Automatic adjustment tube for carpet stretcher tool

An automatic adjusting tube for a carpet stretcher, comprising:

• an outside tube with a hole;
• an inside tube that telescopes with the outside tube and has a plurality of holes with at least one hole that aligns with the hole of the outside tube;
• a housing on the outside tube;
• a rotating arm in the housing, the rotating arm including a locking button that passes through the hole of the outside tube and into a one of the plurality of holes of the inside tube that is aligned with the hole of the outside tube;
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• a lever attached to the housing, wherein lifting the lever rotates the rotating arm to move the locking button in a direction outward of the one of the plurality of holes in the inside tube that is aligned with the hole of the outside tube.

An automatic adjusting tube for a carpet stretcher, comprising:

• an outside tube with a hole;
• an inside tube that telescopes with the outside tube and has a plurality of holes with at least one hole that aligns with the hole of the outside tube;
• a housing on the outside tube;
• a rotating arm in the housing, the rotating arm including a locking button that passes through the hole of the outside tube and into a one of the plurality of holes of the inside tube that is aligned with the hole of the outside tube;
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• a lever attached to the housing that extends toward a floor surface, wherein when the automatic adjusting tube is placed on a floor surface, moving the automatic adjustment tube off a floor surface extends the lever towards the floor surface and rotates the rotating arm to move the locking button in a direction outward of the one of the plurality of holes of the inside tube that is aligned with the hole of the outside tube.

An automatic adjusting tube for a carpet stretcher, comprising:

• an outside tube with a hole;
• an inside tube that telescopes with the outside tube and has a plurality of holes with at least one hole that aligns with the hole of the outside tube;
• a rotating arm that pivots on a first pivot with a locking button that passes through the hole of the outside tube and into a one of the plurality of holes of the inside tube that is aligned with the hole of the outside tube;
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• a lever that pivots on a second pivot different from the first pivot to rotate the rotating arm to move the locking button in a direction outward of the hole of the inside tube that is aligned with the hole of the outside tube.

An automatic adjusting tube for a carpet stretcher, comprising:

• an outside tube with a hole;
• an inside tube that telescopes with the outside tube and has a plurality of holes with at least one hole that aligns with the hole of the outside tube;
• a housing on the outside tube;
• a rotating arm with a locking button within the housing, wherein the locking button passes through the hole of the outside tube and into a one of the plurality of holes of the inside tube that is aligned with the hole of the outside tube;
• a hand lever attached to the housing, wherein lifting the hand lever rotates the rotating arm to move the locking button in a direction outward of the one of the plurality of holes in the inside tube that is aligned with the hole of the outside tube;
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• a floor lever attached to the housing that extends toward a floor surface, wherein when the automatic adjusting tube is placed on the floor surface, moving the automatic adjustment tube off the floor surface extends the floor lever and rotates the rotating arm to move the locking button in a direction outward of the one of the plurality of holes of the inside tube that is aligned with the hole of the outside tube.

An automatic adjusting tube for a carpet stretcher, comprising:

• an outside tube with a hole;
• an inside tube that telescopes with the outside tube and has a plurality of holes with at least one of the plurality of holes that aligns with the hole of the outside tube;
• a locking button that passes through the hole of the outside tube and into one of the plurality of holes of the inside tube that is aligned with the hole of the outside tube;
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• a lever that pivots away from the outside tube to move the locking button in a direction outward of the one of the plurality of holes of the inside tube that is aligned with the hole of the outside tube.