Abstract: A one-piece clip of flexible metallic plastic material has a first section which can be separably affixed to a belt conveyor, and an elongated slotted second section. A web of photosensitive material is caused to extend through the slot of the second section so that its leader is located at one side and the next-following portion of the web is located at the other side of the slot. The leader is then folded against the respective major surface of the second section, and the web is form-lockingly connected to the second section. The form-locking connection can be established by one or more pairs of complementary tooth-shaped protuberances which extend into the slot and penetrate into and through the folded portion of the web behind the leader, by securing the leader to the next-following portion of the web by a clamp in an enlarged window-like portion of the slot, or by bonding a small part of the leader to the next-following portion of the web in such window-like portion of the slot.

Abstract: A web of photographic paper is trained over several rollers so that it can be advanced along a meandering path through successive chambers in a developing machine. At least one of the rollers is mounted on a driven shaft with the interposition of a coupling which engages the shaft with the roller when the tension of the running web which is trained over such roller exceeds a certain value. The roller is normally held against rotation under the action of the web and/or under the action of the bearing which is rotatable on the shaft and yieldably maintains the roller in a position of coaxiality with the shaft. A braking device for holding the roller against rotation has a first plastic ring which is rotatably mounted on the shaft and is connected to or made integral with the bearing for the roller, and a second plastic ring which surrounds and is in frictional engagement with the first ring. The second ring is held against rotation with the first ring by a partition or by another stationary part of the machine.

Abstract: A continuous processor for exposed webs of photographic paper has several tanks and a system of hoses which connect the outlets in the lower portions with the inlets in the upper portions of the tanks. The liquid developer is circulated by a pump and is heated by a heater before it reaches the inlets. The pressure of liquid in the system of hoses is monitored by two pressure responsive switches which cause a control unit to arrest the motor of the pump and to deactivate the heater when the pressure drops below or rises above a range of acceptable pressures. The pressure drops in response to leakage of developer, and the pressure rises in response to clogging of a filter which is installed in the system of hoses between the heater and the inlets of the tanks.

Abstract: A liquid-gas pumping apparatus includes an immersion pump and motor unit vertically slidable within a housing extending into a cryogenic liquid storage tank, a plurality of valves opened by engagement with the pump and motor unit are circumferentially spaced adjacent the bottom of the housing with one of the valves adapted to be opened before the other valves and permanent electrical supply contacts extending through the housing to be engaged by contacts on the pump and motor unit.