Abstract: A magazine body constituting a paper magazine is provided with a paper mouth through which a recording paper is advanced. Behind the paper mouth, a separating plate having a thin thickness and formed from plastic is disposed. The separating plate contacts a periphery of a recording paper roll contained in the paper magazine. The recording paper roll is rotated in a paper advancing direction by a drive roller. Upon rotation of the recording paper roll, the separating plate contacting the periphery of the recording paper roll separates a top of the recording paper from the recording paper roll. After that, the separating plate leads the top of the recording paper to the paper mouth. The recording paper is advanced to the outside of the paper magazine through the paper mouth.

Abstract: Injection molding is carried out by using styrene-based resin composition. As to the styrene-based resin composition, styrene-based resin, in which melt flow index is 3.0-40.0 g/10 minutes, a Rockwell hardness is M38 or more, an Izod impact strength is 2.0 Kg.multidot.cm/cm or more, a bending elastic modulus is 20,000 Kg/cm.sup.2 or more, and a Vicat softening point is 78.degree. C. or more, is 50 wt. % or more, total of at least two kinds selected from lubricant or surfactant is 0.01-20 wt. %, a thermoplastic resin having experienced twice or more heat histories at 150.degree. C. or more is 3 wt. % or more, and total of at least one of antioxidant, deodorant and an agent imparting fragrance is 0.01-20 wt. %. Styrene-based resin composition having melt flow index of 1-50 g/10 minutes, and including ethylbenzene of 0.001-1 wt. %, rubber-like material of 0.1-15 wt. %, and light shielding material of 0.1-10 wt. %, may be used.

Abstract: A tape cartridge and reel lock that allows the reel lock to be released away from the center of rotation of the tape reel while keeping the frictional interface between the moving and fixed parts at the center of rotation of the reel. The tape cartridge includes a housing, a tape reel rotatably disposed in the housing, a tape drive interface on the reel, a rotatably fixed locking member operatively coupled to the reel and a release mechanism engagable by the tape drive at the tape drive interface on the reel. The release mechanism is movable between a first position in which the release mechanism is not engaged by the tape drive and the locking member is locked and a second position in which the tape drive engages the release mechanism and the locking member is unlocked.

Abstract: A single-reel tape cartridge includes a rectangular flattened casing including upper and lower panels joined together to define a reel chamber therebetween. A tape reel includes a cylindrical hollow boss and upper and lower flanges protruding radially outwardly from upper and lower ends of the hollow boss, respectively, and is accommodated rotatably within the reel chamber. A drive ring is disposed at a lower portion of a hollow of the hollow boss and adapted to receive a rotary drive from a drive element of a tape drive mechanism when the drive element is brought into engagement with the drive ring in a planar contact fashion. This drive ring is supported in a fashion slidable up and down, but non-rotatable relative to the hollow boss.

Abstract: A film cassette having perforated film for permitting automated extension of the film, the film cassette comprises a core having the film convolutedly wound on the core. A rotatable drum receives the core, and includes a recessed slot and a projection which engages a perforation of the film for permitting motion of the film as the drum is rotated. A shell receives the drum, and includes an opening and a finger that matingly engages the recessed slot of the drum for forcing the film through the opening of the shell and, consequently, out of the film cassette.

Abstract: A single reel data tape cartridge housing includes a base and a cover. The base includes four outer side walls which are formed with at least one step such that the outer walls step to a decreased thickness toward their free end. The cover includes four outer side walls which are formed with at least one step such that the outer walls step to a decreased thickness toward their free end. The base and cover also include four inner walls which are formed with two steps such that the inner walls step to a decreased thickness toward their free end. The inner and outer walls of the cover complementarily mate with the inner and outer walls of the base. A projection can be placed within pockets in the base and cover to locate the base and cover during assembly.

