Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Illumination systems or details
Patent
1984-10-30
1986-01-21
Hayes, Monroe H.
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Illumination systems or details
355 77, G03B 2774
Patent
active
045654425
ABSTRACT:
A series of exposed and developed film strips having various lengths are spliced end-to-end for copying. The resulting band passes through a density measuring station in which the densities of the negatives are measured in the three primary colors and next through a magazine of variable capacity in which a portion of the band accumulates before entering a negative copying station including an exposure control device which regulates the exposures of the negatives on the measured basis of the density values. To insure that values derived from a selected strip are transferred to the exposure control unit when the strip enters the copying station, the splice immediately downstream of the selected strip is arrested in the density measuring station. The band continues to be drawn through the copying station so that the portion which has accumulated in the magazine is fully withdrawn. The portion of the band between the arrested splice and a splice sensor in the copying station has a known length. The arrested junction is now released and a length measuring device begins to measure the length of the portion travelling through the copying station. If the sensor detects a splice when the measured length equals the known length, this splice is the previously arrested splice.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4152068 (1979-05-01), Bickl et al.
patent: 4459018 (1984-07-01), Stein et al.
patent: 4523839 (1985-06-01), Payrhammer et al.
Benker Gerhard
Treiber Helmut
Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
Hayes Monroe H.
Kontler Peter K.
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