US PATENT SUBCLASS 355 / 97
.~ Machine (i.e., having at least partly automatic feed)

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78  DF  CONTACT PRINTING {15}
97.~ Machine (i.e., having at least partly automatic feed) {3}
98  DF  .~.~> Sound track printing
99  DF  .~.~> With flat exposure station structure {4}
104  DF  .~.~> With cylindrical or curved exposure station structure {3}

DEFINITION

Classification: 355/97

(under subclass 78) Subject matter including complete units for transferring the image from the carrier to the receiver and including structure for moving or transporting either the carrier or receiver to, from, or past the exposure station without direct manual engagement during this moving.

(1) Note. The moving structure need not move the carrier or receiver through the complete operating cycle for classification here. Classification is here when the cycle and machine operation is in sequence. The moving structure may operate on only one of the carrier and receiver, and classification is here. A gravity operated slot is classified here. The moving structure may be manually or motor operated.

(2) Note. A complete unit would include at least the supporting structure for the receiver and carrier and the illuminating structure for image transfer. See subclasses 113+ for light boxes which include supporting the illuminating structure but lack the transporting or moving structure. See subclass 123 below for frames which include the carrier transporting or moving structure, but which lack the illuminating structure the frames being parts merely intended for ready manipulation with respect to the illuminating structure.

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89+, for contact printers of the plural exposure station or plural machine type.