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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2001
Shigeru Ando, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Kaneko, Saitama, JP;
Other;
Abstract
To achieve for a photographic film conveying device that no external force causing conveying speed to vary is applied to a photographic film during image reading, after a preceding photographic film is discharged from a reading conveying path, the time until a subsequent photographic film is conveyed to the reading conveying path is not long, or even if a photographic film set in a film supplying section is elongate, image reading of photographic films by an image reading section can be carried out efficiently, there is provided a photographic film conveying device comprising a section setting a discharge conveying section in a withdrawn state or a conveying state, a section controlling conveying of preceding and subsequent photographic films, or a section switching a conveying path of a photographic film.