APPARATUS FOR CLEANING AND DEMOISTURIZING RUNNING WEBS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER AND THE LIKE

摘要

A running web of wet exposed and developed photographic paper which issues from a rinsing bath in a developing machine is caused to advance around a fixedly mounted guide roll and through a passage between the guide roll and the orifice of a combined cleaning and drying member which discharges compressed air against successive increments of the running web. The air discharging member is biased upwardly toward the roll to abut flanges which are provided at the ends of the roll and serve to determine the minimum width of the passage in such a way that the air discharging member cannot rise into physical contact with the web.