Film cassette
CA 2022389 A1 · Owner: Niedospial, John Joseph, Jr. · Inventors: Niedospial, John Joseph, Jr.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A film cassette is disclosed wherein a film roll whose outermost convolution comprises a film leader is coiled about a spool rotatable within the cassette shell, a pair of flexible flanges are coaxially arranged on the spool to radially confine the film leader within respective skirted peripheries of the flanges to prevent the leader from substantially contacting an interior wall of the cassette shell, and a film stripper projecting from the interior wall is received between a leading end of the film leader and then next-inward convolution of the film roll to free successive sections of the leader from the flanges by inducing the leader to flex the flanges away from one another at their …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed July 31, 1990. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 31, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 31, 2012.
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