Tripod accessory attachment device

Claim 2

In combination, a body and means for supporting the body in outrigger fashion on a pair of spaced upwardly obliquely inclined standards, including a pair of spaced parallel coplanar arms which are connected to the body to project therefrom and to be rotatable about the longitudinal axes thereof, and which have flanges on the projected end portions thereof, that in turn have reentrantly bent collets connected thereto, the bights of which undergo twist over the length thereof and are disposed in inverted relationship to the body, so that the collets can be passed about the standards from the flanges and rotated into engagement with the standards, to achieve a bind fit with the standards, wherein the flanges are rested on the relatively upwardly facing sides of the standards and the collets are engaged with the reverse sides of the standards at points spaced relatively thereabove.

Claim 3

The combination according to claim 1, wherein collets have a generally twisted U-shaped configuration and are connected at one end to the flanges, and there are hooks on the opposIte ends of the collets for engaging the relatively upwardly facing sides of the standards at a level above the flanges and the collets.

Claim 4

The combination according to claim 2, wherein the collets and hooks follow a generally smoothly curving spiral course from the flanges.

Claim 5

The combination according to claim 3, wherein the arms have free-ended convolutions on the projected ends thereof which take the form of truncated sections of a helix.

Claim 6

In combination, a body, a pair of spaced upwardly obliquely inclined standards, and means supporting the body in outrigger fashion on the standards, including a pair of spaced, parallel coplanar, generally horizontally disposed arms which are connected to the body to project therefrom, and to be rotatable about the longitudinal axes thereof, and which have flanges on the projected end portions thereof, that in turn have reentrantly bent collets connected thereto, the bights of which undergo twist over the length thereof and and are disposed in inverted relationship to the body, the flanges resting on the relatively upwardly facing sides of the standards and the collets passing about the standards and engaging the relatively downwardly facing sides of the standards at points spaced relatively thereabove, to achieve a bind fit therewith by virtue of the moment generated about the flanges by the body.

Claim 7

In combination, a body, a pair of spaced upwardly obliquely inclined standards, and means supporting the body in outrigger fashion on the standards, including a pair of spaced, parallel coplanar, generally horizontally disposed arms which are connected to the body to project therefrom, and to be rotatable about the longitudinal axes thereof, and which have flanges on the projected end portions thereof, that in turn have reentrantly bent collets connected thereto, the bights of which undergo twist over the length thereof and and are disposed in inverted relationship to the body, the flanges resting on the relatively upwardly facing sides of the standards and the collets passing about the standards and engaging the relatively downwardly facing sides of the standards at points spaced relatively thereabove, to achieve a bind fit therewith by virtue of the moment generated about the flanges by the body.

Claim 8

The combination according to claim 5, wherein the arms have free-ended convolutions on the projecting ends thereof which take the form of truncated sections of a helix.