JP2002265036A - Cartridge aligning method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To align a film sending-out port in the same direction by rotating a cartridge supplied in a row in a vertical attitude. SOLUTION: A body part 33 is straddlingly placed on two plates 48 and 49. The two plates 48 and 49 incline a little to a horizontal plane, and vibrate in mutually different amplitudes or frequencies. A reference guide member 50 is arranged on the trough side of the plates 48 and 49, and the body part 33 is sent in the carrying direction while rotating in the anticlockwise direction by vibration of different amplitudes or frequencies while allowing a peripheral surface to abut to the reference guide member 50. Thus, the body part 33 is aligned in a specific attitude for stopping rotation when the film sending-out port 17 abuts to the reference guide member 50.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for aligning a patrone for photographic film in a fixed posture, and more particularly to a method and an apparatus for arranging a patrone for photographic film.
The patrone is placed in a vertical position over the two supply means, and the patrone is conveyed in one direction while rotating the patrone in a predetermined direction by the supply force of the two supply means, and the film outlet is directed in one direction. The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for aligning a patrone in a posture.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Photo film patrones have a structure in which a spool is inserted into a body portion and a pair of caps are fitted on both sides of the body portion. It has a shape with a film outlet that protrudes from the area. In a factory, when assembling a photo film patrone by an automatic machine, it is necessary to supply each part in a fixed posture.

[0003] Japanese Patent Publication No. 6-82196 describes an apparatus for aligning patrones. The apparatus aligns the film in a fixed position in which the film outlet is fixed while conveying the cartridge in a vertical position in which the spool shaft is aligned in the vertical direction. The apparatus is composed of two conveyors having different conveying speeds, and a pair of guide plates for guiding the peripheral surfaces on both sides of the patrone conveyed by the conveyors. The pair of guide plates are arranged at an interval sandwiching the body. The two conveyors are arranged at an interval with a clearance enough to allow the end of the spool projecting to the outside to escape. The patrone is supplied in a line between a pair of guide plates in a vertical posture. The patrone is conveyed with its bottom surface straddling the two conveyors, and is sent in the conveying direction while rotating in one direction due to the difference in speed between the conveyors. In the patrone, the film delivery port abuts on one guide plate and the rotation is stopped,
The film delivery outlets are aligned in a constant posture with the same direction.

[0004]

By the way, the film feed port protrudes outside the circular contour of the peripheral surface of the body. In the aligning device described in the above-mentioned publication, since the pair of guide plates are arranged at an interval sandwiching the body peripheral surface from both sides, when the film delivery port hits one of the guide plates, the patrone is more than that, that is, 180 degrees. No more rotation. Therefore, in the aligning device, it is necessary to supply the film in a form in which the film delivery port is aligned in advance in a rough attitude toward one of the upstream side and the downstream side in the transport direction. For this reason, as an aligning device, a device for coarsely aligning is separately required, which leads to an increase in cost and a disadvantage that the installation of two devices increases the overall length of the device and is difficult to adopt from the viewpoint of installation space. there were.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned drawbacks, and provides a low-cost photographic film cartridge aligning apparatus which can surely align in a fixed attitude in a small space without using a device for aligning in a coarse attitude in advance. The purpose is to do.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, in the method for aligning a patrone according to the first aspect, the patrone is placed in a vertical posture so as to straddle two plates extending parallel to the transport direction. Vibration at different feed speeds is applied to the two plates, respectively, and the patrone is conveyed in the conveying direction while rotating in a predetermined direction on the two plates, and the film feed port contacts the reference guide member abutting on the peripheral surface of the patrone. By contacting the cartridge, the reference guide member receives the rotation of the cartridge, and guides the cartridge in the transport direction in one posture in which the film delivery ports are aligned in the same direction.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, two plates are arranged in parallel in the transport direction and are placed so that a patrone in a vertical position is straddled, and vibrations having different feed rates are applied to the plates. A vibration generator that transports the cartridge in a transport direction while rotating the cartridge in a predetermined direction,
It is arranged so as to be in contact with the peripheral surface of the patrone, and receives the rotation of the patrone by abutting the film outlet, and guides the film outlet in the transport direction while maintaining the patrone in a constant posture facing the same direction. And a reference guide member.

