Apparatus for reading and processing encoded information of uniting bands for webs of photographic material

US5279696A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Helmut Zangenfeind · Puchheim, DE
• Gunther Scholch · Munich, DE
• Reinhart Wurfel · Munich, DE
• Rainer Turcke · Taufkirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 29, 1989
• Grant date: Jan 18, 1994
• Expiry date: Sep 29, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T156/1737
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Uniting bands in the form of heat-sealable labels which bear encoded information are applied to exposed photographic films to join the films end-to-end. The encoded information is decoded by a reader before the labels are applied to the films to thus ensure that the hot sealing member which is used to apply labels cannot destroy or distort encoded information prior to decoding. Decoded information is used for the application of corresponding information to envelopes for exposed and developed films and for the prints of images of the respective film frames.