Device for transporting film sheets

Apparatus for transporting photographic sheet material from a cassette unloading unit to a processing unit, comprising:

• walled housing means positionable between said units,
• said housing means having a sheet material entry opening in one wall and sheet material exit openings in an opposite wall at locations higher and lower than said entry opening;
• means for locking said housing means to said units, comprising
• (a)pin means having an annularly grooved section mounted on said units and extending through said respective opposing walls into said housing means, said pin means having an annularly grooved section,
• (b)rotatable shaft means in said housing and extending across the entire width thereof transversely of said pin means in position to cooperate with said annularly grooved sections, said shaft means having an indentation positioned to cooperate with said grooved section to hold said pin means and shaft means together when said indentation faces away from said pin means, and to release said pin means when said indentation faces said pin means, and
• (c)handle means on at least one end of said shaft means outside said housing means, for rotating said shaft means;
• a sheet transfer device within said housing, comprising,
• spaced side walls having at each end guide slit means for engaging said rotatable shaft means,
• said shaft means having grooves for receiving said slit means, there being two spaced slit means of unequal length similarly positioned on each of said side walls at the entry end of said transfer means and opening toward said cassette unloading unit, the longer of said slit means engaging said shaft means when said transfer device is mounted to feed sheet material to an exit opening at a higher location than said entry opening, the shorter of said slit means engaging said shaft means when said transfer device is mounted to feed sheet material to an exit opening located at an elevation lower than said entry opening, and
• said slit means at the exit end of said transfer device opening downwardly transversely of said first mentioned slit means to engage said shaft means adjacent a lower exit opening;
• support means attached to said housing wall adjacent the upper of said exit openings;
• and
• adjustment screw means carried by said transfer device to engage said support means.