EP0565490A1 - Verfahren zur Entwicklung von photographischen Filmen in automatisierten Laboranlagen und Zwischenmagazin für Filmspulen zur Durchführung dieses Verfahrens - Google Patents
Verfahren zur Entwicklung von photographischen Filmen in automatisierten Laboranlagen und Zwischenmagazin für Filmspulen zur Durchführung dieses Verfahrens Download PDFInfo
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- the invention relates to a process for developing photographic films for automated laboratories, in which films of the same format are processed in groups by means of a splicing operation (automatic opening of the reels and automatic connection of the films end to end). It also relates to a storage store for film reels and to a device for implementing the method.
- the large photographic film development laboratories are equipped with various machines arranged for the chain processing of a large number of films, so as to reduce human intervention as much as possible.
- the first operation to be carried out thus consists in sorting the pockets according to various technical and commercial criteria, such as in particular the matt or glossy nature of the paper and the format of the print.
- the films meeting the same definition are assembled end-to-end, so that they form a long ribbon allowing true serial processing.
- machines which allow the automatic connection in series of a plurality of films.
- These machines (daylight film splicers) are arranged so as to allow an operator to introduce the reels of film which are still closed, the machine automatically and in complete darkness opening the reels, unwinding the films and connecting the end-to-end films, allowing the operator to work in bright light.
- operators manually glued the films to each other and therefore had to work in an infrared atmosphere.
- a machine of this type is for example described in US Patent No. 4,543,151.
- Each splicer is coupled with a computer unit, equipped with a data entry station allowing the entry of the individual data of the order associated with each reel of film, successively for each reel just before the introduction of the reel into the machine.
- the association of the data entered and the physical film is thus made by correspondence of the order in which the information is entered and the order in which the films are placed end-to-end.
- the present invention aims to provide a method for reducing the number of splicers necessary for the proper functioning of an automated photographic laboratory.
- the invention relates to a process for developing photographic films for automated laboratories in which films of the same format are processed in groups by means of a splicing operation (automatic opening of the reels and automatic connection of the films end-to-end ), as defined in claim 1.
- the invention also relates to a film reel storage magazine, as defined in claim 4, as well as a device for carrying out the method, as defined in claim 12.
- the splicer regains its true function, namely the connection of the films. This work is no longer delayed by the associated operation of data entry which, until now, was carried out before the introduction of each film reel into the splicer.
- the splicer can thus reach its full working capacity, ie a rate of the order of 600 films processed per hour.
- the splicer can be coupled at the head of any development chain.
- the fastest rates that can be obtained with a splicer coupled with an input unit are of the order of 200 films per hour. This limited rate is due to the fact that the work consists on the one hand of entering the order data and on the other hand of the reel opening and the connection of the film to the previous film. A delay in entering the data for an order results in a delay in the subsequent processing of the coil concerned. Similarly, a delay or blockage in opening the reel or connecting the film delays data entry for the command associated with the next reel.
- the device described above allows a single operator to pre-process a large quantity of film reels, by successively entering the data of the order relating to the reel and on the other hand l 'reel storage in one of the appropriate stores according to the order data.
- the traditional pre-sorting operation is therefore eliminated.
- the operator begins by opening the envelope containing the reel using the knife 57, then he identifies the type of film by presenting the reel to the reader 65, while identifying the customer and reading the order carry out an optical reading of the data mentioned on the envelope using the optical reader 64.
- the electronic unit 59 will automatically transmit a signal to the control device 50 which selects then the store concerned and controls the opening of the loading valve of this store and / or the lighting or flashing of a lamp placed on said store next to its opening.
- the operator then only has to introduce the film into the store concerned, the number of which is also indicated on the control device 50.
- the data entered by the readers 64 and 65 are displayed on the screen 62, which allows the operator to check the accuracy of the data entered at all times. In the case where the store openings are provided with closing flaps, it is impossible for the operator to make the wrong store, since only the store concerned is open.
