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Waterproof camera housing
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Inventors: Johnson, John D.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Brown; Brian W.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Killworth, Gottman, Hagan & Schaeff
A waterproof housing is in the form of a generally rectangular collapsible bag (43) made from a flexible waterproof material and which is shaped and dimensioned to accomodate a camera. The bag (43) is provided with a pocket (44) having a lens port (47) and shaped to locate the lens port (47) with respect to the camera lens. Another pocket (50) has a viewing port (52), and is shaped to locate the viewing port (52) with respect to the camera viewfinder. The pockets are provided with respective reinforcements, in the form of annular collars (47, 53), to locate positively the lens port and viewing port with respect to the camera lens and viewfinder respectively. The pocket (50) having the viewing port may be a gaiter made from a flexible rubber material, which permits viewing substantially through the operative range of the viewfinder in the operative environment of the camera. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Referring to FIGS.
1 and 2 of the drawings, the television broadcasting camera 1 comprises a camera proper 2 and a recorder 3 for recording sound and vision on tape.
The camera proper 2 has a zoom lens 4 operated by a zoom servo-unit 5, and a viewfinder 6.
The camera controls include a zoom control switch 7, a focus ring 8, a side panel 9 having a standby switch 10 a gain switch 11 and a color bars switch 12, and a front panel 13 having a video tape start/stop button 14 and a white/black balance switch 15.
The combination of the lens 4, servo-unit 5, zoom control switch 7, and focus ring 8 is collectively referred to as the extended lens assembly 4A.
The power for operating the camera 1 comes from a battery pack 16 in the recorder 3 with there being a power on/off switch 17.
In the rear wall of the recorder 3, there is provided an MIC input socket 18 in FIG.
1.
Referring now to FIGS.
3 to 7 of the drawings, there is shown one embodiment of a waterproof housing which is in the form of a generally rectangular collapsible bag 20 and which is shaped and dimensioned to accommodate the television broadcasting camera 1 shown in FIGS.
1 and 2.
The housing 20 is made from a flexible waterproof material which, in the embodiment illustrated, is constituted by a polyurethane coated "Nylon" (Trade Mark) fabric.
Applicant has found that a 9 oz weight of such a fabric is suitable for the camera 1.
The bag 20 has a waterproof closure in the form of a zipper 21 which extends for substantially the entire lengths of the upper wall 22 and rear end wall 23 of the bag 20 to facilitate insertion of the camera 1 into the bag.
The front end wall 24 of the bag 20 is provided with a shaped portion in the form of a pocket 25 having a lens port 26 of "Perspex" (Trade Mark) or other suitable transparent material.
The pocket 25 is shaped to locate the camera lens 4 with respect to the lens port 26 and to accommodate the extended lens assembly 4A with a loose fit, as illustrated in FIG
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