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Device for feeding film cartridges

US5781819A · kind A · utility

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4References

17Claims

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Assignee

Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

Jurgen Brunner · Neumarkt am Wallersee, AT
Helmut Zangenfeind · Puchheim, DE
Reinhart Wuerfel · Hersbruck, DE
Peter Effenberger · Tegernsee, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 25, 1996
Grant date	Jul 14, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 25, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03D13/001
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device for feeding film cartridges into a processing and/or handling apparatus, having a first feed channel so laid out that the cartridge moves by its own weight in the direction of its longitudinal axis through the channel. The cartridges lie one behind another in the direction of their longitudinal axis. To separate them, an apparatus is provided that holds one cartridge secure by frictional engagement, while the lower cartridge beneath moves down to a second feed channel. Cartridges which enter the second channel are displaced, one by one, along this channel and supplied at a feed point to the film processing and/or handling apparatus.

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