Vitec Group, Plc

Videndum Plc

James Guest

Jolyon Francis Torbitt

Andrew Derek Murrow

Simon Hall

James Brady

Richard Arthur Lindsay

Alejandro Jiron

Joji Osborne Kawaguchi

Danny Fonseca

Jolyon Torbitt

An adapter, for use with items such as cameras and camera accessories, the adapter having a lower portion and an upper portion, the lower portion configured to receive and engage with a clamp stud of an item to be connected to the adapter, the upper portion including a platform assembly configured to attach to another item above the adapter, wherein the lower portion includes a stud catch mechanism, and wherein the stud catch mechanism is adapted to be connected to the clamp stud when the stud catch mechanism is in an engaged state and to be not connected to the clamp stud when the stud catch mechanism is in a disengaged state, the stud catch mechanism having one or more stud catch plates adapted to be moveable into and away from the recess of the clamp stud in use.

Connection arrangement for cameras

A head assembly for a tripod comprising a head portion and a bowl portion releasably connectable to one another, the bowl portion having a clamp stud and the head portion having a stud catch mechanism, wherein the stud catch mechanism is adapted to be releasably connectable to the clamp stud, and wherein the head assembly further comprises an adjustment mechanism adapted to adjust the connection between the head portion and the bowl portion when the head portion and bowl portion are connected to one another.

Head assembly for a tripod

A leg spreader () for a tripod comprising at least two portions () selectably moveable with respect to one another along an axis; a first portion comprising a latch () and a second portion comprising an engagement region (); the latch being releasably engageable with the engagement region, the latch being moveable by an actuator () between an engaged position in which the portions are substantially non-moveable with respect of one another and a disengaged position in which the portions are moveable with respect to one another; wherein the latch is biased towards the engaged position.

Tripod leg spreader

An extendable legfor a tripod, the legcomprises two or more leg-stages, each leg-stagemoveable axially relative to one or more of the or each other leg-stages to lengthen or shorten the leg. The legincludes a clamp assembly to releasably prevent the relative movement when the leg is at the desired length. The clamp assembly includes a leg brakemoveable between a first leg-stage locking position and a second leg-stage release position. In order to control movement of the leg brakebetween the first and second positions, an actuation meansis provided. A cableis operably connected at a first end to the actuation meansand at a second end to the leg brake, such that operation of the actuation meanscauses the cableto move the leg brake

Extendible tripod leg

A tripod leg () comprises a lever wherein said lever () is arranged on a portion of said leg (), which in use, does not move in relation to an attached tripod head element (); characterized in that said lever () further comprises an aperture () which is sized to cooperate with one or more digits of a user's hand.

Tripod leg

An extendable leg () for a tripod () (for supporting an optical apparatus such as a video camera), the leg being V-shaped and having telescopic side members () to enable the length of the leg to be varied with hinge means to connect the side members to each other at an apex of the V, means to connect the side members to a head () of the tripod which allow the angle of the V to vary with extension and retraction of the leg, and clamping means () to clamp the side members at a required length; wherein the leg has a mechanism for controlling the extension and retraction of the side members when the locking means is released whereby the apex of the leg is constrained to move generally linearly in the lengthwise direction of the leg.

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Suffolk, United Kingdom

James Guest