Patents Assigned to Agfa Geavert
  • Patent number: 5594525
    Abstract: A method of and printer for printing photographs on light-sensitive paper of a particular format from transparent masters on a roll of film by means of a projector. Both the film and a strip of the paper are advanced through a printing point. The paper is displaced across the direction the film travels in with the center of the prescribed paper format at a distance from the optical axis of the projector. The projector can be adjusted to project the image of the master larger or smaller than the paper format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: AGFA Geavert
    Inventors: Gerhard Benker, Helmut Treiber, Ulrich Kluter, Bernhard Lorenz, Reimund Munch
  • Patent number: 5594774
    Abstract: A holder (3) for retaining a sheet of X-ray sensitive film (24) for making X-ray pictures includes (1) an outer cassette (5) with a low-friction shape and surface and (2) an inner cassette (20) that can be opened and closed, that is lightproof when closed, and that can be accommodated in the outer cassette. The inside of the closed outer cassette is longer and wider than the film and considerably higher than the film is thick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: AGFA Geavert
    Inventor: Manfred Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5564642
    Abstract: A device for winding strips of photographic film inside a housing. A film-guide slot opens into the housing's approximately cylindrical interior. A film reel rotates freely in the housing interior without a positive drive and demarcates, in conjunction with the inner surface of the housing, a more or less annular film-guide channel. The film-guide slot opens more or less tangentially into the interior channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Assignee: Agfa Geavert
    Inventors: Josef Auer, Guenter Czapla