Method and apparatus for assembling and pocketing sections of photographic films

US4073118A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• AGFA-Gervaert AG · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Weber · North Canberra, AU
• Heinz Ludemann · Munich, DE
• Andreas Schubert
• Karel Pustka

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 10, 1976
• Grant date: Feb 14, 1978
• Expiry date: Nov 10, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/2046
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An elongated web of exposed and developed photographic film is moved lengthwise and is severed at regular intervals to yield a succession of discrete sections. Related sections (e.g., those belonging to a customer) are assembled into groups of overlapping sections, and such groups are thereupon introduced into discrete envelopes. The assembling of groups takes place in a fan-shaped magazine having a plurality of separate compartments and being movable relative to belts or analogous transporting means for successive sections of the severed film so that each section enters a different compartment. When the magazine accumulates a group of related sections, the sections are expelled from the magazine by a pusher which moves them forwardly (i.e., in the same direction in which the sections were transported to enter the magazine) or sideways and into the respective envelope. The width of each compartment decreases in the direction of forward movement of sections or at right angles to such direction. Since the sections are out of contact with each other during introduction into the magazine, raised portions around perforations or other projections of the sections cannot cause an interlaci…