US 6,317,951 B1Granted

Method of and apparatus for processing photographic photosensitive film

AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.

InventorsHideyuki Karaki, Chiaki Suzuki, Yoshinobu Misumi, Takayuki Kambara, Susumu Sato

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Abstract

When any of facilities of a film producing and packaging system suffers a failure, a film processing controller shuts off the film producing and packaging system. The operator repairs a failing facility and manually discharges a length of an elongate film which may possibly be defective. After the failing facility is repaired, the film processing controller is restarted to operate the film producing and packaging system, which then automatically discharges a length of the elongate film corresponding to a preset number of sized films. It is possible to easily and quickly discard a portion of the elongate film which has been made defective by the facility failure.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A method of processing a film in a film producing and packaging system for unreeling an elongate photosensitive photographic film from a film roll, cutting the photosensitive photographic film to predetermined film lengths, winding each of the film lengths on a spool, and placing the film length wound on the spool into a cartridge, comprising the steps of:

detecting whether facilities of the film producing and packaging system have suffered a failure;
if either one of the facilities has suffered a failure, manually restoring said one of the facilities and manually discharging the photosensitive photographic film by a length from said one of the facilities;
and
automatically discharging a length of the photosensitive photographic film which corresponds to a predetermined number of film lengths to be cut from the photosensitive photographic film, from said one of the facilities which has been restored.

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