Photo Film Or Plate Patents (Class 206/455)
  • Patent number: 4878581
    Abstract: A cartridge or cassette for light and pressure sensitive web-type media material includes a generally rectangular housing board received between a pair of identical housing ends, to retain a spool of such media material therein. The housing is formed with an exit opening in a front wall defined by an inwardly-extending flap parallel to the top forming a light-trap passage. Media material from the spool is guided through the light-trap passage with the outer pressure sensitive surface in noncontacting relation to the housing. The spool is formed with a central core which has an outer cylindrical surface free of discontinuities or irregularities. A pair of end flanges are received on the core having radial surfaces in close relation to the convolutions of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Assignee: The Mead Corporation
    Inventor: Jack Beery
  • Patent number: 4876125
    Abstract: A single-sheet gusset bag for photographic photosensitive materials comprising a laminated sheet of which the inner surface layer is a light-shielding polyolefin resin film layer and the outer surface layer is a heat-resistant flexible sheet layer, and having a botom seal portion fixed by a hot-melt adhesive having a softening point by ring and ball method of 75 to 115 C of which the coating amount in the center portion is less than the coating amount of the side portion.In the gusset bag of the invention, the bottom seal portion can be effectively sealed without incidence of fogging and uneven gloss caused by the heat of the hot-melt adhesive. Since the gusset bag is formed of a single sheet, packaging is readily achieved. The cost of the packaging material is also inexpensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mutsuo Akao, Hiroyuki Osanai, Koji Inoue
  • Patent number: 4869368
    Abstract: A protective sheet used for packaging photosensitive sheets which comprises a back panel, an upper panel connected with the upper side edge of the back panel and a bottom panel connected with the lower side edge of the back panel, and at least said upper panel or said bottom panel is provided with side flaps joined therebetween to prevent the photosensitive sheets from slipping out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Hara
  • Patent number: 4860898
    Abstract: A packaging arrangement and method for the user thereof to protect an electrophotographic photosensitive member which includes a packaging material for covering and protecting the electrophotographic photosensitive member from physical damage and is capable of generating a frictional electrostatic charge of the same polarity as the electrophotographic photosensitive material, whereby the packaging material has a stronger electron acceptor characteristic than the electrophotographic photosensitive material where the electrophotographic photosensitive material possesses a positive charge, and the packaging material has a stronger electron donor characteristic than the electrophotographic photosensitive material where the electrophotographic photosensitive material possesses a negative charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Hiro, Masaru Nakagawa, Yoichi Kawamorita, Koji Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 4854464
    Abstract: A box for keeping photographs comprising a hexahedral body, a lid pivotally connected to the body, and an inner case being mounted into the body, the inner case consisting of a plurality of the spaced and slightly inclined partition plates, each having at its upper side a raised portion, side plates attached to opposite sides of the partition plates, and a base plate or base plates attached to undersides of the partition plates. The box permits an easy arrangement and an easy search of the photographs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: KMB Industries, Corp.