[0008]

The two plates are subjected to vibrations of different amplitudes or frequencies by the vibration generator. A patrone is sequentially supplied to these plates in a vertical posture so as to straddle them. One vibration of each plate makes the patrone 2
After being pushed up by a plate and being thrown in from the plate, it falls on the plate which advanced in the conveyance direction. When the amplitudes or the frequencies of the plates are different from each other, the patrone is given a rotational force in a predetermined direction together with a driving force in the transport direction. By repeatedly giving such vibrations, the patrone is transported in the transport direction while rotating in a predetermined direction. The peripheral surface of the patrone is in contact with the reference guide member. The reference guide member receives the rotation of the cartridge when the film delivery port comes into contact therewith. As a result, the patrone is aligned in a constant posture with the film delivery port oriented in the same direction. In addition, tilt the two plates,
It is preferable that a reference guide member is arranged on the valley side of the two plates so as to extend in the transport direction, so that the peripheral surface of the cartridge always contacts the reference guide member. The vibration may be in any direction as long as it has a component force in the transport direction and the upward direction.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A photographic film cartridge 10 is
As shown in FIG. 1, a pair of caps 11 and 12 and a trunk 1
3, a spool 14, and a photographic film piece 15. The photo film piece 15 has a length obtained by cutting a long continuous photo film in accordance with a predetermined number of shots, and a rear end of the photo film piece 15 is engaged with a shaft 16 of a spool 14. The spool 14 is housed in the body 13 from the axial direction,
It is rotatably held by a pair of caps 11 and 12 fitted to both ends of the body 13. The spool 14 is formed of plastic, and the body 13 and the cap 1 are formed.
1 and 12 are made of a thin iron plate.

The body portion 13 is formed by rolling a rectangular thin plate and bending both ends thereof in a tangential direction having a circular contour to form a film delivery port 17.
It has a shape made of. On the inner wall of the film feed port 17, telemps 18 and 19 for internal light shielding are stuck facing each other. An opening 20 and a groove 21 are formed in the caps 11 and 12. The opening 20 is for exposing both ends of the shaft 16 of the spool 14 to the outside.
The groove 21 is caulked after being inserted into both side edges 13a and 13b of the body portion 13, respectively.

FIG. 2 shows a system for manufacturing the photographic film cartridge 10. As shown in FIG. The continuous photographic film is perforated by the intermittent piercing device 23 and then sent to the trimmer 24 in order to be cut into a length corresponding to a specified number of photographic films to form a photographic film piece 15. The photographic film piece 15 is sent to a film winding device 25. The film take-up device 25 is provided with the supplied spool 1.
4 winds the photo film piece 15. Photo film piece 1
Spool 5 on which the cartridge 5 has been wound
Sent to 6. In the patrone assembling device 26, the spool 14 is inserted into the body 13, and the other cap 11 is fixed by caulking. The body 13 supplied to the patrone assembling device 26 has a form in which the cap 12 is fixed by caulking (hereinafter, referred to as “body 33”). The torso 33 is provided with the cap 1 by the torso one-side cap assembling apparatus 27.
2 are pre-assembled by caulking, and the aligning device 28 of the present invention
Are supplied to the patrone assembling device 26 in a line and in a fixed posture. The torso 13 is formed by attaching telemps 18 and 19 to both ends of a plate cut in a developed shape, and then rounding by bending to form a film delivery port 17. Supplied.

As shown in FIG. 3, the aligning device 28 includes a single-row feeder 30, an attitude aligner 31, and an attitude maintaining transporter 32.
And are connected in series. Single feeder 30
Sends out the torso 33 in a line in a vertical posture. The single-row feeder 30 includes a tray-like hopper section 34 and a single-row feed section 35 connected to the hopper section 33.
A plurality of body parts 33 are supplied to the hopper part 33 by the transfer machine 36. The transfer machine 36 is provided with a chuck 37 containing an electromagnet. The chuck 37 holds a plurality of body parts 33 with the cap 12 facing upward in a row by magnetic force. The hopper 34 is provided with a sensor (not shown). The sensor is the body 33
Detect the supply amount of The signal sent from the sensor is taken into a monitoring control unit (not shown), and the control unit
The operation of the transfer machine 36 is controlled in response to the signal.

As shown in FIG. 4, below the bottom surface of the hopper 34, two vibration generators 39 and 40 are mounted. The two vibration generators 39 and 40 vibrate the bottom surface 34a of the hopper portion 34 in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction of the single line sending portion 34, and send the body portion 33 transferred on the bottom surface 34a in one line. Approach to the part 34. The one-line feeding unit 34 includes a feeding plate 41, a receiving plate 42, a vibration generator 43, and a frontage 44. The single-row feed-out plate 41 has a width in which the body portion 33 is loaded by one and is elongated in the transport direction, and is arranged horizontally in such a manner that its longitudinal direction is oriented in a direction orthogonal to the vibration direction of the hopper portion 34. I have.

