Patent · US Expired

Light intercepting device of a camera

US4324470A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 19, 1981
Grant dateApr 13, 1982
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Expiry dateJan 19, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B17/02
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a camera which has a through-hole formed in a portion of a wall forming a chamber for containing therein a magazine of roll film wound around a spool shaft which faces the end surface of the spool shaft and to which is mountable an electric film rewind device having a drive shaft inserted into the chamber through the through-hole and coupled to the spool shaft and wherein a light-intercepting ring having a contact surface bearing against the end surface of the spool shaft and biased axially of the spool shaft toward the interior of the chamber is slidably fitted in the through-hole, the light-intercepting ring has on said contact surface an annular ridge projected axially of the spool shaft. The ridge is provided at a location which is adjacent to and along the end surface during the contact thereof with the end surface.

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