Patent
1974-12-16
1976-06-08
Hix, L. T.
354286, G03B 1756
Patent
active
039627110
ABSTRACT:
An accessory attachment for use with a camera of the type having a frontal housing for an objective lens, a shutter mechanism, and camera function-controlling devices such as photocells and shutter or control knobs or buttons. The housing also has a socket for mounting and connecting a flash lamp. The accessory attachment serves to mount accessories such as auxiliary portrait, wide-angle, or telephoto lenses, filter lenses for the camera's objective lens and photocell, auxiliary shutter or control knobs, and flash equipment, in aligned operative relation to the corresponding elements of the camera. The attachment comprises a housing for the accessory device, a mounting element having a plug receivable in the flash-lamp socket of the camera, and a clip engageable with a surface of the lens-shutter housing such as the lens bezel. The accessory housing may be pivotally connected to the mounting element to permit convenient access to the camera, as for inserting film cartridges; and a releasable latch is provided to hold the accessory housing in place with respect to the mounting element.
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Ericson John W.
Hix L. T,.
O'Connor E. M.
Polaroid Corporation
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