US 4,735,886 A · Instant photographic method and apparatus

Abstract

An image-receiving member of sheet material has a portion on which a positive image is adapted to be formed. A pod of processing liquid is secured to the sheet material outside of the image-forming portion. Each pod is preferably divided into two processing fluid containing portions, such that an advancing roller can contact the flat portion devoid of processing liquid in order to advance the image-receiving sheet without rupturing the pod. The mask defining the area on which a positive image is formed, can be either a continuous sheet having openings at regular intervals, or it can be formed by connector sheets alternately coupled to image-receiving sheets in combination with longitudinal masking strips affixed directly to the image-receiving sheet.

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Dependent claims

An image-receiving member comprising a plurality of discrete, substantially rectangular, image-receiving sheets each having a portion on which a positive image is adapted to be formed, and a plurality of discrete, substantially rectangular connector sheets, said connector sheets and said image-receiving sheets being joined together end-to-end in alternating arrangement to form a longitudinal strip;

each said image-receiving sheet having a pair of parallel elongated mask members affixed directly thereto on opposite sides of said image-receiving sheet, parallel to the length of said strip, and on opposite sides of said portion, said mask members being substantially thicker than said plurality of connector sheets;
each said connector sheet having a pod of processing liquid affixed adjacent an end thereof.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Instant photographic method and apparatus

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