Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Masahiro Enomoto

Seiichi Watanabe

Naoyoshi Chino

Keiji Shigesada

Mototada Yasui

Tadashi Mochizuki

Akira Tomita

Masuhiko Hirose

Takashi Ohgiyama

Koichi Takahashi

Kiichiro Kitagawa

Norihiro Kadota

Masafumi Fukugawa

A light-shielding packaging for a roll of continuous photosensitive web includes a tubular core having on each end a light-shielding flange disc; and a roll of a continuous photosensitive web wound on the core, which has a diameter identical to a diameter of the flange disc. The photosensitive web has at its leading end a light-shielding leader sheet which has a length larger than circumferential length of the flange disc and a width larger than a width of the photosensitive web, whereby each side portion of the leader sheet extends beyond the periphery of the flange disc to reach the outer surface of the flange disc. An adapter of rigid resin is provided which includes a hollow cylinder member having at its one end a flange member and which is attached to the core by inserting the cylinder member into the tubular core.

Light-shielding packaging system for photosensitive web roll

A photo film cassette has a spool core about which photo film is wound in a form of a roll. A cassette shell contains the spool core in a rotatable manner. Two flanges have a disk shape, and are secured to respective ends of the spool core, for regulating lateral edges of the roll of the photo film. A circumferential lip is disposed on each flange, is extended toward the opposite one of the flanges, wraps one of the lateral edges of an outermost turn of the photo film of the roll, and prevents the photo film from being loosened. A rim portion is disposed on an circular edge of the circumferential lip confronted with the opposite one of the flanges, to project with a bend away from the spool core. A contact face is disposed on the rim portion, and contacts the one of the lateral edges of the photo film when the photo film is unwound from the spool core or wound back about the spool core. The contact face has a contact range of 0.15-0.8 mm in contacting the one of the lateral edges of the photo film.

Photo film cassette

A photo film cassette has a spool core about which photo film is wound in a form of a roll. A cassette shell contains the spool core in a rotatable manner. Two flanges have a disk shape, and are secured to respective ends of the spool core, for regulating lateral edges of the roll of the photo film. A circumferential lip is disposed on each flange, is extended toward the opposite one of the flanges, wraps one of the lateral edges of an outermost turn of the photo film of the roll, and prevents the photo film from being loosened. A rim portion is disposed on an circular edge of the circumferential lip confronted with the opposite one of the flanges, to project with a bend away from the spool core. A contact face is disposed on the rim portion, and contacts the one of the lateral edges of the photo film when the photo film is unwound from the spool core or wound back about the spool core. The contact face has a contact range of 0.15-0.8 mm in contacting the one of the lateral edges of the photo film. At least one support projection projects from an axially outer face of said flange.

A photo film cassette includes a spool core, on which the photo film is wound in a form of roll. A cassette shell contains the spool core in rotatable fashion. First and second flanges are respectively secured to ends of the spool core, for regulating positions of sides of the photo film roll. A first ring-like lip is formed integrally with a periphery of the first flange, is projected toward the roll, is contacted on one edge of an outermost turn of the roll, and prevent the roll from being loosened. The first and second flanges are formed from resin in accordance with injection molding. The resin has temperature of thermal deformation being 80&deg; C. or higher under 18.6 kg/cm,, modulus in elasticity in flexure being 13,000-30,000 kg/cm,, surface hardness being 80 or more in Rockwell R-scale, and high fluidity in molds for the injection molding. The first and second flanges have an outer diameter of 15 mm or more, thickness of 0.3 mm or less, and a maximum projected area of 100 mm,or more as measured with a contour thereof kept substantially circular.

