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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1997
Stanley W Stephenson III, Spencerport, NY (US);
Alan G Codd, Jr, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A one-time-use flash camera comprising a camera housing that contains a cartridge chamber holding a film cartridge and a film roll chamber holding an unexposed film roll on which a predetermined maximum number of exposures can be made, and a flash device, is characterized in that the flash device has a total number of flash lamps that is equal to the predetermined maximum number of exposures that can be made on the unexposed film roll, and is connected non-removably to the camera housing in order that the flash device must be broken off the camera housing to separate the flash device from the camera housing, whereby once each one of the flash lamps is used there will not be any exposures that can be made and the one-time-use flash camera must be discarded.