    Inventor: Hae J. Kim
  • Patent number: 4848576
    Abstract: A film jacket (1) for flat articles, particularly slide frames (5, 6, 7, 8), that consists of bottom and top plies (2, 3; 103), which are joined at one end and on both sides so that they can accommodate the slide frames. To permit the film jacket to be filled quickly and in a simple manner and to permit the slide frames to be individually taken, one film ply (3; 103) is formed with a transversely extending slit (15, 16, 17; 115, 116, 117) which is spaced from the closed end (4; 104) of the jacket by a distance (l) that corresponds to the length of one slide frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Geimuplast Peter Mundt GmbH. & Co. KG
    Inventor: Gottfried Stemmer, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4844961
    Abstract: In a container for a photographic film cartridge having a body and a cap made of a high-pressure branched low-density polyethylene resin and fitted to said body, the improvement comprising that said polyethylene resin has a melt index of 10 to 50 g/10 minutes, a density of 0.920 to 0.935 g/cm.sup.3 and a molecular weight distribution of 3.3 to 8.5 and contains 0.01 to 0.9 wt. % of a lubricant.This resin for the cap is excellent in fluidity, mold shrinkage, moldability, etc., and molding troubles and coloring troubles at molding remarkably decrease. The molding cycle is also shortened. The resin is particularly suitable for molding using a mold for many pieces at once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mutsuo Akao
  • Patent number: 4828106
    Abstract: In a packaging case for photosensitive sheet film comprising a light-shielding tray which receives a stack of said photosensitive sheet films and a light-shielding flexible cover sheet which is stuck in peelable state to seal the opening for taking out said stack, the improvement comprising that said tray is made of resin comprising 50 to 90 wt. % of a propylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer resin having a melt index of higher than 18 g/10 minutes, a bending elastic modulus of more than 9,000 kg/cm.sup.2 and a notched Izod impact strength of more than 2.0 kg cm/cm at 23.degree. C., 0.2 to 5.0 wt. % of carbon black and 9.8 to 49.8 wt. % of linear low density polyethylene resin.In the light-shielding tray of the invention, rigidity is secured by the propylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymer resin, and troubles caused by this copolymer resin such as mold shrinkage, warp and twist of the product are overcome and remarkable lowering of physical strength by blending carbon black are attained by incorporating the L-LDPE resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mutsuo Akao, Kenji Tajima
  • Patent number: 4821876
    Abstract: A magazine for light-sensitive materials comprises a tubular body and side plates covering each of both sides of the tubular body. The tubular body is formed by bending a sheet material having folded portions at both ends so as to form a slit between both ends and having such a structure that an upper part of the magazine is formed of a portion of the bent material in a region near one end and a front wall part of the magazine is formed of a portion of the bent material in a region near other end. A cured resin is provided within a space formed between the folded portion positioned at the end of the upper part and a portion of the upper part corresponding to the folded portion. Otherwise, a forehead portion having a upper edge and a lower edge is formed of the bent material in an area between the upper part and the folded portion positioned at the end of the upper part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Naito, Tsukasa Matsuda, Katsuhiko Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 4802618
    Abstract: A lighttight envelope for housing a stimulable phosphor sheet therein is fabricated of a flexible light shielding material and has a size sufficient to house the stimulable phosphor sheet therein. The lighttight envelope comprises an upper sheet and a lower sheet closely contacted with each other at least at one side and open at least at one side opposite to the closely contacted side and at portions of two sides adjacent the ends of the opposite side up to such positions that access to a part of the stimulable phosphor sheet housed in the lighttight envelope is allowed, thereby forming a wide inlet for the stimulable phosphor sheet. A small face-to-face fastener is positioned at a part of the opposite side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimio Seto, Makoto Ohgoda
  • Patent number: 4802585
    Abstract: A passepartout for articles, such as photographs, films, pictures or the like, comprises a closable pocket receiving the articles. The passepartout is formed by two layers (2, 3) of a transparent plastic material which are welded together on three (1a, 1b, 1c) of four outer edges for forming an envelope (1). The envelope is divided by at least one further weld seam (4a, 4b) extending parallel to an outer edge into a plurality of pockets (4, 5, 6) and the object (7) is disposed in a first (4) of said pockets while inscription strips (8, 9) are disposed in the other pocket or pockets (5, 6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Peter Fuchs GmbH Druckservice
    Inventors: Rudolph Durrer, Hilmar Priessner, Eric Bach
  • Patent number: 4801016
    Abstract: A planar element storage and display apparatus is provided having an outer box and a carriage slidably mounted therein. The carriage can be pulled from the outer box and a stack of planar elements such as photographs can be placed face up therein. The carriage box is provided with a display window for viewing the upper most element when the carriage carrying the stack of photographs is pushed into the outer box. The outer box is equipped with a detaching means which holds the upper most element and separates it from the stack when the carriage is withdrawn from the outer box. When the carriage is pulled out of the outer box, the upper most element is separated from the stack and drops to the floor of the outer box. Means is provided for placing the dropped element on the bottom of the stack when the carriage is pushed back into the outer box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: Elmer L. Thompson, Jr.
