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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 1993
Filed:
May. 22, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Matthew DiPietro, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354277 ; 378182 ; 242 74 ;
Abstract
A magazine has a space for receiving a package containing a stack of film sheets enclosed within a bag. The bag is removable from the stack of sheets while the package is within the magazine by exerting a pulling force on the bag. Means are provided within the magazine for flexing the stack of film sheets in response to pulling of the bag from the stack, thus loosening adjacent sheets in the film stack that may be stuck together and facilitating removal of the sheets seriatim.