Apparatus for preventing opening of a single-use camera until the light shield is closed
AssigneeKonica Corporation
InventorsTetsufumi Takaba, Masami Fujita, Shuri Mizoguchi, Masaru Yamazaki, Osamu Shibazaki, Hitoshi Ohkubo
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Abstract
A single-use camera which is loaded with a film cartridge having a light-shielding cover on a film gate thereof. The single-use camera includes: a cover for covering the film cartridge when the cover is at its closed position, a closing member for closing the light-shielding cover of the film cartridge, a stopper for keeping the cover member at the closed position, and a stopper release for releasing the stopper so as to allow the cover to be open while the light-shielding cover is being closed by the closing member.
Claims5
A single-use camera comprising:
- a main body;
- a chamber positioned in said main body;
- a film cartridge positioned in said chamber, said film cartridge having a film gate and a light-shielding cover positioned in said film gate;
- a cover member mounted on said main body and movable between an open position and a closed position, said cover member covering said film cartridge in said chamber when said cover member is in said closed position, and allowing access to said film cartridge when said cover member is in said open position;
- a closing member for closing said light shielding cover of said film cartridge when said film cartridge is in said chamber;
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- a prohibiting means for prohibiting a tool from being inserted into said main body of said camera thereby prohibiting said tool from moving said cover member from said closed position to said open position, said prohibiting insertion of said tool by said prohibiting means being cancelled only when said light-shielding cover closes said film gate by means of said closing member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.