| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 4943270 |
Photographic print cutter |
July 24, 1990 |
| A print cutter suitable for use in an order finishing station or as a stand-alone unit includes a reel mount for accepting a reel of photographic prints formed in a continuous web. An automatic threader threads the leading end of the web through a loop guide into the first set of dri |
| 4783066 |
Photographic film stacking device |
November 8, 1988 |
| A film strip stacking device is provided for use in an order finishing station in conjunction with the negative cutter to accept film strips from the negative cutter which cuts the film into strips. The strips are collected into a stack which can then be loaded into a film sleeve prior |
| 4760574 |
Photographic order matching method and apparatus |
July 26, 1988 |
| A method and apparatus for maintaining correlation between the parts of a film processing order from its receipt in a lab to its assembly for return to the customer includes placing a machine-readable identifier on the film, envelope and prints. The identifiers are read at the point of f |
| 4543151 |
Daylight apparatus for breaking open a film cassette, identifying the film released therefrom, a |
September 24, 1985 |
| A daylight film processing apparatus for removing an end cap of a cassette containing an exposed film and capturing the spool and film pushed outwardly therefrom so that the film can be suitably trimmed and identified and spliced to the tail of a next-preceding film and wound therewi |
| 4411725 |
Daylight film splicer |
October 25, 1983 |
| An apparatus for unloading a length of film from a cartridge, trimming the ends from the film, splicing the leading edge of the film to the trailing edge of the previously unloaded film, placing an identifying mark on the film and on an envelope and winding the film on a magazine. The un |
| 4297930 |
Strip cutter having rotatable cutting blade and strip deflecting means |
November 3, 1981 |
| A photographic processing apparatus for severing an advancing strip into successive segments and for mechanically segregating the segments in conjunction therewith includes a strip feed for advancing the strip in a lengthwise direction and a guide for guiding the strip past a cutting |
| 4253788 |
Film unloading and handling mechanism |
March 3, 1981 |
| A device for unloading exposed film from a cassette, discarding a backing strip which is wound with the film, discharging the cassette body and conveying the film to a light-free storage box. The cassette is initially loaded into the device through a shutter-closable aperture and receive |
| 4249663 |
Convertible loading and shipping pouch and mounting means for automated photographic customer or |
February 10, 1981 |
| Intended primarily for use in the commercial photofinishing industry, a convertible loading and delivery pouch together with associated mounting means in an automatic sorter device is disclosed. A number of such pouches demountably installed at successive loading stations along the sorte |
| 4029250 |
Photographic strip transport interval control |
June 14, 1977 |
| Stepwise feed apparatus for longitudinal advancement of photographic print or film strips to an operating device, such as a cutter. Control of step feed distance is provided by a digital command derived by selective positioning of a movable cursor relative to the operating device, the |
| 4028619 |
Position locating using digital logic controlled by pulse propagation time intervals |
June 7, 1977 |
| Apparatus for gauging location of a movable element in relation to an end of an elongated impulse wave energy propagative member employing a sensing transducer adjacent one end of the member to sense first the direct impulse and thereafter the indirect impulse that is reflected from the |
| 3967518 |
Camera filmstrip processor controlled by film marks |
July 6, 1976 |
| Processing apparatus for automatically cutting (or otherwise operating on) a filmstrip during advancement thereof into positions precisely related to the cutter by referencing to the transversely oriented center lines, rather than leading or trailing edges, of marks or cuts longitudinall |
| 3952871 |
Machine loadable multi-pocket, multi-section article carrier stock |
April 27, 1976 |
| Successive carrier-length sections in which paper articles have been inserted, such as photoprints and negatives, are torn from the multi-leaf carrier stock along transverse score lines at successive interval locations along the stock. Initially bound together along only one longitud |
| 3933069 |
Camera film process film locating feed and cutter |
January 20, 1976 |
| A camera film locating feed system for processing of film strips utilizing locating holes in the film that have or tend to undergo trailing edge damage due to mishandling of the camera when the film is being advanced from one frame setting to the next. In feeding such film in the process |
