Abstract: A method and apparatus that exposes any desired length of film, develops it, and makes it available for use while allowing for continued exposure of further film sections is disclosed. These sections of exposed film are delivered to a processing portion of the apparatus by use of a turret arrangement having two collection magazines, wherein the turret is rotatable to deliver exposed film to the developing section. The exposed film is developed in a series of cascading baths and thereafter fed to a collecting magazine mounted on a rotatable turntable. Two such collecting magazines are attached to the turntable such that the turntable can be rotated and an individual magazine removed while the alternate magazine is put on line for receipt of subsequent film portions.

Abstract: An improved multi-channel transparent jacket to accommodate film strips is disclosed. The jacket is constituted of top and bottom rectangular panels of flexible plastic material and ribs formed of plastic or other adhering material in situ along parallel lines between the panels and integrally bonded thereto to maintain the panels in spaced relation and to define open-ended channels whose width is substantially equal to the width of the strips. The thickness of the ribs is substantially equal to that of the strips. Improved bonding of the ribs to the panels is accomplished by striating the panels to increase the surface area within a given width available for bonding. In one embodiment, an ultrasound hammer is used in conjuction with a specialized anvil to striate the panels.

Abstract: A storage jacket-film strip segment insertion apparatus having enhanced strip viewing and ease of use capabilities. A platform assembly having a tray is provided for receiving a storage jacket into which film strip segments are inserted by an associated film strip feed head. The tray is light-translucent or transparent to allow the jacket to be back-lit for viewing or copying through a provided transparent tray cover and projection lens. The tray and feed head are movable with respect to one another to provide feed head access to various portions of the storage jacket and a track assembly is provided attached to the tray for positive engagement and alignment of the tray with the feed head. The tray cover is attached to the platform assembly in such a manner as to cause the track to disengage from the feed head when the cover is raised, allowing the tray and feed head to be repositioned with respect to one another.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a microfilm-inserter machine adapted for simultaneous viewing of separate microfilm frames adjacent before and after a strip cutting device and for severing and thereafter insertion of cut-sections of microfilm into microfilm into microfilm jackets. Thereby, by use of the machine, a person is able to speedily cut the frame sections exactly where desired by virtue of the two separate and adjacent viewers in series along the path of travel of feed of the microfilm.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a microfilm-inserter machine includes separate serially-arranged microfilm jacket supports. At-least one of the supports is laterally movable, adapted for facilitating insertion of cut-sections of microfilm into microfilm jackets. The supports are positioned in series, such that microfilm may be easily and speedily transferred from one jacket to another, carried by the adjacent supports.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, there is privided a microfilm jacket support supportable of a flat microfilm jacket in a horizontal position in an anchored state with a leading edge of the jacket extending beyond the support when mounted thereon, and with a microfilm insertion opening into microfilm jacket reservoir space being positioned at the edge of the support face-up when mounted on the support, and as a part of the combination additionally there being an upper edge pressure-flexing mechanism for flexing downwardly the leading edge extending beyond the support adjacent the insertion opening, and a feeding mechanism for aligning a longitudinal elongated axis of the microfilm with a longitudinal elongated axis of the microfilm jacket reservoir space and with the insertion opening and for feeding advancingly intermittently microfilm into the insertion opening and for intermittently severing microfilm, and additionally for mounting in association with microfilm immediately adjacent the insertion opening a microf

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment a microfilm jacket having plural parallel channels, each channel having at its insert opening a protruding upper-lip forming an insert opening formed by a slit extending rearwardly on both of opposite sides of the protruding lips and serving to guide microfilm fed beneath the protruding upper lip into the insert opening, with the rearwardly-extending slits extending different distances for different parallel channels relative to either one or both rearwardly extending sides of the slit.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, there is provided a microfilm jacket support supportable of a flat microfilm jacket in a horizontal position in an anchored state with a leading edge of the jacket extending beyond the support when mounted thereon, and with a microfilm insertion opening into microfilm jacket reservoir space being positioned at the edge of the support face-up when mounted on the support, and as a part of the combination additionally there being an upper edge pressure-flexing mechanism for flexing downwardly the leading edge extending beyond the support adjacent the insertion opening, and a feeding mechanism for aligning a longitudinally elongated axis of the microfilm with a longitudinal elongated axis of the microfilm jacket reservoir space and with the insertion opening and for feeding advancingly intermittently microfilm into the insertion opening and for intermittently severing microfilm, and additionally for mounting in association with microfilm immediately adjacent the insertion opening a micr

Abstract: A film trimming device places opposing wheel rollers on spaced-apart axes of rotation on respective separate shafts therefor, with radially outward circumscribing faces thereof in contact and moving in a common direction at the point of contact, with a blade's cutting edge directed in a direction substantially opposite to that common direction and pressed against correspondlateral side faces of the contacting rollers at the point of contact of the rollers, with tape guiding and channeling structures shaped and positioned to regulate adjustably the amount of tape margin extending beyond the lateral side faces of the rollers when guided onto the radially outward circumscribing face of one of the rollers before reaching the cutting edge and for channeling the trimmed tape to a take-off point, the blade being normally biased into the cutting position and being retractable therefrom for permitting first drawing a portion of fed tape to and beyond the cutting point before gradually returning the cutting edge to pre

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, there is provided a microfilm jacket support supportable of a flat microfilm jacket in a horizontal position in an anchored state with a leading edge of the jacket extending beyond the support when mounted thereon, and with a microfilm insertion opening into microfilm jacket reservoir space being positioned at the edge of the support face-up when mounted on the support, and as a part of the combination additionally there being an upper edge pressure-flexing mechanism for flexing downwardly the leading edge extending beyond the support adjacent the insertion opening, and a feeding mechanism for aligning a longitudinal elongated axis of the microfilm with a longitudinal elongated axis of the microfilm jacket reservoir space and with the insertion opening and for feeding advancingly intermittently microfilm into the insertion opening and for intermittently serving microfilm, and additionally for mounting in association with microfilm immediately adjacent the insertion opening a microfi