Abstract: A feeder apparatus for a metal strip includes: a reciprocating block reciprocally moved by a driving means of a press apparatus when conveying the metal strip in which through-holes are formed in a predetermined direction; a moving block disposed above the reciprocating block and connected to a connecting member that moves in the direction of movement of the reciprocating block; a pin block that moves with the moving block and is provided with conveying pins whose front ends are inserted inside the through-holes; and an upper-lower cam portion that raises and lowers the pin block. The moving block is not pulled by the reciprocating block, and the feeder apparatus further includes a moving block driving means for reciprocally moving the moving block separately to movement of the reciprocating block.

Abstract: Substrate processing apparatus for processing holes accurately positioned in an long film, comprising: work supporting devices for supporting the work; clamping devices for clamping the work onto the work supporting devices; first movement devices for moving the work supporting devices in the transferring direction of the work; guiding devices for guiding the work supporting devices; guide supporting devices for supporting these guiding devices; and second movement devices for moving the guide supporting devices in the direction perpendicular to the transferring direction of the work, wherein two pins or holes are disposed on or in each of the guiding devices, holes or pins to engage with the pins or holes are disposed on or in each of the guide supporting devices to combine the guiding devices and guide supporting devices in a grid form, and the holes and pins at four junctions are fitted.

Abstract: In a system for processing a plastic web plural work stations are disposed on an elongated beam. The web is provided with positioning holes cooperating with complementary pins in at least one work station. As the distance spacing allocated holes may vary due to shrinking, the beam may be bent about a transverse axis into a ring sector shape thereby adapting the pin distances to the actual hole distances.

Abstract: A film registration and gate assembly has a gate with focal positioning location for focal positioning of an image frame of a strip with edge perforations. Undersized first and second pins enter a pair of transversely aligned perforations of the film to register the image frame within the positioning location. A second pair of undersized pins transversely aligned perforations positioned along the filmstrip from the first pair of pins perforations entered by the first and second pair of pins. The first pair of registration pins provides constraint to the film in three degrees of freedom. The second pair of pins is spring-loaded to provide the nesting forces needed to ensure proper contact between the film and the pair of registration pins and the force required to assure that the film follows the contour of the gate's surface.

Abstract: A film registration gate assembly has a gate with focal positioning location for focal positioning of an image frame of a strip film with edge perforations. Undersized first and second pins enter a pair of transversely aligned perforations to register the image frame with the positioning location. An undersized third pin enters a third perforation spaced along the film from the second pin and then pulls the film obliquely to a reference line extending between the first and second pins to nest against the first and second pins the perforations thereat and register the image frame precisely at the aperture. A plate with a window registering with the image frame and aperture clamps the film against the gate. The window, positioning location and image frame are of corresponding size and shape. The pins register the image frame precisely with the positioning location, and the plate maintains the image frame in precise focal position thereat.

Abstract: A film registration and ironing gate assembly has a gate with a positioning location or aperture for focal positioning of an image frame of a strip film with edge perforations. Undersized first and second pins enter a pair of transversely aligned perforations of the film to register the image frame with the aperture. An undersized third pin enters a third perforation spaced along the film from the second pin and then pulls the film obliquely to a reference line extending between the first and second pins to nest against the first and second pins the perforations thereat and register the image frame precisely at the positioning location or aperture. A pair of flexible bands extending along the film edges adjacent the positioning location move progressively into incrementally increasing contact with the film to iron it and clamp its perforations against the gate. The pins register the image frame precisely with the positioning location, and the bands maintain the image frame in precise focal position thereat.

Abstract: A two piece feed member providing a less costly replacement and the ability to adjust the feed member's length. The two piece configuration only requires that the wearing portion be replaced, and not the entire feed member. This allows for a significant cost savings. Different feed mechanisms require different length feed members, and therefore, an adjustable length feed member allows for the use of one universal feed member.

Abstract: Three registration pins align a mask or other superimposed image with a film strip in both the lateral and longitudinal axes. A compactly constructed shutter and support apparatus permits placement of the shutter in close proximity with a film strip to minimize weight and moment of inertia of the shutter to permit rapid repetitive starting and stopping of the shutter in response to control signals to a drive mechanism. Film boxes are keyed to and secured by thumb screws to the shutter housing to permit detachment and accurate reattachment; light restrictive devices negate transmission of light into each film box upon removal. A longitudinally displaceable film reel drive permits rapid disengagement and reengagement of the film boxes without careful alignment and a belt drive prevents, through slippage, film tearing forces.

Abstract: A film transport device for cinematographic cameras and projectors has a rotary shutter, an intermittently operating film feed device, an adjusting device with at least one adjusting pin engaging in one perforation of the film and separate drive motors for the rotary shutter, adjusting device and film feed device and is further characterized by having the drives for both the adjusting device and for the film feed controlled synchronously with the rotary shutter by a common control unit.

