Abstract: An arrangement for supplying originals for a copying apparatus has a supply stack arranged above an illumination location of a copying apparatus, guiding members forming a transport path for guiding the original from the stack to the illumination location, a transporting device arranged to turn the original removed from the stack and supply the original to the illumination location, wherein the transporting device includes a rotatable transport cylinder connected with the transport path and having a peripheral portion with a turnable suction nozzle member with a plurality of suction nozzles forming the separating device, the stack has a stack-supporting surface with an end section forming a tangent with the periphery of the transport cylinder and having an opening extending from a contact point with the cylinder and to a front stack abutment, and a control device is provided and arranged to switch off the transport cylinder in a position in which the suction nozzle member is located in the region of the openi

Abstract: An apparatus for squaring, stapling, and stacking copies is used in combination with a copier that produces a succession of sheet copies and has a housing adapted to be positioned adjacent the copier, an upper support plate in the housing positioned to receive the copies from the copier and having a downstream end remote from the copier, and a stop flap at the downstream end and pivotal between a position blocking copies from sliding down off the downstream end and a freeing position permitting copies to slide down off the downstream end. A downwardly inclined lower support plate in the housing below the downstream end of the upper plate is positioned to receive copies sliding in the freeing position of the stop flap off the downstream end of the upper plate. A stapler is fixed in the housing adjacent the upper plate upstream of the downstream end thereof and an actuator is connected to the stapler for closing same on a stack of copies on the upper plate for stapling same together.

Abstract: A photographic color diffusion transfer process comprising the steps:(1) image-wise photo-exposing a photographic material which contains on a support at least one waterpermeable silver halide emulsion layer, the silver halide of which essentially consists of silver chloride, and in operative contact therewith at least one non-diffusing ballasted dye or dye precursor which when contacted with an aqueous alkaline liquid remains immobile in a waterpermeable colloid layer, and in reduced state is capable of releasing (a) dye(s) or dye precursor(s),(2) treating the photographic material with an alkaline processing liquid in the presence of a silver halide developing agent,(3) maintaining said photographic material in contact with the alkaline processing liquid in the presence of said developing agent to release said dye or dye precursor in diffusible state; and(4) transferring at least a portion of said released dye or dye precursor to a non-light-sensitive layer and carrying out the development in the presence o

Abstract: An arrangement for supplying unexposed X-ray films to a handling apparatus, such as a cassette unloading and loading apparatus, includes a channel member bounding a channel into which a receptacle unit including an inner receptacle member and an outer tubular casing member can be introduced. The casing member is shiftable relative to the receptacle member so as to respectively cover and uncover a withdrawing opening of the receptacle member in its closed and open relative position. At least one arresting device is provided which arrests the members in their closed position. The arresting device is released by a releasing device mounted on the channel member when the receptacle unit reaches its releasing position in the channel. Then, the casing member is retained in the releasing position, and the receptacle member continues its movement until it reaches its open position.

Abstract: This invention relates to a magneto-optical storage and playback process for travelling information carriers, by recording on a magnetizable information carrier (1) in the form of a tape, disc or roller while the carrier is in motion, said information carrier having information areas which are larger than 0.2 .mu.m and smaller than 20 .mu.m in one direction of the information plane, the process being carried out by the production of a geometrical structure (4) by the action of the magnetic fields of the recorded information on particles whose greatest length is less than 0.1 .mu.m, preferably 0.02 .mu.m, and by optical scanning of these structures in which light of wavelength 0.38 to 0.8 .mu.m is diffracted on the surface of the moving information carrier (1) and diffraction images are produced which serve for the interpretation of the information.

Abstract: Surface-sensitized silver halide grains having a core/shell structure show improved properties.

Abstract: A strip of exposed film which issues from a developing machine is convoluted onto the core of a horizontal takeup reel whose flange or flanges rest on the peripheral surface of a horizontal roller which is driven to rotate the reel in a direction to convolute the strip. The strip is braked by a tensioning device between the developing machine and the reel, and the latter is thereby maintained in a first position of abutment with the concave internal surface of a first locating device and in contact with the driven roller. A spring-biased lever urges the reel to a second position in which the reel is out of contact with the roller and abuts against the concave inner side of a second locating device. The lever is free to move the reel sideways and to the second position as soon as the action of the tensioning device upon the strip is terminated, namely, as soon as the trailing end of the strip advances beyond the tensioning device.

Abstract: A cassette for sheet film has a cover and a bottom which are hinged to one another along a longitudinal edge of the cassette. Locking elements for locking the cover and bottom when the cassette is closed are arranged at the opposite longitudinal edge of the cassette. The cover and bottom cooperate to define a film compartment and the bottom has a rigid, flat wall for supporting a sheet of film. The cover has a window for exposing the film in the compartment and is further provided with a slot which slidably receives a shield for protecting the film against light until such time as the film is to be exposed. A resilient rim is mounted on the cover and extends around the window. The rim is arranged to press the margins of the film against the rigid wall of the bottom when the cassette is closed. The hinged connection of the cover and the bottom causes the rim to contact the film progressively as the cassette is closed so that the rim stretches the film flat over the rigid wall of the bottom.

Abstract: A method of copying a colored original involves measuring the transparency of localized regions of the original in each of the three primary colors. Three localized transparency ratios for each region are formed from the transparency values for the different colors. Three corresponding average transparency ratios for the original as a whole are computed from the localized transparency ratios. Each average transparency ratio is compared with a statistical average of similar ratios obtained from a large number of average originals. If an average transparency ratio of the original to be copied deviates from the corresponding statistical average by more than a predetermined amount, the number of each of the localized transparency ratios lying inside and outside of a predetermined range about the corresponding average transparency ratio of the original is counted. When the number outside of a predetermined range exceeds the number inside, a color dominant is assumed to be present in the original.

