A NEW TRANSPORT AND AGITATION TECHNIQUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04747A001800130001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: MFR

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DECLASS REVIEW by NIMA/DOD
SUBJECT: A New Transport and Agitation Technique
1. Reference is made to Project #5053 to information sheet dated
2 December 196+ from
2. We have no interest in the proposed technique because it has the
potential of mutilating the photographic material; the machine is only
slightly less complex than a true roller processor which 0 is now
building. The proposed technique is an adaptation of the ^ model 16,
Rapid Color Processor technique, but does not provide the solution replenish-
ment and protection to the photomaterial that the ^ item does. In the
^ processor a rotating, cross hatched, drum is partially emmersed in the
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solution the rotating action picking up the solution in the indentation
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of the cross hatch and forming a continually changing liquid film between
the drum and the photo material. In the technique proposed by
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there is no insulating layer of solution formed between the photomaterial
and the corrugations, which act as squeegees , thus any bit of crystalized
chemical or foreign matter that may adhere to the corrugated sides would
scratch all material that passed over it. Also there is no positive
method of transport. Movement of the photo-material is dependent on friction
between the belt and the material, there is also friction on the face of the
material but less, becuase the area of contact is less. Any deformity
of the photo material could raise the face friction to equal or greater than
the back friction and the machine would jam up. The technique proposed is
180 degrees out of phase with our concentration of effort to prevent contact
of pho-cLl~ere~#ay10~1~/2rc04i~~t01S066 ing.
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3. There are16ther techniques which hold much greater promise,
either of the two items discussed above or the two liquid bearing
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