Combined Clamp and Tripod Head for Carrying Photographic Cameras or other like Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 28th Feb., 1888
• Complete Accepted, 6th Apr., 1888
Combined Clamp and Tripod Head for Carrying Photographic
Cameras or other like Purposes.
I, JOSEPH LENDON BERRY of 43 Cardiff Street Aberdare in the County of
Glamorgan Photographer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
I construct a Screw clamp in the ordinary manner to which I affix two arms by
binges, or otherwise the said arms and also the aforementioned clamp being provided
with means whereby the legs of the stand can be attached thereto-The clamp portion
of my Invention has at one end two projecting plates, between which the folding arms
swing by means of holes and a pin or otherwise, such arms having two lugs at their
outer ends with pins for the purpose of affixing the legs when used as a tripod, two
lugs being also affixed on the body of the clamp for the same purpose.
The Clamp and the arms together when unfolded forming a tripod Head which can
also be used as a support for a Camera or other like purpose without the legs by using
it clamped to a gate or post or any convenient support by means of a screw provided
at the end opposite the end where the arms are attached.
The projecting plates of the clamp which carry the arms are also peirced with a
hole to recieve the screw by which the Camera is to be attached to the Combined
Clamp and Tripod Head.
The folding portion can also be constructed without the Clamp portion to use simply
as a folding Tripod Head, cr as a folding Clamp without the provision for the legs."
Dated this 5th day of August 1887.

page_text: Combined Clamp and Tripod Head for Carrying Photographic
Cameras or other like Purposes.
I JOSEPH LENDON BERRY, of 43 Cardiff Street, Aberdare, in the County of
Glamorgan, Photographer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This Invention is designed for the purpose of combining two pieces of apparatus
which have hitherto been made separate and which by means of this combination are
now calculated to be always available for work whenever the necessity arises for a
Clamp to be used in places where the ordinary legs would be of no use, such as the
side of a Boat, the window of a Railway Carriage or a House, or any other uncommon
situation which might occur.
It also furnishes an easy method of attaching any ordinary Camera to a support
after the manner of a gun stock thus enabling quick exposures to be made from the
shoulder without any special Camera and also performs the duties of an ordinary
Tripod Head on all ordinary occasions possesing in its most useful form the advan-
tage of being capable of folding into about half the room of an ordinary Tripod Head,
and may also in another form be made as a rigid combined Clamp and Tripod Head.
It may also be constructed as a folding Clamp without the provision for the legs, or
as a folding Tripod Head without the provision for Clamping.
The Apparatus is constructed as follows. The Clamp portion A. of my invention
has at one end two projecting plates B. between which the folding arms C. swing by
means of holes and a pin D. or otherwise, such arms having two lugs E. at their
outer ends provided with pins F. for the purpose of affixing the legs when used as a
Tripod stand, two lugs G. being also affixed on the body of the Clamp A. for the
same purpose.
The Clamp and the Arms together when unfolded forming a Tripod Head which
can also be used as a support for a Camera or other like purpose without the legs by
using it Clamped (by means of a screw H. provided at the end opposite the end where
the arms are attached) to a gate or post or any convenient support.
One of the projecting plates B. of the Clamp which carry the arms C. is also pierced
with a hole I. to recieve the screw by which the Camera is attached to the Combined
Clamp and Tripod Head.
Having now fully described the nature of my said invention, how it is to be made
and used, I hereby declare that what I claim is
The combination of the Clamp with the Tripod Head and also the manner of folding
the same both in its combined form, or as a folding Clamp or a folding Tripod Head.
Dated this 27th day of February 1888.
JOSEPH LENDON BERRY.