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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1999
Tadashi Fujii, Hadano, JP;
Yuzuru Ootsuka, Minamiashigara, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for feeding a sheet has a pair of suction cups movable into and out of a cassette, a displacing mechanism for displacing the suction cups between a position in the cassette and a sheet delivering mechanism to cause the suction cups to transfer a stimulable phosphor sheet from the cassette to the sheet delivering mechanism, and a piping system connecting the suction cups to a vacuum pump for attracting the stimulable phosphor sheet to the suction cups, and for ejecting air from the suction cups toward a surface to be attracted of the stimulable phosphor sheet when the suction cups are moved into the cassette. The stimulable phosphor sheet can smoothly and reliably be removed from the cassette while the suction cups are effectively prevented from being deformed.