CARRYING STRAP MOUNTING

• US 3,631,572 A
• Filed: 07/17/1969
• Issued: 01/04/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Karl Heinz Lange
• Original Assignee: Karl Heinz Lange
• Inventors: Lange, Karl Heinz
• Primary Examiner(s): Gelak, Bernard A.
• Application Number:
  US04/842,446
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• Field of Search: 24/23BC,224SB,21R,223,222,224 248/224,225 16/114,125,126 224/5V,5R 95/86
• US Class Current: 24/665
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 11/38 Camera cases, e.g. of ever-ready type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/908 Carrier for camera or other photographic equipment
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45791 and partially blocking separate, nonresilient access opening of cavity

Abstract

A carrying strap particularly suitable for cameras has a clawlike and accordingly hollow shaped connecting part which fits over a correspondingly shaped protruding member on the outside wall of the piece to be carried; particularly a camera or a notch on the protruding member is provided, and an elastically deflectable latch means having a protruding nose is integrally formed on the connecting part, which nose fits into the notch for securing the connecting part in place on the piece to be carried by the strap.

Claims

1. Releasable and detachable connection for a carrying strap for a camera and the like, said connection comprising the combination of two pieces, one of said pieces being attached to said carrying strap, the other of said pieces being an integral part of said camera and the like, said one piece having flanges thereon forming an elongated recess, said other piece having a corresponding elongated stemlike projection having an enlarged head, said enlarged head being disposed for being positioned within said recess and engaging said flanges for preventing said two pieces being separated sideways but providing for a relative sliding movement thereof upon each other, said elongated recess being open at one end, a wall at the end of said recess, and a spring latch having a nose, said nose having an oblique surface disposed for the assembling of said two pieces without manually operating said spring latch, said nose further having a resting surface disposed for preventing said pieces from sliding relative to each other in the direction opposite to the direction of assembling, and an outwardly extending free end on said spring for manually disengaging said latch for permitting said two pieces to be slid apart.

2. Releasable and detachable connection for a carrying strap according to claim 1, both said projection and said elongated recess formed by said flanges having T-shaped cross sections.

3. Releasable and detachable connection for a carrying strap according to claim 2, said enlarged head of said projection having a locking recess for said nose of said spring latch, said recess being located at the end of said enlarged head, said end disposed for being inserted first into said recess on said one piece at assembling of said two pieces, and said spring latch being integral on said one piece.