Abstract: A vacuum system can remove ablated particles from an internal drum platesetter which has a drum for supporting a photosensitive medium, a carriage moveable in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the drum, and a laser mounted onto the moveable carriage for generating a beam to create an image on the medium during movement of the carriage, the beam ablating particles of the medium during creation of the image. The vacuum system includes: a vacuum head fixedly attached to the moveable carriage, and having at least one chamber for receiving the ablated particles through a slot located proximate to a periphery of the vacuum head; and an exhaust system connected to the vacuum head and including ductwork, at least one fan and at least one filter, for extracting the ablated particles from the at least one chamber of the vacuum head.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 21, 1998
Date of Patent:
August 1, 2000
Assignee:
Agfa Corporation
Inventors:
Donald B. Richardson, Jr., Robert D. Olenio, Jeffrey Knox, Nicholas Stefanidakis, Behrouz Abedian
Abstract: Disclosed are certain cocaine analogs useful for imaging of cocaine receptors and dopamine receptors. Also disclosed are analogs useful for imaging diagnostics for Parkinson's disease.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 25, 1993
Date of Patent:
February 20, 1996
Assignees:
Organix, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation, President and Fellows of Harvard College, Northeastern University
Inventors:
David R. Elmaleh, Bertha K. Madras, Robert N. Hanson, Peter Meltzer
Abstract: The present invention provides a document handling system having a processing device for transmitting information to and from a document and a document feed unit for driving the document along a feed path to the processing device. The system includes a pair of gripper bars and an electromagnet structure for selectively attracting the gripper bars to maintain them adjacent to the processing device. The processing device is fitted with a magnetic surface, and a control system, operating in conjunction with the feed mechanism, deactivates the electromagnet structure retaining the first gripper bar as a document is fed to the processing device. The first gripper bar is attracted to the magnetic surface of the processing device thereby clamping the document to the processing device.