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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1990
Yefim Massarsky, Newton, MA (US);
Foto Fantasy, Inc., Newton, MA (US);
Abstract
An automatic film changing system for a camera-back which uses a film cassette, including a film magazine for storing a plurality of new cassettes of fresh film and presenting a fresh film cassette to replace a spent film cassette in the camera-back; a detector for detecting when the film cassette in the camera-back is spent; an accessing device, responsive to the detector, for enabling access to the film cassette in the camera-back when the cassette is spent; a cassette reloader, responsive to the detector, for ejecting a spent cassette from the camera-back and for loading a fresh cassette in the camera back from the film magazine; and a bifurcated dispensing path for normally directing finished photographs in one direction and periodically, selectively directing a spent cassette ejected from the camera-back in a second direction.