Photo Film Or Plate Patents (Class 206/455)
  • Patent number: 5137207
    Abstract: A container, such as for a floral arrangement, is formed from a unitary die-cut sheet of material. The container has a core, defined by walls and a bottom and having an open top, and decorative panels extend from the walls. The sheet contains connected wall sections and decorative panel sections, the wall sections forming the walls and the panel sections folding together in pairs to form the decorative panels. There are at least two decorative panel sections between two adjacent wall sections, such that when the panel sections are folded together, the wall sections will be adjacent in the container core, and the panel formed by the panel sections will extend outward from the core. The bottom is formed by tabs on the wall sections which fold inward. In some embodiments, the container is collapsible to a substantially planar form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Inventor: Christine A. McAdam
  • Patent number: 5137269
    Abstract: Disclosed are a sheet package and a sheet feeding apparatus in which such a sheet package is preferably employed. The sheet package is comprises a cover for covering a stack of sheets in its entirety and openable by being broken away to expose at least an end portion of the stack of sheets and a member extending outward from the bottom of the stack of sheets. The sheet feeding apparatus is provided with cassette body capable of accomodating the sheet package therein, and a holding portion for fixedly holding the extending member of the sheet package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5133450
    Abstract: A snap-type holder is described for collecting baseball, basketball, football, or other type sports cards. The holder includes a clear plastic bottom plate having a recess just slightly larger than the card to be placed therein, so as to correlate with card manufacturing tolerances. A clear plastic top plate snaps tight over the bottom plate by a pressure fit resulting from clearance specifications of 0.001-0.002" so as to seal the card against moisture, dirt and ambient air, and so as to secure the holder if it were accidentally dropped, thereby protecting the sports card from damage. A notch is provided in the holder to allow separation of the top and bottom plates when it is desired to remove the card for replacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Inventor: Robert H. Rademacher
  • Patent number: 5123536
    Abstract: A carrier is provided for a package containing a stack of film sheets enclosed by a bag. The carrier has a first wall positionable on one side of the stack of sheets and a second wall positionable on the opposite side of the stack of sheets. The carrier has an edge wall connected to the first wall and the second wall. The edge wall has an opening at the center portion thereof, and two spaced end portions separated by the opening. The carrier allows the stack of film sheets and the carrier to flex in the area of the opening in the carrier edge wall to reduce the tendency of the sheets to stick together and thereby improve reliability of feeding of the sheets seriatim from the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Matthew DiPietro
  • Patent number: 5123589
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a reclosable package for receiving and holding a stack of flat articles, such as developed photographic prints, is provided. The package comprises an open-top, generally rectangular box having a length and height substantially greater than its thickness when erected. The carton includes a top closure panel having a generally free edge. One of a pair of sealing tabs is removably attached adjacent each of the ends of the free edge of the closure panel. A generally central reclosing tab is located along the free edge between the sealing tabs. The front panel of the package has a relieved access area cut out therefrom for facilitating access to the package contents. Additionally, the front panel includes a reclosure tab slit for receiving the reclosure tab so that the carton can be lockably reclosed. The invention also encompasses a flat blank for forming into the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignee: Waldorf Corporation
    Inventor: Raymond A. Cote
  • Patent number: 5123535
    Abstract: A flexible sterilized bag which easily unfolds to receive an x-ray cassette and is easily closed using a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating strip located around the bag. The bag is advantageously used in a surgical or operating room environment. The bag is composed of a sterilized bag portion, a cuff formed at the open end of the bag and a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating along the circumference near the open end of the bag. As the cassette is pushed into the bag the adhesive coating strip becomes reoriented so that the adhesive coating on one side of the bag directly faces the remaining adhesive coating on the other side of the bag. The open end of the bag is then sealed by simply pressing the opposing sides of the bag together at the location of the adhesive coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Gregg A. Patnode, Robert L. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 5124550
