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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1992
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1991
Katsuji Muramatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiko Tanaka, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Nakamura, Saitama, JP;
Mashasi Takamura, Tokyo, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A film initial-advance apparatus advances, after a film cassette is loaded, a film leader portion protruding from the film cassette toward a film take-up spool. A drive lever moves as the film take-up spool rotates. The drive lever causes a film threading member to reciprocally and intermittently move along a film passageway. The film threading member engages with a perforation of the film leader portion to intermittently advance the film leader portion. When the film leader portion is fully captured by the film take-up spool, the drive lever is pushed outside in the axial direction of the film take-up spool by the side edge of the film leader portion, thereby disengaging the drive lever from the film take-up spool. The film threading member rotates while moving in the radial direction, having a large radius of rotation of the claw over the range wherein it engages a perforation of the film leader portion and a smaller radius elsewhere.