Eastman-kodak Company

Eastman Kokak Company

James G Rydelek

Steven S Chapman

John K McBride

Daniel C Jackson

Joseph E Yokajty

Michael L DeCecca

Anna C Schelling

Michael Reibl

David Barclay

Randy E Horning

Anthony F DiGaetano

Wayne R Ingalls

Albert E Rieger

Edward N Balling

Jeffrey A Solomon

William T Matthias

Kevin J O'Leary

Andreas Schweizer

Arthur E Dunn

Maureen E Churan-King

David R McDougal

Heinz-Andreas Kellner

Walter A Jakubowski

George A Xanthos

Joseph E Yokaity

Jude A SanGregory

Joseph A Watkins

Steven M Bryant

Arthur S Kroll

Jerry Eugene Livadas

Roger A Fields

John M Staton

Alan E Lewis

Kenneth R Kanis

Brett Zippel Blaisdell

Paul H Tam

David M Gaudino

Robert F Zwaap

Sunny C Kim

Ernest E Brizzolara

Steve S Chapman

Stuart A Dodd

David R Fairport

A printer dock for use with a digital data terminal, has a housing having a paper inlet portal, a first tray receiver, and a second tray receiver. The first tray receiver adjoins the paper inlet portal. The second tray receiver is disposed in spaced relation to the paper inlet portal. A printer engine is disposed in the housing. The printer engine has a paper path extending from an entrance facing the paper inlet portal. A device interface is operatively connectable to the data terminal and the printer engine. A paper tray is alternately mountable in a use position and a storage position. The paper tray, in the use position, is located in the first tray receiver and is disposed in operative relation to the printer engine. The paper tray, in the storage position, is located within the second tray receiver.

Printer dock with two position tray

A camera cover assembly has a one-piece front cover and a one-piece guard. The front cover has an outwardly protruding lens hood and an inwardly recessed cup that has a slot defining a resiliently flexible tongue. The tongue has a free margin adjoining the slot and an outwardly protruding boss disposed in spaced relation to the free margin. The guard is mounted to the front cover and has a bezel and a ring. The bezel enshrouds the lens hood. The ring encircles the boss and covers the slot and free margin.

Camera guard with bezel and ring

A cowl assembly has a base and a twist ring mounted to the base. The twist ring defines an axis. The twist ring is rotatable relative to the base about the axis, between a primary orientation and a secondary orientation. A cover is removably attached to the base. A cowl is coupled to the cover. The cowl engages the twist ring. The cowl is pivotable with the twist ring between the primary and secondary orientations. The twist ring blocks the cowl from pivoting beyond the primary and secondary orientations to an overtravel orientation, in which the cowl is freely removable from the cover.

Camera cowl assembly

A partially assembled one-time-use camera includes a film section that longitudinally extends from a rotatable film winding spool in a film cartridge and that is engaged with a rotatable metering sprocket, and a separate rear cover part that is to be placed over the film section and the film cartridge and is constructed to prevent the film section from retracting out of engagement with the metering sprocket. The film winding spool is rotatable in a film winding direction to wind the film section into the film cartridge. If the film cartridge is allowed to rotate in the film winding direction before the rear cover is placed over the film section and the film cartridge, the film section will retract out of engagement with the metering sprocket. Consequently, a cartridge retention piece is positioned against the film cartridge to prevent the film cartridge from being rotated in the film winding direction. This prevents the film section from retracting out of engagement with the metering sprocket when the rear cover part is not placed over the film section and the film cartridge.

One-time-use camera with cartridge retainer to ensure film-on-sprocket retention during camera assembly

Camera with front and rear labels

Camera

A camera comprising a housing, and a carry strap attached to the housing to permit the carry strap to be longitudinally extended from the housing as a closed loop to receive one's hand in the closed loop and being elastic to be stretched around the housing to be stored on the housing, is characterized in that the carry strap has an ornamental figure which is arranged to be upstanding from the housing when the carry strap is stretched around the housing to be stored on the housing. Preferably, the carry strap has an integral platform that is wider than the remainder of the carry strap to serve as a support base for the ornamental figure. The platform is positioned on a top face of the housing, and the ornamental figure is upstanding on the platform, when the carry strap is stretched around the housing to be stored on the housing.

Camera with carry strap having ornamental figure

Front label for camera

Rear label for camera

A shutter device comprises a single piece having a blade portion that includes an impact receiving member which when impacted in an opening direction with a shutter actuator moves the blade portion to uncover an aperture, a first resilient portion bendable about a first pivot point to allow movement of the blade portion to uncover the aperture and reversible about the first pivot point to move the blade portion to recover the aperture, and a second resilient portion bendable about a second pivot point to allow movement of the blade portion without uncovering the aperture, in order to permit the shutter actuator to move the impact receiving member out of its way when the shutter actuator is returned in a reverse direction.

Dual-pivot shutter device

A one-time-use camera capable of being disassembled and comprising a main body part, a lens secured releasably to the main body part to permit the lens to be released from the main body part during camera disassembly, and a cover part separable from the main body part during camera disassembly, is characterized in that the lens is connected with the cover part to cause the lens to be released from the main body part when the cover part is separated from the main body part during camera disassembly. This facilitates camera disassembly.

One-time-use camera in which lens removed with cover part during camera

A method of recycling a spent one-time-use camera that originally includes a pair of front and rear cover parts and a main body part having a chamber for a film cartridge, and which has had corresponding bottom portions of the front and rear cover parts and the main body part cut off to provide an opening for removing the film cartridge from the chamber, comprises the steps:

Method of recycling one-time-use camera

A method of unloading a film cartridge with exposed film from a spent one-time-use camera that has a main body part with a chamber for the film cartridge and a pair of front and rear cover parts which house the main body part between them, comprises the steps:

Method of unloading film cartridge from one-time-use camera

A one-time-use camera comprises a main body part having a cartridge receiving chamber, a film cartridge in the chamber, a rear inner cover part having a door cover portion closing the chamber and supported to be pivoted open to permit the film cartridge to be removed from the chamber, a front inner cover part that together with the rear inner cover part house the main body part between them, and a pair of front and rear outer covers connected to one another over the front and rear inner cover parts. The rear outer cover is engaged releasably with the front outer cover to permit the rear outer cover to be disengaged from the front outer cover and is connected with the door cover portion to pivot the door cover portion open when the rear outer cover is disengaged from the front outer cover.

One-time-use camera with outer cover connected to inner film door to

A one-time-use camera comprises an opaque main body part; a flash device on the main body part that provides flash illumination; a taking lens on the main body part; a light-transmitting outer cover having an opening for the flash device and an opening for the taking lens; and an opaque inner cover part, behind the light-transmitting outer cover, having an opening for the flash device that is aligned with the opening for the flash device in the light-transmitting outer cover, and including an opaque lens baffle for the taking lens that projects from the opaque inner cover part, through the opening for the taking lens in the light-transmitting outer cover, and protrudes from the light-transmitting outer cover to prevent the light-transmitting outer cover from transmitting flash illumination to the taking lens.

Flash camera with opaque lens baffle protruding from front translucent

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Henrietta, NY, United States of America

James G Rydelek