Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
90 words
A photographic copying machine for a strip of photographic originals, comprising means transporting the strip of originals along a predetermined transport path; plural copying stations located along the transport path for concurrent copying of respective ones of plural originals of the transported strip; means transporting copying medium along a predetermined transport path such that originals located at the plural copying stations are concurrently imaged onto the copying medium; and automatic exposure control means operative for effecting concurrent exposure of plural originals located at respective ones of the plural copying stations.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
90 words
A photographic copying machine for a strip of photographic originals, comprising means transporting the strip of originals along a predetermined transport path; plural copying stations located along the transport path for concurrent copying of respective ones of plural originals of the transported strip; means transporting copying medium along a predetermined transport path such that originals located at the plural copying stations are concurrently imaged onto the copying medium; and automatic exposure control means operative for effecting concurrent exposure of plural originals located at respective ones of the plural copying stations.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
68 words
The photographic copying machine defined in claim 1, furthermore including an evaluating station located upstream of the copying station and provided with means evaluating transported originals and generating evaluation-dependent signals and including data-storage means storing the evaluation-dependent signals for application to the exposure-control means so that the latter expose the thusly evaluated originals in accordance with the evaluation-dependent signals when the thusly evaluated originals reach the copying stations.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
27 words
The photographic copying machine defined in claim 1, furthermore including data-reading means operative for reading exposure-control data from a data carrier transported with the strip of originals.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
43 words
The photographic copying machine defined in claim 1, furthermore including a plurality of evaluating stages each located at a respective one of the copying stations and each provided with means evaluating respective originals and generating exposure-control data for application to the exposure-control means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
66 words
The photographic copying machine defined in claim 1, including means operative when the originals are spaced by approximately constant distances for initiating the exposures of plural originals in the plural copying stations simultaneously and, upon completion of the longest of the exposures of the plural originals, transporting the strip of originals and the copying medium by a distance corresponding to the number of originals concurrently copied.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
60 words
The photographic copying machine defined in claim 5, furthermore including means operative when the originals are not spaced by a predetermined constant amount one to the next for disabling all but the most downstream copying station and effecting transport of the strip of originals one original at a time and transport of the copying medium one copy at a time.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
44 words
The photographic copying machine defined in claim 1, the copying stations closely adjoining each other, adjoining copying stations being separated by a separating wall which extends towards the copying medium and has a thin edge which rests upon the surface of the copying medium.