Ski pole with camera mounting means

Claim 2

In combination, a ski pole embodying a shaft having a lower end provided with the usual fixed guard and an upper end provided with a conventional-type molded handgrip having a complemental looped strap, mounting means accessibly and operatively mounted atop said handgrip for detachably mounting, transporting and supporting photographic camera equipment, whereby to thus permit said ski pole to be employed in the usual manner while skiing and also as a stabilizing and aiming support for the photographic camera equipment when using said equipment, said mounting means including an upstanding axially disposed machine-threaded stud expressly designed and adapted to be aligned with and retentively but removably screwed into a screw-threaded socket-like fitting provided in the bottom of the camera of said equipment, said stud being provided with a limit stop shoulder and below said shoulder with an integral lag screw which serves to position and hold said handgrip and companion strap in a given place on the upper end of said shaft, and a compressibly resilient washer surrounding an upper end of said lag screw and abutting said shoulder, said washer being aligned with and seated in a pocketing recess provided therefore in an adjacent end portion of said handgrip.

Claim 3

The combination defined in and according to claim 1, and a locknut screwed on said stud adjacent and abutting said shoulder and providing a retaining device for the bottom of said camera.

Claim 4

The combination defined in and according to claim 1, and a locknut screwed on said stud adjacent and abutting said shoulder and providing a retaining device for the bottom of said camera, said locknut comprising a flat-faced ring-like collar having a knurled peripheral surface.

Claim 5

The combination defined in and according to claim 2, and a cap nut removably screwed atop said stud and adapted for use as a protector for the otherwise exposed terminal end portion of said stud and also to accommodate a wrench as is used when screwing said lag screw into a screw-threaded socket provided therefor in an axial upper end portion of said shaft.

Claim 6

In combination, an upstanding pole including a shaft having upper and lower ends and a molded upstanding elongated handgrip provided with an upstanding downwardly and endwise outwardly opening blind cavity therein telescoped over the upper end of said shaft with the latter seated in said cavity, a looped strap having a first end passed laterally through one side of said handgrip and disposed between the upper end of the shaft and the opposing surfaces of said handgrip defining the inner end of said blind cavity, a lag screw secured through the upper end of said handgrip and threaded through said first end of the looped strap and into the upper end of said shaft, the upper end face of said handgrip including an outwardly opening recess surrounding said lag screw, a compressibly resilient washer disposed on said lag screw and seated in said recess, said lag screw including a stop shoulder above said washer abutted against the latter, said lag screw above said shoulder including an integral upstanding machine screw-threaded shank having a locknut threadedly engaged therewith below the upper end of said shank, the upper end of said shank being adapted to be removably threaded in a screw-threaded fitting provided on the bottom of camera equipment to be stationarily supported atop said pole.

Claim 7

In combination, an upstanding pole including a shaft having upper and lower ends and a molded upstanding elongated handgrip provided with an upstanding downwardly and endwise outwardly opening blind cavity therein telescoped over the upper end of said shaft with the latter seated in said cavity, a looped strap having a first end passed laterally through one side of said handgrip and disposed between the upper end of the shaft and the opposing surfaces of said handgrip defining the inner end of said blind cavity, a lag screw secured through the upper end of said handgrip and threaded through said first end of the looped strap and into the upper end of said shaft, the upper end face of said handgrip including an outwardly opening recess surrounding said lag screw, a compressibly resilient washer disposed on said lag screw and seated in said recess, said lag screw including a stop shoulder above said washer abutted against the latter, said lag screw above said shoulder including an integral upstanding machine screw-threaded shank having a locknut threadedly engaged therewith below the upper end of said shank, the upper end of said shank being adapted to be removably threaded in a screw-threaded fitting provided on the bottom of camera equipment to be stationarily supported atop said pole.

Claim 8

The combination of claim 5 wherein said recess is outwardly concave and the axial face of said washer remote from said shoulder is compatibly convex.