Abstract: This invention relates to a cassette comprising a supply of image receiving tape, said cassette having at least one portion arranged to be in contact with said image receiving tape as said tape is drawn out of said cassette, said at least one portion have a surface with a coefficient of friction less than 0.4.

Abstract: Make-ready device for making a first thread end ready for connection to a second thread end in a thread joining device, the make-ready device having a hollow body open at opposite ends thereof for receiving the first thread therein and traversible by a gas flow, includes at least one compressed gas guiding device for guiding the gas flow so as to at least partly stretch, parallelize and clean the fibers of the first thread in the hollow body, the compressed gas guiding device serving to control at least one of the nature and the direction of the compressed gas flow to the first thread end inside the hollow body, the compressed gas guiding device having a branch line connected to a compressed gas supply line and being continuously adjustably tappable with respect to at least the one of the nature and the direction of the compressed gas flow.