Abstract: A conveying and feeding apparatus for conveying and constantly feeding a film cartridge one by one so as to feed the next process where a plurality of cartridges are conveyed continuously to a cartridge housing unit or a printing machine. A conveying portion comprises a conveyer belt and a guide board, and near its downstream end, a cartridge stopper mechanism is provided. This stopper mechanism comprises a first stopper member and a second stopper member. When the first stopper member stops a forefront cartridge T, the second stopper member is in a release position. Further, when the first stopper member is in a release position, the second stopper member is in a closed position so that the cartridge T can be constantly sent one by one.

Abstract: A tire handling system capable of automatically performing a series of tire handling operations including sorting of the tires from a production/inspection line according to types and sizes, stacking the sorted tires, and shelving the stacks of tires in frame pallets. The tire handling system incorporates a novel tire supplying device which supplies the sorted tire to the tire stacking device in one-by-one fashion, a tire inverting device disposed between the tire supplying device and the tire stacking device and adapted for selectively inverting tires conveyed along the sorting line, and an automatic tire shelving device for shelving the stacks of tires. These devices have simple constructions but yet are capable of performing the supplying, inverting and shelving operations with a high degree of reliability.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing cassettes which contain exposed photographic roll films has an inclined chute the upper part of which receives successive loaded cassettes in predetermined orientation by way of a duct when a first turnable gate between the duct and the chute is held in open position. The first gate can seal an inlet opening at the upper end of an antechamber which is adjacent to the upper part of the chute and is dimensioned to receive one casette at a time. The outlet opening at the lower end of the antechamber can be sealed by a second turnable gate which, when moved to the open position (simultaneously with movement of the first gate to closed position or vice versa), allows a loaded cassette to descend onto a third turnable gate and to assume an optimum position for removal of exposed photographic film therefrom. When the third gate is moved to open position, it allows an empty cassette to pass through a conduit and into a collecting receptacle.