Announcing Cinevate's "Ballare" Dolly.

Dennis Wood

Dennis Wood

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It's been a long, long time coming but we're happy to announce that our whiz bang dolly (patent pending) has arrived. One of the lucky lovefest winners will be taking this home in a prize package. We've named it "Ballare" which is latin for dance...something we think it does very well. In a nutshell, the dolly is designed for the indy shooter who just literally wants to throw some pipe on the ground and grab a shot. The wheels/truck system is patent pending as it incorporates a third axis of motion to prevent the dolly/jib/riders from wiping out when the track is uneven. Naturally it will work very well on standard dolly track too. We're taking orders as of today :-)

1. Capacity, 600 lbs plus.
2. Weight, 47 lbs.
3. Construction: 100% CNC milled/formed aluminum.
4. All Stainless Steel fasteners
5. No less than 42 ball bearings.
6. Follows curved track, track of varying spacing, and uneven surfaces (hence the patent pending status).
7. Breaks down in about 7 minutes for air travel, or about 60 seconds for trunk travel.
8. Can follow uneven track without de-railing.
9. 16 custom manufactured (and logo'd) wheels with ABEC5 bearings.
10. Center tower mounts/dismounts in 10 seconds with no tools.
11. Two modes, doorway or wide stance for jib/crane mounting.


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More pics here: http://www.cinevate.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=13883
 
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so Dennis, how much are we looking at with a seat, and where can you get curved PVC? will we have to use rubber hose, ore buy rails from indiedolly?


Jon
 
The seats should be in the $100/each area...and the rest of the pricing is in the catalog link.

The 1" Schedule 40 PVC is commonly available at either hardware stores like Home Depot, or from plumbing supply houses. It's straight normally but bends gracefully into very nice curves. Because they're 10" long, (and I think it's best to leave them that way if you can) we won't be shipping them due to cost. For travel, they could be cut to 4" lengths and joined with our couplers. What we will do is do up a tutorial so users can get themselves set up in about 10 minutes with track. If there's demand, we will provide track.
 
The patent applies to the third axis of movement that we've introduced to the wheel truck system to allow the dolly to handle track on uneven surfaces. US SN: 61/027,218 ... the patent application is real.
 
Dennis Wood said:
The patent applies to the third axis of movement that we've introduced to the wheel truck system to allow the dolly to handle track on uneven surfaces. US SN: 61/027,218 ... the patent application is real.
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I don´t doubt that.

The resemblance between the Spider and your Ballare is striking though:


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The Porta-Jib dolly has been around many years. And it seems the first with this design.

Here's someone else who paid homage (and probably only homage) to the design. http://www.calumetphoto.com/item/CB72926/

This is business and you can do what you like. I'm sure Cinevate make a grand product.

Like always you should add up the total costs of each setup and compare which is the best value. Additional factors in purchasing are open to discretion.

Patenting designs prevents others from copying your ideas without permission or payment. A good business practice. Having someone make money on your hard work and ingenuity should be avoided.
 
Jon, the Cinevate dolly is 46lbs without the tower...add about 12 lbs for the tower/100mm bowl. One of our reviewers (coming soon) was amazed at how light the unit was given it's load carrying capacity and stiffness. The dolly design takes advanatage of some basic compression/tension principles combined with 100% aluminum components to keep weight very low...and stiffness high. The design has been tweaked for the last three years to what it is today.

It would have been far cheaper to make everything from steel, however we felt light weight was critical to its intended market.
 
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