JP3150491U - Ball head with bottle cap - Google Patents

Abstract

[PROBLEMS] To eliminate the troublesome operation of manually tightening or unscrewing a screw, and to easily set the direction of the camera and set it to its tilting position when mounted on a small digital camera. Provide a ball head that can be used. A cap 30 for bottle mounting, a ball receiving plate 22 for holding and holding a ball, a braking case 20 including a presser cover 21, a screw member 10 having a screw shaft at an upper end protruding from the presser cover, and a screw member An operation handle 40 to be screwed to 10, a set screw for fixing the braking case 20 and the bottle mounting cap 30, and assembling the ball head by fixing with a set screw via a seat plate, The braking force of the ball can be adjusted. [Selection] Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a ball head constituting one part of a pan head when assembling a simple ball pan head, and a bottle having a cap for attaching a bottle that can be easily set in place of the pan head using a bottle or the like. The present invention relates to a ball head with a cap for mounting.

The preceding ball head is a free pan head with a ball joint ball, and is generally provided with a manually operated fastening mechanism or operating body separately for adjusting and fixing the ball portion at an arbitrary angle. .
In this case, when using the pan head, a manually fastened mechanism or operating body is installed to support a load with a large load in order to securely hold and fix a predetermined rotational direction position. In addition to the tilting operation of the screw shaft member of the pan head, it is necessary to perform the work of fixing or releasing the tilting position by the manual operation means provided separately.

  However, as a free pan head for a small and lightweight camera such as a digital camera, it does not need to be as strong and powerful as the preceding heavy free pan head. It only has to be able to stop moving, and the pan head equipped with the preceding manual fastening mechanism is complicated in setting the stop position after the tilting operation.

  Under such circumstances, a lightweight digital camera that does not require a separate manual operation body such as a tightening screw is required, and a free pan head that can be simplified and lightened is required.

JP 2006-316802 A (Free head) JP-A-2005-31605 (ball joint and free pan head) JP 2004-341189 A (Freedom platform)

  The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems. Firstly, it eliminates the troublesome work of fixing or releasing the screw by manually tightening the screw, and is attached to a small digital camera. An object of the present invention is to provide a ball head having a simplified structure in which the direction of the camera can be freely set and set to the tilt position.

  The present invention is also diverted as a simple free pan head by assembling the ball head integrally with the bottle mounting cap and by fitting the bottle mounting cap integrated with the ball head into the cap portion of the plastic bottle. To provide an easy-to-use ball head equipped with a small digital camera and easily used as a free pan head for a small digital camera.

  In addition, the present invention is designed to simplify the assembly of the ball head and the cap for mounting the bottle, and at the same time, perform clamping with the clamping force of the ball part as a free pan head at the same time as screwing assembly with the set screw. Provided is a ball head capable of ensuring wearing.

  According to the device of this application, first, a bottle mounting cap, a ball receiving seat plate for holding and holding a ball of a screw member therebetween, and a brake case including a presser cover, and the brake case accommodated in the brake case. A screw member having a lower end ball and an upper end screw shaft projecting from the presser cover; an operation handle screwed to the screw member; and a set screw for fixing a brake case and a bottle mounting cap. A ball head with a cap for mounting a bottle is assembled at the same time by attaching a bottom surface of the cap to the opposite side of the screw shaft protruding from the case, and fixing with a set screw through a seat plate from within the cap. The braking force of the ball clamped between the seat plate and the presser cover can be adjusted, and the screw member can be held at its tilting operation position by the operation handle. To provide a bottle mounting cap with ball head is characterized.

  Further, according to the present invention, the bottle mounting cap is a bottomed cap made of rubber, which is serrated on the inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface and provided with a tapered surface in the opening, and further a ball constituting a braking case. The clamping surface of the receiving plate and the presser cover is such that one ball receiving plate side is a hemispherical curved surface with the lower end opened, and the other presser cover side is provided with an O-ring, and also the ball Following the opening of the lower end of the seat plate, a recess is formed on the upper end facing surface of the rubber bottomed cap that is fixed to be opposed to each other, thereby forming a clearance space at the lower end from which the ball protrudes. With a bottle mounting cap that has a recess formed on the shaft end side surface of the hook-shaped operation handle that is screwed onto the screw shaft, and an elastic receiving seat that protects a screwed device such as a camera fitted in the recess. Also provides a ball head Provide.

