Lever handle controller for mortise lock

Details Lever handle controller for mortise lock Lever handle controller for mortise lock

1999-01-15

1999-11-30

Boucher, Darnell M.

Locks

Special application

For closures

70218, 70149, 70117, 292DIG27, 29216922, E05B 5504

Patent

active

059921951

ABSTRACT:
A free-wheeling lever handle controller for operating a mortise lock provides free-wheeling functionality while maintaining the full operational characteristics of various mortise lock functions. A lock mode receiving mechanism connectable to the lock output is used to detect the unlocked and locked conditions of the mortise lock, and correspondingly engage and disengage the free-wheeling mechanism. The free-wheeling mechanism has a split shaft connected between a handle on the controller and a handle input on the mortise lock. The two halves of the shaft may be coupled and uncoupled via a shaft lock movable perpendicular between locked and unlocked positions. In the unlocked position the shaft lock connects the two halves of the shaft to rotate together when the handle is turned. In the locked position the shaft lock disengages the two halves of the shaft to rotate separately and allow the handle to free-wheel with operating the door latch. The shaft lock is moved by the lock slide/cam coupler of the lock mode receiving mechanism, which converts the rotational motion of the lock output into linear motion the of lock slide, such that whenever the mortise lock is locked, the handle controller free-wheels.

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