Transfer device for film card
AssigneeMAP Mikrofilm Apparatebau Dr. Poehler GmbH & Co. KG
InventorPeter Dziemba
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Abstract
A transfer device to transport a film card from a film platform of a microfilm reading machine to a cassette and in the reverse direction has a transport device which has two mutually opposite rotary disks which are approachable towards each other like the jaws of tongs. This transport device is capable of moving towards the film card, so that the film card passes between the disks. One of the disks is driven so that the film card is transported as soon as it passes between the disks. Due to the arrangement of a pair of disks, the transport device is extremely flat so that it can withdraw a film card from a cassette without the need for it to be slid into the induction region of the transport device by means of, for example, a ram.
Claims11
A transfer device for transmitting a film card or the like guided between two guides from one position to another substantially in a single plane, comprising transport means movable transverse to the film card about a pivot axis from a first, rest, position to a second, gripping, position, for gripping and transporting the film card;
- two opposed rotary disks carried by said transfer means and movable towards each other to grip the card therebetween, said discs being mounted at an acute angle with respect to each other when in the gripping position;
- and means to rotate at least one of said discs with a reversible direction of rotation;
- said device being disposed at the transfer end of one of said guides.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.