    Abstract: A storage phosphor reader includes apparatus for loading into the reader a storage phosphor plate carried in a cassette. Orienting surfaces are provided on the cassette and on a reader loading shelf to effect correct orientation of the cassette on the shelf. Thus, a storage phosphor plate can be properly transferred between the cassette and the reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John C. Boutet, Gary R. Unruh
  • Patent number: 5119573
    Abstract: A system for photography easily distributes slides onto a light transparent screen and subsequently regroups the slides into a stack with the same sequence, without need to individually manipulate the slides. The system enables a user to view many slides at the same time minimizing the area needed. The system comprises a transparent screen with a plurality of longitudinally extending rails which define columns for the slides and a slide dispenser box, for use in conjunction with the screen, which dispenses and collects the slides on the screen. The rails have an interior saw-tooth profile and the dispenser has a flexible barrier disposed over the dispensing opening which together allow for one slide at a time to be distributed and collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1992
    Inventor: Alessandro Dentella
  • Patent number: 5103972
    Abstract: A sleeve for a photo print cassette and associated negatives includes a partition wall to define a first compartment for the cassette and a second compartment for the negatives. The partition wall may be integrally formed with the sleeve walls in one single blank, or it may be a portion of a separate pocket member removable from the sleeve to get access to the pocket contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Patent number: 5090567
    Abstract: A cassette for a photo-stimulable storage phosphor plate has a visual feedback feature for indicating whether the cassette is upside down or right side up. The cassette preferably has a cavity bounded by upper and lower walls, closed side walls a closed end wall and an open end wall. A storage phosphor plate is supported in the cavity and includes a raised rib which closes off the open end wall. A visual feedback feature is located on a closed side or end wall. The feature may include a horizontally corrugated edge texture with different color on the top versus the bottom corrugations. An alternate visual feedback feature may include an adhesive strip of grating or lenticular material showing different colors or differnet visual indicia or messages when viewed from the top and from the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: John C. Boutet
  • Patent number: 5083665
    Abstract: A novel process for the packaging of double-side coated X-ray films is described. This process employs the use of plastic or plastic or polymer coated cardboard as top and bottom stiffening members in a stack of sheets of the X-ray film. The top and bottom sheets of film packaged in this manner will harden in the same way as the remainder of the sheets whereas film packaged with conventional, plain cardboard stiffening members will not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Allan R. Schoenberg, Davie W. Summey, James B. Kisner, Kenneth W. Frady, John D. Wood, Mark J. Zdanowicz, James L. Lancaster, Stanley A. Robinson
  • Patent number: 5082168
    Abstract: An article receiving apparatus and a method of forming an article receiving apparatus having an intermediate panel connected by a fold to a lateral panel on one side and by a fold in the opposite direction to the first fold to a panel connected on the opposite side. A bottom flap is formed by folding a portion of the three panels transversely to the longitudinal axes of the folds. The bottom flap is glued to one of the lateral panels. A pocket is formed between one lateral panel and the intermediate panel which opens at a first side of the article receiving device and the top portion of the article receiving device. Another pocket is formed between the other lateral panel and the intermediate panel, which opens on a second side of the article receiving device and at the top portion of the article receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Think, Inc.
    Inventor: Ralph R. Gaetano
  • Patent number: 5078271
    Abstract: A flat film cassette comprises a lower part, an upper part provided with an illumination window, and an element for turnably connecting the lower part and the upper part with one another. The lower part has a bottom with a peripheral edge for receiving a film, and having a plurality of edge portions including at least two parallel edge portions. A slider is lowerably supported in each of the edge portions of the edge in a springy manner and extends beyond the edge portion so that during closing of the upper part the slider is moved back into the edge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventor: Walter Bauer
  • Patent number: 5065866
    Abstract: A storage phosphor cassette assembly includes a rectangular cassette and a photo-stimulable storage phosphor mounted on a rigid plate removably positioned within the cassette. The rectangular cassette is closed on five sides and has a side opening which is closed off by a rib on the end of the storage phosphor plate. The cassette and rib are configured to provide a light lock to prevent undesirable exposure of the storage phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Assignees: Eastman Kodak Company, Lumisys
    Inventors: John C. Boutet, Gary R. Unruh
  • Patent number: 5064070
