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US 2015/0308491 A1Published application
Lock mechanism
OwnerTeffy R. Chamouninventor
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Abstract
A lock mechanism is disclosed herein that can be used to Iockingly secure and release sections of an apparatus relative to one another. The lock mechanism can lockingly secure the sections of the apparatus relative to one another in a plurality of different positions and, when released or unlocked, can allow the sections of the apparatus to rotate relative to one another and to different ones of the plurality of different positions.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a first sub-assembly for securely connecting to a first section of a device;
- a second sub-assembly rotatably connected to the first sub-assembly;
- a third sub-assembly connected to the second sub-assembly;
- and
- a fourth sub-assembly rotatably connected to the third sub-assembly and rotatably connected to a second section of the device,
- wherein, when in a first apparatus position, at least one of the first, second, third, and fourth sub-assemblies can lock to secure the first and second sections of the device in a first device position,
- wherein, when in a second apparatus position, at least one of the first, second, third, and fourth sub-assemblies can lock to secure the first and second sections of the device in a second device position,
- wherein at least one of the first, second, third, and fourth sub-assemblies can be unlocked to allow rotation of at least some of the first, second, third, and fourth sub-assemblies relative to each other to move the first, second, third and fourth sub-assemblies from the first apparatus position to the second apparatus position and to allow rotation of the first and second sections of the device relative to each other to move the first and second sections of the device from the first device position to the second device position.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a first mechanism for securely connecting to a first section of a device;
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- a second mechanism for rotatably connecting to a second section of the device,
- wherein the second mechanism is rotatably coupled to the first mechanism, and
- wherein the first and second mechanism are rotatable relative to one another to a plurality of different mechanism positions for lockingly securing the first and second sections of the device relative to one another in respective ones of a plurality of different device positions.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of sub-assemblies rotatably connected to each other at respective ones of a plurality of pivots,
- wherein, when each of the plurality of sub-assemblies is in a first position, a first of the plurality of pivots is above a force vector intersecting a reminder of the plurality of pivots, and
- wherein, when each of the plurality of sub-assemblies is in a second position, the first of the plurality of pivots is below the force vector intersecting the remainder of the plurality of pivots.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.