JP3371721B2 - Film feeder with cartridge - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cartridge-containing film supplying apparatus for supplying a cartridge-containing film from a cartridge panel having a plurality of cartridge-containing films mounted thereon to a photographic printing apparatus or a film developing apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a new type of cartridge-containing film has been standardized in which all the processes from film development after photography to printing exposure processing are carried out by putting the film in a cartridge. This new-style cartridge film can be automatically separated from the cartridge by inserting the tool at the inner edge of the film.When developing the film, the film is pulled out and processed, and when printing the photograph, the film is unwound and exposed. After that, the film can be stored again in the cartridge.

Various developing apparatuses and photographic printing apparatuses have already been proposed for developing such a new type cartridge film and subjecting it to photographic printing exposure processing. For example, as a film developing apparatus, Japanese Patent Application No. 6-7566.
No. 1 proposes one capable of continuously performing processing such as development, fixing and drying.

Further, although the developing processing apparatus uses a cartridge case for accommodating a plurality of cartridges, a new type cartridge is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. 7-240123 as an attempt to improve the work efficiency of taking out and refilling the cartridge. It has also been proposed to attach a case (hereinafter referred to as a cartridge panel in the present invention) to a film development processing apparatus.

Further, as one attempt to automate the photographic printing apparatus, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 7-36120 discloses an apparatus for setting a plurality of cartridges on a turntable for highly efficient printing. Device for feeding a cartridge into the device (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-325350)
No.) or a cartridge storing device for continuously supplying a cartridge to the feeding device (Japanese Patent Application No. 6-3090).
No. 65) is proposed.

[0006]

The cartridge panel described above is developed on the assumption that a plurality of films with cartridges are mounted on the cartridge panel and the films with cartridges are automatically supplied to a film developing apparatus, a photo printing apparatus, or the like. It was done. As described above, the new-style cartridge-containing film incorporates a device for facilitating the processing after taking a photograph, and various attempts have been made for the automatic processing as described above.

However, as an example in which a plurality of cartridges are mounted on the cartridge panel proposed by the above-mentioned second publication to supply the film containing the cartridges, the second publication says that the panels are mounted one by one on the film developing apparatus. Only a specific use example is shown, and there is no reference to a general feeding device for automatically feeding a film in a panel or a cartridge by stacking a plurality of panels. For this reason, it is not possible to use a compact and inexpensive manufacturing device that automatically supplies a film with a cartridge to a photographic printing device or a film developing device.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned utilization situation of the cartridge panel, and it is possible to automatically supply a panel or a film with a cartridge to a counterpart device by stacking a plurality of stages of the cartridge panel and sequentially unloading from the lower stage. An object of the present invention is to provide a film supply device with a cartridge.

[0009] Another problem is that the above-mentioned film supply apparatus with a cartridge is premised, and a further disassembled cartridge panel is sent to a specific position.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a device that is driven by two drive sources and has a compact structure as a whole.

[0010]

As a means for solving the first problem, the present invention can insert a plurality of cartridge-containing films from the back side of the panel and separate them into the back side.
A cartridge panel accommodating portion for accommodating stacked cartridges panel having a plurality of pockets into multiple stages on the panel as a plurality of the cartridge panel held by the flange holding plate bottom with respect to the housing part, the holding The panel is placed on the horizontal guide plate at the lowered level while opening both sides of the plate.
Than it was film cartridge supply device comprising a panel holding means for separating the bottom panel by raising holds after upper panels grated into.

According to such a film supply device with a cartridge, a plurality of cartridge panels having the film with the cartridge mounted thereon are stacked and stored in the storage part, and the lower panel is sequentially supplied to the counterpart device,
The remaining upper panel can be held in the storage part.