    Abstract: A packaging container for and packaging method of developer sheets of the type which are superposed with a microcapsule-bearing sheet on which a latent image corresponding to an original has been formed has improved storage characteristics. In such a container, the developer sheets are accommodated in a box which is in an atmosphere of non-oxidative gas or inert gas such as nitrogen gas. The box is wrapped with a plastic film or metal foil. The developer sheets can be stored over a long time without occurrence of yellowing of the developer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunichi Higashiyama
  • Patent number: 5057403
    Abstract: A miniaturized package of a photosensitive material, which comprises a silver halide photosensitive material comprising a transparent synthetic resin support having at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer formed thereon and a sealed container containing the photosenstive material, the support having a water content of 0.3 to 1.5% by weight and the content volume of the sealed container being 0.08 x cm.sup.3 or less when the area of one surface of the photosensitive material is x cm.sup.2. By this miniaturized package, the size and weight of camera can be reduced. The photographic properties of the photosensitive material contained in the package are not easily deteriorated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuji Kume, Shinpei Ikenoue
  • Patent number: 5056660
    Abstract: A music gift box includes a pair of shells pivotally connected together. A cover board is mounted within one of the shells and carries a circuit board, a DC power supply, a speaker and a frame for holding a picture. When the gift box is closed, the circuit board is disconnected from the power supply. When the gift box is opened, the working voltage actuates the circuit board to produce music through the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Inventor: Andy Huang
  • Patent number: 5055869
    Abstract: A supply magazine receives a package having a stack of film sheets within a light-tight bag. When the magazine is closed, a the bag is driven from the magazine so that the sheets can be removed for exposure and development. The bag is removed at the rear end of the magazine and fed toward the front of the magazine so that it is accessible to the operator and to avoid having the bag fall into an associated printer/processor and out of the reach of the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Matthew DiPietro
  • Patent number: 5048685
    Abstract: A carrier for a package containing a stack of sheets of x-ray film has a first wall located along one side of the stack of sheets and a second wall located along the opposite side of the stack of sheets. The dimensions of the walls relative to the film sheets is such that the first wall extends less than the full width of the sheets and the second wall extends less than the full length of the sheets. This enables a sheet removing device to engage and remove a sheet from either side of the stack of sheets. The package can be loaded in either of two kinds of equipment which require the package to be oriented in different ways when sheets are to be fed from the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas J. Kausch, Matthew DiPietro
  • Patent number: 5048686
    Abstract: A package has a light tight pouch that encloses a stack of rectangular sheets of film. The package can be loaded in either of two different kinds of equipment which have means for removing the pouch from the film stack so that the sheets can be fed seriatim from the stack. One kind of equipment requires the package to be oriented so that the pouch can be removed from a narrow side of the package while the second kind of equipment requires the package to be loaded therein so that the pouch can be removed from a long side of the stack of film. The pouch has flaps extending from one long side and one narrow side of the package, and the flaps are engageable by the pouch removing mechanism in the different kinds of equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas J. Kausch, Matthew DiPietro
  • Patent number: 5046616
    Abstract: A device for holding and displaying collectable cards and the like has a base including a planar portion having a card receiving area thereon for receiving a collectable card. The base includes a ridge upstanding from the planar portion and substantially circumscribing the card receiving area, except for an opening through the ridge that permits lateral access by a person's finger to a card received on the card holding area. The ridge has inner sidewalls delimiting the card receiving area and arranged orthogonally to each other. The adjacent inner sidewalls have laterally recessed corners set back from a point of intersection of imaginary extensions of the adjacent inner sidewalls, such that a corner of a collectable card, whose adjacent sides are in engagement with adjacent inner sidewalls of the ridge, would not engage the ridge, thereby preventing damage or deformation of the corner of the collectable card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Makowski, Mark A. Makowski
  • Patent number: 5044500
    Abstract: A container for handling and transporting glass slides. The container comprise a base support having at least one slide retention well for receiving a single glass slide and a cover for engagement with the base support. A projection is provided on the cover for alternating access to different portions of the slide as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignees: Erie Scientific Company, Histolab, Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter J. Webber, Philip L. J. Webber
