Apparatus for transporting a film cartridge through a photofinishing process
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorRobert J. Blackman
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Abstract
An apparatus for transporting a film cartridge, having a spool end and a film ingress/egress slot, containing an exposed photographic film through a photofinishing process comprises a pallet adapted to hold the film cartridge. The pallet includes an interior opening for holding a film cartridge in fixed relation to the pallet with the spool end and the film ingress/egress slot of the film cartridge exposed to permit the spool end to be rotated to thrust the photographic film out of the film cartridge and to return the photographic film to the film cartridge.
Claims10
A movably transportable pallet for transporting a film cartridge having a spool end, a film ingress/egress slot and containing a photographic film, said pallet being designed to hold and transport a film cartridge to, from and through a photofinishing process and comprising means for holding the film cartridge in a fixed relationship to said pallet and means for exposing the film ingress/egress slot and spool end of a held cartridge to permit the spool end to be rotated to thrust the photographic film out of said film cartridge and to return the photographic film to said film cartridge.
A movably transportable pallet for transporting a film cartridge having a spool end, a film egress/ingress slot and containing photographic film, said pallet comprising an interior portion for receiving and retaining a said film cartridge therein, a first open end to allow photographic film to be thrust out of a held film cartridge and returned to the held film cartridge and a second open end to allow a said spool end to be engaged so that the film can be thrust out of the held film cartridge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.