Clamping system
AssigneePowermade Designs Ltd.
InventorDavid George Agutter
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Abstract
A clamping system for releasably clamping a golf trolley, to a power drive unit comprises a clamping unit adapted in use to be permanently secured to the golf trolley and comprising a clamping plate and a mounting plate, the latter having an outer face, and an inner, clamping face. An element of the golf trolley is located between the clamping face of the mounting plate and an opposed face of the clamping plate and is then clamped therebetween by tightening of manually operable stud. A first formation is provided on the outer face of the mounting plate; a second formation is provided on a top plate of a yoke of said power drive unit, with the first and second formations providing for screwless, sliding interengagement therebetween, and a locking or latching pin is manually displaceable between operative and release positions.
Claims14
A system comprising:
- a golf trolley having an element;
- a power drive unit having a yoke, said yoke having a top plate;
- a clamping unit adapted, in use, to be permanently secured to said golf trolley and comprising a clamping plate and a mounting plate, said mounting plate having both an outer face, and an inner, clamping face, the arrangement being such that said element of said golf trolley, is locatable between said clamping face of said mounting plate and an opposed face of said clamping plate and is then clampable therebetween by tightening of manually operable screw means;
- a first formation provided on said outer face of said mounting plate;
- a second formation provided on said top plate of said yoke of said power drive unit, with said first and second formations providing for screwless, sliding interengagement therebetween, and
- a locking or latching means manually displaceable between an operative position in which inadvertent disengagement of said formations is prevented, and a release position, in which disengagement of said formations is permitted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.