US404396A

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Publication number: US404396A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-06-04
Anticipated expiration: 1906-06-04

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W. H. FULLER.

CAMERA STAND.

Patented Julie 4, 1889.

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CAMERA STAND.

PatentedJune 4, 1889..

Inz erzior UNITED v STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLARD H. FULLER, OF PASSAIC, NEvV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NElV 'YORK, N.-Y.

CAM ERA-STAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,396, dated June 4, 1889.

Application filed November 1'7, 1888. Serial No. 291,139. (No model.)

.To on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VILLARD H. FULLER, of Passaic, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Camera-Stands, of

which the following is a specification.

Iwill describe a cainera-stand embodying my improvement, and then point out the various novel features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a camera-stand embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the upper portion. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken at the plane of the dotted line 00 m, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan or top view of the stand. Figs. 5 and G are detail views of a part of the invention.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates a frame, which may be made of wood or any other suitable material, and which consists, essentially, of uprights a and cross-pieces or stretchers a. It is shown as of rectangular form. It may advantageously be provided with wheels or casters a so as to facilitate its movement into different positions. It will be seen that this frame is provided with sockets B, secured to the sides, and that the wheels or casters a have their 0 shanks fitted into these sockets. WVhen the wheels or casters are arranged beyond the sides in this manner, abroader and more stable base is provided for the frame.

C designates a bed supported by the frame 3 5 A. This bed has affixed to it two frames D D which, as here shown, are fitted between the uprights a, and are preferably engaged therewith by grooves and ribs. These frames D D are adapted to slide up and down within the frame A for the purpose of elevating and lowering the bed O. I

Springs E, supported by certain of the uprights a of the frame A and bearing against the frames D D and having combined with them screws F for varying the force with which they act upon the frames D D preserve a close engagement of the frames D D with the frame A, so as to obviate instability which may be occasioned from changes in the weather or other causes.

The frames D D are provided with upright racks (Z. These engage with pinions G upon a shaft G. The shaft G is supported in bearings arranged upon the frame A. A worm-wheel G is also affixed to the shaft G. This worm-wheel engages with a worm H upon a shaft H, extending at right angles to the shaft G and supported in bearings upon the frame A. The shaft H is provided with a hand-wheel H whereby it may be conven- 6o ,iently rotated for elevating the frames D D and the bed C. The hand-wheel is superior to a crank, because it may be reached from a greater variety of positions. Moreover, it need not project as a crank does. I have shown a handle h combined with this wheel; but 'it is not intended to be used permanently, but to be engaged or interlocked by a screw-thread or bayonet-lock or the like with the hand-wheel whenever it is desirable to rotate the shaft H rapidly for the purpose of making any considerable change in the elevation of the bed 0. The worm will of course hold the frames D D and bed 0 in any position into which they may be adjusted.

The bed 0 is shown as connected to the frame D by hinges d, and engaged with upright dowel-pins d upon the frame D The bed O,therefore, maybe swung up or down at pleasure.

I designates a shaft mounted in bearings affixed to the bed C and provided with aworm I. This worm engages with a toothed rack J ,which is affixed to a slide J, that is mounted upon the top of the bed in such manner that it may move longitudinally of the bed. This slide is provided at each side with reversed inclines j By rotating the shaftI through the agency of a hand-wheel or other device 0 the slide may be moved lengthwise of the bed 0 to bring the inclines into different positions.

K designates an oscillating camera-support consisting of a flat board or frame having 5 side pieces 70, which are pivotally connected at about the middle of the length of the support K to brackets 7t, extending upward from the bed C. The side pieces are connected by crossbars 79. These cross-bars bear upon the inclinesj' carried by the slide J; hence by moving the slide .l in one direction its i11- elines may be made to rock the camera-sil port K into one inclined position, and by moving the slide J in the other direction its slides may be made to rock the camera-support into a reversely-inclined position.

It will be seen that the camera support K has an upturned lip or flange 7; at one end, and at the other end is provided with a notch 71: for accommodating the body of the operator. This notch is advantageous, because the operator is enabled to follow the camera as the latter is adjusted for focusing, and yet the full length of the camera-support is kept available for sustaining the camera, as the side arms of the notch form an extended bearing. It will be observed that the handwheel, which is provided for rotating the shaft I, is opposite the notch in the camerasupport.

It will be observed that the bed C is notched to correspond with the camera-support. It will be further observed that the slides are laterally beyond the notches in the bed C and camera-support K.

Ii designates a pocket for holding plates. It may be made of wood or other suitable material. Itis provided with hooks Z to engage with one of the cross-pieces a of the frameA to secure the pocket in place, and yet admit of? its ready detachment.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A camera-stand consisting of a basef'rame provided with. wheels or casters and. a vertically-adjustable bed and camera-support, the said s pport oscillating on its center, substantially as specified.

2. In a camera-stand having a base-frame and a vertically-adjustable bed and centrallyoscillating calnerasup1.)ort, the combination, with the base-frame, of wheels or casters secured to the sides of the base-fi'rame so as to give the latter an extended base, snbsf antially as specified.

3. In a (BtlllOl'tkSiitlltl, the combination of? a base-frame, two vertically adjustable frames combined therewith, springs bearing on said frames, and a bed hinged to one and detachably engaged with the other, substantially as specified.

1-. I11 a cannn'a-stand, the eombinathm of a base-frame, a bed adjustably su n'iorted by the base-frame and having a central oscillation, a shaft for effecting the adjustment of the said bed, and a hand-wheel upon said shaft, substantially as specified.

5. I11 a caljncra-staml, the combinatitm of a base-frame, two upright frames having a sliding connect-ion therewith, racks upon said upright frames, at r (,)tary shaft, gear-Wheelsupon said shaft engaging with said racks, a wormwheel upon said shaft, another rotary shaft, and a worm upon the last-mentioned rotary shaft engaging with the said worm-wheel, substantiz'llly as specified.

n. In a camera-stand, a bed and a camerasupport, both notched at one end, saidmitches being one above the other, and the arms of the notch in the support formingan extended bearii'1g for the camera, substantially as specified.

7. In a camera-stand, the coml; ination of a bed, a camera-support pivotally connectedbetween its ends to said bed, a slide arranged between said bed and came1-a-su )port, and inclines carried by said slide operating to tilt the eamera-sumiort, substantially as specified.

8. In a camera-stand, the combination of a bed notched at one end, a eamera-support notched at the corresponding end and pivotally connected between its ends to said bed, a slide arranged between said bed and camera-support, and inclines carried by said slide and arranged laterally beyond the notches of the bed andcamera-support and operating to tilt the camera, substantially as specified.

0. In a camera-stand, the combination of a bed, a cam era-support pivotally connected between its ends to the bed, a slide between the bed and cani1era-support, inclines carried by the slide, a rack upon the slide, and a rotary shaft supported by the bed in a position parallel with the rack and. operating to transmit longitudinal motion to the slide, substantially as specified.

10. I11v a camera-stand, the combination of a bed notched at one end, a camera-s11 )portnotched at the correspondil1g end and pivotally eminected between its ends to the bed, a slid 0 intermediate of? the bed and camera-support, inclines carried by the slide arranged laterally beyond the notches of? the bed and czunera-sup mrt and serving to tilt the camera-support, and a rotary shaft servi 11g to impart longitudinal motion to the slide and having its end which is to be actuated by the oporator located close to the inner ends of the notches in the bed and camera-support, substantially as s 1eeified.

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