Camera mount

• US 4,270,679 A
• Filed: 08/22/1978
• Issued: 06/02/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dennis M. Gildea, Peter Nota
• Original Assignee: Dennis M. Gildea, Peter Nota
• Inventors: Gildea, Dennis M., Nota, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Spar, Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOLAND, KENNETH W
• Application Number:
  US05/935,857
• Time in Patent Office: 1,015 Days
• Field of Search: 224/5 V, 224/5 R, 224/5 A, 224/5 B, 224/5 H, 224/181, 224/908, 224/271, 2/422, 2/185R, 2/199, 354/81, 354/82, 352/242, 248/362, 248/363
• US Class Current: 224/181
• CPC Class Codes: A42B 3/04 Parts, details or accessories of helmets
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/00 Holders or carriers for hand articles; Holders or carriers for use while travelling or camping
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/00 Other supports for positioning apparatus or articles heads thereof F16M11/02 ; undercarriages thereof F16M11/20 ; adapted to be stuck in the ground A45F3/44 ; sockets or holders for poles or posts E04H12/22; Means for steadying hand-held apparatus or articles supports for measuring instruments G01D11/30; supports for casings of remote control switching devices H01H9/025
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/022 repositionable
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/04 for supporting on, or holding steady relative to, a person, e.g. by chains , e.g. rifle butt or pistol grip supports, supports attached to the chest or head apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them G03B
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/908 Carrier for camera or other photographic equipment

Abstract

A camera mount for use with human headgear, the mount removeably engaged to the headgear by attachment devices such as suction cups or an adherent pad and through adjustable connections devices such as buckles, straps and clips. The mount includes a base plate on which the camera is positioned.

Claims

1. A mount for a camera, the mount comprising:

(a) a flat, rectilinear base plate having first and second engagement means, upper and lower surfaces, a plane, a first angle portion and a second angle portion, the first and second angle portions being bent at an angle to the plane of the base plate, and spaced from each other, the first angle portion having the first engagement means associated therewith and the second angle portion having the second engagement means associated therewith, the lower surface having attachment means associated therewith, the attachment means comprising suction cups, each suction cup adapted to engage the exterior surface of protective headgear having a cup portion and a stem portion and a suction cup attached to the first angle portion and another suction cup attached to the second angle portion,

(b) affixation means associated with the base plate having means for engaging a camera and extending above the plane of the base plate, and

(c) adjustable connection means associated with the first and second engagement means whereby the affixation means is adapted to engage a camera and the connection means is adapted to engage the edge of the protective headgear near the open end thereby fixing the camera in spaced relation to the headgear when the headgear is worn by a human.

2. A mount as set forth in claim 1, the connection means including an adjustable strap having a clip associated therewith, the clip adapted to engage a helmet or the like.