Patent ID: 7111658
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: E04F

Abstract:
1. A locking mechanism in combination with a tube's assembly for immobilizing said assembly and which results from its sliding motion from an unlocked mode to its locked mode, said locking mechanism comprising a body having a first bore between opposing walls in said body, a shaft slidably movable in the first bore and having a length extending beyond one of said opposing walls such extended length including a portion of length by which the tube's assembly is caused to be immobilized, said shaft including a point therealong within said body, means in said body for engaging said shaft in its sliding motion to lock said shaft at said point and by which locking said shaft's extended length is prepared to immobilize the tube's assembly, said shaft locked from moving by said engaging means in the immobilized condition for the tube assembly, said tube's assembly having a tube and a member supporting said tube, said tube assembly including a stop means, and means for securely mounting said locking mechanism to said member, whereby upon the locking of said shaft said stop means abuts said portion of length of said shaft's extended length for preventing mobilization of said tube assembly.