Film cartridge

Claim 1

IN A MOTION PICTURE FILM CARTRIDGE WHICH INCLUDES A HOUSING HAVING A FRONT WALL PROVIDED WITH AN EXPOSURE APERTURE ACROSS WHICH A FILM IS ADAPTED TO BE INTERMITTENTLY MOVED FOR EXPOSURE AND A REAR WALL, A PARTITION LOCATED WITHIN SAID HOUSING SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO THE PLANE OF EACH OF SAID FRONT AND REAR WALLS TO SEPARATE THE INTERIOR OF SAID HOUSING INTO A SUPPLY CHAMBER AND A TAKE-UP CHAMBER, MEANS IN SAID SUPPLY CHAMBER FOR ROTATABLY SUPPORTING A COIL OF FILM SO THAT IT CAN BE WITHDRAWN THEREFROM AND GUIDED PAST SAID EXPOSURE APERTURE, MEANS FOR ROTATABLY MOUNTING A TAKE-UP CORE IN SAID TAKE-UP CHAMBER IN SUBSTANTIALLY COAXIAL RELATION WITH SAID COIL OF FILM LOCATED IN SAID SUPPLY CHAMBER FOR WINDING UP THE FILM FED INTO SAID TAKE-UP CHAMBER, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING: A PLURALITY OF GUIDE MEANS WITHIN SAID HOUSING DEFINIGN A PATH OF TRAVEL FOR THE FILM IN WHICH THE FILM EXTENDS SUBSTANTIALLY TANGENTIALLY FROM THE UPPER SIDE OF SAID COIL REARWARDLY OF SAID HOUSING WHERE IT IS DOUBLED BACK UPON ITSELF AND DIRECTED ALONG THE TOP PORTION OF SAID HOUSING AND TOWARD THE FRONT WALL THEREOF IN A PATH WHICH IS CANTED RELATIVE TO THE PLANE OF ROTATION OF SAID COIL OF FILM AND CROSSES OVER SAID PARTITION INTO ALIGNMENT WITH THE PLANE OF ROTATION OF SAID TAKE-UP CORE AND THENCE DOWNWARDLY ACROSS SAID EXPOSURE APERTURE AND THEN REARWARDLY OF THE HOUSING BELOW SAID TAKE-UP CORE TO A LOCATION BEHIND THE AXIS OF SAID TAKE-UP CORE TO A THE FILM IS AGAIN DOUBLED BACK UPON ITSELF AND DIRECTED FORWARDLY OF THE HOUSING AND ONTO THE TAKE-UP CORE, SAID PLURALITY OF GUIDE MEANS INCLUDING (1) FIRST GUIDE MEANS ADJACENT THE UPPER REAR PORTION OF SAID HOUSING AND BEHIND SAID SUPLY COIL OF FILM AROUND WHICH FIRST GUIDE MEANS THE FILM IS DOUBLED BACK UPON ITSELF AND DIRECTED TOWARD THE FRONT WALL OF THE HOUSING, (2) SECOND GUIDE MEANS FOR DIRECTING THE FILM FROM SAID FIRST GUIDE MEANS FORWARDLY OF SAID HOUSING AND IN CANTED RELATION TO THE PLANE OF ROTATION OF SAID COIL FO FILM, AND (3) THIRD GUIDE MEANS LOCATED AT THE LOWER REAR PORTION OF SAID HOUSING ABOUT WHICH THIRD GUIDE MEANS SAID FILM AFTER LEAVING THE EXPOSURE APERTURE IS DOUBLED BACK UPON ITSELFC AND IS REDIRECTED FORWARDLY OF SAID HOUSING AND ONTO SAID TAKE-UP FORE.