    Inventor: Hans Irrgeher
  • Patent number: 4799591
    Abstract: A sheet film package comprises a tray for storing a stack of sheet films and a flexible cover member peelably attached to the tray in covering relation to a film access opening in the tray for shielding the sheet films in the tray from extraneous light. By inserting the cover member into a cover member peeling passage defined in an image recording apparatus, the cover member is peeled off the tray to open the film access opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tajima, Noboru Arai
  • Patent number: 4784906
    Abstract: A packaging material for photographic photosensitive materials which comprises a simultaneously coextruded multilayer film layer comprising a light-absorptive light-shielding thermoplastic resin layer containing low-pressure linear low-density polyethylene resin, 0.1 to 15 wt. % of carbon black and 0.01 to 1 wt. % of a lubricant and being located as the inner layer and a light-reflective light-shielding thermoplastic resin layer being located as the outer layer.This packaging material is superior in tear strength, impact puncture strength, Gelbo test strength, tensile strength, light-shielding, prevention of temperature elevation at the inside of package under sunlight, moistureproofness, heat resistance, discrimination of right side - reverse side under a safe light, slipping character, heat sealing properties and printability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mutsuo Akao
  • Patent number: 4783019
    Abstract: A film supplying magazine which receives a pack of film sheets, covered with a light-tight sheathing and is insertable into a device which removes from said pack individual film sheets, comprises a box receiving a film pack, and a cover for closing the box. The sheathing has a winding flap while the magazine has an externally operated rotatable winding shaft to which the flap of the sheathing is connected so that the flap together with the sheathing is pulled off the pack and wound on the shaft when the latter is rotated. Velcro tapes are provided at the free end of the flap and at a portion of the winding shaft, which ensure an automatic connection between the flap and the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Manfred Schmidt, Johann Zanner
  • Patent number: 4780357
    Abstract: A packaging material for photographic photosensitive materials which comprises a coextruded double layer film comprising a low-pressure linear low-density polyethylene resin layer located on heat sealing side and a polypropylene resin layer or a layer of a polyethylene resin of which density is 0.93 to 0.970 g/cm.sup.3 located on the other side, either of the above layers contains 0.5 to 30 g/m.sup.2 of metal powder or carbon black, and the above low-pressure linear low-density polyethylene resin layer contains 0.05 to 1% by weight of a lubricant.This packaging material is superior in tear strength, impact puncture strength, tensile strength, light-shielding, moisture proofing, slipping character and heat sealing ability. It is also suitable, for example, for packaging a small piece of photographic materials such as X-ray films for dental use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mutsuo Akao
  • Patent number: 4778713
    Abstract: A wrapping paper thermosensitive recording materials comprising a light-reflecting paper layer which is located as the outer surface layer and a light-shielding paper layer which is located on the inside therefrom and which is integrally combined with said light-reflecting paper layer.The wrapping paper of the invention shields from the external heat and light. When internal humidity is increased such as by heating of the package such as at higher than 50.degree. C., moisture passes through the wrapping paper to the outside. Accordingly, fogging by precoupling of the wrapped thermosensitive recording materials remarkably decreased, and quality of the recording material could be maintained for a long period during storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mutsuo Akao
  • Patent number: 4776462
    Abstract: A container for a sheet-like article, comprising a tray member for substantially accommodating therein the article, the tray member having an opening, a cover member for substantially sealingly covering the opening of the tray member, supporting elements provided in the tray member for supporting the article when it is accommodated in the tray member, wherein a portion of the article is protruded out of the container and through the opening of the tray member, when the article is supported by the supporting elements and the cover member is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1988
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Kosugi, Kazuo Iizuka
  • Patent number: 4762689
    Abstract: A mounting frame for a block-type parallel mounting of catalyst plates is provided. The block mounting has frame members separated by a distance substantially corresponding to the width of the catalyst plates to be mounted. The frame members are provided with a series of guide slots open on top for admission of the catalyst plates. On the bottom edges of the frame members, there are provided base supports for the bottom edges of the catalyst plates. The frame members themselves also form lateral supports for the catalyst plates to prevent movement thereof when mounted in the module. The mounting modules, once loaded with the planar elements, can be combined into a larger frame in a horizontal mode, or they can be vertically stacked, such as in the flue of a combustion furnace itself. The plates are typically pre-coated with a material that is catalytic to further the conversion of the gaseous compounds passing thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: Didier-Werke AG
