Patent ID: 7050715
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
1. A stand assembly for a forensic imager, comprising: a stand having a top section and a pair of legs attached at upper ends to said top section and diverging laterally outwardly therefrom; foot members transversely attached at lower ends of said legs; means projecting downwardly from said foot members having engagement surfaces lying in a common plane; a support member attached to said top section and having laterally extending arms, said support member having a transverse hole for receiving means for attaching an ultraviolet imaging device including a lens assembly thereto wherein said imaging device includes a lens assembly, said support member further including locating means engaging said imaging device to locate the focal axis of said lens assembly normal to said engagement surfaces; lamp bracket members pivotally attached at inner ends to said arms for rotation about transverse axes parallel to said foot members; lamp members attached to outer ends of said bracket members and having an elongated ultraviolet lamp extending parallel to said foot members; a cylindrical slide bar attached to each of said foot members in laterally spaced relation normal to said engagement surfaces; a slide block member slidably supported on each slide bar; a scale plate connected to said slide block members; and a scale having linear indicia thereof connected to said scale plate and extending frontally therefrom in close proximity to said engagement surfaces to be effectively in the same focal plane thereof.