Closure fasteners – Operators with knobs or handles
Patent
1995-09-05
1997-09-09
Herrmann, Allan D.
Closure fasteners
Operators with knobs or handles
70422, 70461, 292165, E05B 300
Patent
active
056648162
ABSTRACT:
A door lever assembly has capability for changing the handing of the lever during installation. It includes a housing having a face with a bore for receiving a lever shaft and an input cam rotatably mounted in the housing. The input cam has a shaft for transmitting rotary motion to a latch spindle and a lever arm for rotatably driving the input cam and the shaft. A slider plate surrounds the shaft and the lever arm of the input cam and has a branched slot for permitting the slider to move relative to the shaft while driving the lever arm. A cover plate protects and retains all parts within the housing. Provision for removably mounting a cam on the lever shaft to be driven thereby against the slider plate, moving the slider plate to drive the lever arm of the input cam and to thereby rotate the shaft of the input cam to drive the latch spindle. A tailpiece, adjustable to indexed lengths, drivably connects the input cam and the latch spindle. A torque limiting and damage prevention feature is also included.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2222411 (1940-11-01), Kaiser
patent: 4934800 (1990-06-01), Choi
patent: 5445423 (1995-08-01), Mader
patent: 5484179 (1996-01-01), Mader
Fritsch Theodore J.
Nigro, Jr. Daniel N.
Herrmann Allan D.
Palermo Robert F.
Von Duprin, Inc.
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