Modular camera with cassette chamber accessible through outerbody

US5784652A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Rolf Schroder · Wuppertal, DE
• Peter Lermann · Feldkirchen-Westerham, DE
• Dieter Engelsmann · Unterhaching, DE
• Claus Steiner · Mindelheim, DE
• Jorg Heidrich · Dessau, DE
• Hermann Luhrig · Leverkusen, DE
• Paul Kopf · Unterhaching, DE
• Julian Schlagheck · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 2, 1997
• Grant date: Jul 21, 1998
• Expiry date: Jan 2, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03B17/30
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A camera for roll film which can be wound into a film cassette has a central subassembly forming a light-tight inner body in which a film cassette chamber which receives the film cassette is contained and in which a film guidance device is contained, and has an outer body which surrounds the central subassembly, wherein the film cassette chamber of the central subassembly can be closed by a removable cassette chamber cover which is accessible through an opening in the outer body.