Film cartridge magazine

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1994-05-12

1995-09-19

Rutledge, D.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items

By laterally or vertically moving successive items in...

354310, 354319, 1985021, G03B 1726, G03D 1306, G03D 308

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054520371

ABSTRACT:
A magazine for holding plurality of film cartridges and method handling thrust film cartridges in a photofinishing process using the magazine. The magazine comprises a plurality of retaining pockets, each pocket designed to hold a film thrust cartridge. Each thrust cartridge having a rotatably mounted spool therein for holding a filmstrip wound around the spool. The magazine includes a flexible retaining member associated with each of the pockets for allowing insertion or removal of the thrust cartridge from the pocket and for retaining the thrust cartridge in a predetermined position when the thrust cartridge is disposed in the pocket. The support member has a first access opening for allowing placement of the cartridge into the pocket and for allowing access to the spool of the thrust cartridge such that the spool can be rotated thrusting the filmstrip out of the cartridge or rewound back into the cartridge and a second access opening associated with each of the pockets for allowing the filmstrip to be removed from the thrust cartridge or returned to the thrust cartridge while the cartridge is in the pocket.

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