Eastman-kodak Company

Gerald J Angeli

Dale Frederick McIntyre

J Kelly Lee

Robert P Cloutier

Svetlana Reznik

Frederick John Jeffers

Harland J Hansen

A filmstrip which has a substantially transparent magnetic layer is loaded into a camera. Successive sections of the filmstrip are moved inside the camera to locate corresponding sections of the magnetic layer adjacent an inside face of a magnetic-film-write-on portion of the camera. A hand held stylus is manually moved on an outside face of the magnetic-film-write-on portion, opposite the inside face, to record hand-generated information magnetically on the magnetic layer.

Method and camera for writing hand-generated information on a filmstrip

A display package assembly comprising a main closed portion housing a camera, and another closed portion housing a consumable such as a film cartridge and/or one or more batteries, is characterized in that the main portion housing the camera is permanently sealed to prevent removal of the camera from the main portion without breaking open the main portion, and the other portion housing the consumable has a removable cover to permit the other portion to be opened and re-closed to replace the consumable without breaking open the other portion.

Display package for camera and replaceable consumable

A single-use camera comprises a light-tight film casing and a film cassette located inside the casing. The film cassette includes a rotatable film spool with an end portion engageable to rotate the spool, and an active light lock with an end portion engageable to rotate the light lock open to permit film movement out of and into the cassette interior and closed to prevent ambient light from entering the cassette interior. The casing has separate weakened areas covering the end portion of the spool and the end portion of the light lock which can be entirely pierced to make respective perforations in the casing to permit individual access to the end portions to engage them for rotating the spool and for rotating the light lock closed and, simultaneously, to destroy the casing to prevent it from being reused.

Single-use camera with weakened area to access film cassette

In a photographic camera adapted to receive a film cartridge containing a rotatable film disk, a film advance hub is rotated in engagement with the film disk to move successive frame areas of the disk into an exposure position for picture-taking. A plurality of frame number identifiers corresponding respectively to the frame areas of the film disk are arranged on a rear cover of the camera substantially about an opening in the rear cover. A free end portion of the film advance hub is disposed in the opening to enable a pointer element on the free end portion to indicate the frame number identifier corresponding to a frame area of the film disk in the exposure position.

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Fairport, NY, United States of America

Gerald J Angeli