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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1992
Rino Gandolfo, Roccavignale, IT;
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A light-sensitive film feeding magazine (1), for use in a day-light automatic film handling apparatus, includes a device for centering the films of a stack inserted in the magazine (1). Such a device includes a sliding tray (7) guided on a bottom wall (2) of the magazine (1), a side buffer (15) provided oil the tray (7), perpendicular to the bottom wall (2) and parallel to the axis (X) of the magazine (1), a pushing device means for pushing the stack of films on the tray (7) against the buffer. and a shifting device for shifting the tray (&) on the bottom wall (2) toward a position in which films resting against the buffer have axes coincident with the axis (X) of the magazine (1). With this magazine (1) it is possible to center the films at a central location of the magazine (1) without loosing space in the transverse direction.