Camera construction

A camera construction comprising a housing with a compartment therein provided with an entry for removably accommodating a cartridge containing a plurality of photographic sheets arranged in superposed relation and with a corresponding surface of each sheet being light sensitive;

• drive means within the housing for selectively removing a sheet from the cartridge subsequent to the light sensitive surface thereof being exposed;
• and a door assembly mounted on the housing for movement between open and closed positions with respect to the compartment entry;
• said drive means having a picker unit mounted within said compartment for reciprocatory movement towards and away from the compartment entry to effect removal of an exposed photographic sheet from an accommodated cartridge, and power means for controlled actuation of said picker unit;
• said power means being capable of operation when a cartridge is accommodated in the housing, the door assembly is in a closed position and the photographic sheet has been exposed;
• said picker unit including an elongated member movable in substantially endwise directions and having an outwardly extending first protuberance disposed within an elongated stationary first guide means positioned within the housing adjacent one side of the compartment, an inwardly extending second protuberance spaced from said first protuberance and projecting into the compartment, said second protuberance having a rearwardly extending resilient finger with a depending tongue formed on the rear end thereof for engaging the rear edge of a photographic sheet disposed within an accommodated cartridge and effect edgewise movement of the sheet out of the cartridge towards the door assembly when said picker unit is actuated by said power means in one direction towards the compartment entry.