Patent ID: 6250838
Filing Date: 2001-06-26
Classification: F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
An improved tube locking apparatus of a type having a wall of a thickness and of a shape defining an inner space sized and shaped to allow an inner tube to slide therethrough and be engaged thereby relative to an outer tube, the inner tube having a plurality of faces, the wall including an outer surface, an inner surface, and an attachment sized and shaped to fit into a hole in one of the faces of the inner tube and thereby support the inner tube thereon, wherein the improvement comprises:an aperture wall defining an aperture through a front portion of the wall;the attachment is a planar shaped locking tab angled from said aperture and the inner surface of said front portion of said wall, said planar shaped locking tab including an upper surface sized and shaped to engage an upper portion of the inner tube hole and to lock the inner tube in a locking position relative to the outer tube until unlocked; anda touch tab angled from a rear portion of the outer surface of the wall, said touch tab including a touch tab upper surface sized and shaped to permit an operator to apply digital pressure to said upper surface such that said front portion of the wall is raised and said locking tab is correspondingly moved from said locking position to an unlocked position and upon release of the digital pressure on said upper surface of said locking tab said front portion of the wall falls to permit the inner tube to be locked again relative to the outer tube.