Abstract: In order to removably yet reliably assemble the frame parts, endless belt and sprocket of a document tractor, holes are provided in the hub of one of the frame parts which provide a guide platform for the endless belt which has pins engageable with perforations on the document to be metered. Flexible rods in registry with these holes extend from the other frame part. Latches on the outer ends of these rods engage the outsides of the holes when the rods move into latching engagement as the frame parts are brought together. The tractor may be disassembled by manually deflecting the rods to release the latches.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a compact photograph developer and printer which is contained in a cabinet adapted to receive exposed film and to deliver printed pictures therefrom. The photograph developer and printer being adapted for use in public places and being fully automatic upon the insertion of exposed film therein to process the film, expose it and print photographs which are automatically delivered through a light trap opening in the housing to the operator. The housing contains novel film transport means including an adhesive film transport tape adhesively engageable with the marginal edges of film beyond the picture area thereof for pulling the film through the developer and processing tanks as well as the dryer. The machine also contains an exposing and printing facility as well as a print paper processing and developing tank means, all contained in the housing in light tight conditions.

Abstract: An endless belt is rotatably supported upon guide rollers within a cassette case for engagement with a tape, the belt contacting the tape along a major segment of the tape-connecting portion as defined between the two fixed cores therein. The novel features of this invention provide an effective and unitary unit with reduction in jamming as well as flutter and wow problems often associated with tape cassettes of the prior art.

Abstract: A printing system of the type wherein magnetic images are recorded on a tape, the images are toned, the tape is positioned to extend adjacent to a web of paper, and the toner is then transferred from the tape to the paper. In the present system, the tape portion which passes by the image recording head and toner is moved continuously, while the tape portion which passes adjacent to the paper is moved intermittently by frictional engagement with a transport belt, a pair of vacuum column buffers being provided between the continuously and intermittently driven tape portions and supplying tape tension that holds the tape to the transport belt.

Abstract: A coupling bar, to which a leading portion of a web has been secured, is engageable with a moving belt for transporting the web. To attach the coupling bar to the moving belt, gripper members of the coupling bar are positioned to straddle a reduced width section of the moving belt. The gripper members are spaced apart a distance greater than the width of the reduced section, but less than the width of a belt section which follows the reduced section. Accordingly, after the reduced width section of the moving belt is advanced from between the gripper members, the following wider section will be moved into edgewise engagement with them. By this means, the coupling bar is attached to the moving belt without the belt having to be stopped or manipulated.

Abstract: Apparatus for laminating film strips to a transport web, the laminating apparatus adaptable to handle film strips of different sizes having different perforation formats. The laminating apparatus comprises a module for positioning a film strip of a particular film size with respect to the transport web. The film strip and the transport web are then advanced through a laminating station where they are laminated together with a tape. The laminating apparatus is designed to interchangeably receive the positioning module. Thus, film strips of different film sizes may be laminated using the disclosed laminating apparatus by interchanging the positioning module to suit the particular film size to be laminated.

Abstract: A novel method and apparatus for forming a containerized package of glass fiber strand is disclosed. The method comprises impinging attenuated glass fiber strand onto a rotating surface, swirling the glass strand due to its inertial forces upon impingement with the surface, and collecting the swirled glass strand to form a containerized package of glass strand. Apparatus for accomplishing the attenuation and swirling operations is also disclosed.

Abstract: Chain type log transports are located at the infeed and outfeed sides, respectively, of a rotary barking ring and are constructed to be positioned as close as possible to the barking ring to transport logs of minimum length through the barking ring. The transports include flights with centrally depressed portions, which flights are mounted by their tips on spaced conveyor chains so as to minimize the radius of the arcs traversed by the flights adjacent to opposite sides of the log-barking ring to enable the flights to be placed as close as possible to the log-barking ring. The radius of the arcuate flight paths is further minimized by the flights being tapered in cross section away from their log-cradling sides to avoid interference between adjacent flights as they turn through their arcuate paths adjacent to the opposite sides of the log-barking ring.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming containerized packages of glass strand is disclosed. The apparatus includes a novel attenuator for forming glass strand comprising a pair of double gear belts between which the strand is pulled, a pair of deflectors for absorbing inertial forces of the glass strand as the strand leaves the gear belts, and a container for receiving the glass strand. The apparatus provides the attenuative forces necessary to form the glass strand and the forces necessary to package the glass strand in a container.

Abstract: The wear due to the filaments on a circulating delivery belt having a surface for receiving thereon a stream of textile filaments and conveying them, for example in a false-twist texturing machine, is reduced by feeding the filaments, just prior to reaching the belt, through a thread-guide that has a reciprocating motion transverse to the filaments imparted thereto which is the resultant of two uniform components of reciprocation of different periods, so that the position of the filaments across the belt is varied in non-uniform cycles repeated in groups thereof. The thread-guide is carried by a rod in which is mounted a journal having eccentric pins at its opposite ends. A basic component of reciprocation is imparted to the rod by a track rotating eccentrically about a fixed axis and acting on one of the two pins to cause the journal and rod to reciprocate along the rod axis.

Abstract: An endless photosensitive member in a photocopy machine is fixedly mounted at each outer edge upon the border of a respective one of a pair of perforated endless belts, the material of the belts having an elasticity which is the same as that of the material of the photosensitive member. The perforated belts are supported upon rollers, at least one of which is driven and has circumferential rows of pins located so as to engage the belt perforations.