SE1351075A1 - Device at camera stand - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a device (1) at a stand (2) for camera and which has three legs (4,5,6) and a bracket (7) for supporting the camera, wherein the legs (4-6) and the bracket (7) are According to the invention, the legs (4-6) are hingedly connected to the frame body (8) so that they are pivotable. and rotatable about the same to set said camera mount (7) to desired positions, between an upright position and an inverted upside down position (VI). (Fig. 11)

Description

(Fig. 11) 3228 P1SE LG / AHT BROGREN, Rustan Vanersborg Device for camera stand 1 Device for camera stand The present invention relates to a device for camera stand and which has three legs and a fixed one for supporting the camera, the legs and the fastener Or connected with a stand frame.

When shooting, and primarily in macro photography, it is important to be able to get close to the object you want to photograph, but even with other photography, it is important to be able to quickly get the camera in the right box for the shooting event in question.

Otherwise Ran, cm it takes too long or cm it does not ails work, desired light conditions and the motif question quickly change or disappear and intended Desired image is never taken, at least not at the intended occasion. Even in the case of strongly hilly terrain, it can be a problem to get kanda stands in the intended desired condition.

Examples of such camera stands are US 3,881,675A, US 2,226,827A, US 2,229,474A, US 3,211,405A and US 2,919,093A. However, none of the said kanda stands may allow installation of the stand in the desired manner.

The main object of the present invention is thus primarily to solve the above-mentioned problems in a simple and efficient manner with an efficiently functioning stand.

Said ends are achieved by means of a device according to the above-mentioned type, which is mainly characterized by the legs being articulated to the tripod frame so that they are pivotable and rotatable about it to install said camera mounts to the desired law, between an upright lodge and an enclosure. uop- and nedvant lage.

The properties are achieved thanks to the fact that the construction of the stand gives each of the three legs the opportunity to be easily stabled in which direction as heist mom was his half-father. When the tripod, with the camera at the top, is usually used and the photographer just finds a subject near the ground, the tripod, with the camera on, can be used. DA, the legs can be wound up and the tripod is used so that the camera hangs under the tripod hub. This allows the camera to quickly get into photo1, ie heist before the subject is pre-assembled. The stand hub can be placed inclined, e.g. 900 and the legs can your spirit na mar ken.

The invention is described in the following as a preferred embodiment, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which, Figs. 1-2 show the stand in ordinary upright layers with a camera mounted on the stand at the top, Figs. 3-5 show different views of the frame with parts thereof angled pivotable and rotatable about pivot joints and ball joints, Fig. 6 shows in perspective a frame frame obliquely from above, Fig. 7 shows in different views a middle body for the frame, Figs. 8-13 shows views of the frame in different installed layers, Figs. 14-17 show the stand with mounted camera and in various installed and listed layers, and Figs. 18-22 show variants of the invention there, Figs. 18 show in perspective and in partially cut view of a divisible tripod frame and an interconnectable ball joint for one leg, Fig. 19 shows the frame body with ice-like body parts and in one body part received ball joint and a central body therein, Fig. 20 shows section along the line XX-XX in Fig. 21, Fig. 21 shows in perspective a said a center body obliquely from below, and Fig. 22 shows only a body part obliquely from above in perspective.

A device 1 at a stand 2 for supporting a camera 3 and which stand has three legs 4, 5, 6 and a fastening 7 for supporting the camera 3, wherein the legs 4-6, and the fastening 7 are connected to a tripod frame 8, comprises means enabling the legs 4-6 to be hingedly connected to the tripod frame 8 so that the legs 4-6 are pivotable 9, 10 saintly rotatable 11, 12 about the same to install said camera mount 7 to the desired law IX, between a upright lodge I-IV and an inverted up and down rage VX. According to the invention, the respective legs 4-6 are mounted by means of their respective ball joints 13. Said ball joints 13 are received in their respective storage space 14 in said frame frame 8.

Respective legs 4-6 of the frame 2 Or connected to each of said leg bearing guide joints 13 to be able to pivot about the center axis 16 of a ball joint 13 which extends in the middle through the associated leg bearing bearing shaft 13 and that said longitudinal center axis 17 of said leg extends at an angle a to said ball joint 13 center axis 16.

