Patent ID: 9587370
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: E02F,Y10T

Claim:
1. A combination of first and second members and a latch arrangement releasably securing the first and second members together, comprising: a bore arrangement extending through the first member; the latch arrangement including an elongate rod extending through and mounted for reciprocation within the bore arrangement provided in said first member, with the rod establishing a sole connection of the latch arrangement with the first member and including opposite first and second ends located at opposite first and second sides of the first member, and a latch member including a post extending crosswise to, and being fixed to, said first end of said rod; the latch member further including a foot joined to one end of said post and projecting toward said second member from said post; said second member having a flange including planar inner and outer surfaces, with the inner surface facing said first member, located between said post and said first side of said first member and including a latch opening located in the outer surface of said flange receiving said foot; and a yieldable biasing element acting between said second side of said first member and said second end of said rod and acting to yieldably resist movement of said rod in a direction for withdrawing said foot from said latch opening; whereby connection of said latch member with said second member can be effected by moving said flange of the second member toward said rod and against a planar surface of said foot angled with respect to the outer surface of said flange thereby exerting a force overcoming that of said yieldable biasing element so that said second member moves beneath said foot until the foot enters said latch opening.