  • Patent number: 5042662
    Abstract: Container for a stack of sheets such as photographic film or paper, which is readily adaptable to a wide variety of formats by inserting plug-in elements into recesses in the bottom alone or in both the bottom and the cover of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Bernd Mirlieb, Alfred Trumpp, Gunter Weber
  • Patent number: 5038935
    Abstract: A photographic print and storage unit includes a frame and a tray. A stack of photographs is held within the tray and against the frame by a set of stack lifting members activated when the frame and tray are closed. The stack lifting members include a cam plate that is compressed by the closing of the frame to lift a flexible finger against the bottom of the stack pressing the stack against the inner surface of the frame regardless of the number of pictures in the stack. An integral negative tray stores the negatives and a leg, detachably molded to the tray, may be used in conjunction with a series of mounting holes to provide support to the storage unit for tabletop display. The tray and frame are molded in one piece and attached by means of a living hinge of molded material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Uniek Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory J. Wenkman, Ferdinand F. Salzmann
  • Patent number: 5031773
    Abstract: In a final phase of the photographic process a customer generally receives an envelope containing a group of prints and a plurality of strips of negatives associated with the prints. Packaging the prints and negatives in this manner can lead to the negatives getting demand and/or the negatives getting separated from the original prints, thus making it difficult to produce high quailty reprints and making it difficult to determine which negative is to be reprinted. A photographic image set including an index print integrally stored with the associated negative strips provides a convenient single storage and retrieval system. A method of making the photographic image set provides acceptable overall exposure of the index print and reduces the incidence of damage to the negative strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Joseph A. Manico, William L. Burnham
  • Patent number: 5029709
    Abstract: A package for securely containing a generally rectanguloid article comprises a rectanguloid box that is closable to protectively enclose the article and openable to allow ready access thereto. The box when closed has a bottom wall, spaced-panel opposite side walls, a rear end wall, a top wall, and a multi-panel front end wall. All of the box walls are formed from a single pre-cut and -scored blank of corrugated paperboard, which includes various panels, flaps, and tabs that are adapted to be folded about respective score lines and positioned in cooperative relation to one another to provide the closable and openable box desired for securely containing the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Luke T. Faulstick
  • Patent number: 5026600
    Abstract: A packaging material for photosensitive materials which comprises packaging material which comprises a coextruded multilayer light-shielding film comprising an ethylene copolymer resin layer containing more than 30 wt. % of ethylene copolymer resin and an antioxidant, a thermoplastic resin layer having a melting point higher than said ethylene copolymer resin layer, and an adhesive thermoplastic resin layer containing a conductive material disposed between said ethylene copolymer resin layer and said thermoplastic resin layer.In the packaging material of the invention, the ethylene copolymer resin layer improves physical strength such as tear strength and heat sealing properties, and the thermoplastic resin layer makes heat sealing easy due to its heat resistance and improves bursting strength. The adhesive thermoplastic resin layer secures antistatic property and light-shielding, and it also improves the bonding strength between the ethylene copolymer resin layer and the thermoplastic resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mutsuo Akao
  • Patent number: 5016752
    Abstract: A picture container having the general shape and configuration of a book for easy storage on the end edge thereof on a shelf thereby making it easy to store, locate and retrieve pictures or photographs and their negatives. The picture container includes a generally rectangular, parallelepiped housing including a base and cover hingedly connected thereto by a narrow width sidewall with the base and cover including interengaging flanges when the cover is parallel to the base to form a container having the general shape and configuration of a book. The narrow sidewall forms a spine hingedly connected to the base and cover which allows the cover to open to a position completely spaced away from the base to make it easier to place the photographs and negatives in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Inventor: John M. Haugen, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5007537
