Tripod to support photographic equipment with tripod legs that quickly convert from a folded condition to an assembled condition

摘要

The present invention relates to the concept of a tripod having three separate legs which can placed on a surface such as the ground and which come together at a joint location at the top portion of the legs to retain a support member to which a piece of photographic equipment such as a camera can be attached. The present invention relates specifically to the field of photography tripod support equipment which contains tripod legs wherein each leg of the tripod is composed of a multiplicity of sections which can be folded up and retained in the folded condition for transport and thereafter, can be converted to legs which are immediately in the in-use condition after the mechanism which retains the legs in the folded condition is released to permit the three tripod legs to be quickly unfolded and automatically placed into the in-use condition.