Mount adapter for microphone stand heads
View Patent ↗An adapter for mounting an instrument or accessory device to microphone stand head includes a conical body having an overall length with a maximum outside diameter and a minimum outside diameter, an elongate mounting post having an overall length, the mounting post contiguously formed to or otherwise fixed to the conical body, the mounting post and conical body aligned to share the same longitudinal center, the mounting post bearing external threading from the free end of the mounting post down the post to some length, and an end cap having a uniform outside diameter and an annular threaded mounting seat provided at proximal center of the threaded end cap, where the mounting seat threads mate with the external threads on the mounting post.
1. An adapter for mounting an instrument or accessory device to microphone stand, comprising:
a conical body having an overall length, a maximum outside diameter, and a minimum outside diameter;
an elongate mounting post having an overall length the mounting post contiguously formed to or otherwise fixed to the conical body, the mounting post and conical body aligned to share the same longitudinal center, the mounting post bearing external threading from the free end of the mounting post down the post to some length; and
an end cap having a uniform outside diameter, and an annular threaded mounting seat provided at proximal center of the threaded end cap where the mounting seat threads mate with the external threads on the mounting post.
2. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the conical body is a solid body.
3. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the conical body is a thick wall hollow body.
4. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the mounting post is fixed to the conical body via weld.
5. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the conical body is a heavy metallic body.
6. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the conical body is tapered downward from the plane of the maximum outside diameter to the plane of the minimum outside diameter.
7. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the perimeter surface of the end cap is gnarled or otherwise tooled to present a positive grip surface to aid in turning the end cap.
8. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the mounting post seats into a center hole placed through the conical body at longitudinal center.
9. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the threading on the mounting post and in the mounting post seat on the end cap is M 1.25 coarse thread.
10. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the microphone stand is a boom stand and the microphone stand head is threaded to the end of the boom.
11. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the mounted instrument or accessory device is a sound baffle.
12. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the mounted instrument or accessory device is a recording device.
13. The adapter of claim 12 , wherein the recording device is threaded onto a post of a thread adapter that in turn is threaded onto the mounting post.
14. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the mounted instrument or accessory device is threaded onto the mounting post.
15. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the mounting post diameter is uniform from the base to the free end of the post.
16. The adapter of claim 15 , wherein annular plastic molded spacers or soft material spacers are incorporated into the mounting process of an instrument or accessory device to ensure linear compression may be introduced into the mounting via tightening the end cap.
17. The adapter of claim 15 , wherein the top surface of the conical body functions as a stop flange to interface with some mounted instruments or accessory devices or the mounting hardware thereof.
18. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the mounting post has a larger diameter shoulder that functions as a stop flange to interface with some mounted instruments or accessory devices or the mounting hardware thereof.
19. The adapter of claim 1 , wherein the conical body and mounting post are fabricated of a non-metallic resilient material.