Quick shoe for camera tripod
OwnerPil-sik Kanginventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a quick shoe used to mount a camera to a tripod. When the camera is directly coupled with the tripod, too much time is required. The camera is attached to the tripod in every use of 5 the camera. In order to solve this problem, the male quick shoe is permanently mounted on the lower end of the camera, and the female quick shoe is provided on a head of the tripod, such that the quick shoe is easily detached from the tripod through one touch scheme. This causes a problem that the male quick shoe is not firmly coupled 10 with the female quick shoe so that the camera shakes in shooting. The male quick shoe installed in the camera interferes with a user's hand in shooting, so that troubles occur in shooting. A vertical control grip is mounted on a body of the camera to obtain a vertical picture format.
Claims3
A quick shoe comprising:
- a female quick shoe coupled with a head of a tripod to mount a camera to the tripod;
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- a male quick shoe coupled with a lower end of the camera in such a manner that the male quick shoe is received in the female quick shoe and the camera is detachable from the tripod through one touch scheme,
- wherein the male quick shoe is provided at a central portion having a plate shape thereof with a recess section and includes a through hole formed in the recess section such that a fastening unit is inserted into the through hole to fix the camera, mounting holes formed at both sides of the fastening unit, and first inclined mount surfaces formed inside the mounting hole symmetrically to each other,
- wherein the female quick shoe is provided at an upper portion thereof with a pressing protrusion having second inclined mount surfaces having an angle identical to an angle of the first inclined mount surfaces of the mounting hole, and
- wherein, as an operating lever of the female quick shoe is fastened or released in a state in which the pressing protrusion is fitted into the mounting hole, the first and second inclined mount surfaces are pressed so that the male quick shoe is attached to or detached from the female quick shoe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.