Patent ID: 6457880
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: F16M,G03B

Abstract:
A camera comprising a camera housing and a shoulder support for supporting the camera housing on a shoulder, which shoulder support comprises a flexible carrying member having a first end and a second end and a carrying surface which is remote from the camera housing and which carrying member is adapted to flexibly cooperate with a shoulder at least along substantially all of the length of the carrying member, which carrying member is connected to the camera housing by means of a comparatively stiff and unbendable first connecting member near the first end of said carrying member, and is connected to the camera housing by means of a comparatively stiff and unbendable second connecting member near the second end of said carrying member, wherein the first connecting member is movably coupled to the second connecting member, the connecting members being coupled in such a manner that the ends of the carrying member are moveable towards one another by a pulling force generated when said camera is placed on a shoulder and said shoulder bears against the carrying member at positions between said ends of the carrying member.