    Inventors: Alfred Frey, Daniel Grimm, Hartmut Kainer
  • Patent number: 4739882
    Abstract: The present invention is a transportable container for storing articles and maintaining a clean article, such as semiconductor wafers, clean. The container provides a box which defines an interior space for containing the articles. The box includes a box top and box base which supports the box top and includes a box door for opening and closing the container. The box door provide a region for supporting the articles in the interior space. A liner is insertable into the interior space and surrounds the region. The box door is retractable from the box space. The articles in the region are retractable with the box door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Assignee: Asyst Technologies
    Inventors: Mihir Parikh, Anthony C. Bonora, W. George Faraco, Barney H. Huang
  • Patent number: 4738366
    Abstract: A light-proof tearable sheathing for a pack of photographic or X-ray sheet films insertable in a film supply magazine of a film cassette-loading device includes a winding flap which is wound on a shaft of the winding device to pull the sheathing from the film pack, a folded connection flap opposite to the winding flap and glued to the sheathing by a glue tape, and a tearing tape provided between two spaced strips of the glue tape and tearable from the sheathing to open the latter for the removal therefrom of individual film sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Manfred Schmidt, Dirk Peeters, Emiel Wollaert, Johann Zanner
  • Patent number: 4727391
    Abstract: A sheet film package includes a tray for storing a stack of sheet films and a flexible cover member peelably attached to the tray in covering relation to a film access opening for shielding the sheet films in the tray from extraneous light. The cover member is folded back on itself at one end of the tray and has an end portion which extends over the other end of the tray and which will be exposed from a loading device when the sheet film package is loaded in the loading device. The sheet film package may have a cushioning member disposed in the tray and composed of hollow air bags of a flexible material for pressing and holding the sheet films in the package member. A film loading device for loading the sheet film package therein include a light-shielding member for preventing extraneous light from entering a loading slot. The loading slot is closed by a pivotally mounted cover with the end portion of the cover member being led out of the loading slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.,
    Inventors: Kenji Tajima, Motoaki Takahashi, Hideo Watanabe, Takashi Shoji, Noboru Arai
  • Patent number: 4721209
    Abstract: A film carrier light-proof case, whose envelope comprises a first portion enclosing a radiographic film, a second portion enclosing at least one small bag which contains chemical products in a liquid state for the development and fixing treatments of the film and means for intentionally tearing the bag, and a connection portion between these two portions of the envelope, and in which each bag comprises a first extension which starts laterally from an end of the bag, is bent along the bag and projects through the end of the second portion of the bag, and also comprises a second extension which starts centrally from the same end of the bag and extends along a part of the length of the second portion of the envelope in a direction parallel to the first extension, and the tearing means consists of an elongate member made of a stiff material, bent on itself to enclose between its own two branches the second extensions of the bags, and projecting beyond the length of the second portion of the envelope to form two t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1988
    Assignee: Electrochemical International Limited
    Inventor: Livio Guazzotti
  • Patent number: 4720011
    Abstract: Enclosed package such as an envelope-like package, which may be substantially impermeable to gas, water and chemical vapor and preferably is essentially light opaque having two surfaces sealed together, e.g., at least one end, and having a tearstrip. The improvement comprises hot melt adhesive-covered tearstrip present between the two surfaces and is sealed in an area along the entire length of the outer edge of the tearstrip, the inner edge of the entire length of the tearstrip remaining unsealed except at the opposite ends. The seal can be opened easily by tearing in a substantially perfect line with virtually no ragged edges which impede the removal of the package contents. The package, when light opaque, is useful for containing light-sensitive photographic films, e.g., x-ray films, including x-ray intensifying screens, photopolymer elements and other light sensitive sheets. In nonlight opaque embodiments, the package can contain paper sheets, flat materials and various solid and liquid food items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1988
