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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 1986
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1984
Frederick W Harvey, Webster, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A film cartridge having a light-trapped slit from which a film leader protrudes is positioned in a photographic camera with the leader pointing towards a film take-up chamber in the camera. Enough of the leader is drawn out of the cartridge to reach a film take-up spool rotatably supported in the take-up chamber. Then, a leading end portion of the leader is placed in the take-up chamber in contact with the take-up spool to enable automatic engagement with the spool. If the leading end portion of the leader reaches beyond the take-up chamber, either because too much of the leader was drawn out of the cartridge or because the leader was too long originally, closing movement of the camera back causes a positioning member mounted on the back to insert the leading end portion into the take-up chamber and to press such end portion against the take-up spool.