US744526A - Handle for photographic stick-stands. - Google Patents

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No. 744,526. PATENTED NOV. 17,1903,

' I G. GEIGER. X

HANDLE FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC STICK STANDS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 20, 1903. N0 MODEL.

at. 74am;

Patented November 17, 1909:.

PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAV GEIGER, or MUNICH, GERMANY.-

HANDLE FOR PHOTOGRAPH'IC STICK-STANDS SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,526, dated November 17, 1903.

Application filed February 20, 1903. Serial No, 144,313. (No model.)

to a handle to be attached to stick-shaped stands or supports as used for carrying photographic apparatus. There are many han dles of this kind and of a great variety of construction; but with the majority of these the chief attention has been paid to solidity of construction only, Whereas simplicity and handiness leave still much to be desired.

A great drawback with the stick-stands in general use at present is the necessity of screwing off and exchanging the handle with a head or top piece required for the support, and, further, no provision has been madevfor a suificiently-broad basis or rest for the photographic apparatus. To remove these drawbacks and produce a perfect stand isthe object of the present innovation. The essential feature of it is that a fiat bar contained porting the photographic apparatus, which is indicated by dash-lines.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The handle of the stand consists of the lower or bottom part a, provided with a threaded socket b for the stand and which can be made of any suitable material. On the part a rests the fiat bar 0, which is of the same breadth as a and is journaled in its center upon the bolt 01. The bolt (1 has at its the device and can catch in a notch on the opposite side of the turning-joint h on the part a. a In the lid 9 I may arrange two light springs in order to prevent a rattling of the flat bar a on the stick being used in Walking, as these springs will press the fiat bar 0 against the part a, In order to allow of turning the photographic apparatus on the support in all directions, the threaded socket b has at its upper end an inwardly-burnished bur-shaped rim 4;, which engages the material of the bottom part a. actuates the rotation and serves also to screw the socket 1) onto the support.

If the device is to be used, the lid 9 is opened and the fiat bar a thereupon turned ninety degrees, so that it engages into the recess f, when the apparatus is screwed upon the pin e so that the bottom of the apparatus rests at the same time .on a. and c, Fig. 3.

The parts a and 0 may be lined in the usual manner with velvet or other material in order to prevent the apparatus from getting damaged and to make it stick to the sup port.

. What I claim as my invention, and desire A corded ring it to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- p 1. The combination in a handle for photographic stick-shaped stands with a bottom part at having a threaded socket b with the sector f, a flat bar 0 turning on its center with the pin 6 for screwing on the photographic apparatus, substantially as set forth.

2. A handle for photographic stick-shaped stands, with the bottom part a, the arched or vaulted lid 9 on the turning-link h for covering the inner arrangement of the handle, substantially as set forth.

3. A handle for photographic stick-shaped name to this specification in the presence of stands, with the bottom part a, a crown or two subscribing witnesses. rim i enterin" like claws into the threaded 1 socket b for taining the apparatus and a GUSTAV 5 corded ring k for screwing on the handle, sub- Witnesses:

sbantially as and for the purpose set forth. CLARA I. PARKER,

In testimony whereof I have signed my WALTER E. BOWMAN.

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