Camera mount
AssigneeAmpex Corporation
InventorsVerl N. Barzee, Peter J. Wonfor
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Abstract
A camera mount of the type including a front plate having an attachment to the lens-mounting frontal side of a camera-and-lens assembly, and a bottom plate extending rearwardly, parallel to the lens axis, from the lower portion of the front plate for supporting the rearward portion of the camera and for mounting the camera on a base structure, characterized in that means are provided on the bottom plate for engaging and supporting the rearward portion of the camera and for countering the moment exerted by the weight of the camera about its attachment; and means are provided for clamping the camera to the bottom plate and to the supporting means thereof.
Claims4
A camera mount of the type including a front plate for attaching a camera-lens assembly, the front portion of said camera having an attachment to said lens in the vicinity of said plate for supporting said front camera portion, and a bottom plate extending rearwardly, parallel to the lens axis, from the lower portion of the front plate for supporting the rearward portion of the camera and for mounting the camera on a base structure, characterized in that:
- means are provided on said bottom plate for engaging and supporting said rearward portion of said camera and for countering the moment exerted by the weight of the camera about said attachment thereof
- said supporting means includes an adjustable pressurizing means that is automatically self-limiting for exerting a predetermined maximum supporting force upwardly on said camera to counter said moment;
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- means are provided for clamping said camera and lens assembly to said bottom plate and to said supporting means thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.