- the presence of the six stores in the device which has just been described allows the reels to be distributed according to six criteria which are proposed to the customer for his order.
- it can be three different photo formats (e.g. 9/13, 10/15 and 13/19), combined with an option to have the print run on glossy or matte paper.
- the invention is not limited to a device comprising six stores, but the number of stores can also be greater than or less than six, depending on the number of order criteria that one wishes to offer the customer.
- Such a device makes it possible to eliminate entry errors which may occur with the traditional work organization.
- the magazine 1 is of rectangular outer shape. It is provided on its upper face with an opening 2 intended for loading and unloading of film reels.
- the magazine comprises a base plate 3, for example made of aluminum, and an upper plate 4, for example made of plexiglass, shaped so as to constitute, with the plate 3 and the lateral elements, the housing of the shop.
- a disc 20 intended to serve as a support for storing film reels is mounted inside this box.
- the disc has, on its rear face, a groove 21 in the form of a spiral, the spiral may include, as in the example of Figure 4, four and a half turns.
- the spacing of the turns that the groove forms is, measured at the axis 22 of the groove, substantially greater than the outside diameter of a film reel.
- the groove 21 is intended to receive a support and guide roller 36 permanently mounted on the base plate 3 and which will be described later. In FIG. 4, to simplify the drawing, only the start and the end of the groove 21 have been shown.
- the central drive mechanism constituted by the motor 5 and the reduction gear 6 is housed in the center of the disc, inside the circular hole 33 made in the center of the disc.
- This mechanism is mounted on a support 8, for example in the form of a hardened steel plate, integral with two roller pinions 9, 9 ′ slidably mounted between two longitudinal plates or bars 7, for example in hard steel, fixed on the base plate 3 and constituting a linear guide of the drive mechanism (from top to bottom and vice versa in Figure 3). Only one of the bars 7 is visible in FIG. 3, the other bar being hidden by the first.
- the drive of the disc 20 by the motor 5 is effected by means of the reduction gear 6 acting by means of a pinion on a ring gear 34 mounted on the periphery of the central hole 33 of the disc.
- a roller pivot 10, mounted on the edge of the plate 8 is housed inside a circular groove 35 on the surface of the disc 20, so as to maintain the distance between the reduction gear pivot and the internal gear. of the ring gear when the disc rotates under the
- the rotational movement of the disc 20 is combined with a translational movement in the longitudinal direction 37 inside the housing 1, thanks to the presence of the guide roller 36 mentioned above (see FIG. 2).
- This roller is fixed on the base plate so as to be located substantially below the introduction-ejection opening 2 of the film reels. Because the roller 36 is housed in the spiral groove 21 (whose axis 22 is outlined in Figure 2) of the disc 20, when the disc rotates, the spiral groove 21 moves on the roller 36 which causes the disc in translation.
- the position of the roller 36 on the base plate is chosen so that when the disc rotates, the compartments 28 are positioned opposite the introduction-ejection opening 2.
- the front face of the disc (FIG. 4) is arranged so as to constitute compartments intended each to receive a reel of film, the compartments being arranged in a spiral on the surface of the disc, opposite the "ribbon" in spiral formed by the groove 21.
- each of the compartments is delimited by two positioning springs 31, 32 (FIG. 8), the first spring 31, in the form of a pin, comprising two branches which are fitted into holes 26, 26 '' on the surface of the disc 20, the second spring 32 comprising a single branch which fits into a hole 27 on the surface of the disc, the holes 26, 26 'and 27 being arranged on a fictitious circle 28 of substantially equal diameter the outside diameter of a coil.
- each compartment comprises a housing 23 formed on the surface of the disc and intended to receive the prominent part of circular shape located at the end of a film reel.
- the bottom of each of the housings 23 is pierced with a hole 24, of diameter smaller than that of the housing, and intended for the passage of an ejection pusher, acting under the effect of an electromagnet on the head of the spool when the spool must be expelled from the magazine.
