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US 4,108,542 AGranted
Motion-picture camera for cassette-loaded film
AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorsOtto Stemme, Peter Lermann, Alfred Winkler
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Abstract
A motion-picture camera has a housing provided with a chamber having a film compartment. A plate-shaped carrier is detachably mountable in this chamber and can carry one or two film cassettes, so that one cassette is located within and the other cassette is located without the film compartment. A movable cover closes an open side of the chamber.
Claims15
In a motion picture camera for use with cassette-loaded film, a combination comprising
- a camera housing provided with an internal chamber and having a surface formed with an access opening for said chamber;
- a carrier removably mountable in said chamber;
- first means for selectively mounting on said carrier one film cassette to be located in said chamber and another film cassette which at least in part projects through said opening and beyond said surface when the one cassette is located in said opening;
- a cover for said opening;
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- second means mounting said cover on said housing for displacement between a retracted position in which it is substantially flush with said surface and which it can assume in the absence of the other cassette, and an extended position in which is projects beyond said surface and which it assumes in the presence of the other cassette on said carrier.
3 more elements
In a variable-dimension motion picture camera for use with cassette-loaded film, a combination comprising
- a camera housing provided with an internal chamber and having a surface formed with an access opening for said chamber;
- a plate-shaped carrier removably mountable in said chamber and;
- means for selectively mounting on said carrier one film cassette to be located in said chamber and an other film cassette which at least in part projects through said opening and beyond said surface when the one cassette is located in said opening so that the exterior dimensions of said camera are decreased in the absence of said other film cassette from said carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.