Bell & Howell Japan, Ltd.

Mochizuki Shoten, Limited

Tsutomu Katsuyama

A device for storing exposed film for a photographing and developing apparatus comprises a first pinch roller pair provided in the vicinity of a storage reel, a second pinch roller pair provided at a spacing from the storage reel and a guide means for guiding exposed film from the first pinch roller pair to the second pinch roller pair. The first and second pinch roller pairs, the guide means and associated film transport roller means are controlled as to the direction of rotation and position, whereby an exposed film portion supplied from a photographing unit is taken up once on a film storage reel and then reliably fed to a developing unit by the action of the guide member.

Device for storing exposed film for photographing and developing

Combination photographing and developing apparatus incorporates in the photographing section thereof a storage reel capable of being selectively rotated in the forward or rearward direction in addition to a payoff reel having a roll of film thereon. During photography, the storage reel is rotated in the forward direction synchronously with the photographing operation to take up the exposed portion of the film thereon. When the photographing operation is completed, the film is cut at the tail end of the exposed portion thereof and the storage reel is rotated in the rearward direction, so that the exposed portion of the film is forwarded, with the cut tail end thereof in the lead, to the developing section, there to be developed and dried.

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Yokohama, Japan

Tsutomu Katsuyama