Patent ID: 6317951
Filing Date: 2001-11-20
Classification: G03B,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of processing a film 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 length wound on the spool into a cartridge, comprising the steps of:detecting whether facilities of the film producing and packaging system have suffered a failure;if either one of the facilities has suffered a failure, manually restoring said one of the facilities and manually discharging the photosensitive photographic film by a length from said one of the facilities; andautomatically discharging a length of the photosensitive photographic film which corresponds to a predetermined number of film lengths to be cut from the photosensitive photographic film, from said one of the facilities which has been restored.