Agfa-gevaert Ag

Siegfried Zobel

Dieter Engelsmann

Hubert Hackenberg

Karl Wagner

Peter Lermann

Hermann Luhrig

Franz Hoffacker

Guido Kovacic

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

A film cassette for multi-exposure film strips has a body part with an inner compartment for a film strip and at least one opening for passage of the film strip therethrough between an initial position before exposure and a final position after exposure, and elements for preventing unintentional withdrawal of the film strip from the body part in at least one of these positions, the preventing elements arranged between the body part and the film strip. The preventing elements can be arranged so that they prevent unintentional withdrawal of the film strip in both positions. The preventing elements include a recess provided in one of the film strip and the body part, and a projection provided in the other of the film strip and the body part and engageable in the recess.

Film cassette

The user of the camera moves an input component to supply film-transport force. A rotary transmission transmits film-transport force fo the input component to the film in the camera, and includes first and second output components. When the input component is moved, the first output component is arrested and the second non-arrested, and then the second output component is arrested and the first non-arrested. A locking structure moves from a locking position arresting the first output component and an unlocking position releasing the first output component. A sensing mechanism responds to film frame advancement by entering into a film perforation, causing the locking structure to move to the unlocking position and causing the second output component to become arrested by the resistance of the film to transport. The transmission includes a gear driven by the input component and driving the second output component and displaceable mounting member mounting the gear for both rotation and displacement. The displaceable mounting member constitutes the first output component of the transmission.

Film transport mechanism for cameras

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Munich, Germany

Siegfried Zobel