摘要:
A pocket-size still camera of the self-developing type includes a film chamber with a rotatable platform supporting a self-developing film unit for rotation. A stepping motor is provided for rotating the platform and film unit in incremental steps to permit successive sections of the film unit to be exposed. An exit slot is provided in the film chamber to allow discharge of the exposed film unit through a pair of processing rollers. An embibing chamber is located adjacent the exit slot so as to receive the film unit for the appropriate embibition time.
摘要:
There is disclosed a photographic apparatus of the instant developing type which permits exposing, processing and viewing of the film without the necessity of removing the film from the camera. Included is a film disk containing a plurality of film assemblies, each including a strippable negative sheet which is removed from the film assembly at a viewing station for facilitating viewing of the positive image transparency at such viewing station.
摘要:
Method and fluid applicator apparatus usable in a photographic film cassette and including a pressure pad having a film engaging surface for slidably supporting successive incremental portions of a strip of photographic film in a given plane as the film strip progressively advances in a given direction across a nozzle opening through which processing fluid is deposited on the film's emulsion surface having a particle engaging surface depending from the film engaging surface and facing in a direction opposite to the direction to divert particles impinging thereagainst in a manner and direction so that they are prevented from being caught by the particle engaging surface of the pressure pad.
摘要:
A film strip carried in a multipurpose film cassette is provided with a conformation thereon which cooperates with structure carried by a processor disabling valve which may be slidably advanced, when engaged by the conformation, upon film advancement. The conformation comprises an aperture provided in the central region of the film strip which is adapted to engage a film strip engaging finger provided on the slide valve. The film strip engaging finger is disposed in a region between a pair of spaced film guiding fingers which engage only the outermost edges of the film strip. The spaced film guiding fingers and other structure in the cassette cooperate to guide the film strip in a curved S-shaped path during normal film advancement thereby. The film strip is further provided with a pair of elongated longitudinally extending slots on opposing sides of the centrally disposed slide valve engaging aperture. Under normal conditions, the film strip, as it passes in the curved path follows a path defined by the fingers and thereby does not engage the centrally disposed film engaging finger. As the portion of the film strip having the elongated slots therein passes into the region of the slide valve, the outer edges of the film strip continue to be guided in the curved path by the guide fingers; however, the inner portion of the film strip containing the slide valve engaging aperture bows outwardly following a substantially straight path thereby causing the aperture in the central portion of the film to pass between the two guide fingers wherein it positively engages the third finger thereby effecting displacement of the valve as the film strip advancement continues.
摘要:
A multipurpose audio/visual film cassette including supply and takeup spools in which opposite ends of a film strip are coupled for alternate winding and unwinding during passage through a first path for film exposing, processing and projecting operations with an audio tape also coupled at least on one end with the supply spool and interwound with the film strip to pass through a separate path, and a separating web is coupled at least on one end to the supply spool and preferably extending directly to the takeup spool in a third path. The separating web is arranged to overlie the side of the film strip on which processing fluid is deposited so as to be wound in convolutions between such side and the sound tape in order to prevent adherence of the sound tape to the film strip as a result of being interwound therewith before the processing fluid has dried.
摘要:
Apparatus is provided for positively retaining a slidably displaceable valve member in its stored position prior to initiation of the processing cycle in a multi-purpose film cassette of the type containing a photographic film strip for exposure, processing and viewing without removal from the cassette. A latching arm forming a part of the valve member is configured to prevent displacement of the valve member at all times prior to the movement of the pressure plate to the position it occupies during high speed continuous advancement of the film. Movement of the pressure plate to this position results in release of the latching arm and accordingly permits displacement of the valve member to its final position where it serves to seal off the processing fluid nozzle.
摘要:
A wet film cassette and transport system for photographic diffusion transfer films having initially separate wet and dry film components. At least the wet component is contained in a tightly sealed enclosure defined by a cassette having inner and outer, relatively rotatable receptacles. Each of the receptacles is provided with a peripheral axially oriented slot, a leading end portion of the wet film projecting at all times through the slot of the inner receptacle but being capable of retraction into an annulus between the inner and outer receptacles by relative rotation of the two receptacles. Retracting movement of the inner receptacle moves a sealing pad carried thereon to a position closing the slot opening of the outer receptacle. When the pad is moved from the slot of the outer receptacle by rotation of the inner receptacle, the leading end portion of the wet film projects through both openings to the nip of a processing roller pair at which the wet film component is brought into face-to-face contact with an exposed dry or negative film component. Cut-off means are provided between the wet film cassette and the processing roller pair whereas image frame lengths of the dry component are separated from the supply thereof independently of the wet film cut-off mechanism. Alternatively, the dry film may be separated through the provision of transverse tear strips in the negative film component or by a separate cut-off mechanism.
摘要:
A photographic apparatus for providing an instant film system for transmission electron microscopes includes a film carrier and film unit handling apparatus compatable with existing TEM equipment. Film carrier plates, each standardized to accept an instant film sheet and to subsequently enable automatic separation of the latter, are varied in exterior configuration to conform to each type of TEM unit, and a single processor is provided for handling film processing with carrier plates utilized in any of the TEM units. The carrier plates are standardized to enable automated separation of individual exposed film sheets from the respective carrier plates in the processor, and a transfer base or transfer box is provided to cooperate with the receiver box of a given TEM design and with the processor which includes a reciprocating slide feed mechanism by which each individual film unit is ejected from the box. The processor then separates the film sheet from the carrier plate, assembles it with processing materials and advances it to the nip of a processing roller pair.
摘要:
Film advancing apparatus for moving a thin, planar, resilient film unit at least partially from a film cassette. The apparatus includes a member for applying a force to one end of the film unit while simultaneously blocking its movement through an egress in the film cassette, thus causing the film unit to assume a flexed stressed configuration. When the egress is unblocked, the resiliency of the film unit provides a force for moving an opposite end of the film unit out of the film cassette via the egress as it assumes its original planar configuration.
摘要:
An arrangement is provided for reducing the force imparted at the junction between the pull strip and the film strip in a multipurpose film cassette wherein the pull strip is employed to remove a tear tab closure initially sealing a supply of processing fluid. The pull strip is formed with a free end portion adapted to engage a tactile discontinuity in the film strip upon winding of the film strip upon a film spool. The pull strip is provided with a strip of high friction material which, upon continued advancement of the film strip, engages the surface of the outermost convolution of film strip advancing to the reel and which, upon such engagement with the film strip, cooperates with it to resist at least a portion of the force imparted through the pull strip during removal of the tear tab closure, thereby reducing the force imparted to the junction between the pull strip and the film strip.