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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1997
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A cartridge holder being movable between a cartridge accommodating position where it is concealed within a camera body and a projecting position where it is exposed outside the camera body has a lower supporting member at its bottom for driving a film spool in a film cartridge inserted through an opening into the cartridge holder by engaging a lower end of the film spool, and an upper supporting member for engaging an upper end of the film spool. The upper supporting member is moved between its retracted position where it is retracted from the opening of the cartridge holder and its engaged position where it engages the film spool, its movement interconnecting with the movement of the cartridge holder between its cartridge accommodating and projecting positions.