Film cartridge sorting device for use with photographic film processor

A film processor for photographically processing exposed filmstrips, wherein the filmstrips are contained in their specific cartridge shells with their film leaders attached to a leader plate, and are fed into processing baths with the leader plate in the lead, the filmstrips being pulled out from the cartridge shells, the film processor comprising:

• a film cartridge chute which receives only the cartridge shells, after being separated from the filmstrips;
• a sifting slit formed through a bottom side of said film cartridge chute along a sliding direction of the film cartridges, said sifting slit letting smaller cartridge shells than a predetermined size sift therethrough, while larger cartridge shells than the predetermined size slide down to a lower end of said film cartridge chute:
• a first cartridge recovery box placed below said film cartridge chute so as to receive said smaller cartridge shells having sifted through said sifting slit;
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• a second cartridge recovery box placed under the lower end of said film cartridge chute so as to receive said larger cartridge shells.