Flash unit and camera
AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorsDieter Engelsmann, Karl Wagner, Hubert Hackenberg
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Abstract
A multi-lamp flash unit and a camera with which it is usable, are described. The flash unit has a mounting shoe with which it is connectable to the camera. The shoe has an opening affording access to the interior of the unit, where a triggering element can be displaced from a rest position to an operating position in which it triggers advancement of a flash lamp into a reflector of the unit. The camera has an element which can enter through the opening and displace the triggering element to the operating position of the same.
Claims12
In a multiple-lamp flash unit, a combination comprising a casing having a flashlamp firing station;
- transporting means for transporting a plurality of flash-lamps seriatim to said firing station;
- means for advancing said transporting means, including a sprocket operatively connected with said transporting means and a pawl alternately disengageable from and re-engageable with said sprocket so that the latter can perform a stepwise advance of said transporting means during each disengagement of the pawl;
- and triggering means movable from a rest position to an operating position in which it disengages said pawl from said sprocket, said casing having an opening to afford access to said triggering means by an actuating element of a camera to which said flash unit is connectable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.