Camera
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenji Ito
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Abstract
A camera equipped with an accommodating chamber which constitutes a periphery including a film spool spindle and which accommodates a film cartridge having a recess at one longitudinal end thereof, includes: a protruding surface portion which is provided in the accommodating chamber, which enters the recess, and which has on the outer surface thereof on the side opposite to the film cartridge a step formed by a recessed portion recessed toward the film cartridge; and a gear member arranged in the recessed portion and adapted to be engaged with the spool spindle to rotate the spool spindle, whereby the dimension in the camera height direction (i.e., the dimension in the longitudinal direction of the film cartridge) is reduced.
Claims4
A camera equipped with an accommodating chamber which accommodates a film cartridge having a recess at one longitudinal end, and film spool spindle thereof, the camera comprising:
- a protruding surface portion which is provided in the accommodating chamber, which enters the recess, and which has on the outer surface thereof on the side opposite to the film cartridge a step formed by a recessed portion recessed toward the film cartridge;
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- a gear member arranged in the recessed portion and adapted to be engaged with the spool spindle to rotate the spool spindle.
A camera equipped with an accommodating chamber which accommodates a film cartridge having a recess at one longitudinal end, and film spool spindle thereof, the camera comprising:
- a gear member engaged with the film spool spindle to rotate the film spool spindle;
- a retaining member rotatably retaining the gear member;
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- an opening formed in a portion of the accommodating chamber corresponding to the recess of the film cartridge, the gear member entering the opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.