Vitec Imaging Solutions S.p.a.

Gitzo S.a.

Lino Manfrotto + Co. S.p.a.

Videndum Media Solutions Spa

Stelvio Zarpellon

Paolo Speggiorin

Enrico Cherubin

Igor Piccoli

Abramo Carlesso

Hem Sudhana

Fabio Facchinato

Marco Frasson

Luca Temperato

Simone Fontana

Michele Brasca

Simone Echerle

A support head for video/photographic equipment includes:

Support head for video/photographic equipment

A support for video-photographic equipment includes:

Tripod for video-photographic equipment

A tripod for video-photographic equipment, includes: at least one leg having a first, a second and a third section that engage so as to axially slide in a telescopic manner one after the other; a first clamping device that is provided between the first and the second section and a second clamping device that is provided between the second and the third section, an actuating element that is connected to the first clamping device, a transmission element that connects the first and the second clamping device such that the movement of the first clamping device causes the second clamping device to move in a similar manner so that said first and second clamping devices simultaneously clamp and release, and an adjustment member that is provided at the first clamping device in order to adjust the second clamping device via the transmission element.

An orientable support head () for optical or video-photographic equipment comprises a first articulation element () and a second articulation element () which can be fixed to a support element and to the equipment, respectively, and which can be mutually moved, the first articulation element () comprises a member () which is internally hollow and which defines a receiving cavity () for the second articulation element (), with a support element () for receiving in abutment the second articulation element () and an abutment element () for the second articulation element (), locking means () which can be actuated in order to move the second articulation element () along a locking axis (X) between a release position (W), in which the second articulation element () is free to slide in the cavity (), and a locking configuration (W'), in which the second articulation element () is urged against the abutment element () and is locked in the cavity (), the locking means () further comprising a first guide element () and a second guide element () which are positioned in the member () and a pushing element () which is interposed therebetween along the locking axis (X) and which can be moved in translation with respect to those guide elements along an axis of translation (Y) which is transverse to the locking axis (X), the first guide element () being operatively interposed between the pushing element () and the support element (), wherein there is provided a rolling member () which is interposed between the pushing element () and the first guide element () and/or the second guide element (), and the pushing element () is provided, on at least one base surface (S, S) which is directed towards the first guide element () or the second guide element (), with at least one groove () which cooperates with another groove () which is defined in the first guide element () or the second guide element () in order to form a pair of guides () for the sliding receiving of the rolling member (), in which the base portion () of at least one groove () is inclined with respect to the locking axis (X) in such a manner that, following the translation movement of the pushing element (), there is generated a movement of the second articulation element () along the locking axis (X).

Orientable support head for video-photographic apparatuses

An orientable head () for supporting video-photographic equipment comprises:

Orientable head for supporting video-photographic equipment

A support head for an optical or video-photographic apparatus, having a first body traversed by a first axis of rotation with respect to a base of the head, a second body coupled in a rotary manner to the first body, a third body traversed by a second axis of rotation, and being coupled in a rotary manner to the second body. A user may lock by a single movement of a control member both the relative rotation of the first and second bodies about the first axis and the rotation of the second and third bodies about the second axis. The lock may be a tie-rod extended from the control member along the second axis and a slider connected to the tie-rod and interposed between the first body and the second body configured to lock the relative rotation of the second body with respect to the third body.

Support head for an optical or video-photographic apparatus

A support head for an optical or video-photographic apparatus, having a first body traversed by a first axis of rotation with respect to a base of the head, a second body coupled in a rotary manner to the first body a third body traversed by a second axis of rotation and being coupled in a rotary manner to the second body. A user may lock by a single movement of a control member both the relative rotation of the first and second bodies about the first axis and the rotation of the second and third bodies about the second axis. The lock may be a tie-rod extended from the control member along the second axis and a slider connected to the tie-rod and interposed between the first body and the second body configured to lock the relative rotation of the second body with respect to the third body.

A ball-and-socket type head () for optical and video-photographic equipment comprises:

Ball-and-socket type head for supporting optical or video-photographic equipment

An orientatable mounting for optical and/or photo-cinematographic equipment including at least one universal joint having a first and a second joint component which are movably coupled together, a member applying an immobilizing friction load between the joint components including a hydrostatic pressure source and actuator for operative control of the pressure member, and the hydrostatic pressure source including a first and a second piston member. The first piston member acting on one of the joint components and the second piston member capable of being displaced through a selectively controllable actuator to induce a hydrostatic pressure in a fluid source which is to be transferred to the first piston member consequently exerting an immobilizing friction force between the joint components, and the actuator includes a first actuator member for operative control of the second piston member in order to generate the preselected immobilizing load between the joint components and a second separate actuator member to selectively control the second piston member in generating a relative friction load between the joint components independently of the immobilizing load obtained through control of the first actuator member.

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