Stilt device with improved leg pole attachment bracket

A stilt device comprising:

• a floor plate configured for contacting support against an underlying base support surface which nominally lies along an X-Y plane;
• a shoe plate configured to support a shoe worn on a foot of a user at a fixed distance above the floor plate by a support assembly comprising parallel, spaced-apart front and rear struts and an interconnected spring biased assembly that acts upon the front and rear struts via a biasing force to retain the front and rear struts, the floor plate, and the shoe plate in a rectilinear configuration;
• a leg support assembly having a leg pole which extends upwardly from a medial portion of the rear strut and a leg securement mechanism at a distal end of the leg pole configured to attach to a leg of the user at a location below a knee thereof;
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• a leg pole attachment assembly configured to attach a medial portion of the leg pole to the rear strut and the shoe plate, comprising:
• an exterior clamp bracket comprising a base portion affixed to the shoe plate, a side portion which extends vertically from the shoe plate having a horizontally extending aperture extending therethrough, a horizontal upper retention flange extending along a top edge of the side portion and a corresponding horizontal lower retention flange extending along a bottom edge of the side portion to form an enclosed c-shaped channel;
• an interior swivel clamp comprising a base portion configured to swivel within the c-shaped channel and opposing flanges configured to surround and contactingly engage an outer circumferentially extending surface of the medial portion of the leg pole;
• a first fastener extending horizontally through the side portion to lockingly engage the base portion of the interior swivel clamp at a selected angle;
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• a second fastener extending through the opposing flanges to clamp the interior swivel clamp to the leg pole.