Latch for luggage or pocketbook

Details Latch for luggage or pocketbook Latch for luggage or pocketbook

1989-02-10

1990-06-19

Wolfe, Robert L.

Locks

Special application

For portable articles

292162, 292175, 292252, E05B 6552, E05C 110

Patent

active

049341626

ABSTRACT:
A latch for securing together two relatively movable parts of a suitcase, pocketbook, or the like, has a latch housing secured to one of the parts and formed internally with a retaining guide, a strike secured to the other of the parts and engageable in the housing on juxtaposition of the two parts, and a button displaceable on the housing between an outer position and an inner position. The button is formed unitarily with a latching dog retainingly engageable with the strike when same is engaged in the housing and the button is in the outer position and with a retaining formation engaged inward of the retaining guide and preventing removal of the button from the housing. A spring is braced between the housing and the button and urges the button into the outer position.

REFERENCES:
patent: 853358 (1907-05-01), Hammar
patent: 1702621 (1929-02-01), Stelljes
patent: 3294206 (1966-12-01), Gehrie
patent: 3498659 (1970-03-01), Ammon
patent: 4239269 (1980-12-01), Chiang
patent: 4356712 (1982-11-01), Bako
patent: 4652029 (1987-03-01), Yamamoto

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