Abstract: A rectangular parallelepipedic case includes four or more walls formed by bending a single plate. To produce the case, a double plate is used. The double plate is formed from plastic by extrusion, and first and second plate elements confronted with each other. Partition portions interconnect the first and second plate elements, and extend in the direction of the extrusion, to define plural hollow chambers between the first and second plate elements. The double plate is bent along bend lines substantially at a right angle. At least one of the bend lines is at least partially curved.

Abstract: A tape cartridge 1 including a cartridge body 2 including an upper half 2a and a lower half 2b, a magnetic tape 20 with a distal end being continuous with a leader tape 10, and a single tape reel 3 having the magnetic tape 20 taken up thereon and rotate-ably received within the cartridge body 2, wherein a thickness t2 of the leader tape 10 at an end edge portion 12 of a connecting portion 11 thereof connected to the magnetic tape 20 is larger than eight times but less than or equal to twenty times a thickness t1 of the magnetic tape 20.

Abstract: A film leader extractor comprises, in accordance with a first embodiment of the invention, a structural stiffener component or member having a static-cling vinyl component or member laminated thereto by a suitable adhesive. When the extractor is inserted into, for example a 35 mm photographic film cartridge or canister, the static-cling vinyl layer is temporarily bonded to the film leader by electostatic attraction properties whereby the film leader is then able to be extracted or withdrawn from the film canister. In accordance with a second embodiment of the invention, a tab member is adhesively bonded to the film leader. The tab member is provided with an enlarged aperture to be engaged with a hook-type extractor implement.

Abstract: A photo film cassette includes a spool core, on which the photo film is wound in a form of roll. A cassette shell contains the spool core in rotatable fashion. First and second flanges are respectively secured to ends of the spool core, for regulating positions of sides of the photo film roll. A first ring-like lip is formed integrally with a periphery of the first flange, is projected toward the roll, is contacted on one edge of an outermost turn of the roll, and prevent the roll from being loosened. The first and second flanges are formed from resin in accordance with injection molding. The resin has temperature of thermal deformation being 80.degree. C. or higher under 18.6 kg/cm.sup.2, modulus in elasticity in flexure being 13,000-30,000 kg/cm.sup.2, surface hardness being 80 or more in Rockwell R-scale, and high fluidity in molds for the injection molding. The first and second flanges have an outer diameter of 15 mm or more, thickness of 0.3 mm or less, and a maximum projected area of 100 mm.sup.

Abstract: A cassette shell of a photographic film cassette is made up of a first steel material. The first steel material comprises a steel plate. On one face of the steel plate, a black resin layer is formed. On the other face of the steel plate, a print layer and a transparent resin layer are formed. When the cassette shell is formed by using the first steel material, the side of the black resin layer becomes an inner face of the cassette shell and the side of the transparent resin layer becomes an outer face thereof. Moreover, a cap of the photographic film cassette is made up of a second steel material. The second steel material comprises the steel plate. On both sides of the steel plate, the black resin layers are respectively formed.

Abstract: A tape cartridge having a reel lock in the hub that is capable of releasing the reel at the same time the drive mechanism engages the hub while minimizing the vertical travel necessary to provide a robust lock. The cartridge includes a housing and a tape reel in the housing. A tape drive interface on the reel, usually a circular gear on the reel hub, is accessible to the drive mechanism on a tape drive through a hole in the bottom of the housing. An arm is mounted in the hub. The arm moves between a first position in which the arm engages the housing to prevent the reel from rotating in at least one direction, and a second position in which the arm does not engage the housing and the reel is free to rotate in both directions.

Abstract: An apparatus to which an openable and closable film cartridge is applied, the film cartridge having an engaging part for opening and closing thereof, comprises a first device for causing at least one of opening and closing operations of the cartridge to be performed by engagement with the engaging part and a second device for enabling the first device to advance and retract along an axis of the engaging part.