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Ernest V. Canamero
  • Patent number: 4715500
    Abstract: A photographic film storage and dispensing package, which comprises an elongated light-tight box (10), a core (19) that is rotatably journalled between flanges (14) in the box, a web (22) of light-impervious paper that is wound onto said core and a plurality of undeveloped sheets (23) of light-sensitive photographic material that are interwound in closely spaced apart succession together with said web onto the core. The box has an openable cover on one side parallel to the core axis which when opened permits the web to be unwound and the individual sheets delivered one by one out of the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1987
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Raymond A. Heylen, Marc J. Boets
  • Patent number: 4709913
    Abstract: A film sheet storage cassette. A channel mounting bracket supports a rectangular enclosure in position to receive cut film sheets. The enclosure includes a top flange which is slidable into the channel and held in position to receive through an entrance slot the paper film sheets. A spring biased door is supported for movement in the plane of the flange to cover and uncover said slot. The channel includes camming slots which receive upstanding camming tabs. Insertion of the cassette flange into said channel forces said camming tabs along said camming slots moving the door to its open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Assignee: LogEtronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee B. Cagey
  • Patent number: 4697902
    Abstract: A device for containing a radiation recording medium includes an opening through which the recording medium is placed and a light shutting plate for closing the opening to prevent light from penetrating into the casing. A light shutting plate is provided integral with a handle. A locking mechanism is provided for bringing a casing into locking engagement with the light shutting plate. Since the device is moved by holding the handle with the light shutting plate locked on the casing, there is no possibility that the film will be inadvertently exposed to light with the shutter plate left unclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1987
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Maehara, Sigemi Fujiwara, Katsuhide Koyama, Kaoru Tamura, Yasuhiro Kawai, Kazuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4681227
    Abstract: A cassette for removably housing a stimulable phosphor sheet for storing a radiation image therein comprises a lining member secured to the inner surface of a rear cover of the cassette. The lining member comprises a cushioning material layer and an embossed resin sheet or a slide material layer overlaid on the front surface of the cushioning material layer. At least a part of the peripheral portion of the lining member is cut away, and a cavity is formed at the cutaway portion so that the stimulable phosphor sheet readily separates from the rear cover when the rear cover is opened upwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Tamura, Shumpeita Torii
  • Patent number: 4676374
    Abstract: A rigid holder for three and one-half inch hard case floppy diskettes. The holder contains 12 diskettes in an array on each side, with each array having two columns of three rows of diskette receptacles. The diskettes are received in the receptacles and the floors of the receptacles in each column are disposed in substantially parallel spaced apart planes to position the entry wall of one receptacle above the base wall of the next adjacent receptacle in the column. The floors serve as common divider floors for corresponding receptacles in both arrays. Sidewalls are also provided to prevent lateral movement of the diskette from the receptacle. A resilient tab holds the diskette in the receptacle. The receptacles are rigidly connected together so that the holder maintains the diskettes in a rigid substantially planar page orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: MicroRain Corporation
    Inventor: Robert F. Wilkins
  • Patent number: 4668472
    Abstract: A process for the continuous preparation of slides to be chemically analyzed comprises forming regularly a plurality of hollows on an advancing web material; putting a piece of film to be chemically analyzed in each of the hollows; sticking a long covering member having a plurality of apertures corresponding in their positions to the hollows on the web material onto the surface of the web material so that the apertures and the hollows on the web material are in registration; and cutting the circumference outside of each of the hollows. Also disclosed is a slide to be chemically analyzed which comprises a web material having a hollow in the central region thereof in which a film to be chemically analyzed is put, a covering member having an aperture on the surface thereof stuck to the web material; and downwardly extending flanges on a circumferential portion of the slide having heights substantially equal to that of the hollow to stabilize positioning of the slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Sakamoto, Toshiyuki Ikariya, Kiyohiko Takahashi, Masao Nakamura, Akira Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 4653640
