Film, Pod and Clip Construction

We've been pondering over this part for a while and have come to the conclusion that to make this assembly, we should make one continuous backing sheet and then lay the Efke on top of that.  There is a concern that doing this will lead to a too-thick assembly though, but I think that can be made up for (or subtracted actually) at the receiver sheet, which can be thinner.  Also it might not matter much: the rollers should, if used this way, compensate for thickness, the only limit being the rails (not shown) on each side of the receiver sheet. These rails regulate the distance between the receiver and the negative, essentially the space where the viscous, spreadable reagent can flow.

Putting the film over a prepared surface makes hand-assembly of that part possible in total darkness without a lot of tooling or fixturing.

At the bottom you can see the double-chambered pod, very similar to that still used by Fuji in FP100C45.  We would leave out the "holes" at the top which are a reservoir for excess reagent and instead have some kind of light sealing cap with some space under it.

This is a color negative but the same dimensions as 55, reposted here in higher resolution.  Kodak Readyloads and Fuji Quickloads look almost the same, except no pod is present.