Printing – Processes
Patent
1997-07-10
1998-08-11
Eickholt, Eugene H.
Printing
Processes
101477, 270 5831, 271 90, 271 906, B41F 2712, B41F 132, B41F 3316
Patent
active
057912505
ABSTRACT:
The primary function of the optional handler is to make plates available on demand to the imaging engine. A multitude of plates are stored inside cassettes and these cassettes are loaded into the handler. There may be up to four cassettes residing in the handler. Inside a cassette there may be a protective interleaf sheet, sometimes called a slip sheet, between each plate which is removed by the handler and discarded. The handler receives commands from the engine control sequencer which provides instructions as to what cassette needs to be accessed to make a plate available to the picker mechanism so the plate may be conveyed to the imaging engine. Conversely the handler provides status information to the engine to make full interaction with the system possible.
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Blake Laurence S.
Folsom James C.
Freeman Ross A.
Jacques Roger A.
Krupica Libor
Agfa Division - Bayer Corporation
Eickholt Eugene H.
Ence Erik L.
Kelley Edward L.
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