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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2007
Applicants:
Morihiro Takeda, Kyoto, JP;
Hiroshi Miyoshi, Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Morihiro Takeda, Kyoto, JP;
Hiroshi Miyoshi, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41L 47/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A plate feeding apparatus includes a multi-cassette unit for storing, in a stacked state, a plurality of cassettes storing plates, a loader unit for fetching from each cassette plates to be fed to an image recorder, and a plate feed unit disposed above the multi-cassette unit to be tiltable about a horizontal axis in a state of having a portion thereof vertically overlapping the multi-cassette unit.