A package for X-ray film wherein the sheets of film are in faceTo-face contact and held in a compressed condition within the package to avoid shifting of the sheets during shipment and handling.

A container for containing photographs and associated strips of negatives formed from a plastics material housing having one rectangular compartment for containing photographs and a second compartment for accommodating strips of negatives. The container is a flat container having a pivotally mounted lid which constitutes substantially all of one flat side of the container, and the lid may be opened to provide access to at least one compartment. The lid is formed at least partially from a transpa...

A holder (10) for photographic slides which is normally in a rectilinear condition in which it can be contained in a box. The holder includes a flexible element (12) which has connecting portions (18, 20) at each end thereof. A tongue (28) associated with the portion (18) co-operates with a tongue associated with the portion (20) and the portion (18) co-operates with a flange (34) to secure the holder into the form of a closed loop. A unit (14) is attached to the element (12) and to the portions...

A carrier for a package containing a stack of sheets of x-ray film has a first wall located along one side of the stack of sheets and a second wall located along the opposite side of the stack of sheets. The dimensions of the walls relative to the film sheets is such that the first wall extends less than the full width of the sheets and the second wall extends less than the full length of the sheets. This enables a sheet removing device to engage and remove a sheet from either side of the stack ...

A package has a light tight pouch that encloses a stack of rectangular sheets of film. The package can be loaded in either of two different kinds of equipment which have means for removing the pouch from the film stack so that the sheets can be fed seriatim from the stack. One kind of equipment requires the package to be oriented so that the pouch can be removed from a narrow side of the package while the second kind of equipment requires the package to be loaded therein so that the pouch can be...

The packing has a smooth, tension-proof, plastic and metallic foil arrangement which surrounds a stack of films in a light-proof and weather-proof manner. Two parallel weld seams weld the foil together at the stack edges and a third weld seam extends vertically thereto. The film stack is embraced somewhat loosely between the welds. The foil extends as a holding strip beyond one of the parallel weld seams and as a substantially longer pull strap beyond the other weld seam. A gusset of the foil ar...

A slide holding device for the editing and sorting of slides includes a planar rigid transparent backing member and a plurality of spaced apart resilient flexible slide holding strips mounted thereon. The strips are spaced apart by a distance not greater than the length of a slide to be held and have a first portion for holding a slide at the bottom edge thereof in either a partially inserted or a fully inserted position and have a second portion for engaging the top edge of the slide when the s...

A package which loads a stack of single films into an internally bladed daylight cassette, has a waisted middle part accommodating the stack, a strip for retaining the package in the cassette, a transverse weld following the retaining strip, a pull tab for pulling the package out of the cassette, a transverse weld in the pull tab and a pair of longitudinal welds in the upper and lower side of the pull tab with widened portions in the zone where the cassette blades enter, which welds continue to ...

A package for storing and transporting rectangular glass plates such as high resolution photographic plates for use in the manufacturing of masks for integrated circuits. The plates are immobilized in the package by resilient contact with at least two elongated resilient tubes engaging corresponding corners of the plates and being yieldingly compressed between the plate corners and the container.

A film holder which is disclosed herein includes a inner frame defining a photo-sensitive plate insert slot between a partition plate, and outer frames each defining a dark slide insert groove between said inner frame. In this film holder, a plurality of stopper springs are formed on the peripheral sides of a body which is comprised of the partition plate and the inner frame. A plurality of hooks are formed on each the outer frames which are overlaid on the body to define the dark slide insert s...