Abstract: An automatic parts feeding apparatus of the invention is used to transfer a carrier tape for carrying parts thereon. The carrier tape has feed perforations formed in a predetermined pitch. The feeding apparatus is formed of a driving shaft rotated in one direction, a cam member fixed to the driving shaft and having a cam surface, a moving member abutting against the cam surface of the cam member, and a feed member attached to the moving member. The moving member is elevated, advanced, lowered and retreated through rotation of the cam member. The feed member engages at least one feed perforation of the carrier tape when the moving member is elevated by the first cam member, and it advances the carrier tape when the moving member is advanced. The feed member disengages from the feed perforation when the moving member is lowered. The carrier tape is moved by repeating the movements of the feed member.

Abstract: A film transporting mechanism includes two film transporting claws disposed on opposite sides of a center plane. The claws come into engagement with perforations in two rows of perforations in a film to be transported stepwise past a picture window. Each claw is driven by its own transporting drive. The tips of the claws traverse an elongate, closed curve which at one end enters into the film's traveling plane and at another end leaves the plane. Each of the transporting drives has at least one drive shaft that is mounted in axially spaced bearings mounted in openings in laterally spaced bearing plates. The bearings for the drive shaft, or drive shafts, are disposed on opposite sides of the center plane, in the opening of the bearing plates.