Closure fasteners – Bolts – Swinging
Patent
1978-09-01
1981-12-15
Moore, Richard E.
Closure fasteners
Bolts
Swinging
292 1, 29234119, 292DIG60, E05C 316
Patent
active
043056113
ABSTRACT:
A gate latch in which a latch bar and/or latch body are adjustably mountable so as to allow repositioning thereof when such repositioning might be required, for example, as a result of misalignment of the gate structures due to sagging, etc. The locking bar may be provided with a plate fixed to a gate structure and have a plurality of paired apertures which are alignable with a pair of apertures in the bar. Thus, the locking bar may be adjustably positioned with respect to any given pair of apertures on the plate. The latch body may be adjustably mounted in a housing mounted on a gate structure. The housing may have portions which overlap the normal mounting flanges on the latch body. A pair of oppositely directed, opposed bolts may be threadedly mounted in flanges on the housing so as to cooperate with opposed surfaces on the latch body. When the body is to be vertically adjusted, one bolt can be loosened and the other tightened. Alternatively, the overlapping portions of the housing may frictionally grip the latch body flanges, thus holding the body but allowing it to be adjusted vertically, for example, by being tapped with a hammer. Flanges and/or overlapping portions may be provided with knurling or other surface roughening to inhibit inadvertent vertical movement of the latch body.
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McGuire J. B.
Moore Richard E.
PTI-DOLCO
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