Abstract: The film gate and registration system is used for motion picture film that is intermittently transported through a gate from one frame to the next. The arrangement is applicable to both motion picture cameras and projectors. A gate is provided with an aperture having solid marginal edge areas. Spaced pressure pads are arranged to be moved into and out of engagement with a film passing through the film gate. The pads press against the marginal edges of the film when the frame is in its dwell period in the gate either for exposure or projection. When the film is to be transported to the next frame, the pressure pads are withdrawn from the marginal edges and the film is lifted away from the aperture plane. In the preferred embodiment, registration indexing pins closely cooperate with the pressure pads in a special fashion to provide unusually precise positioning of each successive film frame at the end of the transport time.

Abstract: In the film transport mechanism, the film strip is driven in the perforation plane from a drive shaft by means of at least one transport pin. The drive shaft has in the perforation plane a constant-diameter cam, to which the transport pin is coupled by a shuttle frame. To improve such film transport mechanism so as to reduce the noise generated by it in operation, the shuttle frame is additionally coupled to a rocking crank and slider linkage or to a slider, which is part of a slider crank mechanism, which has a drive shaft that is identical to the shaft for driving the transport shuttle.

Abstract: A locking piece fitter of a pistol type wherein a guide needle is inserted and fitted in the tip, a push-in rod is contained, a supporting base having a supporting groove and push-in rod guiding hole coaxially aligned with the guide needle and push-in rod is arranged between the guide needle and push-in rod, a feeding groove in which a locking piece assembly can be fitted and inserted is provided above the supporting groove of the supporting base, flexible locking pawls engaging with the lateral rod of the locking piece are arranged in the feeding groove and the locking pawls are provided on a rising and falling base which can be made to rise and fall by a push-in rod mover moving together with the push-in rod and a spring. A spring and stopper are attached to a guide needle inserting depth adjusting member of the fitter and flexible pressing pieces pressing the lateral rod of the locking piece are provided in the feeding groove.

Abstract: The invention provides a modification of the conventional rolling loop transport system, which enables the system to operate at the relatively high pull-down speeds required to match the 1.3 millisecond vertical blanking times of a video format, thereby allowing use of the improved transport in a video system. The instant transport utilizes two gaps in a rotor set apart at 180.degree., entrance of the film at a selected shallow angle, a shortened distance from the exposure gate to the film outlet with no decay of the film loop until expulsion, and a secondary pair of fixed registration pins disposed at the point of expulsion of the film at the film outlet which, in conjunction with a vacuum platen extending from the exposure gate to the film outlet, significantly reduces the jitter at the exposure gate, to allow the use of the transport in high density laser or electron beam recorders.

Abstract: A camera/processor/projector for continuously exposing, developing and projecting photographic film, and preferably photographic migration imaging film, is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a cathode-ray tube input is aligned with a camera through which the film passes on its way to a developer and projector for viewing on a screen which is adjacent said cathode-ray tube.

Abstract: A hitch feed assembly for automatically aligning individual lead frames at a bonding site in both the longitudinal and lateral directions is disclosed. The alignment is attained as a result of the cooperation between a plurality of chamfered pawls and the sprocket holes in the film-carrier. The pawls are chamfered along three sides in order to attain alignment in both the longitudinal and lateral directions. Significantly, the pawls come into operational contact with the sprocket holes while the lead frame film-carrier is under minimal tension so that the pressure exerted on the edges of the sprocket holes by the pawls will be minimal, thereby avoiding any deformation in the shape of the sprocket holes.

Abstract: A fastener feed assembly for a tool such as a power screwdriver having a drive member such as a rotatable bit includes a base fixed to the tool and a nose assembly slidably related to the base. The nose assembly includes a workpiece engaging surface, and when the tool is moved toward the workpiece during a fastener driving operation, the base moves toward the nose assembly. A return spring separates the base and nose assembly when the tool is withdrawn away from the workpiece. A strip of fasteners is fed from a magazine along a feed path through the nose assembly with sequential fasteners located in a drive position. Normally the drive member is spaced from a fastener in the drive position. During movement of the tool toward the workpiece in a driving operation, the drive member moves into engagement with a fastener in the drive position, and then continues to move in order to drive the fastener into the workpiece. A pawl is engageable with the strip in order to advance the strip along the feed path.

Abstract: The disclosed structure facilitates threading the film by eliminating both the intermittent movement and the film metering sprocket from the film chamber. Noise is reduced by driving the intermittent movement with a single cam, and faster faster pulldown is obtaind by combining the single cam movement with a re-entrant claw, which also facilitates positioning the movement in a separate sealed compartment. Drive mechanism for a film sprocket in the throat of the magazine includes improved positive clutch structure. Registration pins are driven by an improved linkage which facilitates film threading.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device in a movie film apparatus for intermittently feeding flexible perforated film past an optical system a unit length at a time comprising a film support for guiding a strip of perforated film for exposure to an optical system, a detent on said film support, said detent having a front film sliding face that slopes in a direction having a component in the direction of film feed, said front film sliding face of said detent being engageable by perforations of film as the film moves in the direction of film feed to temporarily stop forward motion of the film in advance of the detent and form it into a loop behind the detent which increases in size with film feed and decreases the angle of attack of said film at said front film sliding face of said detent, triggering means for exerting a triggering force against the outside bowed portion of the loop when said loop reaches a predetermined size to slide the end of said loop at said front film sliding face of said detent substantially