Locking and folding assembly for attachment to a bucket or other container
AssigneeAbtec Inc.
InventorWilliam S. Sinclair
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Abstract
A leg assembly capable of easy attachment to a container, having an elongated leg and a bracket, where the bracket contains a mounting pocket, two slots, substantially parallel to one another, and wherein at one end of the bracket there is disposed an L-shaped flange, and wherein the elongated leg contains a pin on each side of an end of the leg, and mounted so that the leg may rotate in the mounting pocket of the bracket, and wherein the leg has an outward protruding pin sized and shaped to fit into the two parallel recesses, and wherein the pin is formed on a flexible arm on the leg capable of being depressed to move the pin inward.
Claims6
A leg assembly comprising two parts, an elongated leg and a substantially U shaped mounting bracket;
- wherein, each side of the bracket comprises a mounting pocket, two slots, substantially parallel to one another and at least one slot has a recess, wherein at one end of the bracket, there is an L shaped flange with a protruding tab;
- wherein said flange and tab are sized and shaped to support the bottom of a bucket and to grasp a rim at the bottom of the bucket;
- wherein the elongated leg comprises a pin disposed on each side of an end of the leg is mounted so that the leg may rotate within the mounting pocket in the bracket;
- wherein the leg has an outward protruding pin on one side of the leg, which is sized, positioned, and shaped to fit into the two parallel recesses;
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- wherein said pin is formed on a flexible arm formed on the leg and can be depressed to move the pin inward.
A leg assembly comprising two parts, an elongated leg and a substantially U shaped mounting bracket;
- wherein, each side of the bracket comprises a mounting pocket, a surface facing side, two slots, substantially parallel to one another and at least one slot has a recess, wherein at one end of the bracket, there is an L shaped flange with a protruding tab;
- wherein said flange and tab are sized and shaped to support the bottom of a container;
- wherein the elongated leg comprises a pin disposed on each side of an end of the leg is mounted so that the leg may rotate within the mounting pocket in the bracket;
- wherein the leg has an outward protruding pin on one side of the leg, which is sized, positioned, and shaped to fit into the two parallel recesses;
- and
- wherein said pin is formed on a flexible arm formed on the leg and can be depressed to move the pin inward.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.