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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2000
Kiichiro Kitagawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A film unit picking device including a picking claw for engaging an edge of a film unit loaded in a film unit cassette, subsequent to exposure by a exposure unit and advancing the film unit into a bite of a pair of processing liquid spread rollers, wherein the picking claw can be shifted between a first position at which the picking claw is off or slightly touched to the film unit and a second position at which the picking claw can be engaged with a trailing edge of the film unit in connection with the movement of the picking claw to advance the film unit. The picking claw is swingably mounted on a sliding plate being capable of reciprocally moving in a film unit advancing direction and being urged toward the film unit to be engaged with by a spring disposed between the sliding plate and the picking claw.