Method for producing flanges of a photo film cassette

A photo film cassette has a spool core about which photo film is wound in a form of a roll. A cassette shell contains the spool core in a rotatable manner. Two flanges have a disk shape, and are secured to respective ends of the spool core, for regulating lateral edges of the roll of the photo film. A circumferential lip is disposed on each flange, is extended toward the opposite one of the flanges, wraps one of the lateral edges of an outermost turn of the photo film of the roll, and prevents the photo film from being loosened. A rim portion is disposed on an circular edge of the circumferential lip confronted with the opposite one of the flanges, to project with a bend away from the spool core. A contact face is disposed on the rim portion, and contacts the one of the lateral edges of the photo film when the photo film is unwound from the spool core or wound back about the spool core. The contact face has a contact range of 0.15.0.8 mm in contacting the one of the lateral edges of the photo film.

A photo film cassette includes a spool core, on which the photo film is wound in a form of roll. A cassette shell contains the spool core in rotatable fashion. First and second flanges are respectively secured to ends of the spool core, for regulating positions of sides of the photo film roll. A first ring-like lip is formed integrally with a periphery of the first flange, is projected toward the roll, is contacted on one edge of an outermost turn of the roll, and prevent the roll from being loosened. The first and second flanges are formed from resin in accordance with injection molding. The resin has temperature of thermal deformation being 80.degree. C. or higher under 18.6 kg/cm.sup.2, modulus in elasticity in flexure being 13,000-30,000 kg/cm.sup.2, surface hardness being 80 or more in Rockwell R-scale, and high fluidity in molds for the injection molding. The first and second flanges have an outer diameter of 15 mm or more, thickness of 0.3 mm or less, and a maximum projected area of 100 mm.sup.2 or more as measured with a contour thereof kept substantially circular.

Photo film cassette including an improved flange design for retaining

A container for containing a photosensitive material such as a cassette shell of a photographic film cassette, in which a roll of photographic film wound on a spool is contained in the cassette shell. The cassette shell is formed from a resin material by molding to have a satisfying light imperviousness and a surface color that is gray rather than black. The resin material is loaded with not more than 2% additive agent consisting of carbon black and titanium oxide. The weight percentage of the titanium oxide is equal to or more than that of the carbon black. The thickness of walls of the cassette shell is not less than 0.5 mm.

Light shielding container for photo-sensitive material

A cassette shell consisting of a pair of shell halves, upper and lower, molded from resin. The cassette shell is disassembled to take out the exposed film for development. When the cassette shell is molded, molten resin is injected so as to form a weld line to encircle the circumferential surface of the cassette shell, along which line the cassette shell is broken by spreading a port portion with a jig. In a preferred embodiment, a groove is formed inside the cassette shell and serves for breaking the cassette shell. In another preferred embodiment, receiving recesses are formed on a juncture between the shell halves for receiving a disassembling jig.

Photographic film cassette

A photographic film cassette has first and second shell halves constituting the cassette shell. At least one first engaging portion is formed on the first shell half. At least one second engaging portion is formed on the second shell half for being engaged with the first engaging portion so as to join the two shell halves integrally. The second engaging portion is disengaged from the first engaging portion to disassemble the cassette shell in order to take out the photographic film with the spool. In accordance with a another embodiment, at least one joining member is engaged with the two shell halves.

A cassette shell consists of two shell halves, and rotatably contains a spool core on which a photographic film is wound. A pair of spool flanges are loosely fitted on the spool core. Rotation of the spool core causes a film leader to advance through a film passage slit. A melting point of resin for molding the spool flanges is different from that of resin for molding the cassette shell for the purpose of avoiding undesired ultrasonic welding on their contact surfaces when joining the shell halves. The spool flanges are molded from material including polyolefin resin having a high density and a high molecular weight in order to reduce friction against the cassette shell and the photographic film.

A photographic film cassette has a photographic film leader, which is advanced outwardly from a cassette shell when a spool is rotated. The spool has two flanges, of which a first one is loosely fitted on a core of the spool. A circumferential lip projects from an inside surface of the first flange toward a photographic filmstrip, contacts on a lateral side of a roll of the filmstrip, and prevents the roll from loosening. The first flange together with the lip is formed according to thermoforming from a sheet of thermoplastic resin having a melt index of 4 or less so as to have a high intensity, and has a thickness of 0.4 mm or less so as to be deformable with a small force.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masahiro Enomoto