Film-holding camera construction and film package

Claim 1

For use with a camera, the combination comprising a generally flat housing for location extending across the path of light through the camera lens and having a window in its front face for passing said light into the housing, said housing having a through slot extending along one housing edge adjacent to the rear wall and opening into the interior of said housing for edgewise passage of a film package along the rear housing wall, a guideway in said housing having one end opening toward said slot for removably receiving the film package passing through said slot, a rotary pressure roll normally disposed in said housing between said slot and said one guideway end and extending along and in light-excluding relation with respect to said slot, mounting means mounting said pressure roll for resilient lateral yielding away from the rear housing wall to pass a film package moving inwardly through said slot in rolling frictional engagement with the film package between said slot and guideway, a rotary coiling roll located in said housing extending along and spaced inward of said pressure roll in the path of movement of the film package and resiliently yieldably mounted for lateral movement away from said rear housing wall in general parallelism with said pressure roll for displacement out of the path of film package movement, and engaging means on the periphery of said coiling roll for adherent engagement with a flexible cover sheet on the film package to automatically wind the cover sheet in convolutions about the coiling roll upon insertion of the film package and unwinding of the cover sheet upon withdrawal of the film package.