Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.

Takekazu Yanagimoto

Noboru Arai

Katsumi Otake

Yoshio Hakamata

Katsumi Asanuma

Shuichi Nakajima

Yuhei Kishimura

Tetsuo Morita

Toshiaki Oidaira

Shu Nakajima

Senzi Yasui

Kozo Saito

Masaji Yokota

In a film processor, filmstrips are contained in their specific cartridge shells with their film leaders attached to a leader plate, and are fed into processing baths with the leader plate in the lead, while being pulled out from the cartridge shells. After the filmstrips are separated from the cartridge shells, the cartridge shells drop on a chute and slide down on the chute. Smaller cartridge shells sift through a sifting slit formed through the chute along the sliding direction, while larger cartridge shells slide down to a lower end of the chute. A lateral guide plate extends under the sifting slit, to guide smaller cartridge shells having sifted through the sifting slit in the lateral direction of the sifting chute toward a cartridge recovery box. Larger cartridge shells drop from the lower end of the chute down to a second cartridge recovery box.

Film cartridge sorting device for use with photographic film processor

A film winding device comprises: a cartridge loading portion for holding a cartridge in which a photographic film is wound around a spool shaft and is accommodated so that the photographic film can be pulled out from and inserted into a photographic film insertion opening of the cartridge; guide bar which is provided to face the insertion opening of the cartridge loaded in the cartridge loading portion and around which a middle portion of the length of the photographic film pulled out from the cartridge is entrained; a driving member for rotating the spool shaft which is provided in the cartridge loaded in the cartridge loading portion so as to wind the photographic film pulled out from the cartridge into the cartridge; and a base portion connected integrally with the cartridge loading portion and having a casing in which the driving member is accommodated.

Hand-held film winding device with movable guide bar

A cartridge adapter, comprising: a case into which a cartridge of a photographic film is loaded, the cartridge, including: a door for shielding an entrance/exit port of the photographic film; a door shaft which is rotated in a first direction so as to open the door and release the shielding of the entrance/exit port, the door shaft being rotated in a second direction which is the direction opposite the first direction so as to close the door and shield the entrance/exit port; and a spool shaft which is rotated in a third direction so that the photographic film is wound around the spool shaft, the spool shaft being rotated in a fourth direction which is the direction opposite the third direction so that the photographic film is conveyed out of the entrance/exit port; and a shaft body which is axially supported by the case so as to be rotatable and which engages with the door shaft of the cartridge loaded into the case, wherein the case is provided with a slit port which, when the photographic film is loaded into and unloaded from the cartridge, guides the photographic film and an opening portion which exposes the end of the spool shaft of the cartridge loaded into the case. Therefore, in a state in which the cartridge is loaded into the cartridge adapter, the cartridge can be conveyed in and out via the opening portion.

Cartridge adapter

A film carrier of a photographic printer which is designed so that trimming for each frame can be made by a simple manual operation, and the trimming position can be readily confirmed, and that the photographic film and the film carrier can be readily returned to the original center position. The film carrier has a pair of upper and lower masks (32 and 20) for holding a photographic film (50) to be printed therebetween. The film carrier further has a film guide groove (23) for guiding the photographic film (50) to a position where it is to be held between the lower mask (20) supported by a lower mask support frame (1) and the upper mask (32) supported by an upper mask support frame (2), and a screw mechanism (6 and 7) for moving the upper mask (32) relative to the lower mask (20), which is secured to the photographic printer, in a direction perpendicular to the film feed direction in the film plane, together with the film guide groove (23). The screw mechanism (6 and 7) is provided with a click mechanism.

Film carrier of photographic printer with adjustable mask

An arrangement of a color enlarger head is disclosed that allows an original picture negative to be irradiated for print-out with an even quantity of light without the need for adjusting a quantity of light transmitted through a diffuse transmission plate disposed on an exit side of a diffusion box. Them is provided below the diffusion box a light distribution adjusting box in which the light rays transmitted through the diffuse transmission plate are appropriately reflected so as to increase the quantity of light entering a peripheral zone of the original picture negative and thereby to equalize the light rays available to print out the original picture negative. Specifically, below The diffuse transmission plate 60 there is provided a light distribution adjusting box 62 defined by a frame 62a and a bottom 62b provided at a central zone with an opening serving as a projecting window 62c. The light rays having entered light distribution adjusting box 62 through a peripheral zone of diffuse transmission plate 60 are reflected not only by the inner surface but also by a lower surface of diffuse transmission plate 60 so that the light rays reflected by the lower surface of diffuse transmission plate 60 at a zone extending around its central zone enter the peripheral zone of original picture negative 66 and then an enlarged lens 42 while the light rays reflected by the lower surface of the diffuse transmission plate at its central zone enter the original picture negative but do not enter enlarging lens 42.

Head for a color enlarger

In an apparatus for making a booklet or album formed of a plurality of photographs bound by a cover sheet, many photographs are inserted between a pair of nipping plates in an insertable situation and are held loosely in an upright state on a photograph receiving member. In the insertable situation, the receiving member is vibrated and the photographs are straightened at lower ends and one side edges. The straightened photographs are nipped by a pair of nipping plates from both sides and moved to a bonding position above an adhesive layer on the cover sheet. Thereafter, a pressure roller is rolled in the longitudinal direction of the adhesive layer to press the cover sheet upwardly in order to attach the lower ends of the phographs to the adhesive layer. This cover sheet is bent in a channel shape by a V-shaped groove formed on a bending block along a rim on each side of the photographs.

Photograph binding apparatus

An imaging lens holder device for use in an optical information recording apparatus is disclosed. The device comprises a focus adjusting member having a coefficient of thermal expansion with a value larger than that of the coefficient of thermal expansion of a supporting leg with a ledge and a leg member for supporting a holder for a member to be scanned. Respective leg materials are so selected that an increment caused by thermal expansion between the surface of the ledge opposite to the substrate and the surface of the member to be scanned and an increment of the focus adjusting member in the direction to the substrate caused by thermal expansion in case of using the ledge surface as a reference surface, are made equal to each other.

Device for holding an imaging lens

In a computer output microfilmer (COM) system, in which video information output from a central processing unit to appear on a display and video information recorded on one of multiple form slides are projected to a recording medium to be recorded thereon in a superimposed manner, a multi-form slide selection apparatus selects specific one of the multiple form slides. The apparatus includes provision for causing the specific form slide to move as far as the vicinity of a projection position and positioned thereat to be held accurately at the projection position.

Multi-form slide selection apparatus

A camera portion and a processor portion are combined so that the film exposed in the camera portion is processed in the processor portion. The camera portion is provided with a roll film take-up magazine and a cutter for cutting a roll film into sheet film. When roll processing is desired, the exposed roll film is taken up in the roll film take-up magazine and the magazine is put into the processing portion. When sheet processing is desired, the exposed roll film is cut into sheet film in the camera portion and fed into the processor portion. The processor portion is provided with a first film passage for guiding the sheet film into the processor and a second film passage for guiding the roll film into the processor. The processor portion has a roll film magazine holding device for holding the roll film take-up magazine so that the roll film taken out thereof is guided into the processor through the second film passage.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takekazu Yanagimoto