    Abstract: A sleeve for a photoprint cassette having a feature for holding a paper bag which accommodates strips of photographic negatives. The sleeve, combined with the photoprint cassette and the paper bag, forms a module of a photo archive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Patent number: 5000319
    Abstract: Translucent or transparent plastic storage pages which include a plurality of parallel laterally-extending top loading pouches for accommodating film negatives. The top sheet of each page has a series of parallel cuts respectively disposed below the top boundary of each of the pouches and coinciding in position with sprocket holes on the film, forming upper and lower flaps. Thus, when the negatives are in place in the pouches, the slit for the pouch closes over the negative strip locking it into place against the row of sprocket holes, and preventing the strip (no matter what the length) from falling out when kept flat or hanging. Beading the page at the slit (or cut) opens the pouch for easy retrieval. Negative strips of any length from 1 to 5 frames can be stored in the pouch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Inventor: Leon Mermelstein
  • Patent number: 4997089
    Abstract: A file sheet dust cover comprises a plastic bag having a file-insertion type inlet opening, and flap joined to the plastic bag. The inlet opening allows insertion of a file sheet into the plastic bag. The flap is adapted to cover a portion of the file sheet projecting outside from the inlet opening, and a plurality of binder holes or cuts are provided in a bottom portion of the plastic bag such that when the file sheet is inserted into the plastic bag, the binder holes or cuts conform with a part or an entire part of a plurality of corresponding binder holes formed in the file sheet. A joined edge between the flap and the plastic bag is extended outwardly toward the inlet opening at opposite side ends of the plastic bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Assignee: Slidex Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Ozeki
  • Patent number: 4995508
    Abstract: The lid portion of a Norelco single cassette holder box or similar single cassette holder box lids are fastened together in such a fashion that when placed upside down in a display case of the correct dimensions, form rows of cavities with each cassette box lid having one cavity the correct width and dimensions of a hard plastic sportscard holder that is common to the trade and with these hard plastic holders having been placed into each cassette box lid or cavity and with the plexi-glas or similar material transparent cover of the display case in a closed position with the plexi-glas resting slightly against each of the hard plastic holders and with all parts joined together, forming one unit, a complete unit for transporting and/or display of sportscards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Inventor: David A. Burley
  • Patent number: 4991717
    Abstract: The molded container body (10) and molded lid panel (34, 46, 48) are joined by a light and moisture impervious seal membrane (54) which fixedly adheres to the upper surface of the lid panel but peelably adheres to the upper surface of a peripheral flange (20) on the container body, thus permitting one lid portion (46) to be raised to an open position by peeling the seal membrane away from flange (20) and pulling upward, without removing the seal membrane from the lid panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert D. May, John M. Williamson
  • Patent number: 4984688
    Abstract: A packaging system for the protection and shipment of photographic film sheets comprises a box including a container and a cover adapted to close over an opening in the container. The container has a flexible tray element inserted within a rigid outer section of the container. The tray element and the cover have cooperative mating members disposed adjacent to the perimeter of the cover for tightly joining together respective surface portions thereof when the cover closes over the opening. The tray element also has an integral retaining lip for exerting pressure on film inserted within the tray element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.
    Inventor: Joseph F. Mikulin
  • Patent number: 4975590
    Abstract: An energy subtraction processing cassette accommodates therein a pair of stimulable phosphor sheets and a radiation energy changing filter interposed between the stimulable phosphor sheets. The cassette includes a cassette body which is formed of a light-shielding material that transmits radiation and a lid member mounted on the cassette body. A side wall of the cassette perpendicular to the stimulable phosphor sheets accommodated therein is provided with a slit through which the radiation energy changing filter can be inserted into and from which it can be drawn out of the cassette without the lid member having to be opened or closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4972952
    Abstract: A storage unit for photographic slides which is removably securable to an outer protective jacket, so that the storage unit may be easily removed, which is also provided with a plurality of holes for allowing it to be inserted and retained in a loose-leaf binder or notebook for removable storage. The outer jacket is provided with an interior pocket which snugly receives a stiffened end of the storage unit for accomplishing the easy removal from, or insertion of, the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1990
    Assignee: The Cloverline, Inc.
