Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Tsuneaki Munakata

Makoto Kuboshima

Hiroshi Fukuda

Camera

Folding camera wherein a lens mount carrying at least a taking lens assembly may be held in a position for taking photographs by a case and a folding box assembly, the case being connected to the lens mount through linkage assemblies and also serving to contain electrical circuit elements for control of the camera flash system. The folding box assembly consists of two boxes which are fixedly held in alignment with one another and provide a rigid support for the lens mount when the camera is open, and are folded into the camera to define a single box which encloses the lens mount when the camera is folded, at which time the outer walls of the case and folding box assembly constitute front and lower wall portions of the camera.

Folding camera

Folding camera in which a lens mount carrying a taking lens assembly may be held in a position for taking photographs by linkage assemblies constituted by sides of a case and associated link rods and pivotal support assemblies each constituted by a flat plate connected to the lens mount and a guide rod which connects the plate to the camera and guides movement thereof when the camera is opened or closed. The case constituting part of the linkage assemblies contains flash control elements and forms a front wall portion of the camera when the camera is folded. The pivotal support assembly elements, being flat or narrow, require only minimum accommodation space in the camera, which is therefore rendered compact and easily transportable when folded.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tsuneaki Munakata