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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2002
Tsukasa Ono, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A device for selecting and conveying printing plates is provided which can overcome complexity of work involved in so-called batch processing, and can realize operation of, for example, removing a printing plate from a cassette in a small space, such that operation efficiency can be improved and less space is required. Cassettes other than a lowest cassette are independently supported on sliding bases. The sliding bases move (slide) on rails with hardly any frictional resistance. The rails extend to a cassette withdrawing space section provided adjacent, and unnecessary cassettes are moved horizontally along the rails. Thus, a printing plate can be removed from a needed cassette at a reference position without the needed cassette being moved at all. In this way, there is no need to provide, at each cassette, space for removing the printing plate, and no need to move a printing plate removing device to positions at which the cassettes are disposed.