Patent ID: 8627774

Claim:
A ground lock providing an attachment for securing an external object, comprising: a vertically elongated main shaft having upper and lower ends, having a ground fastener fixed to said lower end thereof, configured to alternatively engage or disengage the ground when suitably driven, the main shaft having a first latching structure, and wherein said main shaft includes an upper portion of a predetermined, relatively smaller transverse dimension with a head juxtaposed at the top thereof having a predetermined, relatively larger transverse dimension; a driver including a second latching structure, engaging the main shaft for longitudinal movement thereon between first and second relative longitudinal positions, wherein in said first longitudinal position said first and second latching structures are latchably positioned for said driver to drivingly engage said main shaft and suitably drive said ground fastener through the first and second latching structures to alternatively engage or disengage the ground, and wherein in said second longitudinal position the first and second latching structures are mutually non-latchably positioned, disabling the driver from drivingly engaging the main shaft from suitably driving the ground fastener through the first and second latching structures; said driver includes a driver sleeve that is slidably engaged on a portion of the main shaft; said driver sleeve includes a lower portion of predetermined, relatively smaller transverse dimension sized to pass said upper portion of the main shaft but not said head, and a juxtaposed upper portion of predetermined, relatively larger transverse dimension sized to pass said head: wherein said second latching structure is spaced above said lower portion of the driver sleeve sufficiently that in said second longitudinal position said head is receivable between the second latching structure and the lower portion of the driver sleeve, containing the head of the main shaft within the driver sleeve.