The Will-burt Company

Neil David Dykes

Rexford Richard Mast

Andrew Paul Wasson

Paul Bradford Blackwelder

Michael James Kardohely

Anatol Kwartler

Douglas Anthony Jacobs

Douglas A Jacobs

Rexford R Mast

Paul B Blackwelder

A telescoping mast having a latch assembly includes a latch body mountable to a first tube section, a latch mechanism supported by the latch body, a toggle mechanism operatively connected to the latch mechanism, and a latch plate mountable to a second tube section. The latch mechanism includes a pawl member pivotably between an engaged position for interlocking with a corresponding recess in the latch plate to thereby restrict axial movement between the first and second tube sections, and a disengaged position allowing relative axial movement between the first and second tube sections. The toggle mechanism is movable between an over-center locked configuration corresponding to the engaged position of the latch mechanism and an unlocked configuration corresponding to the disengaged position of the latch member.

Toggle latch for sequentially extended mechanical mast

Growing community of inventors

Bacup, United Kingdom

Neil David Dykes