    Abstract: A packaging material for photosensitive materials comprising a laminate of at least three layers comprising thermoplastic resin bonded fabric of the mesh structure and flexible sheet layers laminated on both sides thereof, wherein:(a) said thermoplastic resin bonded fabric of the mesh structure has a mean thickness of 0.01 to 1.3 mm,(b) said thermoplastic resin bonded fabric of the mesh structure has an aperture ratio of 15% to 98%,(c) said laminate including one or two or more light-shielding layers, and(d) only one layer of said flexible sheet layers on both sides of said thermoplastic resin bonded fabric of the mesh structure is applied with an adhesive layer, and the other (opposite) flexible sheet layer is bonded and laminated over at least 10% of the overall area through the apertures or meshes in said fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mutsuo Akao
  • Patent number: 4637703
    Abstract: In an instant film pack of the type comprising a parallelepipedal housing having a flat top wall in which an exposure aperture is defined by a rectangular frame, and a pressure plate for urging instant film units obtained in the film pack against the frame for exposure. Structure is provided to prevent the surface of the film unit from receiving scratch marks when the film unit is withdrawn from the film pack. The scratch mark preventing structure comprises a plurality of prismatic protuberances arranged in a line transverse to the direction of film movement on the underside of the rear edge of the exposure aperture, the protuberances having ridge lines parallel to the direction of film movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Ono, Teruyoshi Makino
  • Patent number: 4629070
    Abstract: Transparent plastic film holders are provided containing one or a plurality of pockets for photographic items such as strips of photographic film, negatives, prints or individual frames thereof which are formed by attaching two plies of transparent films by spaced bonding lines between said plies of films to define rectangular retaining pockets, said retaining pockets having two opposite closed ends and an extended openable end between two closed ends for insertion of a film item into the pocket, said openable end being closed off for a short distance from the opposite closed ends of the pocket by bonding the plies of film and forming a restraining lip extending from the opposite closed ends whereby the inadvertent dislodging of a photographic item from within the pocket is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Inventor: Paul J. Roberg
  • Patent number: 4618062
    Abstract: A film holder which is disclosed herein includes a inner frame defining a photo-sensitive plate insert slot between a partition plate, and outer frames each defining a dark slide insert groove between said inner frame. In this film holder, a plurality of stopper springs are formed on the peripheral sides of a body which is comprised of the partition plate and the inner frame. A plurality of hooks are formed on each the outer frames which are overlaid on the body to define the dark slide insert slot. These stopper springs and hooks are in the corresponding relationship, respectively, so that they are engaged with each other to lock the body and outer frames together in an overlaid relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1986
    Assignee: Komamura Photographic Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kanji Tomidokoro
  • Patent number: 4602714
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a film jacket for strip film comprising a surface sheet, a back sheet and a pair of locating means each consisting of at least two welded portions as a unit which are separated from each other in the width direction of the strip film at distance slightly larger than the width of the strip film, said pair of the locating means being separated from each other in the length direction of the strip film pocket and said welded portions constituting a film pocket for holding a strip film therein. The welded portions of the paired locating means on either one of the upper and lower sides of the film pocket may be united together to form a short or long welded portion which is positioned between the welded portions on the other side of the film pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1986
    Assignee: Slidex Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Ozeki
  • Patent number: 4552268
    Abstract: This relates to a flip top box type carton wherein there is a top portion which is rupturable relative to the remainder of the carton so as to permit the top end of the carton to open. The carton, however, is so constructed wherein when reclosed, it is light-tight. The carton is particularly adapted to have received therein an inner carton in which a film package is placed. The carton is of a construction wherein it may be erected in situ around the inner carton containing the film pack. The sides of the carton are so constructed at the lines of rupture therealong wherein inner side panels have projecting portions which both facilitate the reclosing of the carton without hang up of the top portion and also to make the corners light-tight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Assignee: Federal Paper Board Co., Inc.