Abstract: A reloadable film canister includes a light-tight enclosure with an aperture for dispensing film therethrough. A spool of film may be loaded into the enclosure, and may be removed when the film is dispensed. In one embodiment of the invention, an encoder (field modulating) disk is included as part of the canister. In another embodiment the encoder disk is affixable to the film spool and loadable with the film spool into the canister. The spool is mountable in the enclosure for rotation therein and for dispensing, at each step of a stepper motor, a predetermined length of film corresponding to the motor's step size. The encoder disk has a plurality of uniformly-spaced, peripherally-arranged segments (elements) detectable by an external detector (sensor), the detector and the stepper motor operating under control of a microprocessor.

Abstract: A tape drive reel for providing controlled, uniform stacking of tape during read/write operations to reduce lateral tape motion. The reel comprises a hub and two flanges that are located on opposite sides of the hub. Each flange includes a deflectable radial section which pivots about the hub as tape is wound onto the reel. As each loop of tape is wound on the hub and the amount of tape stacked thereon increases, the radial sections of the flanges are deflected towards each other and against the opposite edges of the tape stack, ensuring that the tape stacks uniformly.

Abstract: A method of remanufacturing a one-time-use camera having the following steps. Cutting a protuberance off a main body part of the camera at a hollowed-out space in the protuberance in order to permit a standard cartridge to replace a modified cartridge within a chamber in the main body part. Closing a hole in the chamber, resulting from the protuberance being cut off the main body part at the hollowed-out space, to prevent ambient light from leaking into the chamber through the hole. And properly positioning the standard cartridge in the chamber.

Abstract: A method for preparing a photographic photosensitive film comprising a support and formed on at least one side thereof photographic constituent layers containing a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer is disclosed, which comprises subjecting the photographic photosensitive film to an "out-of-roll curling treatment" so as to result in an outermost-lap curl value of from 55 m.sup.-1 to 200 m.sup.-1 as measured after the treated film is housed in a cartridge, with the emulsion layer side facing inward. Also disclosed are a photographic photosensitive film which comprises a support and formed on at least one side thereof photographic constituent layers containing a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer and has been prepared by the above method, and a photographic film cartridge containing housed therein the above photographic photosensitive film so that a front end part of the film is out of the cartridge over a length of at least 1 cm.

Abstract: A paper magazine made up of a small number of parts and capable of rewinding paper pulled out of the case around the roll of paper in the magazine by turning the paper roll. The paper roll is supported on a roll support shaft provided in the magazine case. The roll support shaft includes a core support rod, a pair of cylindrical end members mounted on both ends of the core support rod, and a core mounted on the core support rod between the end members. The paper roll is mounted on the core. When the paper is pulled out of the paper roll, the core is rotated in one direction, so that one of two torsion coil springs tightens to bias the core in the paper rewinding direction. Thus, as soon as the paper is pulled back into the case, the core is turned in the rewinding direction by the one of the coil springs, so that the paper can be smoothly wound around the core.

Abstract: A film feeder/winder is capable of winding films compactly, feeding films backward and keeping films damage-free. A plurality of films wound in a magazine case are fed one by one into a film guide. The film guide is partially openable, so that a film being fed backward can be looped by protruding from the film guide. Films are fed into a scanner/exposure unit for scanning and printing. After printing, films are fed into another magazine case and wound into a roll. It is possible to print any additional films by inserting them into an inlet opening of an extra passage branching from the film feed path. Also, a film being fed backward may be guided into this extra passage until it protrudes from the inlet opening. Both magazine cases have guides and rollers for smoothly winding films around their respective film take-up cores.

Abstract: A film carrier including a cartridge in a cartridge loading section, wherein a photographic film is wound around a cartridge winding shaft; a base section for processing the photographic film at a predetermined printing position on the photographic film; a transporting mechanism for transporting the photographic film on the base section after the photographic film as been pulled from the cartridge; and a film accommodating section provided downstream from the base section, with respect to the cartridge loading section, where the photographic film is accommodated.