A vibration generator 4 is provided below the single-row sending plate 41.
3 is attached. The receiving plate 42 is a hopper 3
It is attached to the end of the single-line feed plate 41 so as to receive the body portion 33 approached from 4. The body 33 is received by the receiving plate 42 and rests on the single-line feed plate 41. The vibration generator 43 vibrates the single-row delivery plate 41 in the transport direction, and transports the body 33 placed thereon toward the frontage 44. The frontage 44 is provided on the downstream side in the transport direction of the single-row feed-out plate 41, and has an interval through which one body 33 passes.

A clogging prevention plate 45 is mounted in front of the frontage 44. The clogging prevention plate 45 has a shape obtained by bending a thin plate formed of an elastic material in the transport direction, and the body 33 is moved toward the receiving plate 42 by the spring force of the curved tip. Thus, it is possible to prevent the body portions 33 from colliding with each other and clogging at the frontage 44. Also, receiving plate 4
2, an opening 46 is formed at a position facing the clogging prevention plate 45. The opening 46 is provided in the body 33
By the spring force of the clogging prevention plate 45.
And is formed in such a size that a vertical one cannot pass through.

As the clogging prevention plate 45, for example, a phosphor bronze plate having a thickness of 0.25 to 0.3 mm and a width of 20 mm is preferably used.

As shown in FIGS. 5 to 8, the posture aligner 31 includes two plates 48 and 49, a pair of guide members 50 and 51, a pair of vibration generators 52 and 53, and a pair of inclined holding units. 54 and 55. The two plates 48 and 49 have a horizontally long rectangular shape, and are arranged in parallel in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction with a longitudinal direction corresponding to the transport direction. A pair of guide members 50 and 51
Has a long bar shape along the transport direction, and is mounted on each of the plates 48 and 49, respectively.

Each of the plates 48 and 49 includes a vibration generator 5
The transport surfaces are supported by the tilt holding units 54 and 55 via the second and 53 in such a manner that the transport surfaces are tilted. Figure 6
As shown in FIG. 7, the peripheral surface of the body portion 33 is always inclined to the guide member 50 (hereinafter, referred to as “reference guide member”). The pair of guide members 50 and 51 constitute a guide passage that guides the body portion 33 in the vertical posture with play, and the interval is such that the film delivery port 17 does not contact the upper guide member 51, that is, the body portion 33. Are 180 ° or more rotatable intervals. The body portion 33 abutting on the reference guide member 50 is transported with the bottom surface straddling the two plates 48 and 49, respectively. The reference guide member 50 includes two upper and lower guide members 51a and 51b.

The vibration generators 52, 53
Vibrates 8,49. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, the vibration of the vibration generators 52 and 53 is obtained by combining a component force A in the transport direction and a component force B in the direction perpendicular to the surfaces of the plates 48 and 49. Direction. The two plates 48 and 49 swing in the direction of the resultant force C. Each of the above-described component forces A and B has a stronger component force A in the transport direction than in the upward direction in order to send the body portion 33 in the transport direction. Then, in order to rotate in one direction, the frequency or amplitude of the vibration of the pair of vibration generators 52 and 53 is changed.

For example, as a method of changing the frequency, the plate 48 is vibrated twice with respect to one vibration of the plate 49. As a method of changing the amplitude, the amplitude of the plate 48 is made larger than that of the plate 49. In addition,
The same effect can be obtained by changing the strength of the spring incorporated in the vibration generators 52 and 53.

By applying vibrations of different amplitudes or frequencies in this manner, the feed speed of the body 33 is changed in each of the two plates 48 and 49. As a means for changing the feed speed, it is possible to use the two conveyors described in the prior art. However, when a conveyor is used as in the prior art, the body 33 is always in contact with the conveyor, but the speed is increased by using two vibration generators 52 and 53 as in the present embodiment. In making the difference, the difference is that the body 33 is separated from the plates 48 and 49. Due to this difference, the present embodiment has an effect that it is easy to rotate until the contact posture is reduced to a constant posture, and it is easy to maintain the posture after the constant posture.

By giving vibrations of different amplitudes or frequencies, the body 33 is fed in the transport direction while being rotated counterclockwise as shown in FIG. As a result, the body 33 is aligned in a fixed posture in which the film delivery port 17 abuts against the reference guide member 50 on the downstream side in the transport direction and rotation is stopped.