    Inventor: Ingeborg Reiseneder
  • Patent number: 4966285
    Abstract: An index sheet formed of one recording sheet on which are printed, as small-size positive images in parallel rows, a plurality of scenes recorded on an image recording medium such as, for example, a photographic film, a still video floppy, a video cassette, or a video disc. The small positive images are arranged in the same order they were taken, and frame numbers are printed in juxtaposition with the respective positive images. To produce such an index sheet, a plurality of strips of negative are copied onto photographic paper in a reduced size with the negative strips inserted in a negative sheath. For a magnetic or optical image recording medium for a very large number of images, a lesser plurality of scenes read out are edited in such a manner as to arrange in a representative sample and thereafter are printed on a recording sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Otake, Nobuyuki Iwakami
  • Patent number: 4965633
    Abstract: A process kit for use in an image-forming apparatus. The process kit includes a development device, a corona discharger, and a cleaning device disposed in spaced relation around the periphery of a photosensitive drum. Each of the above-mentioned components, including the drum, are releasably mounted in a primary housing which is disposed for insertion into the image-forming apparatus. A bracket is disposed at the opposite ends of the development device, corona discharger, cleaning device, and photosensitive drum to releasably secure these components in the primary housing in a manner which provides access thereto for refurbishment or replacement thereof. A removable cover is removably mounted over openings provided in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Inventor: Tyrone N. Surti
  • Patent number: 4961502
    Abstract: An X-ray cassette holding which is capable of being sterilized for use in an Operating Room includes a hinged cover and an opening for receiving a non-sterile X-ray cassette. A receiver portion into which the cassette is inserted is spaced from the interior of the side and end walls of a pivoting cover to isolate the exterior of the cassette holder from contamination by virtue of the insertion of a contaminated cassette into the holder. Seals may be provided to seal the cover edges and portions of the receiver edges from the exterior of the holder when the cover is in a closed position. When the cover is opened, the cassette may be removed, and a new cassette inserted without contaminating the exterior sterile surfaces of the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Inventor: Gerald R. Griffiths
  • Patent number: 4955479
    Abstract: A package comprising first, second and third flexible panels of light-blocking material secured together for holding light sensitive sheet materials therein, with one of the panels being arranged to be completely peeled away and separated from the other panels to provide access to the materials within the package. The package is arranged for insertion into a rigid container where the sheets can be removed for processing. The package comprises a lower panel, a first upper panel, and a second upper panel. Each of the panels is formed of a web of flexible, light-blocking, material, e.g., a laminate of polyester and polyethylene, one or both of which incorporating a light blocking agent. The lower panel has a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pair of side edges. The first upper panel has a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pair of side edges. The second upper panel has a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pair of side edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Fres-co System USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Beer, Michael D. Gracie, Sr.
  • Patent number: 4943991
    Abstract: A contoured X-ray imaging system consists of an X-ray source and X-ray film holding cassette for taking X-ray pictures closely adjacent to a body surface without unnecessary exposure of adjacent body parts to X-rays. The X-ray cassette is contoured to the outline of a structure or a body part to evaluate it without the radiation spreading unnecessarily to the adjacent areas. The X-ray cassette is a thin flat box which has an edge wall contoured outline of the subject or an adjacent structure. The X-ray source and intervening shields or the like are each configured to project an X-ray beam which is contoured in the same contour as the film-holding cassette so that the X-rays reach the film in the same contour as avoid unnecessary exposure of adjacent portions of the body to the X-rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Inventor: Richard A. Mosby
  • Patent number: 4934532
    Abstract: A container for mounted slides comprises a continuous strip of transparent material folded upon itself, with regularly spaced pairs of continuous welds extending across the width of the strip to define a series of transverse pockets closed at one end and open at the other. A number of mounted photographic slides can automatically inserted into the open end of each pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Tecnodia S.p.A.
    Inventor: Gianluigi Costa
  • Patent number: 4932529
    Abstract: A container is disclosed for storing a stack of photographic prints and their negatives as well as for displaying one of the photographs. The container has a base to which a cover is pivotally attached. The cover has a front wall with a peripheral contour and defines a display opening having a contour smaller than that of the front wall peripheral contour. The cover has a transport wall spaced from the front wall to accommodate a stack of photographic prints. Locating elements extend between the transport wall and the front wall to precisely locate the stack of photographic prints with respect to the display opening in the front wall. When the cover and base are closed, the container not only stores the stack of photographic prints and the negatives, but also provides a convenient device for displaying one of the prints. A spacer to accommodate stacks of variable thickness is provided with a liner to hold the stack and negatives in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Print Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Howard M. Levine
