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Claim 1

A CAMERA MEANS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION: A HOUSING INCLUDING FORWARD AND REAR SECTIONS JOINED TO ONE ANOTHER FOR MOVEMENT WITH RESPECT TO ONE SAID FORWARD HOUSING SECTION INCLUDING A FORWARD, SIDE, END INTERMEDIATE WALLS DEFINING A FIRST RECESS AT ONE END OF SAID HOUSING OPEN AT THE REAR FOR RECEIVING AND HOLDING A COIL OF A PHOTOSENSITIVE SHEET AND A SECOND RECESS OPEN AT THE REAR AND SEPARATED FROM SAID FIRST RECESS BY SAID INTERMEDIATE WALL, SAID SECOND RECESS INCLUDING A FIRST PORTION SUBSTANTIALLY DEEPER THAN SAID FIRST RECESS ADJACENT SAID INTERMEDIATE WALL AND A SECOND PORTION SHALLOWER THAN SAID FIRST PORTION LOCATED TO THE SIDE THEREOF OPPOSITE SAID FIRST RECESS FOR HOLDING A COIL OF A SECOND SHEET; EXPOSURE MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID FORWARD HOUSING SECTION AT THE FORWARD END OF SAID FIRST PORTION OF SAID SECOND RECESS; GUIDE MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID FORWARD HOUSING SECTION AT THE REAR OF SAID FIRST PORTION OF SAID SECOND RECESS FOR ENGAGING THE LATERAL EDGES OF A SECTION OF SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE SHEET TO SUPPORT SAIID SECTION OF SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE SHEET IN POSITION FOR EXPOSURE TO LIGHT TRANSMITTED BY SAID EXPOSURE MEANS THROUGH SAID FIRST PORTION OF SAID SECOND RECESS; SAID REAR HOUSING SECTION COOPERATING WITH SAID FORWARD HOUSING SECTION IN THE CLOSED POSITION OF SAID HOUSING SECTIONS TO DEFINE FIRST AND SECOND CHAMBERS SEPARATED BY SAID INTERMEDIATE WALL AND A PASSAGE BETWEEN SAID CHAMBERS AT THE REAR OF SAID INTERMEDIATE WALL FOR ALLOWING MOVEMENT OF SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE SHEET FROM SAID FIRST CHAMBER INTO EXPOSURE POSITION WITHIN SAID SECOND CHAMBER; MEANS ON SAID REAR HOUSING SECTION FOR SUPPORTING SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE SHEET AGAINST SAID GUIDE MEANS IN POSITION FOR EXPOSURE IN THE CLOSED POSITION OF SAID HOUSING SECTIONS; SAID HOUSING SECTIONS INCLUDING PORTIONS COOPERATING IN SAID CLOSED POSITION TO DEFINE AN OPENING IN THE REAR OF SAID HOUSING COMMUNICATING WITH SAID SECOND PORTION OF SAID SECOND RECESS AND THROUGH WHICH SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE SHEET AND SAID SECOND SHEET CAN BE WITHDRAWN IN SUPERPOSITION FROM SAID HOUSING, AND MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID FORWARD HOUSING SECTION FOR MOVEMENT WITH RESPECT TO SAID FORWARD HOUSING SECTION BETWEEN OPERATIVE AND INOPERATIVEPOSITIONS, THE LAST-MENTIONED MEANS INCLUDING MEANS COOPERATING WITH SAID HOUSING SECTIONS FOR HOLDING SAID LASTMENTIONED MEANS IN SAID OPERATIVE POSITION THEREOF WHEN SAID HOUSING SECTIONS ARE IN SAID CLOSED POSITION AND BEING MOVABLE INTO SAID OPERATIVE POSITION WHEN SAID HOUSING SECTIONS ARE IN SAID OPEN POSITION; SAID LAST-MENTIONED MEANS IN SAID OPERATIVE POSITION COOPERATING WITH SAID HOUSING SECTIONS TO DIVIDE SAID SECOND CHAMBER INTO FIRST AND SECOND SUBCHAMBERS COMPRISING, RESPECTIVELY, SAID FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS OF SAID SECOND RECESS AND JOINED BY A PASSAGE THROUGH WHICH SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE SHEET IS MOVABLE FROM EXPOSURE POSITION WITHIN SAID FIRST SUBCHAMBER INTO SUPERPOSITION WITH SAID SECOND SHEET WITHIN SAID SECOND SUBCHAMBER; SAID LAST-MENTIONED MEANS BEING CONSTRUCTED, WHEN IN SAID OPERATIVE POSITION, TO RETAIN SAID COIL OF SAID SECOND SHEET WITHIN SAID SECOND SUBCHAMBER AND PREVENT ADMISSION OF LIGHT INTO SAID FIRST SUBCHAMBER FROM SAID SECOND SUBCHAMBER AND WHEN IN SAID INOPERATIVE POSITION, TO PERMIT LOADING OF A COIL OF SAID SECOND SHEET INTO SAID SECOND PORTION OF SAID SECOND RECESS.