Film magazine
AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorsEdward Buelens, Danny Van Geyte, Hubert Hackenberg
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Abstract
A light-tight magazine for dispensing recording sheets one by one from a stack in which the sheets are separated from each other by intervening spacing foils (17), the spacing foils being held against removal from the magazine by means of ear portions (20, 21) that protrude laterally beyond the sides of the stack and are engaged by means of fixed abutment walls (27, 28) in the magazine interior.
Claims15
In a light-tight magazine (10) for a stack of alternatively piled image light-sensitive recording sheets (16) and spacing foils (17), and having an openable end thru which the recording sheet can be dispensed one by one, the end portions of the spacing foils remote from said openable end being held with respect to the magazine to prevent said foils from being dispensed simultaneously with an image recording sheet, and the end portions of the spacing foils adjacent said openable end each having a cut-away portion (51) to allow a feeding means to have access to the uppermost image recording sheet of the stack for the dispensing of such image recording sheet to a subsequent position, in combination, the improvement wherein said remote end portions of the spacing foils (17) are provided with ear portions (20, 21) protruding laterally beyond the side edges of the stacked image recording sheets, and said magazine has opposite lateral walls (23, 24) with interior abutment means (27, 28) for engaging said ear portions to retain said foils within the magazine while said recording sheets are dispensed.
A magazine according to claim 7, wherein said small wall sections (27,28) make part of the walls of hollow chambers (31,32) in the magazine containing a moisture absorbing means.
In a method of dispensing light-sensitive image recording sheets one by one from a stack comprising the steps of piling alternately on a supporting base (35) a plurality of flexible image recording sheets (16) and a plurality of flexible spacing foils (17), engaging portions of the spacing foils to retain said foils in said stack while the image recording sheets removed therefrom, gripping one end portion of the uppermost image recording sheet by a feeding means through an access opening provided in the corresponding end portion of any overlying spacing foils, and dispensing the thus gripped image recording sheet from the stack to a subsequent position in combination, the improvement wherein the engaging of said portions of the spacing foils (17) occurs by providing said foils with ear portions (20, 21) protruding laterally beyond the side edges of said image recording sheets (16), and blocking the passage of said portions by means of detent surfaces (27, 28).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.