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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1995
Dennis Roland Zander, Penfield, NY (US);
David Clinton Smart, Fairport, NY (US);
Thomas Edgar Dussinger, Henrietta, NY (US);
Edward Norman Balling, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A camera includes a body portion having a cartridge chamber for retaining a film cartridge and a film chamber for retaining a filmstrip a pump cover coupled to the body portion and movable in opposite directions between an opened and a closed position, as well as a rotatable film winding for engaging the film cartridge to wind filmstrip into the film cartridge as the gear is rotated. An engageable locking lever prevents the gear from being rotated until disengaged by movement of the cover in one of the opposite directions in which a movable gear rack having a set of engagement teeth engages the unlocked film winding gear and rotates the film winding gear when the cover is moved in one of the opposite directions to wind film into a film cartridge.