MOTION PICTURE FILM CASSETTE-PROCESSOR SYSTEM

摘要

An applicator system including a dispensing container having a reservoir chamber for retaining processing fluid and an orifice provided therethrough communicating with the reservoir chamber. A strip of flexible material having an opening provided therein and a cleaning pad mounted adjacent that opening is disposed over the aforesaid orifice and connected to an actuator slidably mounted in guide tracks of the container's housing whereby the opening in the flexible material may be brought into and removed from alignment with the orifice. A mechanism is provided to progressively draw a strip of exposed photographic material across the container's orifice in intermediate spaced-apart relationship to the strip of flexible material and a spring mounted support plate when the orifice is sealed by the flexible material. The support plate automatically slidably engages the filmstrip against the flexible material whenever the actuator is displaced into a position where the opening through that material is in alignment with the orifice. In this position the filmstrip engages the cleaning pad immediately before being coated with processing fluid expressed from the orifice. This system can most advantageously be employed in a compact multipurpose film-handling cassette adapted to be first mounted in a camera to facilitate exposure operations and then subsequently in a unique processor-projector unit.