Patent ID: 6490783
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: G03B,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus for processing in a film producing and packaging system for unreeling an elongate photosensitive photographic film from a film roll, cutting the photosensitive photographic film to predetermined film lengths, winding each of the film lengths on a spool, and placing the film lengths wound on the spool into a cartridge, comprising:a trailing end position detect mechanism for detecting a trailing end of the photo-sensitive photographic film fully unreeled from said film roll; a splicing mechanism for splicing the detected trailing end of the photosensitive photographic film to a leading end of a new photosensitive photographic film unreeled from a new film roll to form a spliced region; a discharge mechanism positionable closely to a cutting mechanism, for discharging a section of the photosensitive photographic film which contains the spliced region; a splicing detecting mechanism disposed upstream of said cutting mechanism, for detecting the spliced region of the photosensitive photographic films; and a control mechanism for discharging a length of the photosensitive photographic films corresponding to the predetermined number of film lengths to be cut from the photosensitive photographic films, based on a detected signal from said splicing detecting mechanism.