The plates 48 and 49 are arranged with a slight gap so that mutual vibrations do not interfere with each other. In addition, since the surfaces of the plates 48 and 49 are inclined before and after in the transport direction with respect to the posture alignment unit 31,
The torso 33 may fall down sideways. However, in the present embodiment, since the surfaces of the plates 48 and 49 are slightly inclined by about 7 degrees with respect to the horizontal plane, occurrence of such inconvenience is reduced.

As shown in FIG. 9, the attitude maintaining transporter 32 has two conveyors 58, 59 arranged in parallel in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction, and changes the speed of the two conveyors 58, 59 to change the cylinder. The unit 33 is transported while being held in a fixed posture. The conveying surfaces of the conveyors 58 and 59 are arranged horizontally, respectively, and the body 33 has two conveyors 58 and 5 having two bottom surfaces.
9 and is transported. Conveyors 58, 59
As shown in FIG. 10, the reference guide retainer 60
And an auxiliary guide retainer 61 are attached. The reference guide holder 60 guides at the same position as the reference guide member 50 of the posture aligning machine 31. The body portion 33 is conveyed in a state where the film feed port 17 is in contact with the guide retainer 50 and the rotation thereof is stopped.

The auxiliary guide retainer 61 is disposed so as to face the reference guide retainer 60.
Is pressed against the body 33 from the opposite side so as not to rotate past the reference guide retainer 60. The reference guide holder 60 and the auxiliary guide holder 61 are connected to the trunk 3
3 constitutes a guide passage for guiding only in the transport direction. In addition, on the side of the auxiliary guide holder 61, the body 33 is positioned so that it does not fall even if the body 33 is clogged on the downstream side in the transport direction.
Is provided with a fall assisting plate 63 for guiding the upper surface.

As shown in FIG. 11, the fall assist plate 63 is
It is arranged to be long in the transport direction, and its tip 63a is
It is bent downward. Here, a step 17d is partially formed on the end surface 13a of the body portion 13,
Telemps 18 and 19 project from the film feed port 17 in the spool axial direction. The distal end 63a is engaged with the upper surface of the body 33 so as to pass between the protruding telemps 18 and 19 and to be caught from the outside on the step 17d. Thus, the body 33 is allowed to move in the transport direction while being prevented from rotating counterclockwise. Even if a plurality of body parts 33 are clogged on the downstream side by the guide of the fall assisting plate 63, the body part 33 can be maintained in one posture without rotating and can be prevented from falling.

The two conveyors 58, 59 shown in FIG.
The belts 58a and 59a used for the drive pulley 65, the return pulley 66, and the two intermediate pulleys 6
7, 68, and a drive pulley 70 attached to the shaft of the motor 69, respectively. Drive pulley 7
Reference numeral 0 denotes a large pulley 71 for changing the speed difference between the conveyors 58 and 59, and a small pulley 72 having a smaller diameter than the large pulley 71. One belt 59a is attached to the large pulley 71,
The other belt 58a is hung on the small pulley 72, respectively. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 12, the belt 58a on the side of the reference guide holder 60 is set to the small pulley 72, and the other belt 59a is set to the large pulley 71 so that the speed of the belt 58a is faster than the other. By applying the rotation, a rotational force in the counterclockwise direction is applied to the body 33. By doing so, the rotational force can be given to the body 33 by only the single motor 69 without using separate motors, so that the cost can be reduced. In addition, each belt 58a,
59a are arranged with a slight gap.

The posture maintaining transporter 32 is provided with two detectors 74 and 75 for detecting the one that has fallen sideways and the one that has an inverted posture with the cap facing upward, upstream of the transport direction. The horizontal tilt detection unit 75 includes two transmission-type photoelectric sensors 76 and 77 disposed to face each other in the width direction of the conveyors 58 and 59.
By detecting the height of the torso 33, it is detected whether or not it has fallen sideways. The reverse posture detecting unit 74 detects in a non-contact manner whether or not the cap 12 which is a metal body is present above the body 33 by a proximity sensor 78 disposed on the conveyors 58 and 59. A signal sent from each of the detection units 74 and 75 is sent to the control unit 80, and a signal of the side-down or inverted posture is discharged from the discharge unit 81 to the outside of the posture maintaining transport device 32.

