摘要 |
PURPOSE:To facilitate waste liquid treating by supplying gelatinizer to excess liquid developer and gelatinizing the developer. CONSTITUTION:When a piston 96 is inserted into a cylinder 92, gelatinizer 98 is supplied from a tube path 94 into a waste liquid tank 88. This supplying quantity of the gelatinizer is proportional to the quantity of the excess liquid developer to be discharged into the waste liquid tank 88, namely, the number of development treatings. Then, the gelatinizer 88 of the quantity, which is needed to gelatinize the excess liquid developer to be discharged into the waste liquid tank 88 by one time of the development treating, is supplied into the waste liquid tank 88. Thus, a piping to return the excess liquid developer to a developing tank is eliminated and a handling becomes easy. Then, the waste liquid treating is facilitated. |