Abstract:
A self-contained unitary projector-player unit to provide a complete entertainment center within itself including a housing, a projector in the housing, a rear projector screen formed in the sidewall of the housing and including a film cartridge change mechanism for handling a plurality of film cartridges and sequentially inserting a cartridge from a stack of cartridges into the projector-player, withdrawing the cartridge after play has been completed, stacking the used cartridge in a receiving receptacle, and inserting the next cartridge in sequence into the projector player.
Abstract:
A FILM CARTRIDGE COMPRISES A FILM SUPPLY REEL ON WHICH A ROOL OF FILM CAN BE WOUND WITH ITS TRAILING END SECURED THERETO, A SUPPORT FOR CARRYING SAID SUPPLY REEL IN A ROTATABLE MANNER, AND A FILM TAKE-UP CORE TO WHICH A LEADING END OF THE FILM ROLL CAN BE SECURED. A MOTION-PICTURE PROJECTOR FOR A FILM CONTAINED IN A CARTRIDGE. A FILM TAKEUP CORE IS DISENGAGED FROM A SUPPORT FORMING PART OF THE CARTRIDGE AND THE TAKE-UP CORE TOGETHER WITH THE LEAD-
ING END OF THE FILM CAN PASS THROUGH THE FILM GATE UNTIL IT REACHES A POSITION WHERE IT CAN BE ROTATED BY A DRIVING MEANS FOR FILM WINDING, WHEREBY THE FILM CAN BE THREADED THROUGH ITS PREDETERMINED PATH.
Abstract:
THE TOP WALL OF THE HOUSING IN THE MOTION PICTURE PROJECTOR IS FORMED WITH AN INWARDLY EXTENDING CHAMBER FOR RECEPTION OF SMALL, MEDIUM-SIZED OR LARGE CASSETTES FOR CONVOLUTED MOTION PICTURE FILM. THE CASSETTES ARE PROVIDED WITH EXTERNAL LOCATING MEANS WHICH FACILITATE STACKING OF CASSETTES DURING STORAGE OR IN TRANSPORT. A PLATELIKE DETENT MEMBER IS MOUNTED IN THE HOUSING ADJACENT TO ONE SIDE OF THE CHAMBER AND IS BIASED AGAINST A CASSETTE IN THE CHAMBER. THE DETENT MEMBER HAS RETAINING MEANS WHICH CAN ENGAGE WITH THE LOCATING MEANS OF THE INSERTED CASSETTE.
Abstract:
A SUPPORT ASSEMBLY OPERABLE FOR SUPPORTING ANY ONE OF A PLURALITY OF FILM SUPPLY CARTRIDGES AT A PROJECTION STATION ON A MOTION PICTURE PROJECTOR. THE ASSEMBLY INCLUDES A TRAY FOR POSITIONING ONE OF THE CARTRIDGES AT THE PROJECTION STATION AND INCLUDES AN ALIGNING MEMBER SUPPORTED ON
THE PROJECTOR INDEPENDENTLY OF THE TRAY FOR MOVEMENT FROM A RETRACTED POSITION TO A CARTRIDGE ENGAGING POSITION FOR ALIGNING A CARTRIDGE AT THE PROJECTION STATION.
Abstract:
A cartridge loading motion picture projector has a spindle that is movable along an arcuate path to each of several positions wherein it is adapted to be engaged with a reel within one of several sizes of cartridges that are mountable on the projector. Each of the cartridge sizes has similar locating structures, the projector spindle is received through openings in the cartridges. The openings and locating structures are positioned with respect to each other so that the openings are located along a second arcuate path if the cartridges are superimposed with their locating structures in alignment. The projector has cartridge mounting structure for positioning each of the similar locating structures on the cartridges at different positions on the projector so that the openings in the cartridges are located along the path of travel on the spindle.
Abstract:
A cartridge for a cartridge-loading motion picture projector has an opening or slot therein for receiving portions of a film feeding mechanism that is used for extracting film from a film roll within the cartridge and for feeding the film to automatic or self threading devices of the motion picture projector. The cartridge has a deflectable member, such as a spring or tongue, positioned with respect to said opening so that entrance of the film feeding mechanism into the cartridge deflects such member from its normal position to a film guiding position within the cartridge. The deflectable member is located in the cartridge so that during rotation of the film roll in an unwinding direction by the film feeding mechanism the leading end of the film engages the member and is guided by it to a tip end of a film engages the member and is guided by it to a tip end of a film stripping finger. The finger then lifts the leading end of the film from the roll and delivers it through a guide slot or channel to automatic threading devices of the projector. The apparatus of this invention also comprises improved film feeding mechanisms that are useful with the cartridge disclosed herein as well as with other cartridges. Such film feeding mechanisms comprise means for deflecting the deflectable member as the mechanism enters the film cartridge, and means for narrowing the normal slot or channel between a film drive belt and the film stripping member, thereby to improve film feeding operations of the mechanism and to deliver film from the device properly oriented for reception by an automatic threading device of the projector.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a device for packaging reels of magnetic tape, cinematographic film or the like and for stowing them in a suspension-type filing cabinet, comprising on the one hand a relatively supple, open annular band, which is U-sectioned and centered on the geometric axis of a reel, on the other hand a locking member connecting the ends of the band and finally, at least one resilient means tending to apply said band, for the purpose of sealing, against the edge of the sides of the reel to be protected, wherein a resilient-return slide is guided in concentric translation on the outer face of the first end of the band, the free terminal part of this slide being separated, by a slit perpendicular to the above-mentioned axis, into two arms having two locking teeth projecting into a direction parallel to this axis, said teeth being capable of cooperating with a guard member unitary with the second end of this band and provided for the passage of said slide.
Abstract:
A lighttight film magazine for use with a film receptor, such as a processor or the like, having one or more pressure rollers engageable with a film spool mounted in the magazine to accomplish one or more of the following functions, namely (1) controlling axial movement of the spool, (2) imposing the required frictional drag on the spool to control film tension, and (3) sensing film spool rotation and film transport to the film receptor. The magazine has a light-lock mechanism at the magazine exit movable from a normally closed, light-locked position to an open position by cooperating apparatus on the film receptor when the magazine is mounted thereon. When unmounted, a cam mechanism on the magazine moves the pressure roller to a spool disengaged position, and the light-lock mechanism to its open position to permit loading of the magazine.
Abstract:
A cartridge-type cine-projector having on its front panel a screen and a separate opening having wall means that slant inwardly toward the screen at an angle of about 50*. A film cartridge having an included light source reflecting mirror is insertable into said opening and an image from the film is projected onto an angled mirror mounted rearwardly from the screen so that the image reflected from the angled mirror appears on the screen.
Abstract:
1. A THIN FILM PHOTOVOLATIC CELL WITH UP TO AT LEAST 4% SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION EFFICIENCY, COMPRISING (A) A FLEXIBLE ANODIZED ALUMINUM FOIL, AND (B) A PLURALITY OF FLEXIBLE THIN FILMS ADHERENTLY SUPERPOSED THEREON,
(C) AT LEAST TWO OF SAID FILMS FORMING A PHOTOVOLTAIC BARIER JUNCTION, AT LEAST A PORTION OF EACH OF THE SAID TWO FILMS HAVING AN ELECTRODE IN OHMIC CONTACT THEREWITH, ONE OF THE SAID BARRIER JUNCTION FILMS CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF CDS OF NOT MORE THAN 1.5-MICRON THICKNESS, THE OTHER OF SAID BARRIER JUNCTION FILMS, CONSISTING, ESSENTIAL OF CUXSY OF NOT MORE THAN 0.2-MICRON THICKNESS.