Agfa-gevaert Ag

Robert Boschgmbh

Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschatt

Peter Lermann

Otto Stemme

Dieter Engelsmann

Gunter Fauth

Karl Wagner

Istvan Cocron

Eduard Wagensonner

Rolf Schroder

Volkmar Stenzenberger

Frank A Staudacher

Reinhard Nicko

Herbert Wilsch

Friedrich Winkler

Werner Went

Richard Wick

Friedrich Stumpf

Horst Karl

Karl-Heinz Schultheiss

Eberhard Herzig

Helmut Treiber

Herbert Schultes

Erich Nagel

Bernd Payrhammer

Alfred Winkler

Johann Zanner

Kurt Borowski

Hermann Luhrig

Jurgen Sylla

Leonhard Huber

Herbert Muller

Thomas Scheller

Anton Theer

Gerhard Benker

Wolfgang Ruf

Hubert Hackenberg

Franz Hoffacker

Guido Kovacic

Theodor Huber

Dieter Maas

Alois Rieder

Hermann Muller

Manfred Schlechte

Siegfried Zobel

Claus Steiner

Peter Griessner

Gunther Kirchhof

Franz Lechner

Peter Ungnadner

Josef Gruber

Gabriele Ehgartner

Paul Kopf

Peter Stiefel

Leo Lippl

Dieter Sandl

Julian Schlagheck

Jorg Heidrich

Peter Utschig

Rolf Schrooder

Stefan Vogt

Rainer Spinnler

Friedrich-Ludolph Hoesch

Rolf Schroeder

Justus Danhauser

Peter Blockinger

A photographic roll-film pack, comprised of a light-proof core case with roll-film, with a photographic shutter, film advance means with manual control, a picture counter, a shutter-release device and apertures and/or lenses of a picture-taking lens and/or viewfinder defining optical beam paths, with a covering for the core case which leaves uncovered at least one manual control, is designed so that the covering is formed by a protective case (11, 12), enclosing the core case (1, 2), which is composed of shells (11, 12) of essentially rigid plastics which is at least transparent in the areas of apertures and/or lenses of a picture-taking lens and/or viewfinder defining optical beam paths. The roll-film pack is thereby protected against moisture, dirt and damage, but can still be manufactured cost-effectively using automated production and it can be re-assembled following removal of an exposed film.

Photographic roll-film pack with a picture-taking lens

A camera for roll film which can be wound into a film cassette has a central subassembly forming a light-tight inner body in which a film cassette chamber which receives the film cassette is contained and in which a film guidance device is contained, and has an outer body which surrounds the central subassembly, wherein the film cassette chamber of the central subassembly can be closed by a removable cassette chamber cover which is accessible through an opening in the outer body.

Modular camera with cassette chamber accessible through outerbody

Relatively short sections of photographic roll films (such sections can consist of a single film frame or of two or another small number of film frames) are provided with elongated strip-shaped extensions for convenient transport through a copying machine. Extensions are severed from the leader of a roll of convoluted flexible material having a width matching the desired length of an extension, and one end of a freshly severed extension is caused to overlap one end of a film section so that the extent of overlap is not more than the width of a frame line between two neighboring frames of a roll film. One side of each extension is fully coated with a layer of hotmelt, and the extension is sealed to the respective film section by a narrow elongated heating element which is moved against the overlapping ends of the film section and the properly oriented extension. The roll can be subdivided into wider or narrower extensions, depending upon the width of film sections which are to be connected with extensions.

Method of and apparatus for applying flexible extensions to sections of

Apparatus for convoluting exposed and copied photographic films on the cores of takeup reels has an advancing mechanism which transports successive films along a given path so that the leaders of successive films can be engaged by the gripper of a pivotable arm serving to transfer the leader of the film in the path toward the peripheral surface of the core of an empty takeup reel. The reel has no flanges or is provided with a single flange carrying or adjacent a fixedly mounted or movable protuberance which defines with the peripheral surface of the core a gap for the leader of the film. Once the leader has entered the gap and the takeup reel is set in rotary motion, the film is wound onto the protuberance and is thus affixed to the core. The length of the protuberance is less than the axial length of the core but exceeds one-fourth of such axial length.

Apparatus for storing flexible webs on the cores of takeup reels

A photographic copying machine wherein the images of successive frames on a long roll of spliced-together exposed and developed customer films are copied while successive films are advanced stepwise from a supply reel on a first driven mandrel toward and is convoluted on a takeup reel on a second driven mandrel. The copying machine employs a third mandrel which can support a fresh roll in the plane of the roll on the first mandrel, and a fourth mandrel which can support an empty takeup reel in the plane of the rotating takeup reel. The leader of the fresh roll is located adjacent the film path ahead of the copying station and is automatically advanced into the range of an automatic attaching mechanism when the trailing end of the expiring roll has advanced beyond the copying station. The attaching mechanism secures the leader of the fresh roll to the core of the empty takeup reel, and the machine is then ready to make copies of frames forming part of the fresh roll. The filled takeup reel on the second mandrel is replaced with an empty takeup reel and a fresh roll is placed onto the first mandrel while the machine copies the frames of the roll which is supported by the third mandrel and is convoluted on the takeup reel on the fourth mandrel.

