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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1991
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1989
Steven R Lippold, Oakfield, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A lighttight box, for automatically delivering a photosensitive sheet of photographic film to an exposure station, and for positively removing the film from the exposure station and returning it to the box. The box includes a lid movable between a closed lighttight position and a fully open position. A clamshell film-carrying mechanism, connected to the lid, is mounted for movement, in a film delivery mode, from a closed position internal to the box when the lid is in its lighttight position, to an open film-delivery position external to the box when the lid is in its fully open position, and, in a film removal mode, from an open position, in which the clamshell mechanism clasps the rear edge of the film, to a closed position, in which the film is positively removed from the station and the film is replaced in the box.