Abstract: A xerographic liquid toner image is transferred onto an image-receiving sheet carried along an arcuate path, e.g., on the peripheral surface of a rotating drum from the underside of a flexible sheet, e.g., a photoconductor sheet, while the flexible sheet is suspended by its margins from a moving carriage. The carriage is guided generally horizontally along a path above and proximate to the top of the drum periphery at a level such that the unattached central part of the flexible sheet, which is free to sag relative to its margins, is supported by the liquid toner image itself, out of contact with the image-receiving sheet, as the two sheets pass through an image transfer zone adjacent the top of the drum periphery.

Abstract: An apparatus which controls the operation of metering pumps serving to regenerate the baths in a developing machine for exposed photosensitive material issuing from a photocomposing machine has a computer whose outputs transmit appropriate signals to the metering pumps via amplifiers and whose inputs respectively receive signals from a scanner serving to ascertain the width of photosensitive material in the photocomposing machine and the composition of the emulsion, from a forward-reverse counter which ascertains the total length of photosensitive material admitted into the developing machine per unit of time, and from an integrating circuit which receives signals denoting the amounts of radiation issuing from a cathode ray tube or a laser recorder and impinging upon the photosensitive material. This renders it unnecessary to monitor the condition of the baths and/or the photosensitive material in the developing machine.

Abstract: An arrangement for transporting a sheet-like data carrier with reversing its direction of movement and at the same time maintaining its original orientation has first and second transporting paths and a reversing path, a turnable lever located between the first and second transporting paths and having a length and a mounting point selected so that one of the supporting rollers arranged on the lever can be brought to abutment against one transporting roller of the second transporting path and simultaneously the other supporting roller of the lever comes to a position below the first transporting path, a sensing element arranged at the reversing path and operative for sensing a front edge of the data carrier, and a controlling element operative to control the movement of transporting rollers of the reversing path and the turnable lever in response to the sensing by the sensing means, so that reversing of transporting direction of the transporting rollers of the reversing path and turning of the turnable lever t

Abstract: Method of improving the color balance of a multicolor reversal image obtained in a photographic material itself or obtained by a diffusion transfer reversal process in an image receiving material is provided, wherein said method comprises, as illustrated in FIG. 3, the steps of:(1) providing a photographic silver halide material (4) capable of yielding in said material or in an image receiving layer a multicolor reversal image of average gradient of at least 1.8;(2) image-wise exposing said photographic material to or through a multi-color continuous tone original (2) while keeping in the optical path between the original and the photographic material a light-distribution means (3) dividing the light in line-like or dot-like portions over the exposed area of the photographic material,(3) developing and reversal-processing said photographic material, e.g. by dye diffusion transfer-processing, hereby producing a reversal image with average gradient of at most 1.50 and reduced color point spreading.

Abstract: Sulfoalkylating agents free from sultones may be obtained by heating hydroxy alkane sulfonic acids of propane or butane or the corresponding sultones having 5 or 6 ring members with up to four times the molar quantity of water to a temperature in the region of from 80.degree. to 180.degree. C. The sulfoalkylating agents are believed to be the "dimeric esters" of the hydroxy alkane sulfonic acids.

Abstract: A photographic silver halide material comprises a shifted dye compound capable of releasing a dye moiety, characterized in that said compound corresponds in reduced state to general formula (1) and in oxidized state to general formula (2):A.sup.1 --L--P (1)A.sup.2 --L--P (2)wherein:A.sup.1 represents a hydroquinonyl group including a substituted hydroquinonyl group, or such group forming part of a fused ring system,A.sup.2 represents a quinonyl group including a substituted quinonyl group, or such group forming part of a fused ring system,L represents a bivalent group which undergoes a cleavage under hydrolytic alkaline conditions when the compound is in reduced state corresponding to formula (1),P represents an organic dye moiety incorporating an azo chromophoric group --N.dbd.

Abstract: A film cartridge, particularly associated with a camera, has a housing bounding a light-tight film roll chamber, and a mouth member arranged for passing a film therethrough and located outside the light-tight film roll chamber. The mouth member has a wall and at least one slot-shaped opening extending in a film transport direction and arranged so as to allow a film actuating member to engage therethrough a film received in the mouth member. Arresting means provided in the mouth member is engageable with an initial portion of the film and disengageable from the latter by camera-actuated means.

Abstract: An arrangement for introduction of a film magazine into a film-processing device has a housing which defines an inlet slot through which the film magazine is inserted. The film magazine has a film stack carrier provided with at least one opening for removal of the film and a casing member which is movable with respect to the film stack carrier. In order to guarantee the light-tight shielding during the introduction of the film magazine, a shutter is provided along the inlet slot which is parallel movable within the interior of the housing and serves as support for the film stack carrier. The shutter has a circumferential edge which cooperates with a respective circumferential edge of the housing for providing a first light-tight shielding and a second light-tight shielding is provided through cooperation of the circumferential edge with a respective groove provided in the casing member.

Abstract: A spreading conveyor comprising an endless air-permeable laterally stretchable spreading band, endless air-permeable supporting band means within the path of the spreading band, and a suction box within the loop of the suction band and having a perforated wall in contact with the inner side of the supporting band means along a portion of its path. This arrangement allows a reduction in the wear and deformation of the spreading band, and can operate at higher speeds than common spreading bands that operate without suction means.

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.