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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1993
Thomas C Merle, Rochester, NY (US);
Dale W Ryan, Rochester, NY (US);
David L Rowden, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A tool for detaching a trailing end portion of a filmstrip from at least one hook atop a ramp on a film spool inside a film cartridge. This detachment occurs when the tool is inserted inwardly through a film ingress/egress slot in the cartridge. The tool includes a flexible element having a leading first portion followed by a wider second portion each configured to be successively inserted inwardly through the slot of the cartridge beneath a film section in the slot such that when the wider second portion is forced to slide up the ramp on the spool the leading first portion will push the trailing end portion of the filmstrip off the hook atop the ramp.