Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Mashasi Takamura

Yasuhiko Tanaka

Katsuji Muramatsu

Daisuke Ito

A film initial-advance apparatus advances, after a film cassette is loaded, a film leader portion protruding from the film cassette toward a film take-up spool. A drive lever moves as the film take-up spool rotates. The drive lever causes a film threading member to reciprocally and intermittently move along a film passageway. The film threading member engages with a perforation of the film leader portion to intermittently advance the film leader portion. When the film leader portion is fully captured by the film take-up spool, the drive lever is pushed outside in the axial direction of the film take-up spool by the side edge of the film leader portion, thereby disengaging the drive lever from the film take-up spool. The film threading member rotates while moving in the radial direction, having a large radius of rotation of the claw over the range wherein it engages a perforation of the film leader portion and a smaller radius elsewhere.

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Tokyo, Japan

Mashasi Takamura