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AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorsHelmut Zangenfeind, Reinhart Wuerfel, H. Peter Mihm, Vasile Gherasoiu, Juergen Brunner
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A device for automatic removal of a photographic film from a cartridge, in which the film is rolled up on a spool. The feed channel for the cartridge is disposed so that the cartridge moves through the channel by its own weight in the direction of its spool axis. The channel has a cross section that permits admission of the cartridge in only one direction. The device includes a mechanism to turn the cartridge into a position in which the spool axis is aligned horizontally. The devices also includes a mechanism for unwinding and separating the film from the spool in a light-impervious housing. A mechanism turns the empty cartridge so that its spool axis is vertical, with a prescribed orientation. A replaceable magazine sequentially collects and orders a plurality of empty cartridges.
A device for handling a cartridge having a wound spool of film therewithin having a spool axis, the device having a guide arranged for guiding the cartridge in a direction of its spool axis by its own weight, with the guide having a cross section that conforms to a shape of the cartridge, the device further having a first mechanism for turning the cartridge from a position in which the spool axis is aligned approximately vertically into a position in which the spool axis is aligned approximately horizontally, the device further comprising a second mechanism for turning the cartridge from the position in which the spool axis is aligned approximately horizontally to a position in which the spool axis is aligned approximately vertically, said second turning mechanism comprising a replaceable magazine, adapted for receiving and maintaining in order of receipt a plurality of cartridges, each having an approximately vertically aligned spool axis.
A device for handling a film cartridge having a film spool axis, having a gravitational feed for feeding cartridges substantially parallel to the spool axis in a channel corresponding to an exterior shape of the cartridge, and subsequently being reoriented so that the spool axis is disposed substantially horizontally, comprising:
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