Socket locking assembly
OwnerJui-Chien Kaoinventor
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Abstract
A socket locking assembly includes an assembly column having a body, two extensions extending from a bottom face of the body, a positioning hole defined through the body and a retaining boss formed on a side face extending between the two extensions and a locking pin extendable into the positioning hole from a bottom of the assembly column and having a top stop, a bottom stop and a secondary positioning such that after the two extensions and the locking pin are extendable into the space of the socket and the top stop of the locking pin is extended through the positioning hole of the assembly column, abutment of the top stop with a top face of the body as well as the retaining boss and the secondary positioning boss received in the indents of the socket prevent the socket from removal.
Claims11
A socket locking assembly adapted for a socket having therein a space defined in one end of the socket and multiple indents defined in an inner face defining the space, the socket locking assembly comprising:
- an assembly column having a body, two extensions extending from a bottom face of the body and extendable into the space of the socket, a positioning hole defined through the body and a retaining boss formed on a side face extending between the two extensions to be received in one of the indents of the socket;
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- a locking pin having a top stop selectively extending through the positioning hole of the assembly column, a bottom stop formed on a side face of the locking pin to selectively abut a bottom face of the body of the assembly column and a secondary positioning boss formed on the side face of the locking pin to be received in one of the indents of the socket such that after the two extensions and the locking pin are extendable into the space of the socket and the top stop of the locking pin is extended through the positioning hole of the assembly column, abutment of the top stop with a top face of the body as well as the retaining boss and the secondary positioning boss received in the indents of the socket prevent the socket from removal.
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