Patent ID: 6176364
Filing Date: 2001-01-23
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
A device for simplified vertical loading of an X-ray cassette into a transport receptacle of a processing apparatus for X-ray cassettes, said device comprisingfirst and second conveyors configured as a cassette loading and unloading device, said conveyors having a plurality of transport devices arranged in a horizontal plane and spaced apart from one another in a transport direction and also perpendicular thereto,transport receptacles associated with said conveyors, said transport receptacles being arranged on an endless transport belt configured as a cassette receiving device;a plurality of guide elements provided for the conveyors configured as a cassette loading device, said guide elements being arranged in a stationary fashion between the transport devices spaced apart perpendicular to the cassette transport direction, wherein the guide elements can be conveyed by a drive into and out of the horizontal plane in such a way that during a conveying movement of the transport devices in the transport direction, the X-ray cassette is supported on the transport devices in a vertical position and is arrested only by the transport receptacles.