Machine for sectioning and inserting film frames into aperture cards

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR SECTIONING MICROFILM HAVING A SERIES OF FRAMES JOINED TOGETHER BY JUNCTION AREAS INTO INDIVIDUAL FRAMES AND FOR INSERTING EACH FRAME INTO AN APERTURE CARD OF THE SUSPENSION TYPE HAVING AN OPENING FOR ADMITTING SAME, SAID MACHINE COMPRISING A SECTIONING STATION HAVING SPACED FORE AND AFT BLADES, MEANS CONDUCTING AN UNCUT WEB OF MICROFILM INTO SAID STATION TO ALIGN THE LEADING AND TRAILING EDGES OF A FRAME WITH SAID BLADES WHEREBY THE JUNCTION AREA ADJACENT THE LEADING EDGE LIES FORWARDLY OF THE FORE BLADE, AND APERTURE CARD LOADING STATION TO SUPPORT A CARD WITH ONE END ADJACENT THE FORE BLADES OF SAID SECTIONING STATION, MEANS TO ACTUATE SAID BLADES WHEREBY SAID FRAME IS SECTIONED TO SIZE AND THE JUNCTION AREA IS SEVERED THEREFROM, MEANS TO ADVANCE SAID UNCUT WEB THEREBY TO PUSH THE LEADING EDGE OF THE SECTIONED FRAME THROUGH THE OPENING OF SAID APERTURE CARD PARTIALLY TO INSERT SAME AND TO POSITION THE NEXT FRAME INTO ALIGNMENT WITH SAID BLADES, A PUSHER DEVICE HAVING A FINGER TO PUSH THE PARTIALLY INSERTED FRAME INTO SAID APERTURD WHEN A CARD IS TRANSFERRED FROM SAID LOADING STATION AND INSERTED IN SAID DEVICE, AND SWITCH MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID BLADE-ACTUATING MEANS AND OPERATIVELY COUPLED TO SAID PUSHER DEVICE TO RENDER SAID ACTUATING MEANS OPERATIVE WHEN A CARD IS INSERTED IN SAID PUSHER DEVICE.