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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2022
Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, Brookfield, WI (US);
Kyle Harvey, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Ross McIntyre, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Michael Halverson, Greenfield, WI (US);
Eric Mackey, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Justin Dorman, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION, Brookfield, WI (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a portable light including placing a base housing on a support surface, such that a plurality of legs are spaced away from the support surface and collapsed against an elongate body, grasping a portion of the portable light adjacent a light head with a first hand of a user and lifting the base housing away from the support surface, grasping the handle with a second hand of the user, depressing an actuator on the handle with the second hand, which removes a locking member from a locking recess of the elongate body to enable movement of the collar relative to the elongate body in a direction along a longitudinal axis, and sliding the collar along the elongate body away from the light head to move the plurality of legs to be obliquely angled relative to the elongate body.