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Stanley H Warner

Terry P Warner

A pole assembly comprising upper and lower, hollow, telescoping rods. An externally threaded member extends from a fixed attachment at the top end of the upper rod through a nut mounted within the top end of the lower rod. The nut is divided into two half-nuts which are radially movable into and out of threaded engagement with the threaded member. A third rod, slidingly surrounding the lower rod, may be pushed up to cause a pair of tapered teeth at its upper end to engage the half-nuts and move them out of engagement with the threaded member to permit free, relative, linear, axial movement of the upper and lower rods for fast adjustment of the overall length of the assembly. A pair of coil springs in recesses in the half-nuts urge the latter into a nesting fit in a conical inner wall of a bushing, wherein the half-nuts are threadedly engaged with the threaded member to permit fine adjustments of pole length by relative rotation of the upper and lower rods.

Telescoping pole with quick length adjustment

A support system is disclosed which is primarily intended to provide a sturdy and convenient means to be manually grasped by a handicapped or infirm person while raising or lowering themselves, moving from place to place, or simply to provide support in a given position. The basic component of the system is a vertical pole made up of at least two hollow, elongated rods, one of which is telescoped axially into the other. Bottom and top plates on opposite ends of the pole provide parallel, non-slip surfaces for frictional engagement between floor and ceiling, or other horizontal surfaces, with the top plate preferably having a surface much larger than that of the bottom plate. The upper and lower telescoping rods are joined by two distinct connecting means; one such connecting means movable between engaged and disengaged positions wherein relative axial, sliding movement of the two rods is, respectively, prevented and permitted to bring the pole assembly quickly to the approximate desired length, while the other is a threaded connection for making finer length adjustments and frictionally engaging the pole at a desired location. Horizontal bars and/or manual grip rings may be positioned at any desired height, supported by frictional clamp-type support means on two or more of such pole assemblies.

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Syracuse, NY, United States of America

Stanley H Warner