Radio transmitter-camera combination

• US 3,295,426 A
• Filed: 07/13/1964
• Issued: 01/03/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edwin H. Land, John W. Lothrop, Richard J. Chen, Richard R. Wareham
• Original Assignee: Edwin H. Land, John W. Lothrop, Richard J. Chen, Richard R. Wareham
• Inventors: Land, Edwin H., Chen, Richard J., Lothrop, John W., Wareham, Richard R.
• Application Number:
  US04/382,280
• Time in Patent Office: 904 Days
• US Class Current: 396/195
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 15/0473 Remote controlled ignition mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/38 Releasing-devices separate from shutter integral with shutter G03B9/08
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 11/00 Combinations of a radio or television receiver with apparatus having a different main function combined with clocks G04B47/00; controlled by a clock G04C21/28

Claims

1. PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS COMPRISING:

(A) A CAMERA HAVING A SHUTTER MECHANISM BY WHICH A SCENE CAN BE PHOTOGRAPHED;

(B) FLASH CONTACTS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID CAMERA AND CLOSEABLE IN SYNCHRONISM WITH MOVEMENT OF SAID SHUTTER MECHANISM;

(C) A FLASH BULB SOCKET HAVING A PAIR OF SOCKET CONTACTS ADAPTED TO ENGAGE THE ELECTRODES OF A FLASH BULB WHEN THE LATTER IS OPERATIVELY INSERTED IN SAID SOCKET;

AND (D) A MINIATURE RADIO TRANSMITTER CONSTRUCTED AND ARRANGED TO BE MOUNTED ON SAID FLASH BULB SOCKET SO AS TO BE TRIGGERED INTO OPERATION WHEN SAID FLASH CONTACTS CLOSE.