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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2002
Thomas P. Marincic, Tyngsboro, MA (US);
Aron Mirmelshteyn, Marblehead, MA (US);
Joseph R. Lyons, Jr., Willmington, MA (US);
Matthew T. Kowalczyk, Somerville, MA (US);
Thomas P. Marincic, Tyngsboro, MA (US);
Aron Mirmelshteyn, Marblehead, MA (US);
Joseph R. Lyons, Jr., Willmington, MA (US);
Matthew T. Kowalczyk, Somerville, MA (US);
Agfa Corporation, Wilmington, MA (US);
Abstract
A plate cassette loader for a platesetter comprises a cassette holder for receiving a cassette, containing a stack of plates. A cassette inverter then rotates this cassette to a feed position in which the plates can be fed into the imaging engine of the platesetter. In this way, the somewhat unwieldy process of loading plates into the imaging engine is handled by the cassette inverter, in combination with the fact that the stack of plates, contained in the cassette, can be loaded in one step, rather than requiring the feeding of individual plates by a dedicated operator.