System for handling sheet film
AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorsRudolf Schneider, Georg Lechner, Thomas Zehetmaier, Michael Reichart, Frans Feytens, Gilbert Hersschens
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Abstract
A stack of individual sheets of film is enclosed by lightproof plastic packaging. An opaque sheet is disposed at the bottom of the stack, and the side of the opaque sheet confronting the packaging is provided with a bar code containing information about the film. The packaging is removed in a lighttight area of a processing unit for the film and the bar code is read. The opaque sheet prevents the radiation used to read the bar code from reaching the film. The information retrieved from the bar code is employed to control processing of the film.
Claims21
A system for handling photosensitive material, comprising a lightproof receptacle enclosing the photosensitive material;
- a data carrier provided with information about the photosensitive material, said carrier being discrete from, and enclosed in, said receptacle;
- a receiver for said receptacle, said receiver including a window in register with said information;
- and a removing device for removing said receptacle from the photosensitive material in said receiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.