  According to the ball head with the bottle mounting cap according to the first aspect of the present invention, the lower end ball is disposed between the bottle mounting cap and the ball receiver and the presser cover constituting the braking case so as to be sandwiched. And an upper end screw shaft projecting from the presser cover and a braking means having a hook-like operation handle screwed to the screw shaft, and each member of the cap, ball receiver and presser cover is attached to a seat plate. The ball head with a cap for mounting the bottle can be easily assembled by simply screwing it with the set screw, and at the same time, the tightening force of the ball clamped between the ball receiver and the presser cover can be controlled by tilting the screw shaft. Provided is a ball head with a cap for mounting a bottle that can be fastened and assembled in an adjustable manner as a tightening frictional force that can be held in position.

  According to the ball head with a cap for mounting a bottle according to claim 2 of the present invention, a plastic bottle is provided with a bottomed cap made of rubber having serrations on the inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface and having a tapered surface at the opening. When used on a bottle, it can be smoothly fitted into the cap of a plastic bottle, and functions as a transmission mechanism for operating the opening and closing of the bottle cap by rotation of the ball head with the bottle mounting cap itself. be able to.

  According to the ball head with a cap for mounting a bottle according to claim 3 of the present invention, since the lower end ball constituting the braking means is clamped, it is simply achieved by the hemispherical curved surface of the ball receiver and the O-ring on the presser cover side. It is possible to use only a simple structure or simple parts. This makes it possible to easily form a clamping surface for supporting and supporting a lightweight object, making it lightweight and making it as a convenient small article that can be easily carried. be able to.

  According to the ball head with a cap for mounting a bottle according to claim 4 of the present invention, formation of the relief to the concave portion of the bottomed cap made of rubber that receives the protruding portion of the lower end of the ball protruding from the lower end opening of the ball receiver. Accordingly, the contact with the friction surface after being assembled by screwing does not come into contact with each other, and a wide and uniform friction braking surface necessary for braking can be ensured.

  According to the ball head with a cap for attaching the bottle according to claim 5 of the present invention, the elastic receiving seat is fitted and attached to the concave portion formed on the surface of the bowl-shaped operation handle. When screwed, the lower surface contact surface of the screwed instrument is protected by the elastic receiving seat, so that damage due to scratches caused by direct contact with the operation handle surface can be prevented. In addition, a double nut function is provided by elastic joining with the screwed camera, and the camera is prevented from falling off by preventing the camera ball from loosening when screwed to the ball head. Can do.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a ball head according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a partial longitudinal sectional view of a ball head according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is a bottom view showing the inner surface of the cap of the ball head according to the present invention. FIG. 4 is a view showing an example of use of the ball head according to the present invention.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a ball head with a cap according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, a cap-equipped ball head BH basically includes a screw member 10 having a ball at the other end and a screw shaft at one end, and a screw member 10 having an operation handle 40 screwed to the screw shaft. A presser cover 21 for accommodating the ball portion provided at the other end of the screw member 10 that is operated to be tiltable by the handle 40, and for braking and stopping the tilted screw member 10 at the tilted position; The brake case 20 includes a ball receiving plate 22 and a cap 30 that is detachably integrated with the brake case 20.

FIG. 2 shows a partial longitudinal sectional view of a ball head BH with a cap.
The screw member 10 is a member in which a screw shaft 10a at the upper end in the drawing, an intermediate shaft portion 10b, and a ball 10c at the lower end are integrated. An operation handle 40 is screwed onto the screw shaft 10a.

  The brake case 20 includes a presser cover 21 and a ball receiving seat plate 22, and more specifically, a reverse-bottomed presser cover 21 and a ball receiving seat plate 21 that closes by closing the presser cover opening. And a set screw 35 for fixing both members. When the screw shaft 10a is protruded from the presser cover 21 and the balls of the screw member 10 are accommodated in the brake case 20, the O-ring disposed on the inner surface of the screw insertion port of the presser cover 21 is assembled. The ball 10 c at the lower end of the screw member 10 is sandwiched and accommodated between 21 d and the spherical seat 22 a of the ball receiving plate 22. A through-hole 22b is opened at the bottom of the lower surface of the spherical seat 22a, a part of the lower end of the ball 10c protrudes, and the annular peripheral surface of the lower end of the ball 10c is supported by the spherical seat 22a. It has a structure.

