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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5871344 | Flash lamp array with porous vent A compact flash lamp array includes a housing defining a plurality of cavities, with each cavity having a light emitting opening and a combustible mass deposited in each cavity. A firing means such as an electrically heated filament or percussive primer i... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5871345 | Percussively fired flash lamp array A compact flash lamp array includes a housing defining a plurality of cavities. Each cavity has a light emitting opening and a primer vent opposite the light emitting opening. A combustible mass is deposited in each cavity over the primer vent and a prime... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5864718 | One-time use camera with multi-lamp flash A one-time-use flash camera comprising a camera housing that contains a cartridge chamber holding a film cartridge and a film roll chamber holding an unexposed film roll on which a predetermined maximum number of exposures can be made, and a flash device,... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5768638 | Single-use camera with chemical flash array A single-use camera including a camera body, a shutter driver, a battery, a film advance mechanism and a film frame counter connected to the film advance mechanism, includes a chemical flash arrangement having a compact photoflash lamp array. The photofla... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5761551 | Compact camera with multi-lamp flash wheel rotatable about film chamber A camera comprising a main body part having a film chamber, and a multi-lamp flash wheel supported for rotation to move successive flash lamps from a storage to a use position for illuminating a subject to be photographed. The multi-lamp flash wheel is ro... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5752104 | Multi-lamp flash wheel and camera A camera is intended to be used with a multi-lamp flash wheel having flash lamps that are tilted from storage orientations to ignition orientations as the respective lamps are moved to behind a flash emission window. Tilting the flash lamp to its ignition... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5729773 | Camera with multi-lamp flash wheel A camera comprising an optical viewfinder with a pair of aligned front and rear lenses for viewing a subject to be photographed, and a multi-lamp flash wheel rotatable to move respective one-time-use flash lamps to a use position for illuminating the subj... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5697003 | Camera with combination multi-lamp flash source and exposure counter A camera comprising a light sensitive film on which a certain number of exposures can be made, and a multi-lamp flash source having a plurality of one-time-use flash lamps equal in number to the total number of exposures to be made on the film, is charact... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5678076 | Stacked multi-lamp flash wheels and camera A camera for use with a first group of successive flash lamps and with a second group of successive flash lamps, comprises a flash emission window and means for moving the first lamp group relative to the second lamp group to move the respective lamps of ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 4342507 | Flash holder assembly arrangement A foldable flash holder comprised of three integrally molded plastic parts interconnected exclusively by snap fit. One of the parts is a contact retainer which includes an elongated receptacle well for receiving a multi-bulb flash array and a contact reta... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4051359 | Electric multiple flash arrangement A FlipFlash type of photoflash array having a connector at each end for connecting the array to a camera in two different orientations. The flash lamps and circuit are arranged so that in each orientation of the array an upper group of lamps, relatively f... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4027316 | Apparatus for delayed firing of electronic flash units or the like The synchronizing switch for an electronic flash unit, which is connected to the body of a photographic camera through the medium of an adapter, is closed with a variable delay following the actuation of camera release by way of an impeller which is mount... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4025933 | Multiple adapter plug for instamatic-type cameras A universal electronic camera flash features a plug with provision for connection to cameras having flash cube sockets, as well as for cameras having flash bar plug sockets. A rotatably adjustable clamp makes possible the mounting of the flash unit on cam... | 05/24/1977 |
| 3995290 | Mechanical sequencing system for firing photoflash lamps An apparatus for mechanically moving a sliding contact associated with an indexing assembly along a series of contact pads. The contact pads are sequentially arranged whereby flash lamps connected thereto and disposed in an array mounted on an associated ... | 11/30/1976 |
