Tilting adjusting mechanism for a camera tripod

Claim 1

In a camera tilting adjusting mechanism for a tripod having a vertical elevator shaft and having a rotatable member rotatable on a first horizontal shaft attached to said rotatable member and extending in the forward and rearward direction, and a camera-securing plate rotatable on a second horizontal shaft attached to tiltable member and extending in the left and right direction, the improvement wherein: said tiltable member contains a bifurcation separating two adjacent portions of the tiltable member; a hole passing through each of said adjacent portions, said holes being of the same diameter and aligned with each other and having threads of the same pitch and direction a reversible handle member protruding from the tiltable member, said handle member having a first section threadable to the threads of said holes, a second section of a diameter larger than the diameter of said holes and a third section of a smaller diameter than said holes providing a clearance for said threads and located between the first and second sections so that a shoulder is formed at the junction of said first and third sections; whereby said shoulder is adapted to abut either of said adjacent portions of the tiltable member when said first section is threaded into the hole remote from the shoulder.