<Effect of braking case>
In the braking case 20, the ball 10 c described above is accommodated in the space between the presser cover 21 and the ball receiving seat plate 22, and the received ball 10 c is fixed by the setscrew 35 of the presser cover 21 and the ball receiving seat plate 22. In this case, the ball 10c includes an O long 21d disposed on the inner bottom peripheral surface of the screw insertion port 21e formed in the ceiling portion of the presser cover 21, and It is received by a spherical seat 22a formed on the ball receiving plate 22, and the lower end of the ball is formed on the bottom of the spherical seat 22a of the ball receiving plate 22 as an escape path that can slightly protrude from the ball receiving plate. A mouth 22b is provided. According to this, since the lower end of the ball 10c can be supported by the annular portion of the spherical seat 22a formed on the ball receiving plate 22, it is possible to apply a stable clamping force to the ball 10c.

<Effect of braking operation handle>
The screw shaft 10a at the opposite end of the ball 10c accommodated in the braking case 20 protrudes through a screw insertion opening 21e formed in the ceiling portion of the presser cover 21, and the operation handle 40 is screwed onto the screw shaft 10a. Is done. With this operation handle 40, the screw member 10 is tilted. At that time, when a digital camera or the like is separately screwed and set on the screw shaft 10a, the screwing with the digital camera is locked by screwing back the operation handle 40 and tightening it to the digital camera side, and the digital camera does not loosen. It can be reliably set to the ball head BH.
In the ball head BH according to the present invention, a bottle mounting cap 30 is further integrated so as to be removable. The bottle mounting cap 30 is a rubber cap having an inverted bottomed container shape as shown in the drawing, and serrations are formed on the inner and outer peripheral side surfaces.

<Ball head assembly and effects during assembly>
The bottle mounting cap 30 is attached to the braking case 20 with a presser plate 34 interposed between the bottom of the bottle mounting cap 30 and the bottle mounting cap bottom surface 32 and the ball receiving seat plate 22 via the presser plate 34. The presser cover 21 is fixed by a set screw 35.
Since the screw through hole (not shown) of the rubber bottle mounting cap 30 is formed in a hole having a smaller diameter than the set screw 35, the set screw with the presser plate interposed during the screwing operation is made of rubber. Temporarily fixed to the screw through hole of the bottle mounting cap 30. Therefore, since the set screw is not dropped, the assembly work by screwing the bottle mounting cap 30 to the braking case 20 can be smoothly performed.
Note that the tightening force of the ball 10c sandwiched between the presser cover 21 and the ball receiving plate 22 can be executed by adjusting the fastening strength of the set screw 35, and the ball head after the assembly is assembled. The frictional force of the screw member ball 10c can be adjusted.
According to the present invention, in the assembly of the ball head BH with the bottle mounting cap, it is possible to assemble while adjusting the braking frictional force of the ball 10c simultaneously with the assembly of the bottle mounting cap 30.

<Effect of cap bottom recess>
In the bottom surface portion 32 of the rubber bottle mounting cap 30, a concave portion 32a is formed on the surface of the ball receiving seat plate side. In this case, the portion of the ball 10c that is sandwiched and assembled and protrudes from the through hole 22b formed on the bottom of the ball receiving plate 22 is accommodated in the escape space by the recess 32a. Stable support of the ball 10c by the annular portion can be ensured.

<Cap serration installation location and function>
The serrations formed on the peripheral side surface 33 of the rubber bottle mounting cap 30 are engaged with the serrations on the outer periphery of the stopper of the plastic bottle in the inner side serration 33a, so that the assembled and mounted ball head itself is The possibility of sliding around the axis of the PET bottle can be eliminated, whereby a predetermined mounting position in the rotation direction can be maintained, and the camera is rotated on the ball head BH in the outer surface serration 33b. At the time of setting, the ball head BH can be gripped so that the cap does not go around.

