Patent ID: 6049344
Filing Date: 2000-04-11
Classification: G03D

Abstract:
An apparatus for the wet processing of photographic sheet material comprising at least one treatment vessel (12) comprising a housing (14) having a sheet material inlet opening (17) and a sheet material outlet opening (18) defining a sheet material path (20) through said vessel (12), said openings (17, 18) being closed by a path-defining rotatable roller (28) biased towards a reaction surface (30) to form a nip (36) there-between through which said sheet material path (20) extends, characterized in that said path-defining roller (28) is in contact along its length, with a plurality of rotatable intermediate rollers (38) carried in fixed bearings (40) mounted on said housing (14) and in that each said rotatable intermediate roller (38) contacts the surface of said path-defining roller (28) at a location that is between 45.degree. and 315.degree. from the center of said nip (36).