    Inventor: John F. Lee
  • Patent number: 4551367
    Abstract: A packaged photographic product, comprising a composite having a light-sensitive photographic material interposed between protective materials, which composite is further packaged within a barrier packaging material, said barrier packaging material having at least a metal layer provided internally and at least one layer of a polyolefin or a polyolefin derivative prepared by extrusion lamination, and said product also satisfying at least one of the conditions (a) and (b) shown below:condition (a): the surface potential of said barrier packaging material on the side of said protective material having an absolute value of not higher than 75 V;condition (b): the surface specific resistance of said protective material being not higher than 1.times.10.sup.11 .OMEGA. under the condition of the relative humidity of 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Nagatani, Norio Chiba, Takao Hatanaka, Toshio Saito
  • Patent number: 4545486
    Abstract: A container for storing photographic prints and negatives. Said container can be molded from sturdy semi-rigid material and includes a base and a lid. The base is constructed so that the interior of the base defines two open storage areas. One storage area is specifically adaptable to storing photographic negatives and subtends the other storage area which is specifically adaptable to storing photographic prints. Both negatives and prints can be stored in the same compartment of the same container yet they can be stored without allowing either the prints or the negatives an excess of space in which to move. These containers are also configured to be stored in a storage box which can hold several containers for easy access and attractive storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Inventor: Steve Bostic
  • Patent number: 4537307
    Abstract: A film package containing a stack of films provided with a clamp notch at a side edge in a flexible lighttight envelope is held vertically in a lighttight loading chamber. The films are held by a clamp engaging with the notch from outside the film package. The lower end of the envelope is then cut, and the clamp is released from the notch to make the films fall from the envelope. Then, a shutter is closed between the envelope and the films for shielding the films from light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaoru Tamura
  • Patent number: 4537306
    Abstract: A radiographic film package for non-destructive testing, comprising a radiographic film sheet, an intensifying screen with a layer of lead bonded to a paper foil, and a vacuum heat-sealed wrapper with a layer of aluminium and a heat-sealable easy-peelable thermoplastic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventor: Wilfried E. Muylle
  • Patent number: 4533049
    Abstract: A slide file sheet includes a film holding plate having a plurality of rectangular recesses aligned with each other in rows and columns, frame supports for retaining frames of slide films in the respective rectangular recesses and protrusions provided at corners of the rectangular recesses of the plate to keep the slide films received in the recesses away from the bottoms of the recesses. According to the invention, the slide file sheet comprises a flexible cover attached at its one side edge to one side edge of the film holding plate to cover one surfaces and/or emulsion layer surfaces of slide films so as to securely protect them from dirt, fingerprints, scratches and the like, thereby facilitating handling the slide file sheet and always obtaining clear projected images of the films without any troublesome scraping operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Assignee: Slidex Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Ozeki
  • Patent number: 4533048
    Abstract: A film jacket comprising a base sheet, one or more transparent surface sheets, each having three edges thereof fixed to the base sheet so as to form pockets, and cover members fixed to the base sheet for covering extended portions of films outside the pockets, whereby firmly holding films at desired positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Assignee: Slidex Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Ozeki
  • Patent number: 4518684
    Abstract: The invention is an improved system for the rapid development of X-rays. The system is particularly useful for the development of dental-type X-rays. The system consists of an enclosed sealed pouch-like holder for the unexposed X-ray film, a special pocket built into the pouch-like holder for guiding an injection needle during operation of the device, a sealant within the specific pocket through which the injection needle is inserted, and a syringe-type injector with injection needle and a supply of monobath solution (a combined developer and fixer solution).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Inventor: Howard Martin
  • Patent number: 4513050
    Abstract: A material for packaging light-sensitive materials composed of a composite sheet comprising a substrate coated with a middle layer(s) and a surface layer(s) is manufactured through melt co-extrusion, said surface layer(s) being of thermoplastic resins which have excellent heat seal properties yet have great neck-in, said middle layer(s) being of thermoplastic resins having small neck-in and excellent adhesion to a substrate, and any of layers of said composite sheet containing light-shielding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mutsuo Akao
