Camera holder and methods
AssigneeXtend Products, LLC
InventorsChad R. Burnett, Howard Steve Ellenburg, Kenneth D. Wandry
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Abstract
A portable device for stabilizing an arm or hand of a person. The device includes a stabilizer shaft having a peripheral section and a mating section, a stabilizer coupled with the peripheral section of the stabilizer shaft and configured to engage the arm or hand of the person, a base shaft having a peripheral section and a mating section and in slidable arrangement with the stabilizer shaft, an attachment assembly in cooperative association with the mating section of the stabilizer shaft and the mating section of the base shaft, and a garment clip coupled with the peripheral section of the base shaft. Methods of using and constructing a portable device for stabilizing an arm or a hand of a person are also provided.
Claims19
A portable device for stabilizing an arm or hand of a person, the device comprising:
- a stabilizer shaft including a peripheral section and a mating section;
- a stabilizer coupled with the peripheral section of the stabilizer shaft and configured to engage the arm or hand of the person;
- a base shaft in slidable arrangement with the stabilizer shaft, the base shaft including a peripheral section and a mating section;
- an attachment assembly in cooperative association with the mating section of the stabilizer shaft and the mating section of the base shaft, the attachment assembly configured to releasably fix the stabilizer shaft relative to the base shaft;
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- a garment clip coupled with the peripheral section of the base shaft, the garment clip including a first cleft and a second cleft, wherein the first cleft is configured to engage a garment worn by the person when the device is upright, and the second cleft is configured to engage the garment worn by the person when the device is inverted.
A method of using a portable device for stabilizing an arm or hand of a person, the method comprising:
- engaging a stabilizer of the portable device with the arm or hand of the person, the stabilizer coupled with a peripheral section of a stabilizer shaft;
- releasing an attachment assembly of the portable device such that a base ring of the attachment assembly is slidably engaged with a mating section of a base shaft while a stabilizer ring of the attachment assembly is fixed with a mating section of the stabilizer shaft;
- adjusting the length of the portable device by sliding the mating section of the stabilizer shaft in telescopic relation to the mating section of the base shaft;
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- locking the attachment assembly of the portable device by compressing the base ring of the attachment assembly such that the base ring is fixed with respect to the mating section of the base shaft;
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- engaging a garment clip first cleft with a garment worn by the person when the portable device is upright, and engaging a garment clip second cleft with the garment worn by the person when the portable device is inverted.
A method of constructing a portable device for stabilizing an arm or hand of a person, the method comprising:
- coupling a stabilizer with a peripheral section of a stabilizer shaft, the stabilizer configured to engage the arm or hand of the person;
- placing a base shaft in slidable arrangement with the stabilizer shaft, the base shaft including a peripheral section and a mating section;
- coupling an attachment assembly with a mating section of the stabilizer shaft and the mating section of the base shaft, the attachment assembly configured to releasably fix the stabilizer shaft relative to the base shaft;
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- coupling a garment clip with the peripheral section of the base shaft, the garment clip including a first cleft and a second cleft, wherein the first cleft is configured to engage a garment worn by the person when the device is upright, and the second cleft is configured to engage the garment worn by the person when the device is inverted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.