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US 2004/0016385 A1Published application
Tracking telescoping outrigger
OwnerRoger Scott Wilcox, Scott A. Wilcoxinventors
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Abstract
An outrigger has a plurality of telescoping tubes capable of being retracted and extended with respect to one another, and a sleeve between the tubes; and said tubes and sleeve having longitudinal tracking means comprising protrusions and grooves to permit the tubes to be retracted and extended, while preventing substantial relative rotation therebetween; and locking means to lock the tubes in an extended position.
Claims6
An outrigger comprising a plurality of telescoping tubes capable of being retracted and extended with respect to one another, and further comprising at least one outer tube and one inner tube;
- a sleeve juxtaposed between the inner and outer tubes;
- said sleeve having a first longitudinally extending tracking means thereon;
- said tubes having second longitudinal tracking means thereon coacting with said first tracking means to permit the tubes to be retracted and extended, while preventing substantial relative rotation therebetween;
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- locking means to lock the tubes in an extended position.
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