As a means for solving the above-mentioned second problem, in order to separate the cartridges of each panel from the lower panel in order and separate the cartridges of the respective panels from the panels, the lower panel is installed in the cartridge panel housing portion in the second invention. It is also possible to provide a panel moving means for moving the lower cartridge panel to the cartridge separating position after unloading the cartridge panel, and to drive the panel holding means and the panel moving means by the same drive section. .

With this structure, the cartridge of the cartridge panel can be separated from the panel by sending the cartridge panel to the cartridge separating position. In that case, the operation of unloading the panel and the operation of sending the panel to the cartridge separating position are driven by one drive source, so that the apparatus is compact as a whole.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2 are an overall side view and a plan view of a film supply device with a cartridge according to the present invention. The film supply device of this embodiment is used to supply the film in the cartridge to the photographic printing device that performs the photographic printing process using the film in the cartridge, but it goes without saying that it may be used in other devices.

As shown in the figure, the film supply device with a cartridge comprises a cartridge panel housing portion 10 and a panel moving means 20. As shown in FIG. 2, the cartridge panel storage unit 10 is capable of stacking a plurality of cartridge panels 12 vertically in a storage box 11 having a U-shaped cross section and having an open top and bottom and one side. As shown in FIG. 8, the cartridge panel 12 has a storage pocket 14 in which a plurality (five in the illustrated example) of cartridges T can be mounted on a panel plate 13, and the pocket row is provided in a plurality of rows (the illustrated example). 2 rows). This cartridge panel 12 is the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application No. 7-2401.
Proposed in No. 23, please refer to this for details. The minimum necessary explanation is given below.

Although not shown, the cartridge panel 12 is provided with the above-mentioned accommodation pocket 14 so that the cartridge T can be inserted from the back side thereof, and the inserted cartridge T is provided on the elastic holding member 15 on one side. The projected portion 16 is inserted and pressed into the hole of the spool shaft, and is held so as to sandwich the cartridge T with the side wall at the other end.
The opening 17 is for reading a bar code display (ID display) or the like displayed on the peripheral surface of the cartridge from the upper part of the opening.

The panel moving means 20 includes a panel holding plate 21.
The pushing arm 23 rotating via the connecting plate 22 is driven by the motor 24. 2 and 3
As shown in FIG. 5, the connecting plate 22 is provided in a double stack inside the panel holding plate 21, and the flange part 21a at the lower end of the panel holding plate 21 is bent inward, whereby the panels are stacked in multiple stages. Can be held.

The ear plate 21 provided on the upper end of the panel holding plate 21.
A rod 25 is rotatably attached between b and 21b, and the rod 25 is fixed along the upper end of the inner connecting plate 22. Therefore, the panel holding plate 21 is the rod 2
It is rotatable about 5, and the lower ends of both side holding plates 21 can be opened to the outside.

As shown in FIG. 3, panel holding plates 2 on both sides are provided.
A cam plate 28 and a force transmission plate 28 'are attached to the ends of the arms 21', 21 'extending inward from 1, and a synchronizing shaft 29 is provided in the center thereof. Further, another connecting plate 22a for connecting the two connecting plates 22, 22 is provided inside thereof, and a horizontal guide 27 is provided near the center thereof.

On the other hand, a rotary plate 26 is attached to the end of the output shaft 24a of the motor 24, a cam pin 26a is attached to the motor side surface of the rotary plate 26, and a small roller 26b is attached to the opposite surface thereof. Is the above horizontal guide 27
The small roller 2 as it engages in the groove of the motor and rotates the motor.
6b moves up and down and is freely movable in the guide 27 in the horizontal direction. Further, as will be described later, the cam pin 26a engages along the chevron shape of the cam plate 28 to press the arm 21 'and rotate the holding plate 21.

Further, the rotation of the rotary plate 26 causes the small rollers 26b to move up and down, whereby the connecting plates 22a, 22, 2 are connected.
2, the vertical guides 22b, 22b are attached to the side wall of the storage box 11 so as to smoothly guide the vertical movement of the left and right, and as shown in FIG. , 22b are provided inside the connecting plate 22a. 22d is a pin for rotating the pushing arm 23. Further, 22f is a spring that connects between the panel holding plate 21 and the connecting plate.

