Abstract: A photographing station of a copying camera is disclosed comprising a film supporting surface rotatable about its axis between a first position and a second position. The surface receives and holds a predetermined length of unexposed film in the first position, turns to the second position for exposing the film and then resumes the first position to remove the exposed film for developing.

Abstract: A washing apparatus constructed for using a plurality of types of brushes, in a manner such that a brush is supported on an end of a swing lever, and with an object to be washed being washed by rotating the brush in contact with said object. The washing apparatus is characterized so that when a hard brush is used the swing lever is fixed. However when a soft brush is used the brush is constrained by applying to said lever a load which is balanced by, or is a little less than the weight of said brush.

Abstract: Disclosed is a copying machine for use in photomechanical process, which has a substantially box-shaped structure in appearance and employs a slit exposure system. A sensitive material is transferred along the ceiling surface, side wall and bottom surface of the box-shaped body of the machine in this order so that it can be exposed, developed and dried successively while it is being transferred. A slit exposure scanner makes reciprocatory movements horizontally in a space between an exposure zone positioned below the ceiling surface where the sensitive material is exposed while it is transferred horizontally along the ceiling surface and an original picture stand arranged immediately below the exposure zone so as to oppose thereto. On the bottom surface of the body, there are arranged a development tank, drying means, and a take-out tray for taking out the sensitive material after developed and dried.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved processor for printing plates or the like which essentially comprises a lower disposed developer receptacle containing a developer therein and upper disposed spray pipes and in which an arrangement is made such that a presensitized plate for printing or the like to be processed is initially passed through the developer receptacle and then subjected to treatment with the developer sprayed from the spray pipes.

Abstract: A method of producing printed circuit boards according to this invention consists of the steps of coating an electrophotographic photosensitive film on both sides of a substrate which consists of a synthetic resin plate with a conductive metal layer on each side; forming a wiring pattern of an acid-resistant toner on the photosensitive film by means of the electrophotography; and etching the substrate to remove unnecessary parts of the conductive metal layers that are not covered with the protective toner and the photosensitive film. With this method, copper-walled holes can be formed easily and accurately.

Abstract: This invention is concerned with a method and apparatus for the development of photographic films in a photographic film processor in which the films are developed when the exposed films pass through a developing tank containing developer. The object of said invention is to attain uniform development with a simple method, that is, to make the change of the activity of the developer during the development of the films to be treated very small from the leading end to the trailing end of the film. The said invention makes the influence of the momentarily changing activity of the developer in contact with the films as small as possible by compensating for the decrease of the activity due to the exhaustion of the developer by gradually increasing the immersion time of the films in the developer from the leading end toward the trailing end of the photographic films by gradually changing the relative level of the liquid surface when the films are fed into the developer.