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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Bruce Colin Eng, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Bruce Colin Eng, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A45B 3/00 (2006.01); A45B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A45B 1/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention combines the functionality of a hiking pole and a camera tripod. A hiking pole is augmented with an attachment for a camera and with a plurality of flexible tethers, each of which have one end that attaches near the top of the pole and the other end which can be stood on or otherwise immobilized relative to the ground. The combination of the tethers and the rigid pole will restrict all freedom of motion of the camera and allow stabilized, long exposure pictures to be taken. When not taking pictures, in the preferred embodiment of the invention, the tethers can be retracted and stored, leaving the user with a functioning hiking pole.