Eastman-kodak Company

Bruno Muenster

Michael Reibl

Horst Schempp

A supply reel for staple wire is provided with a holder on which the leading end of the staple wire is held by clamping. The holder is held positively and/or non-positively on the reel flanges of the supply reel. The holder is configured to be removable from the supply reel and placeable on a finishing unit. Upon placement onto a finishing unit, clamping of the staple wire is abolished. Arranged on the holder are oil-impregnated felt pads between which the staple wire is guided. The holder is provided at both of its ends with flexible guide tubes which prevent bending of the leading end of the wire and protect the user from injury.

Device for holding the leading end of the wire on a stapling wire supply

A magazine arrangement for receiving multiple film cartridges, that, for processing of the filmstrips present in the film cartridges, can be attached to a processing machine. A magazine includes a cylindrical member that has chambers, arranged in a circle around the member center axis, in which the film cartridges are housed axially one above another. Each free end of the magazine is covered by two superimposed closure disks that are mounted rotatably with respect to one another about the member center axis against spring force. In this context an adapter is provided with which the magazine can be joined, in the direction of the member center axis, to a further magazine of the same shape and size; whereby the adapter has an arrangement which can be brought into engagement with the closure disks of the two magazines. With a magazine arrangement configured in this manner, film cartridges can be transferred from one magazine into another magazine, or individual defective cartridges can be separated and removed from the magazine.

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Bad Ditzenbach, Germany

Bruno Muenster