Jun Nishiseko - Azuchi, JP Masatoki Sutoh - Azuchi, JP Yukiyoshi Yamakoshi - Azuchi, JP Robert L. Rydeen - Woodbury MN Edward L. Pass - Minneapolis MN Bruce W. Carlson - Minneapolis MN
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha - Osaka Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company - Saint Paul MN
James C. Vanous - Roseville MN Robert L. Rydeen - Woodbury MN Thomas J. Lundgren - Woodbury MN Bert A. Munthe - Marine on St. Croix MN Arnold B. Dammermann - Grand Rapids MI
Assignee:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company - St. Paul MN
International Classification:
B65H 3100
US Classification:
271209
Abstract:
A receive magazine for collecting and transporting sheets of exposed photographic media. The receive magazine includes an elongated, light-tight enclosure having front and back walls, top and bottom walls, and first and second end walls. Sheets of media are gravity fed into the magazine entrance through a collection door on the top wall of the enclosure. The collection door includes a media-receiving slot, a shutter and a spring for biasing the shutter to a normally closed, light-tight position over the slot. A lower downwardly sloping resilient member mounted to the front wall engages the sheets as they are inserted into the magazine and forces the sheets into a vertically stacked arrangement against the back wall of the enclosure, away from the entrance. A ramp surface on the back wall guides sheets being inserted over previously collected sheets. A compound curved surface on the back wall of the enclosure below the ramp surface arcs the sheets to minimize contact during insertion.
