Fiber optical scanning system

Claim 1

A COUNTERCURRENT SCANNING SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A RIGHT READING, LIGHT IMAGE COPY OF AN ORIGINAL, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING: AN OBJECT PLANE; AN IMAGE PLANE PARALLEL TO AND SPACED FROM SAID OBJECT PLANE; MEANS FOR SYNCHRONOUSLY MOVING SAID ORIGINAL IN A PATH THROUGH SAID OBJECT PLANE IN ONE DIRECTION AND A LIGHTSENSITIVE COPY MATERIAL IN A PATH THROUGH SAID IMAGE PLANE IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION; MEANS ARRANGED ADJACENT SAID OBJECT PLANE FOR ILLUMINATING SAID ORIGINAL; A FIRST ARRAY OF OPTICALLY INSULATED, LIGHT TRANSMITTING FIBER OPTICAL ELEMENTS ARRANGED TRANSVERSE TO THE PATHS OF MOVEMENT OF SAID OBJECT AND IMAGE PLANES MATERIAL AND BETWEEN SAID OBJECT AND IMAGE PLANE WITH THE ENDS THEREOF ADJACENT SAID IMAGE PLANE DISPLACED, IN THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF SAID ORIGINAL, RELATIVE TO THE ENDS ADJACENT SAID OBJECT PLANE FOR SUCCESSIVELY TRANSMITTING LINE-BY-LINE ELEMENTAL IMAGES OF SAID ORIGINAL TO SAID COPY MATERIAL; AND A SECOND ARRAY OF OPTICALLY INSULATED, LIGHT TRANSMITTING ELEMENTS ARRANGED TRANSVERSE TO THE PATHS OF MOVEMENT OF SAID ORIGINAL AND SAID COPY MATERIAL AND BETWEEN SAID OBJECT AND IMGE PLANES ADJACENT SAID FIRST ARRAY, THE ENDS OF SAID SECOND ARRAY ADJACENT SAID OBJECT PLANE BEING ALIGNED WITH THE ENDS OF SAID FIRST ARRAY ADJACENT SAID IMAGE PLANE AND THE ENDS OF SAID SECOND ARRAY ADJACENT SAID IMAGE PLANE BEING ALIGNED WITH THE ENDS OF SIAD FIRST ARRAY ADJACENT SAID OBJECT PLANE FOR SUCCESSIVELY TRANSMITTING LINE-BY-LINE ELEMENTAL IMAGES OF SAID ORIGINAL TO SAID COPY MATERIAL WHEREIN THE THICKNESS OF EACH ARRAY OF FIBER OPTICAL ELEMENTS AT THE ENDS OF EACH ARRAY IS THE THICKNESS OF A SINGLE FIBER OPTICAL ELEMENT.