Slide cassette packer

Claim 1

For use with a photographic slide mounting machine which includes a slide delivering mechanism for discharging the mounted slides from said machine; a slide packing mechanism, comprising a transporting and stacking conveyor having a receiving end and stacking end and constructed and arranged to successively receive at the receiving end the mounted slides from the delivery mechanism of the mounting machine in overlapped "shingled" relationship and transport said overlapped slides toward the stacking end thereof, an elongated carrier cassette removably mounted on said conveyor and having sides spaced apart a distance greater than the width of the slides to be packed, a pair of spaced apart inwardly extending flanges provided at the bottom of said cassette sides and disposed below the slides being transported, the space between said flanges being less than the width of the slides but greater than the width of said conveyor to receive and capture said slides within said cassette, an inclined stacking member at the stacking end of said cassette to shift the overlapped slides being transported by the conveyor up into substantially vertical position and from a horizontal stack of upstanding slides packed within said cassette, said inwardly extending flanges retaining said slides in said cassette to permit removal of the packed slides from said conveyor and said conveyor being constructed and arranged to slidably engage the stacked slides during the transporting and stacking of successive slides in the cassette.