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US 5,856,862 AGranted
Boom camera crane
OwnerAnatoly Akimovich Kokushinventor
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Abstract
A boom camera crane for film-and television-program shooting has a support; a boom turnable in vertical and horizontal planes, and a carriage for supporting a camera and reciprocatingly movable on the boom along the boom.
Claims5
A boom camera crane for film-and television-program shooting, comprising a support;
- a hollow boom turnable in vertical and horizontal planes on said support via a bearing unit, said hollow boom having one part located at one side of said bearing unit and another part located at another side of said bearing unit;
- a carriage supporting a camera and reciprocatingly movable on said boom along said boom, said carriage being located on said one side of said boom and being reciprocatingly movable along said one side of said boom;
- and a counterbalance connected with said carriage supporting said camera for counter balancing said carriage with said camera during the reciprocating movement of said carriage with said camera along said one part of said boom, said counter balance being reciprocatingly movable inside said boom in said one part of said boom, so that when said carriage with said camera moves along said one part of said boom in one direction said counterbalance connected with said carriage moves in another opposite direction inside said one part of said boom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.