Patents by Inventor James M. Cloherty

James M. Cloherty has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5453804
    Abstract: There is presented a camera comprising a housing, and a generally cylindrically-shaped can rotatably mounted in the housing. The can is provided with an elongated opening extending lengthwise of the can, an external surface for supporting a negative film strip, and an internal surface for retaining a rolled film processing pad strip. An end of the negative film strip and an end of the processing pad strip are fixed to a foil having adhesive thereon for holding the foil on the can external surface and for covering the elongated opening to seal the can. The foil is peelable from the can and from the opening by pulling of the negative film strip from the external can surface. Movement of the foil away from the camera is operative to draw the processing pad strip from within the can while simultaneously drawing exposed negative strip from the camera, with the pad strip overlying the negative strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Philip R. Norris, James M. Cloherty