. The apparatus has a plurality of transporters (,) which are arranged in a horizontal plane (E) and are spaced apart from one another in the transport direction (T) and also perpendicular thereto. A conveying mechanism (,) which, in the area of the spacings (A,, A,, A,) between the transport means, can be conveyed vertically in and out as far as the plane (E) in such a way that lowering effects a transfer of an X-ray cassette into a cassette receiving device (,), and raising effects a transfer out of the receiving device (,). The receiving device (,) can be pivoted from the vertical into a horizontal transport direction, for direct loading of an X-ray cassette into the loading slot of a reading unit suitable for the phosphor sheet.