Patent ID: 6948879

Claim:
A clamping mechanism securing a slideable member to a slide track, wherein the slide track has a channel with spaced apart side walls, a bottom and an open top, and having a width at the bottom greater than a width at the top to form a restricted entrance opening, which comprises (a) a pair of opposed clamping elements adapted to be received through said restricted entrance and having inner end portions thereof engageable with portions of said side walls spaced farther apart than at said entrance, (b) a support body for movably supporting said clamping elements with said inner end portions thereof exposed for reception in said slide track channel, (c) a fulcrum element positioned between and engaging said opposed clamping elements closely adjacent the inner end portions thereof, (d) outer portions of said clamping elements extending outward from said fulcrum element for a predetermined distance, and (e) means for applying closing pressure to the outer portions of said clamping elements to forcibly urge the inner portions thereof to pivot outwardly against side wall portions of said slide track channel to lock said mechanism against sliding movement in said channel.