Multi-functional variable position rifle and camera mount

• US 5,347,740 A
• Filed: 06/15/1992
• Issued: 09/20/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Brenda L. Rather, Larry W. Mobley, Lewis L. Rather
• Original Assignee: Brenda L. Rather, Larry W. Mobley, Lewis L. Rather
• Inventors: Mobley, Larry W., Rather, Lewis L., Rather, Brenda L.
• Primary Examiner(s): BENTLEY, STEPHEN
• Application Number:
  US07/898,830
• Time in Patent Office: 827 Days
• Field of Search: 42/94, 89/37.03, 89/37.04, 89/40.06, 346/38, 354/81, 354/293
• US Class Current: 42/94
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 27/00 Accessories; Details or attachments not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 29/00 Combinations of cameras, projectors or photographic printing apparatus with non-photographic non-optical apparatus, e.g. clocks or weapons; Cameras having the shape of other objects combinations with flash apparatus G03B15/03

Abstract

A combination of a camera mount and a gun mount allowing horizontal, vertical and positional adjustment with manually activated locking knobs allowing comfortable multidirectional shooting with a gun that may be rigidly clamped in any one of a multiplicity of rapidly adjustable positions and with the camera adjustably mounted allowing a hunter to take a picture instead using the gun.

Claims

1. A multi-functional variable position rifle and camera mount comprising:

a) a base plate clamp means and an inner cylindrical holder attached thereto;

b) a threaded manually operable lock pin means in said inner cylindrical holder;

c) a rifle mounting beam, a horizontal adjustment connector means and a cylindrical mounting post with said cylindrical mounting post pivotally attached to said horizontal adjustment connector means with said horizontal adjustment connector means attached to said rifle mounting beam and with said cylindrical mounting post sized to slidably fit into said inner cylindrical holder and to be movably and adjustably held at a vertical position using a threaded thumbscrew in a slidable collar on said cylindrical mounting post;

d) a locking means in said horizontal adjustment connector means to allow manual locking of said horizontal adjustment connector means in a fixed position;

e) a pair of rifle mounts and tie down means attached to said rifle mounting beam to allow fastening a rifle rigidly in said rifle mounts.

2. A multi-functional variable position rifle and camera mount as in claim 1 wherein said base plate clamp means comprises:

a) a U shaped base with a manually operable means to fasten said clamp to a fixed rail in one leg and with said inner cylindrical holder rigidly attached in a second leg;

b) dual roller means inside said U shaped base to allow said base clamp means to move smoothly on said rail with said manually operable fastening means allowing fastening said clamp means in a fixed position.

3. A multi-functional variable position rifle and camera mount comprising:

a) a base plate clamp means and inner cylindrical holder attached thereto;

b) a threaded manually operable lock pin means in said cylindrical holder;

c) a T shaped swivel piece with a pivot post sized to fit movably in said inner cylindrical holder and an open positioning cylinder with guide pins through the side wall with said open positioning cylinder mounted at right angles to an upper end of said pivot post;

c) an outer mounting cylinder with a manually operable locking screw rigidly attached at right angles to a slotted arm sized to movably slide into said open positioning cylinder with said slot sliding over said guide pins;

d) a cylindrical post sized to fit movably into said outer mounting cylinder;

e) a slidable collar means with a locking thumbscrew to fit over said cylindrical post and allow positional adjustment of said cylindrical post in said outer mounting cylinder;

f) a horizontal adjustment connector means pivotally attached to a top end of said cylindrical post with a geared knob mounted to said cylindrical post and interacting with gear teeth on said connector means;

g) a mounting beam means rigidly attached to said horizontal adjustment connector means;

h) dual rifle mounts with means to removably hold a rifle in said dual mounts;

said dual mounts being rigidly attached to said mounting beam means.

4. A multi-functional variable position rifle and camera mount comprising:

a) a base plate clamp means and inner cylindrical holder attached thereto;

b) a threaded manually operable lock pin means in said inner cylindrical holder;

c) a T shaped swivel piece with a pivot post sized to fit movably in said inner cylindrical holder and an open positioning cylinder with guide pins through the side wall with said open positioning cylinder mounted at right angles to an upper end of said pivot post;

c) an outer mounting cylinder with a manually operable locking screw rigidly attached at right angles to a slotted arm sized to movably slide into said open positioning cylinder with said slot sliding over said guide pins;

d) a cylindrical post sized to fit movably into said outer mounting cylinder;

e) a slidable collar means with a locking thumbscrew to fit over said cylindrical post and allow positional adjustment of said cylindrical post in said outer mounting cylinder;

f) a horizontal adjustment connector means pivotally attached to a top end of said cylindrical post with a geared knob mounted to said cylindrical post and interacting with gear teeth on said connector means;

g) a mounting beam means rigidly attached to said horizontal adjustment connector means;

h) dual rifle mounts with means to removably hold a rifle in said dual mounts, said dual mounts being rigidly attached to said mounting beam means;

i) a positionally adjustable camera mount attached to said mounting beam means.

5. A multi-functional variable position rifle and camera mount comprising:

a) a mounting beam, a rifle mount means, and a positionally adjustable camera mount means;

said rifle mount means being attached to said mounting beam and acting to rigidly but removably hold a rifle in said mount means and said camera mount means being attached to said mounting beam and acting to removably hold a camera in said positionally adjustable camera mount means;

b) a cylindrical mounting post pivotally attached to said mounting beam;

c) a horizontal adjustment means and a locking means to adjust and lock said cylindrical mounting post and said mounting beam in a fixed position relative to each other;

d) a clamp, an outer mounting open cylinder with a side arm, a side arm holder attached to a cylindrical post, and an inner open mounting cylinder cooperating to make a fixed position swivel joint by sliding said cylindrical post attached to said arm holder into said inner open mounting cylinder and to make a moveable position outer swivel connection by sliding said cylindrical mounting post, which is pivotally attached to said mounting beam, into said outer mounting cylinder and sliding said arm into said side arm holder.

6. A multi-functional variable position rifle and camera mount as in claim 5 wherein said inner mounting open cylinder, said outer mounting cylinder and said side arm holder are each equipped with manually adjustable means to allow holding said mounting post in a fixed position in said outer mounting cylinder and to allow holding said arm in a fixed position in said side arm holder and to allow holding said cylindrical post attached to said side arm holder in a fixed position in said inner mounting open cylinder.