(19)
(11) EP 1 464 485 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
21.02.2007 Bulletin 2007/08

(43) Date of publication A2:
06.10.2004 Bulletin 2004/41

(21) Application number: 03100929.3

(22) Date of filing: 07.04.2003
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
B41F 27/12(2006.01)
B41F 13/24(2006.01)
B41C 1/10(2006.01)
 B41F 13/00(2006.01)
B41F 35/00(2006.01)
B41C 1/00(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK

(30) Priority: 05.04.2003 US 117482

(71) Applicant: AGFA CORPORATION
Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660-2199 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Marincic, Thomas
    01879, Tyngsboro (US)
  • Mirmelshteyn, Aron
    01945, Marblehead (US)
  • Lyons, Joseph
    01887, Wlimington (US)
  • Kowalczyk, Matthew
    02143, Somerville (US)

(74) Representative: De Niel, Marc Alfons Jozef 
Agfa-Gevaert N.V. Corporate Intellectual Property Department 3800 Patent Administration Septestraat 27
2640 Mortsel
2640 Mortsel (BE)

   


(54) Plate cassette loader for platesetter.


(57) A plate cassette loader (100) for a platesetter (10) comprises a cassette holder (110) for receiving a cassette (14), containing a stack of plates. A cassette inverter (105) then rotates this cassette (14) to a feed position in which the plates can be fed into the imaging engine (12) of the platesetter (10). In this way, the somewhat unwieldy process of loading plates into the imaging engine (12) is handled by the cassette inverter (105), in combination with the fact that the stack of plates, contained in the cassette (14), can be loaded in one step, rather than requiring the feeding of individual plates by a dedicated operator.







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