Apparatus for camera mount on tripod platform
AssigneePlastics Engineering Company
InventorRalph Theodore Brotz
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Abstract
This present invention discloses apparatus and a method for mounting a camera on a tripod platform for taking pictures and this mounting apparatus includes a cradle cup mounted on a tripod platform and an O ring mounted in a groove on the inside diameter of the cradle cup, and a pear shaped or oblate spheroid shaped ball attached to the bottom of a camera and the ball attached to the camera is set into the cradle cup and the ball sets on O ring in the groove on the inside diameter of the cradle cup. The inside diameter of the O ring is less than the diameter of the pear shaped ball attached to the camera.
Claims5
Apparatus for camera mount on tripod platform wherein the improvement comprises:
- a. an assembly of a camera and a ball having a pear or oblate spheroid shape attached to said camera;
- b. said pear shaped ball having a conical section;
- c. a cradle cup fastened to a tripod platform;
- d. a groove inside of and concentric to circumference of said cradle cup
- e. an O ring mounted in said groove of said cradle cup, said cup having an inside diameter greater than outside diameter of said ball of said assembly of a camera and a ball,
- f. inside diameter of said O ring less than the diameter of said ball of said assembly of camera and a ball
- g. said assembly of a camera pear shaped or oblate spheroid shaped ball setting in said cradle cup and said ball resting on said O ring mounted in said groove in said cradle cup.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.