An Improved Portable Tilting-head or Table for Photographic Camera Stands and other similar purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1894-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Tilting-head or Table for Photographic
Camera Stands and other similar purposes.
THOMAS TARLETON Watch Maker 5 Wesley Street Waterloo near Liverpool
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
My invention relates to an improved portable tilting-head or table as an accessory
for photographic camera, and other stands so as to incline the camera or ot er
apparatus in any required direction without disturbing the legs of the stand.
And consists of a pair of tilting boards, metal or other suitable substance jointed at
one pair of ends and supported at the opposite ends by folding supports, so arranged
with quadrant folding device that it may be packed into a space no thicker than
the pair of plates or boards themselves (as before mentioned) and it is designed and
constructed so as to be fixed between the ordinary head of a tripod or other stand
and the base board or bottom part of a photographic camera or other similar apparatus
for which purpose the invention is applicable.
The main features of the device are the particular form and arrangement of the
folding adjustable supports and that it is very portable and easily attached to and
detached from existing camera and other similar stands, by means of the usual
binding screws without special fitting or alteration to either the camera, the stand
or the article itself.
Dated this 8th day of March 1894.
THOMAS TARLETON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Tilting-head or Table for Photographic
Camera Stands and other similar purposes.
1, THOMAS TARLETON of 5, Wesley Street, Waterloo near Liverpool in the
County of Lancaster, Watchmaker 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 relates to tripods or stands for photographic cameras or other
purposes. It is designed to enable a camera or other apparatus to be inclined in
any required direction without disturbing the legs of the stand.
In carrying my invention into effect, the plan I prefer is to locate between the
head of the stand and the base of the camera or other apparatus a tilting device
which is so arranged as to enable the camera etcetera to be inclined upwards or -
downwards or in any direction at an angle best suited for the photographer's:
operations or other special use to which the invention is applied. This tilting
device, when not in use, can be detached and folded up into a very small space, thus
adding but very little to the bulk of a portable outfit.
I will describe my invention more especially as applied to a camera and tripod,
reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which
:-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a camera showing how it is inclined in an upward
direction, the position of the tripod remaining undisturbed:
Figure 2, a similar view, showing how the camera is inclined in a downward
direction:
Figures 3 and 4, enlarged views of the tilting device detached from the camera
and stand.

page_text: In these figures :-
A, is a camera: B, a tripod or stand: and C, the tilting device.
This tilting device consists of two boards or leaves a b, formed of any suitable
material and hinged together at c, their other ends being fitted with a slotted link c',
one end of which is pivotted to the leaf a while the remaining slotted portion
receives an adjusting set screw in the other leaf b. E is a thumb screw for
attaching the upper leaf a to the base board E¹ of the camera and F, a milled
headed screw adapted to screw into the hole e' for fixing the leaf b to the head
piece e of the tripod. G is hole to allow of clearance for the head of thumb
screw E and H, a hole which serves both to lighten the board a and to allow of a
nut being screwed on the set screw F from the top if so desired.
The mode of action is as follows:-
:
To incline the camera in an upward direction as depicted in Figure 1, the leaf a
is raised to the required inclination and set screw D tightened up to secure it in
position. To incline the camera in a downward direction as shown in Figure 2, all
that is necessary is to slacken the screw E and turn the camera round so as to
point downwards instead of upwards, then tighten up screw E and rotate the camera
on screw D into the position required. The back can be adjusted to stand plumb.
In order to fold the two leaves together, the pin D is slackened and the leaves
brought until the slotted plate c' lies close alongside the edges of the leaves, the
curved slot callowing of this movement.
The invention works perfectly within about one hundred degrees of angle, which
is more than sufficient for all ordinary work, but in extreme cases, such as taking
views direct overhead or flat on the ground, two of them are best used superimposed
oue upon the other, giving the full sweep of over one hundred and eighty degrees
of an angle.
I have for the most part described the tilting device as applied to photographic
cameras, but it is obvious that it may be applied also with equal advantage to
reading desks, music holders, photographic screens and other articles requiring
adjustment in their inclination.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improvement in or connected with tripods or stands for photographic
cameras, reading desks, music holders, photographers' screens or other like article
requiring adjustment, whereby the article can be tilted or inclined in any required
direction without disturbing the legs of the stand, this result being effected by
arranging between the article and the stand a tilting device capable of adjustment
to any angle required, and of being fixed at that angle by a set screw and slotted
link or equivalent device, substantially as described.
2. In combination, for the purpose of enabling a camera or other article requiring
adjustment to be tilted without disturbing the legs of the stand, a pair of tolding
boards or leaves hinged together at one end, binding screws E and F for fastening
these boards to the article and stand respectively, and means for fixing these boards
at any angle required or locking them together when folded substantially as
described.
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WM. P. THOMPSON
Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, and London,
Patent Agents.