Vertical cantilever flagpole

Claim 1

THE COMBINATION OF: A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED TUBULAR TELESCOPICALLY ARRANGED VERTICALLY MOUNTED ELEMENTS OF GRADUALLY DECREASING DIAMETER AND OF GRADUALLY INCREASING LENGTH FROM THE BOTTOM ELEMENT TO THE TOP ELEMENT; THE LOWER END OF SAID BOTTOM ELEMENT BEING FIXEDLY MOUNTED TO FORM ONE PORTION OF A VERTICAL CANTILEVER SECTIONAL BEAM; A VERTICALLY EXTENDING FIXEDLY MOUNTED TUBULAR SUPPORT LATERALLY SPACED FROM THE LOWER END OF SAID BOTTOM ELEMENT; A VERTICALLY ARRANGED RIGID AND INTEGRAL ELONGATED ERECTION MEMBER ADJUSTABLY CARRIED ON THE LOWER END THEREOF BY SAID TUBULAR SUPPORT FOR LIMITED VERTICAL MOVEMENT AND EXTENDING VERTICALLY UPWARDLY THEREFROM; SAID ERECTION MEMBER BEING SPACED FROM AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO SAID SECTIONAL BEAM; SAID ERECTION MEMBER HAVING A LENGTH GREATER THAN EACH OF SAID ELEMENTS WHEN IN A LOWERED POSITION AND LESS THAN THE COMBINED LENGTH OF ANY WO ELEMENTS THEREOF; STARTING WITH THE TOP ELEMENT, TERCONNECTING SAID ELEMENT, STARTING WITH THE TOP ELEMENT, WITH SAID ERECTION MEMBER; ACTUATING MENAS SUPPORTED ADJACENT THE LOCATION WHERE SAID ERECTION MEMBER EMERGES FROM SAID TUBULAR SUPPORT AND ENGAGEABLE WITH SAID ERECTION MEMBER TO MOVE THE SAME VERTICALLY RELATIVE TO SAID TUBULAR SUPPORT TO RESPECTIVELY EXTEND AND RETRACT SAID BEAM, ELEMENT BY ELEMENT; SAID ACTUATING MEANS BEING INDEPENDENT OF SAID SECTIONAL BEAM; MECHANICAL MEANS FOR LOCKING EACH ELEMENT WHEN EXTENDED TO THE ADJACENT ELEMENT, AFTER ITS EXTENDING MOVEMENT BY SAID ERECTION MEMBER AND SAID ACTUATING MEANS, WHEREBY THE LATTER MAY BE RETURNED TO ITS LOWERED POSITION ALONG WITH SAID ERECTION MEMBER TO MOVE THE NEXT SUCCEEDING ELEMENT TO ITS EXTENDED POSITION.