Patent · US Expired

Photographic apparatus gear train having a unique set of gears

US4051492A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 13, 1976
Grant dateSep 27, 1977
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Expiry dateJan 13, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T74/19972
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A pair of meshing gears, having unique tooth profiles, are provided in a separable gear train which is usable in a self-developing camera to couple a motor in one housing section of the camera to at least one of a pair of pressure-applying rollers mounted on a second camera housing section that is pivotally coupled to the first section for movement between positions blocking and unblocking access to a film container receiving section in the first housing section. The pair of gears have a speed ratio of other than 1:1 and equal tip spacing to facilitate bringing the pair of gears into operative mesh when the second housing section is moved to the operative blocking position.

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