Patent ID: 6860087

Claim:
A method of packaging a light-shielded photosensitive material roll which comprises an elongate photosensitive material sheet rolled into a rolled photosensitive material sheet, a pair of light-shielding members mounted on respective opposite ends of the rolled photosensitive material sheet, and a light-shielding sheet wound around the rolled photosensitive material sheet, and a pair of heat-shrinkable package members separately or integrally mounted on respective transversely opposite ends of the light-shielding sheet and heat-shrunk in covering relation to outer peripheral edges of the light-shielding members, comprising the steps of: relatively rotating hot air supply mechanisms associated with the heat-shrinkable package members along an outer circumference of the rolled photosensitive material sheet; and ejecting hot air from said hot air supply mechanisms locally to the heat-shrinkable package members to cause the heat-shrinkable package members to heat-shrink in covering relation to outer circumferential edges of the light-shielding members.