Door handle housing attachment for vehicle door

Details Door handle housing attachment for vehicle door Door handle housing attachment for vehicle door

1991-08-06

1993-02-02

Moore, Richard E.

Closure fasteners

Operators with knobs or handles

292337, 292DIG31, 292DIG38, 292DIG53, E05B 300

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active

051833026

ABSTRACT:
A handle housing intended for attachment on a vehicle door panel is of injection molded plastic construction and has a base adapted to engage against the surface of the door panel. The housing carries at least one anchor leg, and preferably several, which project from the base and extend through registering apertures provided in the panel. Each of these anchor legs has a foot at the end thereof which is adapted to engage and underlie the underside of the panel when the housing is slid longitudinally along the surface so that the foot will engage with the underside of the housing and thereby prevent the housing from being pulled away from the panel. The housing also has a plurality of locking legs projecting from the base and extending through registering openings in the panel. Each of these locking legs has a locking foot carried thereon and having a locking shoulder which lockingly engages with a tab struck from the underside of the panel to the thereby prevent longitudinal sliding movement of the housing along the surface in the retrograde direction which would permit the anchor feet to become disengaged from the underside of the panel. The locking feet preferably carry an integral spring molded finger on the end thereof which bear respectively against tabs struck from the underside of the panel to constantly urge limited retrograde longitudinal sliding movement of the housing to thereby maintain the abutment shoulders of the locking feet in constant engagement with the locking tabs struck from the panel.

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patent: 4531700 (1985-07-01), Robinson
patent: 4580822 (1986-04-01), Fukumoto
patent: 4625134 (1986-11-01), Weaver
patent: 4936201 (1989-03-01), Inaba

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