Tilt mounting
AssigneeMitsuwa Photo Industry Co. Ltd.
InventorToyosaku Nakamura
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Abstract
A tilt mounting having a base member, a pivoted frame, carried by the base member, a receptacle slidably held by the frame, a pair of support rods pivoted at their intermediate portions to said frame and supported at their ends by said base member and said receptacle so that the receptacle can slide back and forth in response to the pivoting of said frame, and means for fixing the receptacle at any desired angular position the tilt mounting can suitably be used for mounting a TV camera or the like on a tripod, and is capable of resetting the TV camera to the horizontal position due to the automatic shifting of the center of gravity to the supporting axis when the TV camera is left at any angle of elevation or when the TV camera is released from its fixing means.
Claims8
A tilt mounting, comprising in combination:
- (a) a base member (A);
- (b) a pivoted frame (B), pivotally carried by said base member (A);
- (c) a receptacle (C) slidably held by said pivoted frame (B);
- (d) a pair of supporting rods (D) with ends and intermediate portions, pivoted at said intermediate portions to said pivoted frame (B) and supported at their respective ends by said base member (A) and by said receptacle (C), so that said receptacle slides back and forth in response to the turning of said pivoted frame;
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- (e) fixing means for fixing said receptacle (C) at any desired angular position.
A tilt mounting, comprising in combination:
- (a) a base member (A) with elongated apertures therein;
- (b) a tilt frame (B) with a pair of support plates provided with rollers, said tilt frame being swingably mounted on said base member (A), said support plates having a lower portion;
- (c) a tilt table (C) with rails having an L-shaped cross-section, said rails engaging with said rollers for allowing the sliding movement of said tilt table (C) on said tilt frame (B);
- (d) a support rod (D) pivotally mounted on said lower portion of said support plate, the mounting portion of said support rod (D) being movably mounted to said elongated apertures in said base member (A) and to said tilt table (C), and,
- (e) fixing means for fixing said tilt table (C) at any desired angular porition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.