Abstract: An apparatus for automatically packaging mounted slides in a continuous strip container having laterally opening pockets includes a mechanism for positioning each pocket opposite a slide insertion member, a device for incrementally feeding the strip past the insertion member, and a cutter for cutting the strip following slide insertion.

Abstract: A container for mounted slides comprises a continuous strip of transparent material folded upon itself, with regularly spaced pairs of continuous welds extending across the width of the strip to define a series of transverse pockets closed at one end and open at the other. A number of mounted photographic slides can automatically inserted into the open end of each pocket.

Abstract: The apparatus for automatically inserting transparencies into one-piece frames, comprises:a feeder for the open frames (10), which are withdrawn one by one from a store (33) and fed along a sliding surface (7) towards a gripper (26),a feeder for the film (20), which is fed along a sliding surface (19) aligned with the sliding surface (7) for the frames (10), but in the opposite feed direction to these latter,a cutter (18) positioned at the front end of the sliding surface (19) for the film (20) in order to cut transparencies,a gripper (26) interposed between the sliding surface (7) for the open frames (10) and the sliding surface (19) for the film (20) and which is provided with a fixed jaw (27) and a mobile jaw (27'), and is movable orthogonally to the feed direction of the frames and film between a waiting position, in which it is open in order to receive the frame and transparency, and a working position in which, after being closed, it retains the lower half frame of the frame (10) and the transparency an