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Photographic paper has been achieved in consideration of these facts, and an object of photographic paper is to provide a photographic paper reserver mechanism of a simple construction capable of guiding the photographic paper while smoothly curving and suspending the paper, enabling the printing and development processing to be performed smoothly.
To this end, photographic paper provides a photographic paper reserves mechanism for absorbing the difference between the photographic- paper processing speeds of a printing unit and a development unit, comprising: a first roller means supplied with photographic paper processed by the printing unit; a second roller means for receiving the photographic paper supplied from the first roller means and guiding the photographic paper to the development unit; a flap movable between a first position at which the flap guides the leading end of the photographic paper supplied from the first roller means to the second roller and a second position at which the flap retreats from the first position so as to enable the photographic paper received by the second roller means to be bent and suspended between the first and second roller means; and at least one guide arm forming, between itself and the flap, a path through which the photographic paper is transported to the second roller means when the flap is in the first position, and the guide arm being interposed between the first and second roller means so as to prevent the photographic paper from moving straight from the first roller means to the second roller means when the flap is in the second position.
Thus, photographic paper ensures, with a simple construction, that the printing process and the development process can be performed smoothly by curving and suspending intermediate portions of the photographic paper in a suitable manner without folding them doubly or triply.
