Abstract: A device for automatically inserting packs of photographic negatives and prints into respective pockets of a series of envelopes includes separate guides for supporting and guiding the negatives and prints toward the envelopes, which are supported by a conveyor having intermittent forward and retrograde movement. The device includes a pair of blades which engage the pockets when the envelopes are moved rearward, and then are raised to open the pocket, to permit the automatic insertion.

Abstract: An apparatus for creating and checking correlation between negatives and prints in photographic laboratories comprising:means (3) for marking each film (5) with a number (4) written in machine-readable code,a reader (7) for said number (4) in the printing station (6),in the printing station (6), a printer (8) for reproducing said number (4) in the interspace (10) between two adjacent prints,in the finishing station (13), a reader (16) for the number (4) marked on each film (5)in the finishing station (13), a reader (17) for the corresponding number (12), anda circuit (18) which, during the cutting stage checks correspondence between the two numbers (4,12).

Abstract: An apparatus for correlating wallets with processing envelopes in photographic laboratories comprising:a dispenser (9) in which wallets (11) corresponding to the different customers are contained separately,means (5,7,8) for determining in accordance with the customer code read from the processing envelope (4), the extraction of a wallet (11) corresponding to that customer from the dispenser (9),means (13,14,15,16,17) for forming with the wallets (11) being extracted from said dispenser (9) a sequence corresponding to the sequence of processing envelopes (4) of that batch, andmeans for extracting one by one in the finishing station (21) the wallets (11) into which to insert the photographic material (28,29) corresponding to the processing envelopes (4) associated with said wallets (4).

Abstract: An apparatus for handling photographic disk films includes a light-proof casing having an entrance passageway for disk film cartridges and a remote light-proof disk film storage magazine. Also within the light-proof casing is a disk film cartridge transport unit to transfer disk film cartridges from the entrance passageway to the magazine. The transport unit includes a mechanism to prepare the disk film cartridges for opening by a blade in the light-proof casing during their movement and to orient the disk films for placement on a spit inside of the storage magazine.

Abstract: The process to establish and check the matching of negatives and processing envelopes in photographic laboratories foresees that in the initial phase the bar code printed on the cartridge is automatically read and machine-reproduced in a legible code on the envelope (1), and that at the end of the film handling, an automatic check is performed between the bar code (4) preprinted on the film and the code printed on the envelope and a visually displayed comparison is made on the screen between negatives and corresponding positives, as well as between envelope and film code numbers.