  • Patent number: 4508224
    Abstract: A deformable container for sections of developed photographic roll films and for prints of images on such film sections has a square or rectangular base sheet of paper, cardboard or the like and a cover sheet of paper or synthetic plastic material. The sheets overlie each other and are bonded to one another along three marginal sections and a median section to define a narrower film compartment and a wider print compartment. Both compartments are open at those ends which face the fourth marginal sections of the sheets. One or more fold lines are provided between the two compartments to allow for folding of one compartment over the other compartment. Several containers form a strip of coherent containers, and the containers of the strip can be formed with one or more rows of perforations to facilitate automatic transport in a photographic processing laboratory wherein the film sections and the prints are introduced into the respective compartments by automatic equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1985
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaret Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Weber, Friedrich Hujer, Ferdinand Schaner
  • Patent number: 4506788
    Abstract: A radiographic film cassette having a plurality of magnet components integral with the cassette holder for adhering the cassette to ferrous material in X-raying for defects in welds or fissures in shipyards, pipe lines, or the like. What is provided is a substantially flexible cassette envelope comprising first and second layers of radiographic intensifying screens with a sheet of radiographic film positioned therebetween. The cassette would be a cassette envelope constructed of waterproof fabric or other suitable material providing a light-free environment, and having the ability to flex around the curvature of the surface of a pipe or the like to be x-rayed. There is further provided a plurality of magnet components, preferably situated in each corner of the cassette envelope and flexibly attached thereto for overall adherence of the envelope to the surface of the pipe or the like to be x-rayed during the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Inventor: Donald Dallas
  • Patent number: 4484680
    Abstract: A container assembly attachable to or integral with the body of an instant camera for carrying packs of unexposed film or developed prints which consists of a generally rectangular housing having a hinged or sliding door which opens at the bottom or end of the housing to provide access into the interior thereof. Attachment means on the container assembly allow the assembly to be secured to the camera body by friction fit or screw means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1984
    Inventor: Bill R. Olsen
  • Patent number: 4480423
    Abstract: An arrangement for unloading and loading X-ray film cassettes includes a frame-shaped support bounding a guiding channel in which there are received, one above the other, a plurality of mounting portions and, at the top, a cassette-handling unit. The mounting portions have identical configurations and bound respective channels of identical dimensions in each of the mounting portions. Storage receptacles of external dimensions compatible with those of the channels are respectively introduced into the latter. Each of the storage receptacles includes an insert selected from a plurality of inserts. Each of the inserts bounds a recess which is so dimensioned as to fittingly receive a stack of films of a given size. The recesses are so arranged that one corner of the recess is arranged at the same corner region of the insert in all of the inserts. The cassette-handling arrangement includes devices which open the cassette, withdraw the film therefrom, introduce a fresh film thereinto, and close the cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1984
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jurgen Muller
  • Patent number: 4473154
    Abstract: The container for photographs of the same size comprises a housing from which a slide can be pulled out. In the housing there is a spring arrangement which presses the photographs against a viewing window of the housing. The spring arrangement comprises leaf springs which, when the slide is pulled out, are pressed away from the viewing window by control edges moulded to the slide, directly at the start of pulling out of the viewing window, and remain pressed away during further pulling out of the slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignee: Licinvest AG
    Inventor: Peter Ackeret
  • Patent number: H37
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pack spring for film units, and an improved film pack including the spring. The pack spring comprises arm assemblies which maintain the image area, pod and trap of each film unit in the stack in a generally flat condition. The leg assemblies are constructed so as to avoid twisting of the pack spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1986
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Anthony J. Schettino