APPARATUS FOR WET TREATMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS OR THE LIKE

摘要

A vessel which contains a supply of treating fluid for webs of photographic films or the like accommodates a guide having a concave upper surface along which a web advances lengthwise to be thereby immersed into the liquid and to continuously withdraw some liquid which is thereupon removed by two squeezing rollers. The thus removed liquid is caused to descend onto an inclined ledge which forms part of the guide and directs the liquid, as well as the impurities contained therein, into the compartment between the bottom wall of the vessel and the underside of the guide. Such compartment communicates with the remaining part of the internal chamber of the vessel by way of apertures provided in the guide and distributed and/or dimensioned in such a way as to at least reduce the rate of liquid circulation between the remainder of the internal chamber of the vessel and that part of the compartment wherein the impurities tend to accumulate by gravity.