Locks – Special application – For closures
Patent
1992-11-17
1993-06-15
Gall, Lloyd A.
Locks
Special application
For closures
292 92, 29216913, 29216914, E05B 6510
Patent
active
052193853
ABSTRACT:
A lock for fire-escape door provided with an actuating member having an integrally formed tongue to block the retraction of a main latch from a protruded position provides higher security to the lock. The lock includes: a housing; a pivotable main latch and a pivotable auxiliary latch which are urged by springs to protrude outside of the housing; and an actuating member adapted to keep the main latch protruded out of the housing and operable with a push plate to release the main latch from being kept protruded. The auxiliary latch has a side projection which stops the actuating member at a first position where the auxiliary latch is protruded and the tongue is so disposed to be accommodated by an inner recess of the main latch such that the main latch is free to retract from the protruded position; the same side projection also stops the actuating member at a second position where the auxiliary latch is retracted and the main latch is protruded. At that second stop position a tongue of the actuating member is disposed immediately behind the main latch to block the retraction of the main latch from the protruded position.
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Catwin Industrial Corporation
Gall Lloyd A.
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