Abstract: A cartridge for protecting a magnetic layer on a photosensitive web material from a magnetic field. The cartridge comprises a ferromagnetic material dispersed in a polymer, the composite material of the polymer and the ferromagnetic material having a magnetic permeability greater than 1.0. The magnetic layer is shielded from a magnetic field applied externally of the cartridge, such as from an article surveillance system, which could affect recorded information on the magnetic layer.

Abstract: A tape cassette which can maintain stably the accuracy of the reference planes for determining the height of the tape cassette and which allows enhancement in accuracy of positioning, height positioning reference planes being provided inwardly a specified distance apart from an outside casing surface of the tape cassette such that the reference plane for determining the height of the tape cassette relative to the apparatus is not provided on the outside casing surface of the tape cassette, thus the reference planes remain free from contact with any mechanism for loading the tape cassette or with any foreign matter in transport. Thus, the reference planes can be kept free from damage.

Abstract: In order to prevent interference between the upper flange of a tape reel and the upper edge of a magnetic tape when a tape cassette is ejected from a cassette drive system, the tape cassette case is formed with a raised portion. In the illustrated examples, the cassette case consists of upper and lower half case members, and a pair of tape reels rotatably supported in the case. When loaded in the drive system, reel holders enter first and second holder holes of the cassette case and uphold the tape reels above the inside surface of the cassette case, respectively. Each holder hole is fringed by an inner raised portion raised from the inside surface of the cassette case, and an outer raised portion which is outside the inner raised portion and lower in height than the inner raised portion.

Abstract: A method of retracting a filmstrip wound on a filmstrip reel. The filmstrip has a rear end which is attached to a spool of a film cartridge. The filmstrip reel comprising a pair of side walls, each side wall having a spiral track for retaining an edge of the filmstrip. The filmstrip is rewound into the film cartridge by applying a removing force on the rear end of the filmstrip in a direction for rewinding the filmstrip into the films cartridge. At the same time, one of the side walls is oscillated with respect to the other side wall about its central axis.

Abstract: The tape cassette (10) of the present invention comprises a cassette body comprising an upper half (1) and a lower half (2), and an openable lid (3) provided at the front end of the cassette body. The tape cassette is characterized in that the upper half (1), the lower half (2) and the lid (3) comprise an anti-static resin.

Abstract: Filmstrip receiving apparatus for receiving an elongated filmstrip, comprising:a) a housing defining a stationary exit chamber to receive the filmstrip therein, the housing having: two opposed side walls spaced apart to accommodate the width of the filmstrip; a transverse wall extending between the side walls from an upper front end of the chamber to a lower rear end of the chamber; and an upper opening and a rear opening;b) a deflector mounted to reciprocate between forward and backward positions within the upper opening to define between said deflector and a front end of the upper opening, a filmstrip passage of variable length through which a filmstrip can lengthwise pass downwardly into the exit chamber.A scanner apparatus for scanning image frames of a filmstrip advanced into a scanning station is also provided. Such a scanner has a scanner in the scanning station to scan the image frames of the filmstrip and derive image data related to the scanned image frame.

Abstract: In order to assure the assembly steps of a tape cartridge, a base plate of the cartridge has a rough surface. The rough surface is possessed by a plastic layer coated on the base plate. For producing the rough surface, fine particles and/or fibrous members are embedded in the plastic layer.

Abstract: A microfilm cartridge assembly is effective for increased transfer speed of film and for reduced noise levels during winding. The microfilm cartridge assembly includes a housing having front and rear spaced walls, a centrally located post extending inwardly into the housing from the rear wall, and a cylindrical retaining wall disposed between the front and rear walls. The microfilm cartridge assembly further includes a reel having a hub centered about an axis of rotation of the reel. The reel is received within the housing with the hub received on the housing post for rotation thereon. The hub of the reel has a depth which is slightly less than the maximum height of the post such that the reel is suspended above the rear wall of the housing when the hub is received on the post. The post is preferably tapered upwardly to a point at its central axis to define a single point of contact with the hub.

