Patent ID: 7497638
Filing Date: 2009-03-03
Classification: B64D,F16B,F16C,Y02T,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a socket mounted to a panel having inner and outer sides and having an opening including a narrow portion and a wide portion, the socket having a substantially spherical inner contour being accessible via the opening; a pair of members each having a discoid shape with opposing flat disc sides, one of the discoid shapes having a circumferential edge defining a partial spherical shape of a diameter substantially similar to a diameter of the spherical inner contour, the discoid shape having a cross-sectional profile such that the flat disc sides thereof are sized complementary to the opening into the socket and are adapted to pass therethrough along a direction from the outer side to the inner side of the panel when the diameter of the partial spherical shape is aligned with the wide portion and being uncoupled with the socket when the socket and the member are in a first relative orientation, the member with the partial spherical shape being further adapted to lock within the socket when the member is in the socket and is rotated into a second relative orientation with the socket, the diameter of the partial spherical shape being aligned with the narrow portion of the opening and such that the member can pivot within the socket; an elongated member having a first end and a second end, each of the first and second ends having one of the members rigidly mounted thereon, the member with the partial spherical shape being mounted on the first end, the member on the second end having a hole extending therethrough; and a body adapted to be fixed to the second end when the elongated member is rotatably locked in the second relative orientation by a pin passing from the body through the hole in the second end, the first and second ends being oriented such that at least one of the flat disc sides of the second end is aligned with the body when the elongated member is rotatably locked in the second relative orientation, the pin being removably inserted though the body and the hole in the second end to prevent rotation of the elongated member in order to rotatably lock the member with the partial spherical shape in the second relative orientation within the socket.