Although not shown, the motor 24 is fixed to the storage box 11 by a support member fixed to the storage box 11. Also, the storage box 11
This is also omitted in the drawing, but in this embodiment it is fixedly attached to the side wall of the photo printing apparatus.

The pushing arms 23 are provided on both sides of the storage box 11 as shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 4.
It consists of an L-shaped arm. The push-out arm 23 is rotatable around a hinge 23b, and is constantly biased counterclockwise by a spring 23c. Straight part of arm 23a
A connecting rod 23d is provided at the lower end of the left and right arms to connect the lower ends of the left and right arms, and the rotation of the arms serves to push out the cartridge panel 12 to advance to the separation position of the cartridge as shown in FIG.

The cartridge panels 12, which are unloaded one by one from the storage box 11 by the panel moving means 20 and sent to the cartridge separating position P, are unloaded on the horizontal guide plate 38 which supports the bottom surface at the lowered level. At the cartridge separating position P, the separating arm 31 simultaneously separates and drops the double-row cartridges T from the panel.
As shown in FIG. 9, the horizontal guide plate 38 is partially provided with a cutout portion 38a, and the panel holding plate 21 described later is provided.
I try not to hinder the vertical movement of.

The operation of the film supply apparatus with a cartridge according to the embodiment having the above structure will be described below.

FIG. 3 shows the relationship between the panel holding plate 21 and the storage box 11 when the cartridge panels 12 are loaded in the storage box 11. In this state, the rotary plate 26
The small roller 26b attached to is located at the highest position, and the cam pin 26a is not in contact with the cam plate 28. When the rotary plate 26 rotates from this state, the panel holding plate 21 holds the plurality of stages of panels 12 while the connecting plate 22 is held.
When the position of the cam pin 26a comes down (shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 6) and reaches the bottom position, the cam pin 26a comes in contact with the ascending slope of the chevron shape of the cam plate near the front of the crest, as shown by the solid line in FIG. In the panel holding plate 21, the lower bottom opens outward with the rod 25 as the center. A side view at this time is FIG.

The pushing arm 23 at this time is shown in FIG.
As shown in, the spring 23c abuts the pin 23e and holds the pin 23e in a pulled-up state. When the rotary plate 26 further rotates from this state, the panel holding plate 21 and the connecting plate 22 rise together, and the panel is held while the cam pin 26a passes the mountain-shaped cam-shaped peak of the cam plate and leaves the vertical part from the downward slope. The opening of the plate 21 contracts, and the panel holding plate 21 becomes vertical as shown by the solid line in FIG. 7. When the panel holding plate 21 is contracted, the flange portion 21a at the lower end of the panel holding plate 21 is inserted between the lowermost stage and the panel immediately above it so that the second or higher stage panel can be lifted.

Further, when the rotary plate 26 rotates, the whole of the panel holding plate 21 and the connecting plate 22 further rises, and the panel 2 shown in FIG.
The broken line position, that is, the original panel holding level in FIG. 3 is returned to.
In the meantime, the panel holding plate 21 and the connecting plate 22 on the left side both operate via the force transmitting member 28 ′ and the synchronizing shaft 29 in a completely symmetrical manner to the right side.

During the operation of the panel holding plate 21, the pushing arm 23 is rotated while the L-shaped tip is pushed down by the pin 22d while moving up from the level position shown by the solid line in FIG. 7 to the two-dot chain line position. , The panel 12 by the connecting rod 23d
1 is pushed horizontally to the position shown in FIG. 1 and the leading cartridge T to be separated is opened 39 in the horizontal guide plate 38.
(See FIG. 1) to the cartridge separating position.

