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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1980
Jerome W Lindenfelser, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Photo Control Corporation, Crystal, MN (US);
Abstract
A camera having shutter means for momentarily exposing film in a film plane to a light image from the camera lens. The shutter includes an arcuate shutter plate having an aperture therethrough aligned with the optical path of light through the lens, a mirror support bearing a mirror and mounted to the housing and pivotable between cocked and uncocked positions, the mirror support in its cocked position positioning the mirror between the aperture in the film plane to mask the film plane from the lens, and an arcuate masking plate mounted in the housing and swingable on the opposite side of the aperture plate from the mirror support between a cocked position out of alignment with the optical path and an uncocked position in the optical path and masking the aperture from the lens. The camera includes means urging the mirror support, and means urging the exterior masking plate, respectively, toward their uncocked positions.