Abstract: A film cartridge has a housing with a film exit slit, and a film roll support rotatable inside the housing to unwind a filmstrip beginning with a film leader outwardly through the slit to accomplish film loading in a camera. A visible film-loaded indicator is provided on the housing to be seen through a window in a camera. A flexible cover strip has a leading end portion secured to a forward end portion of the film leader which protrudes from the slit, an opaque trailing end portion extending over the film-loaded indicator to prevent the indicator from being seen through the window in the camera, and an intermediate folded portion interconnecting the leading and trailing end portions to unfold as the film leader is moved outwardly through the slit. The folded portion is of suitable length to draw the trailing end portion from over the film-loaded indicator to permit the indicator to be seen through the window in the camera when the film leader is moved substantially completely through the slit.

Abstract: A film cartridge comprises a housing having a film exit slit, and a film roll support rotatable inside the housing to unwind a filmstrip beginning with a film leader having several frame lengths from the film roll support to allow the film leader to be moved outwardly through the slit to accomplish film loading in a camera. A visible film-loaded indicator is located to be seen through a window in a camera. A cover strip covers the indicator to prevent the indicator from being seen. A tether has a forward portion located at the slit for releasably engaging the film leader and a rearward portion releaseably engaging the cover strip. An engageable portion is located on the film leader for engagement with the forward portion of the tether as the film leader is moved outwardly through the slit, to make the tether move with the film leader to draw the cover strip off the indicator when the film leader is moved out of the housing sufficiently to accomplish film loading in a camera.

Abstract: A film cartridge comprises a housing having a film exit slit, and a film roll support rotatable inside the housing to unwind a filmstrip beginning with a film leader having several frame lengths from the film roll support to permit the film leader to be moved outwardly through the slit to accomplish film loading in a camera. A visible film-loaded indicator is located on the exterior of the housing to be seen through a window in a camera. A flexible cover strip has an opaque portion covering the film-loaded indicator to prevent the indicator from being seen and a film engaging portion located at the slit. Engageable means is located on the film leader for engagement with the film engaging portion as the film leader is moved outwardly through the slit, to make the opaque portion be drawn off the film-loaded indicator to uncover the indicator when the film leader is moved out of the housing sufficiently to accomplish film loading in a camera.

Abstract: A film spool has a film-unwound verifier that produces an audible indication that a particular length of a filmstrip has been unwound from the spool.

Abstract: A film cassette comprises a light-shielding door for preventing ambient light from entering the cassette interior, a film spool supported for rotation in film unwinding and film winding directions, and a locking device supported for movement into engagement with the spool to secure the spool and out of engagement with the spool to release the spool. According to the invention, the door is supported for closing movement to prevent ambient light from entering the cassette interior and for opening movement, and includes cam means for moving the locking device into engagement with the spool responsive to closing movement of the door. Also, the locking device is resilient to permit it to be temporarily deformed should it be obstructed from being moved by the cam means to engage the spool and the light-shielding means is forcibly closed, or should it be engaging the spool and the spool is forcibly rotated in the film unwinding and winding directions.

Abstract: A film cartridge comprising a housing with a film exit slit, and a film roll support rotatable inside the housing to unwind a filmstrip beginning with a film leader having several frame lengths from the film roll support to permit the film leader to be moved outwardly through the slit to accomplish film loading in a camera, is characterized by verifier means for providing a visible indication only when the film leader is moved substantially completely through the slit, whereby the visual indication will verify that enough of the filmstrip has been unwound from the film roll support to accomplish film loading in a camera.

Abstract: A film cartridge comprises a housing with a film exit slit, and a film roll support rotatable inside the housing to unwind a filmstrip beginning with a film leader to permit the film leader to be moved outwardly through the slit to accomplish film loading in a camera. According to one feature of the invention a protective strip is provided with a length and a width dimensioned to permit the protective strip to completely cover a non-emulsion side of successive frames of the filmstrip when individual ones of the frames are positioned outside the housing for exposure in a camera.

