Photography – Camera detail – Detachable or removable film holder unit
Patent
1998-01-27
1999-11-23
Gray, David M.
Photography
Camera detail
Detachable or removable film holder unit
G03B 1724
Patent
active
059888954
ABSTRACT:
A film cartridge comprising a cartridge housing, a film spool rotatable inside the housing, and first and second indicators fixed to the housing and to the film spool in order that the first indicator originally at least partially obscures the second indicator to provide an unused film indication and which are positionally reversed in response to spool rotation in a predetermined direction for the second indicator to then at least partially obscure the first indicator to provide a used film indication, is characterized in that the first and second indicators are first and second rings which each have a ring-admitting slit for receiving the other ring to allow the first and second rings to be positionally reversed in response to spool rotation in the predetermined direction, and at least one of the first and second rings has an integral pivotal flap at its ring-admitting slit which is angled not to move through the ring-admitting slit in the other ring and allow the first ring to continue to obscure the second ring when said film spool is rotated in an opposite direction and to move through the ring-admitting slit in the other ring to cause the first and second rings to move through the respective slits and be positionally reversed in response to spool rotation in the predetermined direction.
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Eastman Kodak Company
Fields Roger A.
Gray David M.
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