Abstract:
A cartridge having a film handling portion and an audio tape cassette storing portion for use with an audio-visual system. The film storing portion includes a supply and take-up reel which are coupled by an intermediate gear so that the rotation of one reel is coupled to the other and means for transporting the film spooled about the reels past an aperture plate in either a continuous or intermittent motion mode. Provision is made in the cartridge for allowing the projection of light through the image portion of the film positioned at the aperture in the aperture plate and through an auxiliary frame in the film positioned at an auxilliary aperture to identify the number of the image portion being projected. A standard audio tape cassette containing the audio portion of the audio-visual presentation associated with the film may be stored in the tape cassette storing portion facing towards the opposite side of the cartridge from the aperture plate.
Abstract:
A mechanism for winding endless bands of film on a hollow hub which is open at one side thereof and has a circumferential rim. The rim is provided with a plurality of apertures and a pivotal arm with a finger thereon engages the film to introduce the same into the hub through one of the apertures to form a loop of film within the hub. A guide cam is mounted on the rim adjacent each aperture for engaging the finger when the latter is offset from the respective aperture to pivot the hub so the finger can be smoothly and directly introduced into the aperture. A drive is obtained through two electro-magnetic clutches by means of one motor. The winding spool turns opposite the unwinding spool, in order to use a clutch as both a brake or a coupling, depending on whether the spool is a winding spool or an unwinding spool.
Abstract:
A reel assembly for feeding, receiving and storing flexible strip material such as motion picture film. The reel is adapted to be mounted on the feed or take up spindles for a movie projector and permits film wound on the reel to be unwound either from the outside of the film windings or from the inside. The reel assembly includes a hub with an integral radial flange at one side and a removable cover that fits over the hub and flange and surrounds the hub and the strip material wound thereon. A movable or free annular side plate is adapted to be retained by the cover opposite the radial flange. Located within the hub is a film extraction drum slidably received for axial movement between a retracted detent position within the hub and an axially extended position partially outside of the hub and extending through a central opening in the free side plate. The extraction drum has a fastening means thereon that is connectable to the tail end or inside end of film wound on the hub and which extends radially through a slot in the hub. When the extraction drum is moved axially outward to its extended position, it slides the tail end of the film strip laterally off of the hub so that the film strip may be unwound from the inside out while passing through the central opening in the free side plate. Thus, the film strip may be threaded through a movie projector and continuously fed even though it is unwinding unconventionally from the inside out.
Abstract:
Cassette for an endless type cinefilm comprises a casing containing therein the film coiled to form windings thereof supported and guided between outer and inner guide rings. The casing has a film gate across which a portion of the film pulled out of the innermost winding of the windings of the film through the outlet cut-out portion of the inner guide ring is moved for the projection or the exposure of the film. After having moved across the film gate, the film is advanced into the inlet cut-out portion of the outer guide ring to merge into the outermost winding of the windings of the film. The casing is provided with an arcuate guide member for the film located outside of the outer guide ring at a position remote from the cut-out outlet portion of the inner guide ring through which the portion of the film is pulled out from the innermost winding of the film. The arcuate guide member is arranged obliquely with respect to the direction of movement of the portion of the film moved from the outlet cut-out portion to the arcuate guide member so that the portion of the film is twisted by 90.degree. so as to maintain the plane of that portion of the film closely adjacent to the upper end face of the windings of the film normal to the axis thereof while the portion of the film after having been guided by the guide member is twisted by 180.degree. while changing the direction of movement thereof so that the plane of that portion of the film after having been guided by the guide member is held closely adjacent to and parallel to the plane of the opposite lower end face of the windings of the film and in a plane lying within the width of the film forming the windings normal to the axis of the windings thereby permitting the internal dimension of the casing in the axial direction of the windings to be made only nominally greater than the width plus the thickness of the film rendering the thickness of the casing to be made to the minimum.
Abstract:
A motion picture film spool and spool drive are provided respectively with cooperating drive pin receptacles and drive pin mounting apertures offset from a square spindle receptacle axis on the spool and from a square spindle axis on the spool drive, one receptacle or mounting aperture located radially through a corner of the square spindle of the drive or of the square aperture of the spool, and a second receptacle or mounting aperture on a normal to a side of the square spindle or the square aperture. A drive pin is selectively mounted in either aperture in the spool drive, so that the spool drive may be used with spools with offset drive pin receptacles in either position and the spool may be used with spool drives having offset drive pins in either position, as well as with each other.
Abstract:
A cartridge primarily for microfilm, or cassette, contains a supply reel and a sub-cartridge take-up means. Suitable guides in the cartridge or cassette automatically thread film from the supply reel past a cutter and into the sub-cartridge. To remove exposed film before the supply reel is exhausted, the cutter is operated, and the sub-cartridge is removed and replaced. The nature of the cutter and threader depends upon costs and convenience. At one extreme, they may be hand operated devices and at the other extreme automatic or a remotely controllable device.
Abstract:
An apparatus for the continuous winding and unwinding of an endless band adapted to be fed to a utilization device comprising simultaneously winding two lengths of the endless band in superposition on a first rotating reel while simultaneously unwinding two superposed lengths of the band from a second reel rotating in opposite direction. One length of the band is passed from the second reel to the first reel while the second length of the band from the second reel is passed to the utilization device and the length of film traversing the utilization device is passed to the first reel. In order to feed the band to the second reel when it becomes empty the length of the band traveling from the utilization device to the first reel is displaced onto the hub of the second reel to form a loop so that the band can now be wound in two superposed lengths on the second reel while being unwound from the first reel, the direction of rotation of the reels being reversed.
Abstract:
A composite photography system of the registered matte type including a foreground camera movable linearly in X, Y and Z directions and in pan and tilt, and a background camera coupled with the former for corresponding movement so that the perspectives from which the cameras view their respective scenes remain substantially identical despite movement of the cameras relative to their viewed scenes. In a preferred form, the background camera views a background scene constructed on a different scale from the scale of the scene viewed by the foreground camera, and the coupling means includes scaling means for correspondingly modifying certain signals generated as functions of foreground camera movement. The scaling means also includes adjustable means for selectively changing the ratio of linear movement of the background camera relative to such movement of the foreground camera, in order to facilitate adaptation of the system for use with plural background scenes having different ratios of size relative to the foreground scene. When the background objects are in the form of a miniaturized set, the optical system of the background camera desirably includes a periscopic lens so that the camera proper can be spaced from the set. Means are provided in the mounting of the background camera for compensating for the effect of the displacement, in the typical mounting of the foreground camera, of the nodal point of its optical system from the mechanical center around which the foreground camera pivots in pan and tilt movements.
Abstract:
A cartridge containing an endless loop of motion picture film is inserted into a projector having a shutter, a frame advancing claw and a resiliently mounted drive pinion. The (cartirdge) cartridge includes a drive wheel mounted in an opening therein which cooperates with the drive pinion of the projector for continuously advancing the film mounted in the opening. The resiliently mounted drive pinion is positioned in the projector so that it is beyond the dead center position of the drive wheel when the cartridge is fully inserted into the projector for holding the same in place.
Abstract:
A movable carriage is provided for supporting a magazine containing an information carrier having opposite ends on different reels inside the magazine. The carriage is constructed to have a first position in which a portion of the information carrier is located at a station for performing a function relative to the carrier, and a second position in which all portions of the information carrier are spaced from the functionperforming station.