Wedge shaped lock washer construction and assembly

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A washer and fastening system for adjustably positioning and rigidly locking a first member relative to a second member, with one of the members having an aperture therein for receiving a fastener adapted to extend through the washer, with the members being provided with planar surfaces of engagement permitting adjustment relative to each other along a common plane and being normally subjected to external forces tending to shift them relative to each other in one direction. The washer includes a body element having an elongaged slot and spaced apart surfaces intermediate the ends with the surfaces inclined relative to each other such, that one of the surfaces is adapted to engage one of the …