US 12,217,727 B1
Lockable potentiometer apparatus and methods of use thereof
Adam Samuel Mendel, Bend, OR (US)
Assigned to Switchlock, LLC, Hendersonville, TN (US)
Filed by Adam Samuel Mendel, Bend, OR (US)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/562,996.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/130,823, filed on Dec. 27, 2020.
Int. Cl. G10D 1/08 (2006.01)
CPC G10D 1/08 (2013.01) 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
2. A potentiometer lock apparatus for a guitar having a potentiometer shaft with male threads surrounding a portion of the potentiometer shaft, the potentiometer lock apparatus comprising:
a toothed washer configured to surround the male threads of the potentiometer shaft;
an inner body configured rest upon the toothed washer, the inner body further configured to surround and be coupled to a portion of the potentiometer shaft above the male threads; and
an outer body configured to surround the inner body and be positioned in one of a locked configuration or an unlock configuration, the outer body configured to engage the toothed washer when in the locked configuration and be separated from the toothed washer when in the unlocked configuration, the outer body in combination with the inner body configured to adjust a position of the potentiometer shaft when the outer body is positioned in the unlocked configuration.