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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1984
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
248563 ; 248566 ; 267154 ; 403 93 ; 403328 ;
Abstract
In a mechanism or support for a television or movie camera which allows the camera to be tilted or pitched upwardly and downwardly, the weight of torque offered by the camera is counterbalanced by means of a series of accumulators or spring elements placed between the rotatable support for the camera and the stator portion of the support and adapted to be selectively engaged between the rotor and stator, depending upon the weight of the camera being used. Preferably each accumulator offers a restoring torque that is different from that of the other accumulators such that by selective engagement of various combinations of accumulators many different weights of cameras can be accommodated.