Window-mounted camera mount and bird feeder

• US 5,904,330 A
• Filed: 05/07/1997
• Issued: 05/18/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Keirsblick, Richard S., Manico, Joseph A., McBride, John K., Blazey, Richard N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Braun, Leslie A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Phan, Long Dinh
• Application Number:
  US08/852,365
• Time in Patent Office: 741 Days
• Field of Search: 248/206.3, 248/205.3, 248/174, 355/21, 355/67, 396/419, 396/175, 119/51.01, 119/57.8, 119/61, 119/52.2, D 6/571
• US Class Current: 248/206.3
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 39/00 Feeding or drinking appliances for poultry or other birds A01K31/005, A01K31/06, A01K31/17 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 39/014 Feed troughs; Feed throwers
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 15/00 Special procedures for taking photographs; Apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/56 Accessories carrying-cases A45C11/38
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/561 Support related camera accessories
• 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 window-mounted camera mount and bird feeder comprises a camera mount having a plurality of spaced suction cups for adhering the camera mount to an inner side of a window unit, and a bird feeder having a plurality of spaced suction cups similar in number and in individual locations on the bird feeder to the number and individual locations of the plurality of suction cups on the camera mount, for adhering the bird feeder to an outer side of the window unit with the respective suction cups on the bird feeder aligned with the corresponding suction cups on the camera mount to achieve picture-taking alignment of the camera mount and the bird feeder.

Claims

1. A window-mounted camera mount and bird feeder comprising:

a camera mount having a plurality of spaced suction cups for adhering said camera mount to an inner side of a window unit; and

a bird feeder having a plurality of spaced suction cups similar in number and individual locations on said bird feeder to the number and individual locations of the plurality of suction cups on said camera mount, for adhering the bird feeder to an outer side of the window unit with the respective suction cups on the bird feeder aligned with the corresponding suction cups on the camera mount to achieve picture-taking alignment of the camera mount and the bird feeder.

2. A window-mounted camera mount and bird feeder as recited in claim 1, wherein said camera mount includes an exposure chamber and a flash chamber having respective openings arranged to be positioned against the inner side of a windowpane when the camera mount is adhered to the inner side of the window unit, a baffle arranged between said exposure and flash chambers to prevent direct flash illumination of the windowpane, and a reflector arranged in said flash chamber to redirect flash illumination around said baffle indirectly through said opening of said flash chamber to the windowpane to prevent reflection of the flash illumination from the windowpane.

3. A window-mounted camera mount and bird feeder as recited in claim 2, wherein said bird feeder has an opening that is similar dimensionally to the combined dimensions of said openings of the exposure and flash chambers.

4. A window-mounted camera mount and bird feeder as recited in claim 3, wherein a frame having an opening smaller than said opening of the bird feeder is insertable between that opening and said openings of the exposure and flash chambers.

5. A window-mounted camera mount and bird feeder as recited in claim 2, wherein a close-up device having a close-up diopter for a camera taking lens and a close-up diopter for a camera viewfinder is insertable into said exposure chamber.

6. A window-mounted camera mount and bird feeder as recited in claim 1, wherein said bird feeder includes a translucent hood to admit some ambient light into said bird feeder and reflect some flash illumination in the bird feeder.