Closure fasteners – Operators with knobs or handles
Patent
1998-03-13
2000-05-09
Meyers, Steven
Closure fasteners
Operators with knobs or handles
292348, 292DIG31, 292DIG53, 16112, E05B 300
Patent
active
060593296
ABSTRACT:
An automotive door handle assembly adapted to be mounted in an aperture defined in the outer skin of a motor vehicle door by a flange structure. The assembly includes an escutcheon plate sized to fit in the door skin aperture and having a peripheral flange sized to fit against an outer face of the outer door skin in surrounding relation to the door skin aperture. The door handle is pivotally mounted on a front face of the escutcheon plate for door unlatching movement, and a locking member is slidably mounted on a rear face of the escutcheon plate. The locking member is maintained in a preliminary mounting position by latching engagement of a latch on the locking member with a latch on the rear face of the escutcheon plate and pivotal movement of the handle has the effect of releasing the latching engagement of the locking member with the escutcheon plate to allow the locking member to move under spring biasing to a locking position in which pins on the locking member engage an inner face of the door skin flange structure to pull the escutcheon plate flange against an outer face of the door skin flange structure. Mounting of the door handle assembly in the door therefore consists simply in passing the assembly through the door aperture and actuating the door handle.
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ADAC Plastics Inc.
Meyers Steven
Vaterlaus Clifford B.
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