- the part of the disc corresponding to the bottom of each housing further comprises two openings 25, 25 'inside which are housed magnetic rods intended to contribute to keeping the coil in place in its housing.
- magnetized rods also have the function of allowing precise positioning of the disc in front of the opening 2 of the magazine at the location of the compartment concerned, for introducing or removing a film reel therein, said magnetic rods cooperating for this positioning with sensors arranged on the base plate 3, opposite the opening 2 of the magazine.
- the disc shown in Figure 4 is arranged to receive 128 films.
- Such an arrangement allows for example the realization of a store of external dimensions of 53 by 44 centimeters, which makes it an easily transportable object, both by its size and by its weight.
- films 135 having an outside diameter of about 25 millimeters.
- the method of the invention allows the realization of an inexpensive implementation device to produce. This is the case of the device described above by way of example. It is therefore very easy to multiply this device without increasing the cost of a treatment laboratory.
- the intermediate storage stores for film reels can supply a splicer coupled online at the start of a photographic development chain, without the chain's rate being further delayed by entering order data, nor by the introduction and testing of the film reels, since these operations were carried out in a previous step.
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EP0682291A1 (de) * | 1994-05-12 | 1995-11-15 | Eastman Kodak Company | Filmkassettenmagazin |
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EP0691573A1 (de) * | 1994-07-08 | 1996-01-10 | Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd. | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Abzug von Filmen |
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US3779837A (en) * | 1971-06-30 | 1973-12-18 | Agfa Gevaert Ag | Apparatus for splicing exposed photographic films and for encoding information on spliced-together films and associated envelopes |
US4186837A (en) * | 1978-12-27 | 1980-02-05 | Mystic Color Lab, Inc. | Automated film cartridge and mailer sorting and correlating apparatus |
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EP0677785A3 (de) * | 1994-04-13 | 1996-12-27 | Noritsu Koki Co Ltd | Automatische Filmentwicklungsmaschine mit einer Filmaufwickelvorrichtung. |
EP1126318A3 (de) * | 1994-04-13 | 2001-09-19 | Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd. | Filmaufwickelmechanismus für fotografisches filmentwicklungsgerät |
EP0677785A2 (de) * | 1994-04-13 | 1995-10-18 | Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd. | Automatische Filmentwicklungsmaschine mit einer Filmaufwickelvorrichtung |
EP1126318A2 (de) * | 1994-04-13 | 2001-08-22 | Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd. | Filmaufwickelmechanismus für fotografisches Filmentwicklungsgerät |
EP0682291A1 (de) * | 1994-05-12 | 1995-11-15 | Eastman Kodak Company | Filmkassettenmagazin |
EP0682293A1 (de) * | 1994-05-12 | 1995-11-15 | Eastman Kodak Company | Filmkassettenmagazin |
EP0683426A1 (de) * | 1994-05-12 | 1995-11-22 | Eastman Kodak Company | Fotobehandlungsverfahren und -gerät |
EP0691573A1 (de) * | 1994-07-08 | 1996-01-10 | Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd. | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Abzug von Filmen |
EP0712044A1 (de) * | 1994-11-09 | 1996-05-15 | Eastman Kodak Company | Rückgewinnungswerkzeug für Filmkassetten |
EP0712043A1 (de) * | 1994-11-09 | 1996-05-15 | Eastman Kodak Company | Filmkassettenmagazin |
EP0717310A3 (de) * | 1994-12-13 | 1996-11-20 | Noritsu Koki Co Ltd | Vorratsbehälter für Filmpatronen |
EP0717310A2 (de) * | 1994-12-13 | 1996-06-19 | Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd. | Vorratsbehälter für Filmpatronen |
EP0742485A1 (de) * | 1995-04-28 | 1996-11-13 | SYSTEL INTERNATIONAL S.p.A. | Vorrichtung zur Filmeinführung in eine Spule |
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