Patent ID: 7693296

Claim:
A rigging side frame for a loudspeaker which can be interconnected with rigging side frames of other loudspeakers for interconnecting loudspeakers in a stacked relation, wherein loudspeakers in the stack of loudspeakers have sides to which left and right rigging frames can be mounted, said rigging side frame comprising a frame structure mountable to the side of a loudspeaker, said frame having two top corner regions and two bottom corner regions, at least one pivot link and one splay adjustment link associated with said frame structure for linking the side frame of one loudspeaker to the side frame of a vertically adjacent loudspeaker, a pivot link stow channel in one of the corner regions of said frame structure for containing said pivot link and in which said pivot link can be moved from a stowed to a deployed position, a splay adjustment link stow channel in another corner region of said frame structure for containing said pivot link and in which said pivot link can be moved from a stowed to a deployed position, and a hand accessible gripping structure associated with at least one of said pivot and splay adjustment links which can be gripped to readily move by hand the at least one pivot and splay adjustment links between the stowed and deployed positions, wherein said frame structure includes at least one guide slot adjacent at least one of said stow channels for said pivot link and splay adjustment link, and said gripping structure engages said guide slot for sliding the link in the adjacent stow channel along the length of the channel.