When the cartridge T is separated from the panel, a detailed illustration is omitted, but as shown in FIG. 9, the separating arm 3 of the cartridge separating means 30 having an appropriate structure is used.
The tip end portion 31a of No. 1 is moved onto the cartridge T to be separated, inserted into the opening 17 of the panel 12, and the cartridge T is dropped downward.

In this embodiment, the dropped cartridge T is transferred onto the transport belt 41 of the transport means 40 as shown in FIG. 9 as an example. Reference numeral 42 denotes rollers or pulleys at both ends of the conveyor belt 41, and the two cartridges T sent by the conveyor belt 41 are aligned by another conveyor belt 44 that is orthogonal to each other and sent to the cartridge feeder 60. The cartridge feeding means 60 is set in the photographic printing apparatus according to, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-36120, and feeds the cartridge T.

In addition to the use example of the film supply apparatus with a cartridge of this embodiment shown in FIG. 9, it can also be used for the film development processing apparatus proposed in the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application No. 7-240123. .

When it is used in the film developing processing apparatus or a photographic printing apparatus other than the photographic printing apparatus shown in FIG. 9, the pushing arm 23 and its related members of the cartridge-containing film feeding apparatus of this embodiment are omitted. It may be one.

In this case, since the cartridge panel does not move horizontally from the position directly below the storage box 11, the wholesale panel 12 and the second-stage panel 1 above it.
A predetermined gap is provided between the two so that the separation arm 31 can be inserted.

Alternatively, the panel 12 may be directly placed on the other device without providing the horizontal guide plate 38. In that case, the function of separating the cartridge T from the panel 12 is provided in the device on the other side.

[0036]

As described in detail above, the cartridge-containing film supply device of the first invention comprises a cartridge panel housing portion for housing a plurality of cartridge panels,
Since the lower panel for this storage section is equipped with the panel holding means capable of holding the upper panel when it is unloaded, the panels stacked in a plurality of steps are sequentially unloaded from the bottom to obtain a panel or a film with a cartridge. A remarkable effect is obtained in that it can be supplied to a partner device and can be used as a compact and inexpensive device for automatically supplying a film in a cartridge to a photo printing device or a film developing device.

In the second invention, a panel moving means for moving the lower cartridge panel to the separating position is provided in the cartridge housing portion of the film supply apparatus with the cartridge of the first invention, and the panel holding moving means is driven by the same driving source. Thus, there is an advantage that the panel unloaded from the storage section can be sent to a specific position, and two different operations can be driven by one drive source, and the entire structure can be made compact.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall side view of a film supply device with a cartridge according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a front view seen from the arrow II-II of the same.

FIG. 3 is a front view seen from the arrow III-III in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line IV-IV in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a side view of the film supply device.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of the operation of panel moving means.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory view of the operation of panel moving means.

FIG. 8 is a schematic perspective view of a cartridge panel.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of a usage example of the film supply device with a cartridge according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Cartridge panel storage 12 Cartridge panel 17 openings 20 Panel moving means 21 Panel holding plate 22 Direct connection board 23 Extrusion arm 24 motor 25 rod 26 rotating plate 27 Guide 28 Cam plate 29 Synchronous axis

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A panel so that a plurality of films with cartridges can be inserted from the back side of the panel and separated into the back side.
Multiple cartridge panels with multiple pockets on top
Cartridge panel storage part that stores in layers and holds a plurality of cartridge panels for this storage part
Panel held by the flange of the plate bottom, separating the bottom panel by raising holds after <br/> upper panels grated panels in descending levels while opening the opposite sides of the holding plate on the horizontal guide plate A cartridge-containing film supply device comprising a holding means. 2. A panel moving means for moving the lower cartridge panel to the cartridge separating position after unloading the lower cartridge panel with respect to the cartridge panel housing portion, and the panel holding means and the panel moving means are the same. The cartridge-containing film supply device according to claim 1, wherein the film supply device is driven by the drive unit.