Three leg bearing ball joints 13 Or are distributed evenly distributed along the circumference of the said frame frame 8. Respective legs 4-6 are arranged connectable to the respective ball joint 13 via a pin-shaped connecting part to be used fixedly to each other by means not further described and shown, e.g. by means of welding screws 25 which clamp together slotted end portions 26A, 26B on an adhesive leg 26 around the connecting part 15 dose and rotatable ball joint ball 13 and Establish substantially rigid 4 connection between respective ball joint 13 and respective legs 4-6, but pinata the rigid unit to be rotated with the ball joint 13 received enclosed in a storage space 14 in the frame body 8 in its respective projecting body sleeves 27, and in retracted load layer clamped between a pressure distribution body 20 and a counter hole 32 which is preferably formed at said frame body 8 and side-mounted ball joint opening 24, respectively.

A central body 18, having three planar inclined back pressure surfaces 19, which are then preferably evenly distributed along the circumference of said central body, are arranged to form a support for a respective leg belonging to a spherically shaped leg bearing ball joint 13, receiving pressure distribution body 20.

Said center body 18 back pressure surfaces 19 are inclined in the direction of the tripod frame B from the camera side 7 of the water side A.

For example, a manually operable load member 21 is connected to said center body 18 for joint loading of legs 4-6 in the desired installed layer I-X, and said load member 21 is suitably constituted by a steering wheel with a stepped stand; which is screwed into a hollow hall 31 in said center body 18 for welding.

Other lamped welding parts can also be arranged, whereby the unloading can take place in another lampily desired manner, automatically or manually.

The camera mount 7 is formed by a plate 7A with a slotted hal-7B and the tripod legs 4-6 Or telescopic and readable in the desired installed layers I-X ph in and for sip edge set.

The camera 3 can be conveniently supported on the stand 2 with a ph edge set formed in the desired installed layers of readable tilt swivel 22. A camera stand, the legs 4-6 of which are fastened with tilt swivels 13 Since these are movable in all directions as a hemisphere, gives the advantage that the tripod 2 in a simple way can be adjusted so that you can place the camera 3 in any desired position. The stand 2 can, for example, be "watered up and down" so that the camera 3 ends up at the ground 23. It is also possible to easily rotate the camera 3 while the ball joints 13 for the legs 4-6 allow rotation of the entire camera 3. Similar Solutions can also be achieved with other types of joints, but ball joints easily provide the desired flexibility with rotation and adjustability in several directions.

A body 118 shown in the drawings of Figs. 18-22 is divisible and releasably interconnectable along a horizontal plane 150 in two parts 151, 152 and arranged to be guided to each other by means of resilient tube pins 153, which are received ± 511 154,155 in the fastener 156,157 distributed along the circumference of said body parts 151, 152. In the center of said rudder pin 153 screws 158 are receivable and thus the body parts 151,152 are held firmly together and provides stability to the body 118. Between said paired fastener 156,157, for example, which forms a nuisance in order to be able to hang photo accessories in, for example, such as a photo wash or some other heavy hazard. Avon a dragonfly can be fastened there.

Exactly in the body 118, more precisely in a space 166 in the triangular wedge 163. A pressure part 160 and a back pressure part 200 are arranged to be received between the inside of a body part 152 and the bottom of said space 166, the function of which will later be explained.

The upper side of the back pressure part 200 receives the shell part 162A on a shaft-forming bolt 162 in an annular holder 201 and which shaft-forming bolt projects with its threaded part through an opening in the middle of the body part 152.

The batten and top of the back pressure member 20C and the pressure member 160, respectively, are formed with inclined abutment surfaces so that the abutment of the welding member 165 can be inclined transversely to the center line 169 of the body 118. This is clear from examples shown in Fig. 18. This installs the desired clamping shape for the triangular wedge. 163 against the three balls 164 of the ball joints, when these have not yet been fastened by means of control harps as indicated below. Said back pressure part 200 forms a gap between the triangular wedge 163 and the upper frame part 152, and whose main function is to be able to use the three ball joints 164 in question in the intended desired law simultaneously and equally. A steering wheel-shaped rotatable welding part 165, which is preferably coated on the underside of the triangular wedge 163, is rotatably connected to a shaft 161 provided with external passages and which cooperates with internal passages in the triangular wedge 163 and whose function Or is similar to the steering wheel-shaped welding part 21 according to the above example. pel.

