Eastman-kodak Company

Eastman Kokak Company

Anna C Schelling

Anthony F DiGaetano

James G Rydelek

Thomas E Dussinger

Jeffrey A Solomon

Robert J Stanchus

Wayne R Ingalls

Douglas H Pearson

Walter A Jakubowski

George A Xanthos

Stanley W Stephenson

John Randall Fredlund

Jude A SanGregory

Edward N Balling

David R Dowe

Paul J Klock

Bruce A Leonard

Jennifer Linnane

Joseph J Wrobel

Robert L Kuhn

Robert D Huot

Christopher A Arnholt

William F Preston

A camera includes a main body part, a pair of front and rear cover parts that house the main body part between them, and a cover attachment to the front cover part. An operational device is mounted on the main body part to be included within the front and rear cover parts, and is depressible to be activated. The front cover part has a hole positioned over the operational device to permit the operational device to be accessed through the hole to be depressed. The cover attachment to the front cover part covers the hole in the front cover part to conceal the hole, and has an actuating member that is depressible through the hole to depress the operational device.

Camera with cover attachment movable to actuate operational device

Camera with integral flash feature

Camera covering

Camera with front and rear labels

Camera

Front label for camera

Rear label for camera

A camera is assembled according to the following method. A one-piece shock-dampening elastomeric member is placed over the front, top and rear of an inner housing. Respective openings in the elastomeric member are aligned with openings in the inner housing for a taking lens and a pair of front and rear viewfinder lenses. A protective outer housing is placed over the inner housing and the elastomeric member. Respective openings in the outer housing are aligned with the openings in the elastomeric member.

Camera with protective outer housing and shock dampening insert

Rear cover label for a flash camera

Flash camera

Front cover label for flash camera

A camera comprising a housing having similar length front, rear and bottom walls, and a cover-handle for the housing pivotable between folded and extended positions relative to the housing to uncover and recover at least a taking lens opening in the front wall, is characterized in that the cover-handle has a cavity within which the front and rear walls of the housing are partially located and the bottom wall of the housing is completely located when the cover handle is pivoted to its extended position, in order to provide an extension of the housing that makes the housing more easy to hold.

Camera with pivotable cover-handle

A protective housing for a camera comprising a pouch adapted to contain the camera, is characterized in that the pouch has at least one pivotable portion that can be pivoted about a pivot axis to open the pouch in order to allow the camera to be inserted into the pouch, and a manually depressible actuating button is supported on the pouch at the pivot axis to be able to be depressed along the pivot axis to similarly depress a shutter release button of the camera in order to initiate picture-taking.

Protective housing for camera

A hybrid camera (10) includes a camera housing (12); a first taking lens (16) for film photography; a second taking lens (18) for digital photography; a first lens cover (14) for movement between a first position in which one of the first and second lenses is covered by the first lens cover and a second position in which the one lens is uncovered by the first lens cover; a first aperture (20) in the first lens cover for revealing the other of the first and second lenses in the second position; a second lens cover (22, 90) supported by the first lens cover for movement between a third position in which the first aperture is covered by the second lens cover and a fourth position in which the first aperture is uncovered by the second lens cover to reveal the other lens in the second position; and a mechanism (74-84; 92-104) actuated by movement of the first lens cover to move the second lens cover between the third and fourth positions. A status display panel (30) is raised and lowered with the first lens cover to position the status display panel to be viewed easily at the same time as an image display panel (126) on the back of the camera.

Camera with movable first lens cover which supports movable second lens

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Anna C Schelling