A New Screw Holder for Attaching the Camera Screw to the Tripod Top or Head, and for Attaching other Screws to the part for which they are adapted.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Screw Holder for Attaching the Camera Screw to the Tripod
Top or Head, and for Attaching other Screws to the part for
which they are adapted.
I, ARTHUR WALTER LONSDALE, of Rangoon, Burma, (at present on leave,
residing at 55, Ashburnham Road, Bedford, Beds, England, Editor Vernacular
School Text Books, Education Department, Burma, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:---
This invention relates to a device especially intended for use with cameras
and its object is to secure the screw commonly employed in fixing cameras to
tripod stands and to prevent its being lost on detaching the parts. This device
which may also be used for the securing of screws for other purposes consists
of a metal strip, preferably of spring metal, secured to the parts carrying the
screw. The strip or holder is formed with a notch close to its end which engages
with the neck of the screw and a small sliding piece is employed which secures
the screw to the holder. The device allows the screw to be withdrawn from the
camera when desired, but retains it in position ready for use preventing any
danger of its becoming accidentally lost.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had
to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which "Fig. 1 shows the wooden top
of the tripod fitted with my improved holder, Fig. 2 is an underside view of
the top with the holder and Fig. 3 shows the latter detached and open.
A is the wooden top of the tripod carrying the screw B which projects loosely
through it in the ordinary manner. To the underside of this top the holder Ö
is fitted being screwed or otherwise secured at one end. As shown this holder
is in the form of a strip of spring metal and is provided with the notch c close
to its end which engages with the neck of the screw.
To secure the screw properly to the holder a small sliding catch D is employed
consisting of a plate having bent over edges engaging with the end of the strip,
which is slightly narrowed to receive it and formed with a notch a which when
the catch is moved up into engaging position as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 receives
the neck of the screw and secures it to the holder.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
(1) An improved holder for the screws of camera stands and the like, con-
sisting of a metal strip secured to the stand and adapted to receive the screw
in a notch at one end and to hold it loosely in position, substantially as described
and for the purposes specified.
(2) The improved holder for the screws of camera stands and the like, con-
structed substantially as described and shown in the accompanying drawings
and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 30th day of September 1899.
GEO H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.