Adjustment mechanism for support of solar panel
AssigneeStrongen Co., Ltd.
InventorSan-He Chang
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Abstract
An adjustment mechanism for adjusting height of a support including a through hole and configured to mount a solar panel thereon is provided with a base including an upward extending side plate on a top, a vertical, elongated slot through the side plate, and holes upward oriented, equally spaced apart from the slot in which a lower portion of the support is engaged with each side plate; an adjustment plate including at least one peg on an inner surface and a central opening in which each peg is configured to fit into one hole; and a threaded fastener driven through the central opening, the slot and the through hole to adjustably fasten the adjustment plate, the side plate and the support together.
Claims10
A mechanism for adjusting a height of a support configured to mount a solar panel thereon, comprising:
- a support including two sets of two through holes;
- a base including at least two upward extending side plates on a top of the base, a vertical, elongated slot through each at least two upward extending side plates, and a plurality of holes upward oriented, equally spaced apart from the elongated slot of each at least two upward extending side plates wherein a lower portion of the support is engaged with each at least two upward extending side plates;
- an adjustment plate including at least one peg on an inner surface and a central opening wherein each at least one peg is configured to fit into one of the plurality of holes;
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- a threaded fastener driven through the central opening of the adjustment plate, the elongated slot and at least one of the through holes of the two sets of two through holes of the support to adjustably fasten the adjustment plate, the at least two upward extending side plates and the support together;
- wherein a bore of each of the central opening of the adjustment plate and the at least one of the through holes of the two sets of two through holes is greater than a cross-section of the threaded fastener so that the threaded fastener is configured to drive through both the central opening and the through hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.