In the middle of the triangular wedge 163 there is, as stated above, the space 166 for the details which provide the adjustable friction when the legs are not Listed with the slat part 165, with for example a side knob 167 with associated pivot shaft 168 extending substantially perpendicular to the center axis 169 of the body 118 and connected to the pressure part 160 via the passages on the rotary shaft 168 and the connected side knob 167 which can displace the pressure part 160 laterally at the desired hill. The slat portion 165 can both attract and push away the triangular wedge 163 in the direction of the shaft 169 and is given the adjustable friction for the final clamping of the legs with the help of the triangular wedge 163 and the respective ball joints 164.

A bolt 161 for said load part 165 has a side diameter which makes it possible for a relatively large step and with a center bracket 170. This center bracket 170 is for being able to insert tools and pull it in or loosen the screw which Or is intended to hold rack stands for. such as a tilt swivel, a panoramic head, a turntable or the camera directly.

The said three balls 164 for the ball joints, each of which consists of a separate detail, are arranged stored under pressure from the center of the frame resting in a ring 171 which consists of plastic material and which is supported by a short rudder socket 172 which is fastened between the biota the voice parts 151,152. A slightly smaller plastic ring 173 is arranged internally with said outer ring 171 and the two rings 171,173 are arranged to absorb the pressure from the pressure body 174 which is pressed by the triangular wedge 163 in the outward direction.

Externally on a free ball joint 164 projecting rorstos 175 there is arranged a double hall 176 in which a free wall of the bellows extending extending inside rubber pin 177A Or arranged to be inserted to firmly retain the bellows from the outside. The function of the bellows is to prevent the respective ball joint 164 from tilting to the side unwanted and to protect the ball joint 164 from impact and dirt.

A transverse ring 179, which is fastened to the rudder socket 172, forms fasteners for said bellows 177. Fasteners 178 for stand legs are made of the same castings as the ball joint 164 consists of, i.e. that fasteners 178 and ball joints 164 are formed by a common unit. Substantially horizontal outer rock portions 250 between the bellows 177 bellows folds 251 prevent the bellows from being rotated in the wrong direction without the legs and associated ball joint and bellows being rotated in the upward or downward direction 252,253. The function of this embodiment of the device in the case of a camera stand should have been understood from the above detailed description and that shown in the drawings in Figs. 18-22. Incoming parts can largely be made of plastic material.

The invention is of course not limited to the embodiments described above and shown in the accompanying drawings. Modifications are possible, especially when it comes to the nature of the various parts, or by the use of equivalent techniques, without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the claims. 9

Claims (10)

B228 P1SE LG / AHT PAT ENTKRAV 1. Coupling (1) with stand (2) for camera (3) and which has three legs (4, 5, 6) and a key (7) for supporting the camera (3), wherein the legs (4-6) and The bracket (7) is connected to a frame body (8), characterized in that the legs (4-6) are hingedly connected to the frame body (8) so that they are pivotable (9, 10) and rotatable (11, 12) about the same. to install said camera mount (7) to the desired layer (IX), between an upright layer (I-IV) and an inverted up and down layer (VX). Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the respective legs (4-6) are stored by means of their respective ball joints (13) and that said ball joints (13) are received in said frame frame (8). Device according to claim 2, characterized in that the respective ball joint (13) is received in its respective storage space (14) in the frame body (8). Device according to any one of claims 2-3, characterized in that the respective legs (4-6) are connected to each of said bone bearing ball joints (13) to be pivoted about a central axis (16) which extends in the middle through the associated leg bearing ball joint. (13) and that said longitudinal center axis (17) of said leg extends at an angle (a) to said central axis (16). Device according to any one of claims 2-4, characterized in that the bone bearing ball joints (13) are evenly distributed along the circumference of said frame body (8). 10 Device according to any one of claims 2-5, characterized in that a central body (18), which has three flat inclined counter-pressure surfaces (19), which are evenly distributed along the circumference of said central body, are arranged to form a support for a respective leg belonging to spherically shaped leg bearing ball joint (13) receiving pressure distribution body (20). 10 Device according to claim 6, characterized in that said back body surfaces (19) of said center body (18) are inclined in the direction towards the water side of the tripod frame (7). 15 Device according to any one of claims 6-7, characterized in that a manually actuable load part (21) is connected to said center body (18) for joint loading of the legs (4-6) in the desired instant log (I-X). 20 Device according to claim 8, characterized in that said welding part (21) is constituted by a raft with a threaded rod which is screwed into said central body (18) for lashing. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the camera attachment (7) consists of a plate (7A) with a perpendicular slide (7B) and that the tripod legs (4-6) are telescopic and weldable in the desired installed layers. (IX).