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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1999
Chiaki Suzuki, Minamiashigara, JP;
Yoshinobu Misumi, Odawara, JP;
Hideyuki Karaki, Minamiashigara, JP;
Takayuki Kambara, Minamiashigara, JP;
Susumu Sato, Odawara, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for processing and packaging a photographic film has a film supply unit for unreeling and cutting off a film roll of an elongate photographic film, and supplying a sized film, a film winding unit for winding the sized film around a spool thereby to produce a roll, a cartridge production unit for crimping a cap on an end of a rounded barrel plate thereby to produce a one-end-open cartridge, an assembling unit for inserting the roll into the one-end-open cartridge and thereafter crimping a cap on an opposite open end of the one-end-open cartridge thereby to produce a film-contained cartridge, and an encasing unit for placing the film-contained cartridge into a case and attaching a case cap to an open end of the case thereby to produce a packaged product. The film supply unit, the film winding unit, and the assembling unit are accommodated altogether in a dark chamber. The apparatus is relatively simple in overall arrangement, and allow various types of operation to be carried out easily and efficiently.