Surveillance camera mount

• US 4,709,897 A
• Filed: 07/30/1986
• Issued: 12/01/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Quick Test Incorporated (MVL Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Quick Test Incorporated (MVL Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Mooney, Paul C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Foss, J. Franklin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Talbott, David L.
• Application Number:
  US06/890,469
• Time in Patent Office: 489 Days
• Field of Search: 248/551, 248/552, 248/553, 248/205.1, 248/300, 70/DIG. 49, 70/441, 70/163, 70/164, 70/160, 70/167, 70/166, 70/170, 70/171, 354/293, 354/294, 358/229, 358/108, 352/243
• US Class Current: 248/551
• 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 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 70/49 with alarm
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5562 Removable
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/827 Attention-directing

Abstract

A surveillance camera mount including a bracket and a base defining a hollow housing which are formed so as to render the mount essentially tamper-proof. The bracket is adapted to be secured to a mounting surface and includes a surface adapted to support a surveillance camera and an opening or channel disposed to face opposite the camera supporting surface. The base conforms to the opening or channel in the bracket and has a flange extending substantially about the perimeter thereof with at least a portion adapted to be disposed internally of the bracket. When the base is secured to the bracket, the fasteners adapted to mount the bracket to the mounting surface and the camera to the camera supporting surface are concealed.

Claims

1. A surveillance camera mount, comprising:

a bracket adapted to be permanently secured to a mounting surface, said bracket defining a portion of a hollow housing having a surface adapted to support a surveillance camera and an opening disposed to face opposite said camera supporting surface, and including means for permanently mounting said bracket to said mounting surface;

a base conforming to said opening in said bracket, said base defining the remainder of said hollow housing and having a flange extending substantially about the perimeter thereof with at least a portion adapted to be disposed internally of said bracket when said base is secured to said bracket, and including means for securing said base to said bracket;

said base securing means including first securing means operatively associated with said base and said bracket adjacent said mounting surface and second securing means operatively associated with said base and said bracket at a point remote from said mounting surface; and

means for locking said base to said bracket in a tamper-proof manner;

said first and second securing means and said bracket mounting means being concealed by said base when said base is locked to said bracket by said base locking means.

2. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 1 wherein said bracket also includes a pair of spaced, elongated side walls.

3. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 2 wherein said opening defined by said support surface and side walls is elongated, said elongated opening being disposed to face opposite said support surface.

4. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 3 including a plate adapted to be disposed between said mounting surface and said bracket, said plate having a tongue extending outwardly away from said mounting surface, said tongue comprising a portion of said first securing means operatively associated with said bracket.

5. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 4 wherein said flange on said base includes a slot adjacent said mounting surface adapted to receive said tongue on said plate, said slot comprising the remainder of said first securing means operatively associated with said base.

6. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 3 wherein said bracket includes a pair of inwardly extending flanges adapted to be disposed adjacent said mounting surface, said inwardly extending flanges comprising said bracket mounting means.

7. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 6 wherein said inwardly extending flanges each include a tab extending away from said mounting surface, said flange on said base having at least one slot adapted to receive said tabs, said tabs and said slots comprising said first securing means operatively associated with said bracket and said base.

8. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 3 wherein said bracket includes retaining means associated with said support surface remote from said mounting surface, said flange on said base defining a front wall having a lip adapted to be disposed in operative relation to said retaining means, said retaining means comprising said second securing means.

9. A surveillance camera mount, comprising:

a bracket adapted to be permanently secured to a mounting surface, said bracket defining a portion of an elongated hollow housing having an upper surface adapted to support a surveillance camera and a pair of spaced, elongated side walls depending therefrom to define an elongated opening disposed to face opposite said camera supporting surface, and including means for permanently mounting said bracket to said mounting surface;

a base conforming to said elongated opening in said bracket, said base defining another portion of said elongated hollow housing and having a flange extending substantially about the perimeter thereof with at least a portion adapted to be disposed internally of and in closely adjacent relation to said bracket at least along said elongated side walls when said base is secured to said bracket, and including means for securing said base to said bracket; and

a plate adapted to be disposed between said mounting surface and said bracket, said plate comprising the remainder of said elongated hollow housing, said plate having a tongue extending outwardly away from said mounting surface;

said flange on said base having a slot adjacent said mounting surface adapted to receive said tongue on said plate, said bracket having retaining means associated with said upper surface remote from said mounting surface, said flange on said base defining a front wall having a lip remote from said mounting surface adapted to be disposed in operative relation to said retaining means of said bracket, said tongue and said slot comprising a first portion of said base securing means and said retaining means comprising a second portion of said base securing means; and

means for locking said base to said bracket in a tamper-proof manner;

said tongue and slot, said retaining means and said bracket mounting means being concealed by said base when said base is locked to said bracket by said base locking means.

10. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 9 wherein said bracket includes a pair of inwardly extending flanges adapted to be disposed adjacent said mounting surface, said inwardly extending flanges comprising said bracket mounting means.

11. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 10 wherein said inwardly extending flanges have a plurality of bolt receiving holes adapted for registration with a corresponding plurality of bolt receiving holes in said plate.

12. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 9 wherein said flange on said base includes a pair of spaced, elongated side flange portions joined by front and rear flange portions, said front flange portion defining said front wall having said lip adapted to be disposed in operative relation to said retaining means.

13. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 12 wherein said retaining means on said bracket includes a tongue formed by said upper surface to face away from said mounting surface, said lip on said front wall of said base being adapted to be disposed over said tongue and under said upper surface of said bracket on both sides of said tongue of said retaining means.

14. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 9 including a centrally disposed hollow fastening block integral with one of said base and said bracket, said fastening block having a surface adapted to receive a tamper-proof fastener extending through a fastener receiving opening in the other of said base and said bracket, said tamper-proof fastener and said fastening block comprising said base locking means.

15. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 9 including a lock receiving opening in one of said base and said bracket and a lock adapted to be disposed in said lock receiving opening, the other of said base and said bracket including means adapted to receive a radially extending finger of said lock for locking said base to said bracket, said lock and said finger receiving means comprising said base locking means.

16. A surveillance camera mount, comprising:

a bracket adapted to be permanently secured to a mounting surface, said bracket defining a portion of an elongated housing having an upper surface adapted to support a surveillance camera and a pair of spaced, elongated side walls depending therefrom to define an elongated opening disposed to face opposite said camera supporting surface, said bracket including a pair of inwardly extending flanges adapted to be disposed on said mounting surface for permanently mounting said bracket to said mounting surface;

a base conforming to said elongated opening in said bracket, said base defining the remainder of said elongated hollow housing and having a flange extending substantially about the perimeter thereof with at least a portion adapted to be disposed internally of said bracket with said flange in closely adjacent relation to said bracket at least along said elongated side walls when said base is secured to said bracket, and including means for securing said base to said bracket;

said flange on said base having at least one slot adjacent said inwardly extending flanges of said bracket, said inwardly extending flanges of said bracket each having a tab extending away from said mounting surface, said tabs on said flanges of said bracket being adapted to be disposed in said slot in said flange on said base;

said bracket also having retaining means associated with said upper surface remote from said mounting surface and said flange on said base defining a front wall having a lip remote from said mounting surface adapted to be disposed in operative relation to said retaining means of said bracket;

said tabs and said slot comprising a first portion of said base securing means and said retaining means comprising a second portion of said base securing means; and

means for locking said base to said bracket in a tamper-proof manner;

said tongue and slot, said retaining means and said inwardly extending flanges being concealed by said base when said base is locked to said bracket by said base locking means.

17. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 16 wherein said flange on said base includes a pair of spaced, elongated side flange portions joined by front and rear flange portions, said front flange portion defining said front wall having said lip adapted to be disposed in operative relation to said retaining means.

18. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 17 wherein said retaining means on said bracket includes a tongue formed by said upper surface to face away from said mounting surface, said lip on said front wall of said base being adapted to be disposed over said tongue and under said upper surface of said bracket on both sides of said tongue of said retaining means.

19. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 16 including a centrally disposed hollow fastening block integral with one of said base and said bracket, said fastening block having a surface adapted to receive a tamper-proof fastener extending through a fastener receiving opening in the other of said base and said bracket, said tamper-proof fastener and said fastening block comprising said base locking means.

20. The surveillance camera mount as defined in claim 19 including a lock receiving opening in the other of said base and said bracket and a lock adapted to be disposed in said lock receiving opening, said fastening block having a slot adapted to receive a radially extending finger of said lock for locking said base to said bracket, said lock and said fastening block comprising said base locking means.

21. The surveillance camera mount as defined by claim 16 including microswitch means for activating a signal of tampering at a remote location, said microswitch means activating said signal in response to any separation of said base from said bracket.