Apparatus for replacing rolls of customer films in copying machines

When a trigger lever is depressed, both a focus adjuster ring and a control disk commence to rotate in unison, driven by a spring mechanism. Position-sensing switches receive signals indicating which subject-distance setting the focus adjuster ring should be arrested at, and furthermore are opened and closed by the control disk during movement of the latter. When the focus adjuster ring reaches the required subject distance setting, it is arrested and kept arrested, thereby completing an automatic focussing operation, but the control disk continues to turn on to its end position, at which it causes the shutter mechanism of the camera to open and furthermore the exposure-timing circuit of the camera to initiation a scene-light-dependent exposure-timing operation.

Automatic exposure control for automatic-focus cameras

A film winding spool for a photographic camera has an inner cylindrical member driven in rotation and provided with engaging formations for engaging an initial portion of the film, and an outer cylindrical member surrounding the inner member so as to form a space therebetween and having a slot for introducing the initial portion of a film into this space and an outer surface for winding successive coils of the film, wherein the outer member has at least one opening arranged so that a piece of the film separated from a remaining part of the film can be withdrawn from the space between the inner and outer members through the opening.

Film winding spool for photographic camera

A film transport arrangement for a cassette has a film transport handle, a perforation wheel having a plurality of keys and arranged to engage a perforated film accommodated in a cassette having a film mouth and inserted or insertable in the camera and to move the film from the cassette, and an adjusting device for adjusting the perforation wheel and arranged between the film transport handle and the perforation wheel so that the perforation wheel is always held or brought into such an angular position in which one of its teeth engages in a perforation hole of a film initial portion lying in a film mouth of the cassette insertable or inserted in the camera.

Film transport arrangement with perforation wheel for camera

Transparency viewer

The invention relates to a film cassette for a photosensitive film consisting of a light-proof, flat flexible case substantially equal in length to the strip of film and a cassette opening which extends perpendicularly of the length of the case and which is provided with light-sealing means whereby the top part and the bottom part of the cassette being fixedly interconnected solely in the vicinity of the cassette opening and the other three edges are displaceable relative to one another in light proof labyrinths, even if the case is bent, the strip of film retains its freedom of movement.

Film cassette for a photosensitive film strip

A photographic still provided with a magnetizable coating is inserted into a recording/playback device provided with a movably mounted head unit having a set of heads. A rotary motor drives an endless belt in a single direction, the upper and lower runs of the belt always travelling in opposite directions. The head unit is alternately coupled to the upper and to the lower run of the belt, for travel in one and then the opposite direction. Upon each reversal of the travel direction of the head unit, a successive one of the magnetic heads is activated, so as to track a meandering track on the magnetic coating.

Playback and/or recording device for magnetic recording media,

A distance measuring system generates an in-range signal when an object is located within a range of focus or a zone of protection, as the case may be. The system utilizes a single infrared transmitter and two receivers in order to determine the position of the object by triangulation.

Distance-measuring system with in-range signalling for use with cameras,

A photographic still or motion-picture camera has a viewfinder and a manually moved focus adjuster, such as a focussing ring. When the user peers into the viewfinder, there is a visible indication of the direction in which the focus adjuster should be manually moved to reduce the state-of-focus error, for example two curved illuminated errors, one pointing clockwise and the other counterclockwise, only one of which lights up to indicate the direction in which the focussing ring should be manually turned. When the state-of-focus error has been reduced to zero or a minimum, this is likewise indicated, for example because neither curved arrow is illuminated. To control the activation of the indicating elements, use can be made of components of a conventional completely automatic focussing system, but minus the adjusting motor of such system and minus superfluous motor-energization control circuitry. In this way, the user is provided a simple and unequivocal guide when manually focussing, without the cost, complexity, bulkiness and power consumption of a complete automatic focussing system including an adjusting motor and motor-energization control circuitry.

Photographic camera with state-of-focus indication

A novel film cartridge, camera for use with such cartridge and method of making such cartridge are disclosed. The cartridge is in form of a pocket of a material which is impermeable to light and which accommodates a multi-exposure film strip having a length at least equal to the length of the pocket. The pocket is provided with at least one opening extending transversely to its elongation and through which a leading end of the film strip extends to the exterior of the pocket so that it can be engaged by a film transporting mechanism of a camera suitable for accommodating such a pocket, which mechanism transports the film strip either in one continuous movement out of the pocket and into a storage space of the camera from where it is sequentially transported into the pocket in increments during which exposures are made, or else the film is sequentially transported out of the pocket and into the camera storage space with exposures being made during each transporting step and the exposed film is thereupon returned in a single movement into the pocket. However, the pocket may also have two parts one of which accommodates the non-exposed film strip which is then transported during exposures into the other part so that the film strip becomes completely located in the other part when it is fully exposed and a re-transportation into the first part of the pocket is not necessary. Cameras suitable for use with various embodiments of the novel cartridge are also disclosed, as well as methods of making the cartridge.

Film cassette and method of making the same

A film advancing arrangement for a film projector having an optical system and two spools between which a film is advanced, comprises two spool supports for carrying a supply spool and a takeup spool respectively. The spool supports are pivotally mounted with respect to the housing of the projector to be positioned inside of the housing or outside of the housing so that the spools of small standard diameters may be located within the contours of the housing and the spools of large standard diameters may be mounted on the same spool supports and located outside of the housing.

Film advancing arrangement

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Narring, Germany

Peter Lermann