Clamp for mounting and positioning an article thereon
View Patent ↗A spring clamp for removably attaching a camera, decoy or other device to a structural support. The clamp includes two opposing arms, each including a handle component and a jaw component. The clamp can be attached to an apparatus when the two jaw components including Inward facing arcuate jaws with gripping teeth and notches are closed around the apparatus. The clamp is provided with a plurality of threaded inserts at selected positions for supporting a device such as a camera. An adjustable and positionable extension may be removably fastened to the camera mount and the camera is detachably coupled to the extension. This allows an article such as a camera to be situated at any desired angle for taking photographs.
1. An attachment clamp comprising:
a clamp body having a front side, a rear side, a bottom side, a top side, a left side and a right side, said clamp body includes two toothed left and right jaws and two left and right handle grips, at a junction of said left jaw and handle grip is a first inward extending hinge, at a junction of said right jaw and handle grip is a second inward extending hinge, said hinges overlap one another, a threaded hinge pin rotatably connects said hinges, a nut is threaded secures said hinge together;
said threaded hinge pin passes through a coil spring which is captured inside said two hinges, two outward extending spring arms of said coil spring are captured in said handle grips, said spring arms urging said handles grip outward and thus said left and right toothed jaws are urged toward each other;
said clamp including sixteen female threaded inserts for attaching a decoy camera to said clamp body, said threaded inserts being quarter-20 threaded, on said front side are four inserts, on said back side are four inserts, on said right side and left side are four inserts, on said top side and bottom side are four inserts; and
said left jaw and said right jaw include two arcuate sets of inward facing teeth, an inner set and an outer set, each of said two sets facing toward each other, between said left and said right hinges and said left and said right inner jaws are two rectangular notches sized to receive opposing flanges of a T-post.
2. The attachment clamp of claim 1 further including two elastomeric jaw covers configured to be placed over said two inner set of arcuate rows of teeth said two elastomeric jaw covers coming together when said jaws are urged together where upon a combination of said two elastomeric jaws has a circular aperture formed therein having a diameter less than a diameter of a pipe onto which said clamp combination is to be installed.
3. The attachment clamp of claim 1 including a game camera.
4. The attachment device of claim 3 , further including a rotatable visor mounting to a spacer block at a selected angle affixed to a top surface of said game camera.