Abstract: A device for winding strips of photographic film inside a housing. A film-guide slot opens into the housing's approximately cylindrical interior. A film reel rotates freely in the housing interior without a positive drive and demarcates, in conjunction with the inner surface of the housing, a more or less annular film-guide channel. The film-guide slot opens more or less tangentially into the interior channel.

Abstract: A film cassette includes a cassette body, a film spool onto which can be wound a strip of film, a drive disk coupled directly to the film spool, and an indicator flex disk that includes a film status indicator tab whose position relative to a window of the film cassette indicates the film exposure status. The position of the film status indicator tab is changed when the flex disk is moved into engagement with the drive disk and the film spool is rotated upon film movement. The film status indicator tab otherwise does not engage the drive disk and therefore does not change position. The cassette is particularly suited for operation with a photographic camera that includes a camera body, a loading chamber in the camera body that receives the film cassette, and a loading chamber cover having at least one movable indicator release pin that moves the flex disk into and out of engagement with the drive disk and thereby changes the position of the film status indicator tab.

Abstract: A film roll accumulating device for forming a filmstrip into a cylindrical film roll as for example in a camera or a film cassette, comprises an arcuate film guide at least partially enclosing a cylindrically-shaped space having a centerline. The arcuate film guide includes a film ingress opening through which a filmstrip can be fed to be guided concentrically about the centerline into a cylindrical film roll in the space, and is flexible and secured to permit the film ingress opening to widen to expand the cylindrically-shaped space concentrically about its centerline in order to accommodate enlargement of the cylindrical film roll without any shift in the centerline as additional film is fed through the opening.

Abstract: A universal film thrusting cartridge includes a tab connected to a fixed diameter spool core and connectable with a filmstrip of optional length, the tab being sized for use with the shortest filmstrip and trimable to fit longer filmstrips so that when wound within the cartridge the film roll has a prescribed outer diameter at the leading outer end. The trimable tab avoids different core sizes for each filmstrip length in order to obtain the prescribed outer roll diameter needed to match the cartridge wall and allow thrusting of the film out of the cartridge on reverse winding of the spool.

Abstract: A single-use camera comprises a supply spool having a pair of axially spaced flanges, a take-up spool having a pair of axially spaced flanges, and a filmstrip adapted to be wound off the supply spool from between its flanges and onto the take-up spool between its flanges. According to the invention, the filmstrip includes a wider, opaque, trailing end strip. The flanges of the supply spool are spaced from each other more than the width of the trailing end strip to permit the trailing end strip to be stored on the supply spool beneath the filmstrip without being deformed by the flanges. The flanges of the take-up spool are spaced from each other more than the width of the filmstrip but less than the width of the trailing end strip to crimp the trailing end strip to light tightly shield the filmstrip when the trailing end strip is wound onto the take-up spool over the filmstrip. Thus. the need for a film cassette in the single-use camera is eliminated.

Abstract: A film cassette comprises a pair of housing parts, and a flexibly movable latching hook located on one of the housing parts and a rigid latching catch located on the other housing part which can engage to secure the two housing parts together. According to the invention, a backer projects from one of the housing parts into abutment with the latching hook, when the latching hook and the latching catch are engaged, to prevent the latching hook from moving out of engagement with the latching catch in response to a mechanical shock being applied to the film cassette.

Abstract: A film cartridge has a folded-over tab protruding from a film egress slot, which is unfolded by a film leader moving outwardly through the slot. The unfolded tab provides a visible indication of film use. In an alternate embodiment, the tab is an integral extension of a light-trapping plush that lines the film egress slot.