<Operation effect of taper mouth>
Further, the opening 31 of the bottle mounting cap 30 has an inner peripheral insertion port portion formed as a tapered surface 31a. Therefore, when the ball head BH with a bottle mounting cap is mounted on the bottle with a cap, the tapered surface 31a. Thus, the mounting operation of the ball head BH with the cap for mounting the bottle can be easily performed.

<Adhesion and effect of screwed blindfold on the bottom of the cap>
By attaching a blindfold sheet to the surface of the holding plate 34 fastened to the bottom of the cap 30 by a setscrew 35, the screwing structure is blindfolded to prevent the screws from loosening, and the cap integrated thereby In addition, it is possible to prevent easy disassembly and disassembly of the braking case.

<Installation and effect of elastic seat plate>
Further, an elastic seat plate 41 can be provided on the upper surface on the camera screw mounting side of the operation handle 40 screwed on the screw shaft 10a by being fitted into a recess 40a formed on the upper surface. The elastic seat plate 41 is a buffer material for preventing scratches on the surface of the operation handle during a screwing operation in which the camera is screwed onto the screw shaft. It is also intended to prevent loosening.

<Usage>
In the ball head BH with a cap for bottle mounting assembled by the device of this application, the cap 30 for bottle mounting is inserted and fitted into a cap of a bottle with a cap filled with liquid, and the screw head of the ball head with cap is inserted. Screw a clip to fix the camera or camera equipment, and use a familiar plastic bottle as a substitute support device without preparing a tripod as a simple camera platform or a clip support base for camera equipment. Can be used for simple use.
A bottle with a cap filled with liquid is used as a pedestal for preventing overturning, and it can be easily combined and used as a small camera platform for a lightweight and small digital camera.

10 Screw member 10a Screw shaft 10b Shaft portion 10c Ball 20 Braking portion case 21 Presser cover 21a Ceiling portion 21b Shaft insertion port 21c Opening portion 21d O-ring 21e Screw insertion port 22 Screw member receiving seat 22a Ball receiving spherical seat 22b Through port 30 Cap 31 Opening portion 31a Tapered portion 32 Bottom surface portion 32a Recessed portion 33 Peripheral side portion 33a Inner surface serration 33b Outer surface serration 34 Holding plate 35 Set screw 40 Operation handle 40a Recessed portion 41 Elastic seat plate
Ball head with BH cap

Claims (5)

A bottle mounting cap, a ball receiving plate for holding and holding a ball of a screw member therebetween, and a brake case including a presser cover, a lower end ball accommodated in the brake case, and an upper end screw protruding from the presser cover A screw member having a shaft; an operation handle screwed to the screw member; and a set screw for fastening the brake case and the bottle mounting cap; and a bottom surface of the cap on a side opposite to the screw shaft protruding from the brake case. A ball head with a cap for attaching a bottle is assembled at the same time as a ball head with a cap for mounting a bottle by assembling a ball head with a set screw through a seat plate from the inside of the cap. With cap for bottle mounting, characterized in that the braking force can be adjusted and the screw member can be held in its tilting operation position by the operation handle Ball head. 2. The bottle mounting cap according to claim 1, wherein the bottle mounting cap is a bottomed cap made of rubber, the inner peripheral side surface and the outer peripheral side surface are serrated, and the opening portion is provided with a tapered surface. Ball head. 3. The clamping surface of the ball receiving seat plate and the presser cover constituting the brake case according to claim 1 or 2, wherein one ball receiving seat plate side is formed as a hemispherical curved surface having an open lower end, and the other presser foot is provided. A ball head with a cap for attaching a bottle, characterized by having an O-ring on the cover side. 4. The recess according to claim 3, wherein a recess is formed on the upper end facing surface of the bottomed cap made of rubber, which is fixed to be opposed to the lower end opening of the ball receiving plate, thereby forming a clearance space at the lower end from which the ball protrudes. A ball head with a cap for attaching a bottle, characterized by 5. The elastic receiving seat according to claim 1, wherein a concave portion is formed on a shaft end side surface of the hook-shaped operation handle that is screwed to the screw shaft, and the screwed device such as a camera is protected in the concave portion. A ball head with a cap for mounting a bottle, characterized by fitting and mounting.