Eastman-kodak Company

Francis C Long

Thomas Joseph Murray

Robert J Blackman

Bradley C DeCook

Walter C Slater

John G Weigand

Howard C Bozenhard

A film processing system that removes film strips from their cartridges, splices the strips together for processing and printing, and then separates the strips for return and reattachment to the same cartridge from which they were removed. The empty cartridges are maintained during processing in a magazine in the same sequential order and corresponding batch as the spliced film strips, to facilitate matching of the film strips and cartridges at the end of the process. According to other features, the spliced roll of film strips is unwound and rewound after development, once for electronically scanning the film strips to capture electronic representations of the developed images, and again for optically printing the developed images onto photographic paper. The film strips include magnetically recorded information, representing conditions of camera exposure, that are captured during scanning before printing.

Film processing system

A leader card is provided which is attachable to a photographic filmstrip having a lead end with a pair of apertures. The leader card includes an essentially flat piece of material having an aperture and a slit extending from the aperture to an edge of the flat piece of material to define a pair of flaps of the flat piece of material between its aperture, slit and edge. The flaps are sized to extend through a pair of apertures in a lead end of a filmstrip to secure the flat piece of material and the lead end together.

Leader card attachable to a photographic filmstrip having a lead end

A photographic processing apparatus intended to process a photosensitive material with first and second processing ingredients includes a belt having first and second porous members located along the belt for absorbing first and second processing ingredients, respectively, and for transferring first and second processing ingredients so absorbed to the photosensitive material. The photosensitive material is moved against the porous members to compress the porous members to release the first and second processing ingredients from the porous members, to cause the first and second processing ingredients to be transferred to the photosensitive material from the porous members and to cause the ingredients to be mixed together to form a processing solution to process the photosensitive material. Furthermore, the movement of the photosensitive material over the porous members provides high agitation resulting in optimal processing of the photosensitive material.

Apparatus for processing photosensitive materials

A magnetic reading and/or recording apparatus includes a plurality of magnetic reading and/or recording elements to read and/or record information from/on a flexible magnetic recording material and a flexible plate having several cut-outs arranged to define individual flexible sections of said plate between respective pairs of said cut-outs. The magnetic reading and/or recording elements and the flexible plate are arranged to position the flexible sections of the plate to support respective flexible sections of the flexible magnetic recording material substantially in contact with the magnetic reading and/or recording elements.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Francis C Long