Adjustable stable camera support for vehicles

Claim 1

A stable adjustable camera support for vehicles comprising an elongated camera supporting channel beam having a plurality of longitudinally spaced openings in its top web and having downturned side flanges, the forward end of said channel beam during use adapted to rest on top of a vehicle instrument panel, a camera engaging eye screw engageable selectively through any of said openings from below the channel beam to secure a camera in a selected adjusted position fixedly on top of the channel beam, an elastic flexible hold-down and stabilizing means for the channel beam having opposite end hooks, one hook engageable with the vehicle instrument panel and the other hook engageable with said eye screw, a pair of rear telescopically adjustable foldable support legs for the rear end of said channel beam adapted to rest on a vehicle front seat cushion in laterally divergent relationship, heads secured to the tops of said legs and each said head having outer parallel faces which lie immediately inwardly of said side flanges when the legs are in a vertical use position, a pivot pin for said heads connected to and extending between said side flanges, the heads being apertured to loosely receive said pin, and an expansion spring on said pivot pin engaging said heads and urging them outwardly into contact with said side flanges, whereby when said legs are extended for usage to the vertical use position the channel beam may be leveled or set at any desired angle to the horizontal by merely adjusting the lengths of the support legs and when said legs are moved toward each other from the laterally divergent relationship to a nearly parallel position said legs may then be pivoted on said pin into a folded stored relationship in said channel beam and between said downturned side flanges.