Patent ID: 7170695

Claim:
A method for creating a highly versatile optical element mount comprised of the steps of: providing a threaded hole at the first far end of a solid elongated body component; providing a slot at the second far end of the said body component; providing a V-block cut or flat between said slot and said hole; providing a hollow screw threaded into said threaded hole of said body component; providing an enlarged hollow portion within the head end of said hollow screw; providing an eccentrically pivoted serrated wheel placed within the slot of the said body component; spring loading said wheel against said body component; passing the distal terminus of a flexible band possessing an enlarged portion at its proximal terminus through the bearing and the hollow screw, further looping the distal end over or outside an optical component to be mounted, and passing said distal end between said body component and the thumb wheel; pulling said flexible band at the distal end such that the proximal terminus is captured at the limiting diameter of said bearing; allowing the spring loaded thumb wheel to lock said flexible band; and increasing the clamping force of the flexible band by unscrewing said hollow screw, drawing the flexible band by exerting pulling force on the enlarged portion at the proximal end of said band.