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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1996
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A magazine arrangement for receiving multiple film cartridges, that, for processing of the filmstrips present in the film cartridges, can be attached to a processing machine. A magazine includes a cylindrical member that has chambers, arranged in a circle around the member center axis, in which the film cartridges are housed axially one above another. Each free end of the magazine is covered by two superimposed closure disks that are mounted rotatably with respect to one another about the member center axis against spring force. In this context an adapter is provided with which the magazine can be joined, in the direction of the member center axis, to a further magazine of the same shape and size; whereby the adapter has an arrangement which can be brought into engagement with the closure disks of the two magazines. With a magazine arrangement configured in this manner, film cartridges can be transferred from one magazine into another magazine, or individual defective cartridges can be separated and removed from the magazine.