Abstract: A photographic film-incorporated camera which comprises a supply room in which an unexposed photographic film drawn from a cylindrical cartridge has been wound up and a wind-up room with which the cylindrical cartridge is enclosed, and which is designed to feed one exposure of the photographic film drawn from the supply room per a shooting to wind up in the cylindrical cartridge. The photographic film comprises a photographic layer on a composite of a support and a subbing layer. The composite is obtained by subjecting the support which comprises an aromatic polyester having a glass transition temperature of 50.degree. to 200.degree. C. to heat treatment at a temperature of 40.degree. C. to the glass transition temperature for 0.1 to 1,500 hours before or after forming the subbing layer on the support.

Abstract: A passive take-up chamber for temporarily receiving and storing photographic filmstrips in the transport path of a film scanner for digitizing images on the filmstrips. The take-up chamber has a cavity defined by parallel side walls and a generally circular, lateral connecting wall with a plurality of shaped interior surface segments formed in and spaced apart around the interior surface of the lateral wall and generally defining a circular path for the filmstrip within the cavity. A further plurality of guiding rollers are mounted to extend between the first and second side walls adjacent to the interior surface of the lateral wall, for rotation on contact with the longitudinal edges of the filmstrip.

Abstract: A camera includes a camera body and a cartridge holder having an opening through which the cartridge holder receives a film cartridge. The cartridge holder is movable between a closed position in which the opening is covered by a portion of the camera body and an open position in which the opening is not covered by the portion of the camera body. A film cartridge in the cartridge holder is automatically moved at least part way out of the cartridge holder when the cartridge holder is moved from the closed position to the open position.

Abstract: An apparatus for coupling which includes first and second shafts, each having an axis. The axes are disposed in generally coaxial relationship. The apparatus includes coupling having first and second members for coupling the first shaft to the second shaft to allow transmission of rotational movement from one of said shafts to the other of said shafts upon rotation of the one shaft. The first and second members have a configuration which allows transmission of rotational movement from one shaft to the other shaft in a first direction of rotational movement and not allowing transmission of rotational movement from one shaft to another shaft in a second direction of rotational movement. The first member is mounted on the first shaft so as to allow movement on the first shaft in a direction that is perpendicular to the axis of the first shaft.

Abstract: A tape cassette includes a base and a cover. A supply reel and a take-up reel are rotatably mounted in the base, and tape is wound around the reels and extends around a guide pin and across a tape path. A slack limiter includes a post mounted in the housing spaced from the guide pin. The post creates a gap through which the tape passes. When the supply reel is not driven, the post prevents the tape from spilling out of the cassette.

Abstract: A photographic roll film cartridge in which a roll film is stored in an initial packaged condition before being used for photographing. In the initial packaged condition, the leading edge portion of the roll film protrudes out of the cartridge by a length of 10 mm to 25 mm.

Abstract: A film cassette assembly has a cassette and a roll of film wound on a spool and contained in the cassette. When the spool is rotated, the roll of film is rotated together with it in order to feed a film leader out of the cassette through a film passage mouth. To rotate the spool and the roll of film together, the film cassette assembly presses an axial end portion of the outermost periphery of the roll of film or presses the film's circumferential peripheral surface. Where the axial end portion of the outermost periphery of the roll of film is to be pressed, at least one of a pair of flanges of the spool is elastically deformed to clamp both axial side edges of the outermost periphery of the roll of film. Where the circumferential surface of the outermost periphery of the roll of film is to be pressed, a projection and an elastic member are provided within the cassette.

Abstract: A tape reel includes a cylindrical hub having a cylindrical tape winding surface, an upper flange and a lower flange. A cylindrical mounting portion is formed on the inner opening of the upper flange and has a free end portion and a hub receiving portion on the outer surface. The free end portion is located closer to the free end of the mounting portion and is thinner than the hub receiving portion. The hub has a free end on which the upper flange is mounted. The inner surface of the hub includes a main portion and a flange receiving portion located closer to the free end than the main portion. The flange receiving portion is thinner than the main portion. The hub receiving portion is received in the flange receiving portion when the upper flange is mounted on the hub. The hub inner surface also includes a flash receiving portion located closer to the free end than the flange receiving portion. The flash receiving portion is thinner than the flange receiving portion.