Abstract: Arbitrarily and individually priced articles can be automatically vended from a machine in which the articles are stored without restriction, limitation, or categorization to their individualized prices. The vended articles are compactly stored in a plurality of vertical stacks. Each stack includes a retrieval mechanism which picks the top article from the stack and inserts it into an inclined ladder. The inserted package then moves to the display station where the user determines whether or not the displayed article is to be vended. If the article is to be vended, an appropriate amount of consideration is inserted, counted, and the article is moved to a delivery station within the ladder. If the appropriate amount of consideration has, in fact, been received, the article is dispensed from the delivery station. Otherwise, the article will then be moved to a return station included within the ladder.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for assembling for reprinting a plurality of film strip portions into a continuous film strip by adhesively affixing the film strip portions to a film carrier comprising a paper tape to which has been joined an adhesive tape along one edge to form an adhesive stripe along that edge. The carrier cooperates with a film gate including an indexing edge for aligning the film strip portions for subsequent adhesive fixing to the edge of the carrier. Alternate embodiments for the film gate indexing structure for different size film are disclosed. The film carrier is marked with printing instructions for some or all of the individual negatives affixed thereto.