Agfa-gevaert Ag

Andreas Schubert

Klaus Weber

Dieter Engelsmann

Hubert Hackenberg

August Hell

Karel Pustka

Eberhard Escales

Heinz Ludemann

Assemblies of collated film sections and related prints, each belonging to a customer, are fed seriatim into a tray at the right-hand side of a horizontal table in front of a seated attendant so that the attendant can remove an assembly with the right hand while the left-hand opens the corresponding customer pocket which is held in a position of readiness at the left-hand side of the table. The attendant can observe the collating operation by inspecting successive film frames while the frames move above an illuminated window below and in front of the web of photographic paper with exposed and developed prints thereon. The pockets are removed seriatim from a magazine and are transported to the left-hand side of the table where the rear panel of an oncoming pocket is held by suction to facilitate the task of opening the pocket by pulling the front panel away from the rear panel.

Apparatus for processing developed photographic films and prints

A camera can use film cassettes which, depending upon the sensitivity of the film they contain, are or are not provided with an external marker. If a cassette with a marker is inserted into the camera the marker deflects a sensing arm so that a projection of the arm moves out of the path of movement of a rack which carries a filter. This permits the spring-biased rack to move to a position in which the filter is located in the path of light impinging upon a light-sensing device of the camera. If a cassette without a marker is inserted the arm is not deflected and its projection extends into the path of movement of the rack and prevents the rack from moving to the aforementioned position, so that the filter cannot move into the light path.

Film sensitivity detecting filter actuating camera

An elongated web of exposed and developed photographic film is moved lengthwise and is severed at regular intervals to yield a succession of discrete sections. Related sections (e.g., those belonging to a customer) are assembled into groups of overlapping sections, and such groups are thereupon introduced into discrete envelopes. The assembling of groups takes place in a fan-shaped magazine having a plurality of separate compartments and being movable relative to belts or analogous transporting means for successive sections of the severed film so that each section enters a different compartment. When the magazine accumulates a group of related sections, the sections are expelled from the magazine by a pusher which moves them forwardly (i.e., in the same direction in which the sections were transported to enter the magazine) or sideways and into the respective envelope. The width of each compartment decreases in the direction of forward movement of sections or at right angles to such direction. Since the sections are out of contact with each other during introduction into the magazine, raised portions around perforations or other projections of the sections cannot cause an interlacing of sections during stacking.

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Andreas Schubert