Eastman-Kodak Company

Robert L Reynolds

Nelson D Hozman

Thomas G Kirn

In a camera, a pressure plate is urged against a film frame to hold the film frame in the focal plane of a picture-taking lens during exposure. A resiliently flexible strip, mounted on a loading door of the camera, is normally disposed in a storage plane. An actuating pin, which engages the flexible strip when the loading door is closed, connects the strip to camera mechanism, such as a shutter release. The actuating pin operates, in response to movement of the shutter release, to partially bow an intermediate portion of the strip from the storage plane by sliding a first portion of the strip in the storage plane toward a second, stationary portion of the strip. Bowing of the strip moves the intermediate portion toward the exposure plane to urge the pressure plate against the film frame before exposure and establishes a resilient force in the bowed portion for returning the strip to the storage plane after exposure.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Robert L Reynolds