  • Patent number: 4915229
    Abstract: A sheet film package comprises a casing, a stack of sheet films stored in said casing, and a protective board disposed in said for protecting said sheet films. The protective board has a holder portion integrally joined to one side edge of an upper panel and/or a lower panel thereof for preventing the sheet films from being displaced in a direction transverse to the direction in which the sheet films wil be fed out. The sheet film package also includes a buffer sheet member disposed on the lower panel of the protective board for placing the sheet films on the buffer sheet member. The buffer sheet member has at least one opening such as a hole or a slit for leaking suction air in each of two symmetrical areas of the buffer sheet member, one of which will be contacted by a suction cup of a film delivery mechanism disposed in a device in which the sheet film package can be loaded. The buffer sheet member has a foamed sheet layer made of thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadami Yamada, Mutsuo Akao
  • Patent number: 4913288
    Abstract: A container for a dental X-ray film package which can prevent attachment of saliva of a patient to the dental X-ray film package contained therein. The container comprises a containing element formed from a flexible sheet for containing a dental X-ray film package therein, and a gripping element formed from at least one flexible sheet and connected to the containing element. The gripping element extends outwardly of an oral cavity of a patient when the containing element is inserted in the oral cavity. When an X-ray photograph is to be taken, a dental X-ray film package is inserted into the containing element and then the containing element is placed at a suitable position for photographing of a tooth. After X-ray photographing, the gripping element is gripped to take out the containing element from the oral cavity and pulls or tears off the gripping element in the opposite directions to open the containing element to take out the film package from the containing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Nix Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4912740
    Abstract: A comfort-enhancing improvement upon a known dental film packet having sensitized film and protective opaque sheets enclosed by a light-tight envelope that includes an opposed pair of generally parallel walls covering the sheets, those walls being joined together along facing marginal areas thereof surrounding the sheets so as to define a main body portion and a perimetric edge portion of the envelope. The improvement comprises a pliant bead of substantially non-porous, non-toxic, polymeric elastomeric material, preferably a silicone resin, that is molded in situ around at least part of the perimetric edge portion to encapsulate that part of the edge portion with such material and thereby provide the encapsulated part with a softer, smoother, and more rounded peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Elmer W. Liese, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4909389
    Abstract: A film sheet package comprising a stack of film sheets wrapped in a light-tight flexible wrapper sleeve (33), one end of the sleeve having a closed flap (26) and the opposite end of the sleeve having an open flap (27) that is folded to light-tightly close the package, wherein the side ends (53, 54) of the open flap are tucked in, the top end (56) of said flap is folded back at least once, but not so far that said top end, or a portion thereof, becomes wedged between the bottom end of said flap and the corresponding rear face of the package as said flap is folded on the top face of the package, and that said flap is fixed on said top face through rupturable sealing means (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik S. Plessers, Dirk Peeters, Joseph C. Van Looy, Emiel J. Wollaert, deceased, Manfred Schmidt, Johann Zanner, by Magdalena I. Lamerechts, legal representatives
  • Patent number: 4909390
    Abstract: A pack of paper suitable for use in xerographic, ion deposition of magnetographic printing processes, the pack including a stack of paper sheets having a moisture content of not more than 6% and a reclosable carton made of semi-stiff sheet material and comprising a container portion containing said stack, and a closure portion, said container and closure portions having mutual parallel planar surfaces which slidably interengage upon closure of the carton to restrict air ingress to the carton there-between, and means for limiting the (WVIR) to not more than 30 grammes per square meter of the surface area of the carton in 24 hours at 90% Relative Humidity and a temperature of 32.degree. Celsius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: The Wiggins Teape Group Limited
    Inventors: Paul R. Raine, Paul Dunk
  • Patent number: 4889233
    Abstract: A cassette for a stimulable phosphor sheet, includes a casing for storing the stimulable phosphor sheet therein, a cover openably and closably mounted on a portion of the casing, and a light-shielding plate mounted on the remaining portion of the casing for cooperating with the cover in keeping the stored stimulable phosphor sheet in a light-shielded condition. The stimulable phosphor sheet can be taken out of the casing by opening the cover. The cover has at least one locking finger normally urged by a spring to engage the casing to lock the cover in a closed position. The locking finger may be displaced by a presser pin inserted through a hole defined in a side of the casing or a hole defined in a bottom of the casing for unlocking the cover from the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shumpeita Torii
  • Patent number: 4886162
    Abstract: A container specifically designed for vacumm holding and shipping a silicon wafer, is provided with two circular portions having circumferentially, on bulged top and lower faces outer rasied edges and, within the top face of the circular portion forming the bottom portion of the assembled container, an inner edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.p.A.
    Inventor: Sala Ambrogio