Film feeding apparatus for a developing machine
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazushige Uenaka, Haruo Takase, Riuzi Otomo, Masuo Akimoto
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Abstract
A film feeding apparatus for automatically feeding a negative film accommodated in a patrone to a developing machine includes: means for accommodating a multiplicity of magazines piled one upon another, each magazine accommodating a patrone; driving means for feeding the lowermost magazine among those accommodated in the accommodating means to a film receiving port of the developing machine; and means for retracting the magazine from the film receiving port so as to be discharged after the feed of the film has been completed, whereby the magazines are successively moved, and the films are thereby automatically fed to the developing machine.
Claims13
A film feeding apparatus for feeding exposed film to a developing machine, comprising:
- a developing machine having a film receiving section;
- a plurality of magazines, at least one film cassette being received within each of said magazines, each of said magazines having a rack formed on an outer side portion thereof;
- a stand receiving a stack of said magazines;
- a worm gear engaged with said rack of a lowermost magazine in said stack for moving said lowermost magazine towards said film receiving section of said developing machine for extraction of film from the at least one cassette received in said lowermost magazine and for retracting said lowermost magazine from said developing machine after said film has been extracted;
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- means for supporting said lowermost magazine while moving said lowermost magazine between said stack and said developing machine and dropping said magazine into a discharge passage after said film has been extracted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.