The discharge section 81 includes an air nozzle 82, an on-off valve driving section 83, a compressor 84, a tray 85, and the like. The compressor 84 sends compressed air to the air nozzle 82. The air nozzle 82 has a built-in on-off valve, and the on-off valve is opened and closed by the drive of an on-off valve driving unit 83. The on-off valve drive unit 83 controls opening and closing of the on-off valve in accordance with a signal from the control unit 80. Air nozzle 82
Is disposed downstream of the two detectors 74 and 75 in the transport direction, and blows out a side-down or inverted posture in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction by blowing air.

The tray 85 is disposed at a position facing the air nozzle 82 with the conveyors 58 and 59 interposed therebetween, and receives the body 33 blown off. In tray 85,
Sensors 86 and 87 for detecting that the body 33 has been discharged
Is attached. Sensors 86 and 87 are tray 85
When the control unit 80 detects the body 33 of the
8 is displayed by sound or light to notify the operator. In addition,
The reference guide presser 60a in the range of the discharge section 81 is provided separately from the reference guide presser 60, and is raised and discharged by a lifting mechanism (not shown) in response to the valve opening operation of the air nozzle 82. Is not hit. As described above, since the non-constant posture can be reliably discharged, only the one with the constant posture can be reliably supplied to the next patrone assembling apparatus, thereby preventing troubles in the next step.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described. Body 1
The three and one cap 12 are separately supplied to the body one-side cap assembling device 27, where they are caulked. The torso 33 with one of the caps 12 caulked is the cap 12
Are stacked on the tray in a vertical position with the. The tray is transported to the alignment device 28. The trays conveyed to the aligning device 28 are transferred by the transfer device 36 to the hopper section 34 of the single-row feeder 30 in units of one row.

The hopper section 34 includes two vibration generators 3
9 and 40 oscillate in a direction orthogonal to the transport direction. The transferred body portion 33 is moved toward the receiving plate 42. The receiving plate 42 and the single-line feeding plate 41 are
It is vibrated in the transport direction by another vibration generator 43.
The torso 33 received by the receiving plate 42 is sent to the frontage 44 in a line on the single-line feeding plate 41. In front of the frontage 44, the clogging prevention plate 45 is
Width of frontage 4
4 is prevented. The hopper 34 that has fallen sideways is discharged out of the single-row feeder 30 from the opening 46 of the receiving plate 42 by the spring force of the clogging prevention plate 45. Those in the vertical position do not pass through the opening 46.

The body 33 passing through the frontage 44 is attached to the cap 1
The posture aligning machine 31 is arranged in a line in a vertical posture with the second side as a bottom.
Sent to The body 33 sent to the posture aligning machine 31 has 2
Since the two plates 48 and 49 are inclined with respect to the horizontal, the plates 48 and 49 are shifted toward the reference guide member 50, and the side surface of the body 33 contacts the reference guide member 50. At this time, the bottom cap 12 is placed on the two plates 48 and 49 respectively. The two plates 48 and 49 are vibrated by the respective vibration generators 52 and 53 so as to have different amplitudes or frequencies. As a result, as shown in FIG. 8, the body 33 is rotated in the counterclockwise direction and is fed in the transport direction.
To a fixed posture in which rotation is stopped.

Between the attitude aligner 31 and the attitude maintaining transporter 32, a step occurs in the transport path because the two plates 48 and 49 of the attitude aligner 31 are inclined. There are a few things that fall sideways on this step. There is also a case in which the cap 12 is conveyed from the beginning in an upside-down posture. These components are detected by the side-tilt detecting unit 75 and the reverse-posture detecting unit 74 provided in the posture-maintaining transporting machine 32. This detection information is taken into the control unit 80, and when the control unit 80 detects an inconvenient posture, the open / close valve driving unit 83 is operated to open / close the open / close valve of the air nozzle 82 instantaneously. As a result, those having an inconvenient posture are instantly blown off toward the tray 85 by the air jetted from the air nozzle 82.

The body 33 having a fixed posture that has passed through the detection units 74 and 75 has a
Is transported in the transport direction in a state of contact with the conveyor, and its constant posture is maintained by the counterclockwise rotation given by the speed difference between the two conveyors 58 and 59. The auxiliary guide press 61 abuts on the opposite side of the reference guide press 60 and guides the body portion 33 only in the transport direction.
It does not rotate more than one degree. In this manner, the body 33 is sequentially conveyed from the posture maintaining carrier 32 to the next patrone assembling device 26 in a constant posture.

