Appeal No. 95-1635
Application No. 07/928,703
The invention pertains to a lens-fitted photographic lens
unit, the nature of which is adequately described by reference to
representative claims 1 and 3, reproduced as follows:
1. In a lens-fitted photographic film unit comprising:
a main body having a film take-up chamber and a film supply
chamber on opposite horizontal sides of an exposure chamber and
photograph taking means on a front side of said exposure chamber;
a photographic film cassette accommodated in said film take-up
chamber, a photographic film in a roll being disposed in said
film supply chamber with a trailing end of said photographic film
secured to a spool in said photographic film cassette; a rear
cover for covering said main body from the rear so as to shield
said photographic film from external light; and a front cover for
covering said main body from front [sic]; the improvement wherein
one of said covers has a grip projection to serve as a grip and a
flat portion recessed with respect to said grip projection, and
an outer cover of cardboard which is fitted on said lens-fitted
photographic film unit so as to expose said grip projection and
which has four flat sides interconnected by right-angle bend
lines that are parallel to each other and that lie flat against
four flat sides of said film unit, said outer cover having
information printed thereon.
3. A lens-fitted photographic film unit as recited in claim
1, wherein said film supply chamber is smaller than said film
take-up chamber and an outside surface of said film take-up
chamber protrudes relative to an outside surface of said film
supply chamber.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Maeno et al. 4,666,274 May 19, 1987
(Maeno)
Miki et al. 5,081,482 Jan. 14, 1992
(Miki)
Ohmura et al. Re.34,168 Jan. 26, 1993
(Ohmura) (filed Apr. 12, 1991)
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