Film cassette
CA 2031107 C · Owner: Eastman Kodak Company · Inventors: Mccormick, Christopher Patrick; Niedospial, John Joseph
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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In a film cassette, a spool core is, supported for rotation in an unwinding direction to thrust a leader section of a filmstrip coiled about the spool core through a film passageway to the exterior of the cassette. A pair of flanges are arranged in spaced relation along the spool core to overlie opposite longitudinal edges of the filmstrip to radially confine the filmstrip. The flanges are adapted to permit the longitudinal film edges to force the flanges farther apart to allow the filmstrip to escape the confinement of the flanges to permit the leader section to the thrust outside the cassette. According to the invention the, leader section is relieved to permit its forward edge to be …
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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 November 29, 1990 and granted July 30, 1996. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 29, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 29, 2012.
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