The cartridge 14 is supplied with a spool 14 around which the remaining cap 11 and the photo film piece 15 are wound. The body parts 33 supplied in a fixed posture are held one by one in an automatic assembling machine, and the spool 14 is inserted in the axial direction, and then the cap 11 is caulked and assembled into the photographic film cartridge 10.

In the aligning apparatus of the above embodiment, the 135 type photographic film cartridge 10 is targeted.
The present invention is not limited to this, and may be applied to an IX240 type photographic film cartridge. The shape may be any shape as long as the shape is asymmetrical with respect to the center of the contour when viewed from above.

In the above-described embodiment, the body 33 to which one of the caps 12 is attached is targeted for alignment. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The form of the photographic film cartridge 10 or only the body 13 is used. The forms can also be aligned.

Further, although the alignment device 28 is provided with the attitude maintaining transporter 32, the transporter 32 is not necessarily required in the present invention, and may be omitted when the transport distance to the next step is short. it can. In addition, the posture maintaining transporter 32
As described above, the two conveyors 58,
The present invention is not limited to the mechanism using 59, but may adopt a known mechanism.

The vibration direction of each of the plates 48 and 49 is, therefore, a straight line direction in a combined direction obtained by combining the transport direction and the direction perpendicular thereto. However, in the present invention, the vibration direction is in such a straight line direction. The invention is not limited thereto, and the vibration may circulate in the order opposite to the upward, the transport direction, the downward direction, and the transport direction, or may be the vibration that rotates in those directions. Therefore, the vibration may be directed in any direction as long as the vibration has at least a component force in the transport direction for sending the patrone forward and an upward component force for floating the patrone therein.

[0041]

As described above, according to the present invention, by applying vibrations having different feed speeds to two plates placed so that the patrone in the vertical position is straddled, the patrone is transferred in one direction while being conveyed in the conveying direction. , And the film feed port is pressed against the reference guide member so that the rotation is stopped, and the rotation is stopped at a constant position. But they can be easily aligned. This eliminates the need for a device for roughly aligning the direction of the film delivery port, as described in the related art, so that it is possible to save space at low cost and in terms of installation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a photographic film cartridge which is a part to be aligned according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing a production system for a photo film cartridge.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view illustrating a configuration of an alignment device.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a single-row feeder.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a posture aligning machine constituting the aligning device of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a right side view of the posture aligning machine.

FIG. 7 is a front view of the posture aligning machine viewed from the direction of arrow B (inclination direction) shown in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a plan view of the attitude aligning machine viewed from the direction of arrow A (the direction intersecting the inclination) shown in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a posture maintaining transporter.

FIG. 10 is a right side view showing a main part of the attitude maintaining transporter.

FIG. 11 is a perspective view schematically showing the operation of the fall assist plate.

FIG. 12 is a plan view showing a main part of the attitude maintaining transporter.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Photo film patrone 13 Body 17 Film feed port 30 Single line feeder 31 Attitude alignment machine 32 Attitude maintenance conveyance machine 33 Cap body 48,49 plate 50 Reference guide member 52,53 Vibration generator

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A method for arranging a patrone having a film outlet on a peripheral surface thereof, wherein the patrone is placed in a vertical posture so as to straddle two plates extending parallel to a transport direction.
Vibrations having different feed speeds are applied to the two plates, respectively, and the patrone is conveyed in the conveying direction while rotating in a predetermined direction on the two plates, and the film feed port comes into contact with a reference guide member abutting on the peripheral surface of the patrone. In this case, the reference guide member receives the rotation of the cartridge and guides the cartridge in the transport direction in one posture in which the film outlets are aligned in the same direction. 2. The patrone alignment method according to claim 1, wherein the two plates are inclined such that the peripheral surface of the patrone always contacts the reference guide member. 3. In a patrone aligning device having a film outlet projected on a peripheral surface, the cartridge is arranged in parallel with a transport direction.
Two plates on which a patrone in a vertical position is placed so as to straddle, a vibration generator that applies vibrations having different feed speeds to the plates and conveys the patrone in a conveying direction while rotating the patrone in a predetermined direction; Is arranged so as to abut the peripheral surface of the cartridge, and the rotation of the patrone is received by the contact of the film delivery port, and the film delivery port is guided in the transport direction while maintaining the patrone in a constant posture in the same direction. A patrone alignment device comprising a reference guide member. 4. The patrone aligning device according to claim 1, wherein the two plates are inclined so that a peripheral surface of the patrone always contacts a reference guide member.